- Chris Pinkham
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Christopher C Pinkham 
Born June 2, 1967
Singapore, SingaporeResidence Los Gatos, California, USA Alma mater University of Cape Town Occupation Founder of Nimbula, Inc. Chris Pinkham is an entrepreneur and technologist born in Singapore, raised and educated in Britain and South Africa.
Chris was formerly Vice President, IT Infrastructure at Amazon.com, responsible for the company's global infrastructure engineering and operations. While in this role, he conceived, proposed and, together with Willem Van Biljon, built Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), the highly successful public cloud service.[1][2][3][4][5]
Prior to Amazon, Chris created and ran the first commercial ISP in South Africa, Internet Africa, which he sold to UUNET in 1996[6]. The company, now owned by MTN, remains one of the largest ISPs on the African continent.
In 2006, Chris left Amazon Web Services and has since started a new venture with his long time friend Willem. The company, Nimbula,[7] is focused on Cloud Computing software and is funded by Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners.[8][9]
Chris has co-authored a couple of patent applications: "Managing Communications Between Computing Nodes",[10] "Managing Execution of Programs by Multiple Computing Systems"[11]
References
- ^ "Amazon opens Cape software centre". July 19, 2005. http://ww2.itweb.co.za/sections/business/2005/0507191033.asp?.
- ^ "Amazon opens dev centre in Cape Town". July 20, 2005. http://www.oneafrikan.com/2005/07/20/amazon-opens-dev-centre-in-cape-town/.
- ^ "Amazon's Pinkham quits". Nov 29, 2006. http://ww2.itweb.co.za/sections/internet/2006/0611291035.asp?A=BSR&S=BestRead&O=FPIN.
- ^ "benjamin black's blog post about EC2". Jan 25, 2009. http://blog.layer8.net/ec2_origins.html.
- ^ "Amazon’s early efforts at cloud computing? Partly accidental". June 17, 2010. http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cloud-computing/2010/06/17/amazons-early-efforts-at-cloud-computing-partly-accidental/.
- ^ "Chris Pinkham: veteran of the virtual". August 22, 2011. http://www.techcentral.co.za/chris-pinkham-veteran-of-the-virtual/25403/.
- ^ "Nimbula Homepage". http://nimbula.com/.
- ^ "http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/062310-amazon-ec2-cloud-startup.html". http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/062310-amazon-ec2-cloud-startup.html.
- ^ "Nimbula Secures $15 Million Venture Capital Investment". http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/hosted/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227001128&subSection=News.
- ^ "Patent page on WIPO website". http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2007126835.
- ^ "Patent page on WIPO website". http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2007126837.
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