Full Name: Cameron Purdy
About Cameron Purdy
Cameron Purdy is president of Tangosol and has been working with Java and Java EE since their inception. He is a frequent presenter at industry conferences and has received a number of awards in recognition of his contribution to the Java community. Cameron regularly participates in industry standards development and is the specification lead for JSR 107 (jCache).
About Tangosol
Founded in 2000, Tangosol is the industry leader in delivering data clustering, grid computing, and caching solutions to organizations building and running mission-critical enterprise Java and J2EE applications. Major banking, trading, logistics, travel, telecommunications, government and insurance institutions rely on Tangosol Coherence software. Through its use, they are able to achieve uninterrupted synchronized coordinated access to their most critical and often-used data at incredible speed, sustained even under the heaviest loads. They also have full assurance that their data will survive intact and remain accessible during intermittent system outages and downtime. Tangosol's software products are recognized for their unparalleled quality, reliability and ability to provide consistent performance scalability under heavy load. They are actively tested and supported on all major Java enterprise platforms including BEA WebLogic, and on all standard server operating systems including Linux, Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows, HP-UX, IBM AIX, OS/400 and Z/OS.
Bio
Cameron Purdy: Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Starting with the founding of Tangosol in 2000, his leadership, vision, and commitment to exceptional product quality and customer satisfaction have helped make Tangosol the number one provider of distributed in-memory caching, clustered data management, and data grid solutions to organizations deploying mission critical enterprise applications. For six consecutive years, Tangosol has experienced over 100% annual revenue growth, 100% customer retention, and near-100% employee retention. Mr. Purdy received the "Who's Who in Enterprise Java" award, recognizing him as one of the fifty most influential Java technologists in the industry, and Tangosol is ranked number two in the 2006 "Best Places to Work in Boston" poll.
As a software visionary and industry leader, Mr. Purdy is a frequent presenter at industry conferences and has received a number of awards in recognition of his contribution to the Java community. He regularly participates in industry standards development, is a contributor to the XML , Java Language and Java Virtual Machine specifications, is the specification lead for the JCache (JSR-107) specification, and is an expert and patent author in the area of component-based development technologies. Mr. Purdy received a bachelor's degree, with honors, in Economics and Political Science from the University of Alabama.
Prior to co-founding Tangosol, Cameron was Chief Architect at LiveWater, where he directed the development of the first component-based development product suite for enterprise Java applications. Mr. Purdy has extensive experience in architecting client-server, object-oriented, component-based, and large-scale distributed systems.
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