Michael Carney

VP EMEA chez MariaDB Corporation | Helping companies harness the power of Open Source to drive success

HAProxy Technologies is the company behind the world's most popular open source load balancer. Companies with mission critical web businesses like Netflix, Reddit, GitHub, and Instragram depend on HAProxy, HAProxy Enterprise Edition (or HAPEE) or HAProxy Appliances (ALOHA) to power their uptime !

Basho Technologies is the creator and developer of the Riak series of NoSQL databases. There are now three versions of Riak KV, TS and S2 as well as seamless integration with Redis, Solr and Spark for caching, full-text search and real-time analytics respectively. All Riak version are synonymous with high-availability, fault-tolerance, near-linear scalability and operational simplicity. Riak TS is the best Enterprise-grade Time Series in the world.

As a co-founder of MariaDB Corporation, I had several roles in sales & business development as the company grew. I was initially VP Sales WW through a $25M B-Round lead by Intel, and then transitioned into a business development role, leading the partner program efforts worldwide.

Responsible for MySQL Field Sales in France, Italy, DACH, UK

Sales Manager MySQL France Recruited French team France was largest EMEA market at the time of the acquisition by Sun Microsystems