Author: Scott Dietzen

Scott Dietzen is vice chairman of the board of Pure Storage and served as CEO from 2010 to 2017. Under his leadership, Pure grew to thousands of employees and completed an IPO. He was president and CTO of Zimbra, a pioneer of the Web 2.0 and open core paradigms. He served as CTO of BEA Systems and was principal technologist of Transarc. Dietzen has made appearances on Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox Business, and NBC’s Press:Here. He has also been a contributor to Harvard Business Review and Forbes. He earned his PhD and MS in computer science and BS in applied mathematics and computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.