Meet the Leadership Team

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Gary Smerdon
CEO and Founder

Gary Smerdon is the CEO and founder of MEXT. Before MEXT, Gary served as CEO at TidalScale and held numerous leadership positions including at Fusion-io, LSI, and AMD. He is a recognized innovator having led key efforts around industry transitions in networking, storage, and computing. 

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David Reed
CTO and Founder

David Reed is CTO and founder of MEXT. He has held many technical leadership roles, including Chief Scientist at TidalScale and Lotus, SVP at SAP, and Fellow at HP. He played a key role in the creation of the Internet.

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Carl Waldspurger
Chief Scientist

Carl Waldspurger is MEXT's Chief Scientist. For over a decade, he was responsible for designing and implementing core resource management and virtualization technologies at VMware. He is an accomplished inventor with over 200 issued or pending patents.

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Michael Berman
Chief Engineer

Michael Berman is MEXT's Chief Engineer. Previously, he held various technical leadership roles at HPE, TidalScale, and Catbird Networks.

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Bobby Minnear
VP of Engineering and Founder

Bobby Minnear is VP of Engineering and founder of MEXT. Previously, he served as VP of Engineering at Tidalscale, and has held numerous engineering leadership roles.

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Venkat Naraina
Head of Engineering, MEXT India

Venkat Naraina is a seasoned technology leader with 25+ years of experience. He has led global engineering organizations at Intel, Seagate, and LSI.

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Adam Bane
VP of Product Management

Adam Bane is MEXT's VP of Product Management. Before MEXT, Adam served as VP of Product Management at TidalScale and Director of Research & Development at IBM Cloud.

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Greg Shomstein
VP of Sales

Greg Shomstein is MEXT's VP of Sales. Over his 20+ year career, he has held numerous sales leadership and executive roles at PicsArt, Tidalscale, and IBM. 

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Eric Fitzpatrick
VP of Solutions Engineering

Eric Fitzpatrick is MEXT's VP of Solutions Engineering. Previously, he held various leadership roles at HPE, TidalScale, SAP, and P&G.

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Juhi Muthal
Director of Marketing

Juhi Muthal is MEXT's Director of Marketing. Before MEXT, she held various marketing roles at AMD, TidalScale, and ChargePoint.