Green Platform Corporation

Green Platform offers superior performance and value for commodity servers used by Big Data analytics in Hadoop and HPC environments.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Business Products
  • Location Mountain View, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded August 2008
  • Employees 6
  • Website greenplatformcorp.com

Company Summary

Green Platform has developed a proprietary vibration management solution that significantly improves disk drive performance. Commodity servers run jobs 30% faster when protected from normal data center levels of vibration. Without it analysis time is longer and inconsistent. Vibration management avoids purchasing more servers to add performance. Potential customers are: enterprises, analytic service providers and cloud Hadoop hosting services.

Team

  • Gus Malek-Madani
    Founder/CEO/CTO

    Gus founded GPC in 2008. He is a seasoned executive with twenty five yrs of experience in running Carbon Fiber and vibration mitigation technology companies. He also founded: Composite Rotor, a medical instrument company where he started as VP Engineering and subsequently took the company to profitability as CEO. Composite Products, an anti vibration firm for high end audio/video market. Gus holds several patents and is a MSME from CU Boulder.

  • Bruce Factor
    Director of IT

    Background supporting System Integrators, OEMs, direct, and global channel sales forces. Driven to solve complex problems with the ability to ascertain prospect needs, educate and involve product groups to win customer contracts and energize successful partnerships. Focused on coaching and motivating cross functional teams to exceed revenue goals

  • David Walling
    VP of Sales

    David has more than 30 years of sales experience in IT and Technology at IBM, with 13 years focused on storage. He is recognized as a creative, clear thinking and inspirational executive sales leader to grow revenue in new ventures or established $1B operations. At IBM, David successfully managed the launch of 4 new storage solutions for corporate customers, utilizing direct and indirect channels. He has an MBA from Pepperdine University.

  • Dick Davison
    CFO

    Dick has been CFO of five start-ups. At Solaicx, a producer of silicon wafers for solar cells, he helped to raise $50mm in Series B to construct a $20mm production facility. He was CFO of Microma, sub. of Intel Corp, which produced the world's first liquid crystal digital watch. He has also held V.P. positions in two public companies. He received an MBA from Santa Clara University and a BA in Political Science from Occidental College.

Advisors

  • Mike Torosian, DLA Piper
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    Joe Dalli, CPA
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Gus Malek-Madani
    Unconfirmed

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