Dr. Dave Reiner has a long history of innovation in database and information management technologies. Within EMC’s CTO Office, Dave focuses on technical strategy for information virtualization and integration. He has been involved with adaptive performance tuning, cache optimization, data center management, query optimization, data mining, database marketing, and parallel computing technologies for 30 years. Dave holds multiple patents on parallel query and web mining algorithms, was Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Data Engineering, and co-edited Query Processing in Database Systems. Prior to EMC, Dave architected CRM software at NetGenesis and Fidelity Investments, was Chief Scientist for database marketing at Epsilon, invented parallel database technology at Kendall Square Research, and directed database research at Computer Corporation of America. Before completing his Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison, he taught high school math as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire. A champion fiddler and mandolin player, Dave has a series of instructional books and recorded CDs to his credit, and can be found playing bluegrass, Irish, and oldtime music on weekends with the Reiner Family Band.