Raj has spent over fifteen years of his career in the database industry building relational database software. As Product Manager in IBM, Raj was responsible for building and taking to market, IBM's first commercially available in-memory data warehouse engine - IBM Informix Warehouse Accelerator. Today, as Director of Data Platform Engineering at Penton Inc, Raj's team is utilizing the Hadoop ecosystem to radically redefine data processing and integration for Penton's data products.