Tech Tour 2018 Growth Summit
GridGain Systems president & CEO Abe Kleinfeld will be speaking on a panel discussion titled: "Scaling-up fast: Unlocking leadership & talent to generate growth -- lessons from the Tech Tour Growth50."
The Tech Tour Growth Summit -- March 22-23 in Geneva & Lausanne, Switzerland -- will bring together 50+ of Europe's boldest CEOs: the entrepreneurs with the vision and drive to build game changing businesses.
The Growth Summit's 5th edition will build on the success of the previous editions and will showcase the best European growth stage entrepreneurs, providing significant visibility and media coverage for the CEOs. The CEOs will be celebrated over the networking dinner of the Tech Tour Growth Award and Growth50 Listing.
Abe Kleinfeld
President & CEO
Abe Kleinfeld joined GridGain as president & CEO in 2013 and has transformed the company into the leading open source in-memory computing platform provider. Since joining GridGain, the company has averaged triple digit annual sales growth and raised $16M in Series B venture financing. The company is also known for founding and producing the annual In-Memory Computing Summit, the world’s first and only in-memory computing conference.
Prior to joining GridGain, Abe was president & CEO of network security leader nCircle, a company he led from early stage with a handful of customers through ten consecutive years of revenue growth, five consecutive years of profitability, two acquisitions, over 6,500 enterprise customers worldwide and $40M in annual sales. In April, 2013, nCircle was acquired by Tripwire.
Before nCircle, Abe was president & CEO of Eloquent, a leading provider of rich media communications solutions. While at Eloquent he attracted an experienced management team, implemented a high-growth strategy and guided the company through its successful $83 million IPO in February 2000.
Prior to Eloquent, Abe co-founded document management leader Odesta Systems Corporation. He played a key role in building the company from startup in 1991 through its merger with Open Text Corporation in 1995 and subsequent IPO in 1996 (NASDAQ:OTEX), where he led the company’s sales and later marketing through 1998.
Abe’s career spans four decades, going back to his start as a software engineer at Raytheon Data Systems, and includes marketing and sales management roles at Wang Laboratories and business development at Oracle Corporation. Abe holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from State University of NY at Oswego, and is an avid photographer and science fiction fan.
President & CEO, GridGain Systems