Over the past 30 years, Ian has led companies through everything from the Internet bubble burst to the Great Recession. After starting his career as a DB2 Database Administrator at Accenture, Ian took on roles like CTO at MVP.com and CIO for TransUnion, where he supported two sales of the $1billion+ revenue company.
Ocient, the startup developing a trillion-rows-a-second RDBMS computation system, has appointed a CTO: Ian Drury, formerly of one of its lead investors. Update: Ocient CEO says it’s computer-adjacent architecture, not JSON architecture as Otter transcribed it! 21 January 2022. Other notes added too. Drury was a general and then part-time venture partner at OCA Ventures […]
Thrilled to join Ocient during this critical moment of growth across new customers and industries. Ocient is accelerating the delivery of previously not possible hyperscale data analysis at high performance levels and low costs never seen before. This market is growing exponentially year-over-year and I look forward to being part of the team redefining how to derive significant business value from data at hyperscale.