The Reclaim Your Cloud Virtual Event – Enterprise IT Day

Mike Kelly is a BI Analyst within the Enterprise BI team at Ellucian with a background in Finance and Data Analytics. He manages AWS cloud cost optimization efforts across the organization; supporting both technical and financial stakeholders utilizing cloud cost reporting and business intelligence methodologies.

When not working (or in a pandemic), Mike enjoys spending time outdoors with his wife and 1 year old. He’s a big fan of the Eagles (football), Phillies (baseball), and Union (soccer) and is on a mission to find a craft beer he doesn’t like.

Paul Anderson currently operates as a European lead for a world leading insurance and financial services group that operates globally with a remit for digital transformation and cloud adoption. He has 20 years of experience within the IT industry, starting originally as a service desk analyst and progressing to a Senior IT Leader, and has worked with enterprise organisations and as a managed services provider.

Paul is a technologist at heart with a passion for innovation, DevOps and cloud computing. As a seasoned IT professional and leader, he prides himself on using strategic vision, commercial acumen and technical capability to deliver quality services to the customer.

Mike is a highly motivated Cloud Cost Analyst, driven by customer satisfaction and a passion for streamlining processes that maximize revenue. He leverages FinOps principles along with a deeply technical background to drive business initiatives around reducing cloud spend, improving cloud footprint awareness, and managing cloud governance controls. Mike has been with Choice Hotels for 16 years.

As Chief Marketing Officer, Mike Kaplan is responsible for leading CloudCheckr’s marketing strategy and the marketing organization. Mike has more than two decades of marketing experience across several business-to-business technology sectors, including enterprise software, data analytics and cloud.

Previously, Mike served as Chief Marketing Officer of ENGIE Impact, a sustainability services and software company, where he helped the company scale globally by building demand and awareness for the company and its category. Mike also led marketing for Retroficiency, an award-winning analytics platform company, which was acquired by ENGIE Impact.

Prior to ENGIE Impact and Retroficiency, Mike held marketing and strategy roles at, or served as clients, a variety of technology brands that include Yahoo!, HubSpot, Dassault Systems and Verizon.

Mike holds a Bachelor of Arts in media studies from the University of Rochester and a Master’s of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management.

Jen McCabe is the Director of Account Management at CloudCheckr, where she manages a team focused on growing and managing Enterprise customers, optimizing and securing their cloud infrastructure.

Prior to her time at CloudCheckr, Jen spent 15 years in the software industry, including three years as a Business Process Solution specialist at Microsoft, and 2 years as a Sr Account Executive at UiPath. Jen is a graduate of the Sidhu school of Business at Wilkes University, and currently resides in St Louis, MO.

Todd Bernhard has been in Product Marketing at CloudCheckr for 4+ years. Prior to that, he was at Sun Microsystems for 16 years and more recently ran his own award-winning, bestselling mobile app business for a decade.