Neela Jacques

Neela is the owner and principal of boutique strategy consulting firm ScaleNV, focused on growth strategy, messaging and positioning and open source. Neela is the former Executive Director of The OpenDaylight Project, helping grow the project from infancy to global domination (small exaggeration - 6 releases, 1000 developers, 1B people served by switches managed by the project's implementations). Prior to that he helped grow VMware - leading it's early cloud efforts and launching a number of internal startups, projects and releases. Neela lives in Northern California with his two sweet kids and loves spending time in the great outdoors.