Brian joined Faction in May of 2018 and leads the Product Management organization. In his role, Brian is transforming the company portfolio to be a managed service, multi-cloud platform provider, enabling workload portability across cloud providers. Since starting at Faction, Brian has introduced groundbreaking solutions leveraging VMware Cloud on AWS and cloud-attached storage services.

Prior to Faction, Brian has held numerous product leadership roles at organizations including Level 3, Time Warner Telecom, and Qwest Communications. Brian created the cloud-networking portfolio at Time Warner Telecom and led multiple joint development efforts with AWS, Microsoft, and Google. Brian holds a Master’s degree in Telecommunications from the University of Denver and a Bachelor’s degree in Business from Oregon State University.

Jason Crandall is Senior Cloud Solution Engineer for VMware Cloud on AWS. Jason focuses on how VMware Cloud on AWS can help develop solutions for Managed Service Providers across the Americas. Jason joined VMware in 2015 joining the cloud division. Prior to VMware, Jason was technical solution manager for a VCPP partner and Dell Solution Engineer.