Alex Gorelik

Alex Gorelik, Founder and CEO, Waterline Data

Alex Gorelik is the founder and CEO of Waterline Data, a startup focused on enhancing the value of Hadoop through data self-service and governance. Alex is a serial entrepreneur and innovator who has spent over 25 years inventing and bringing to market cutting-edge data-oriented technology. Prior to Waterline, Alex was an EIR at Menlo Ventures. He joined Menlo from Informatica, where he held several executive roles, including GM of Informatica’s Data Quality Business Unit—driving marketing, product management, and R&D for an $80M business—and SVP of R&D for Core Technology—driving innovation in big data and social media while managing a team of 400 engineers and product managers developing Informatica’s platform and data-integration technology. Alex joined Informatica from IBM, where he was an IBM distinguished engineer for the Information Integration team.

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