As SVP of Engineering at Actian, Emma McGrattan leads the Actian Vector & Actian Dataflow development teams. A leading authority in DBMS technologies, Emma has over twenty years’ experience managing, supporting and developing a variety of databases from her early days with Ingres through to the cutting-edge Actian Vortex. Emma joined the original Ingres Corp. in 1992 and held a senior leadership role in the Ingres engineering team through a number of acquisitions. Born in Ireland, Emma earned a Bachelor of Electronic Engineering from Dublin City University.