Adrian “AJ” Herrera has an extensive background bringing innovative software, storage, and services to the M&E and enterprise markets. He is currently the CMO for Varnish Software, the leading provider of high-performance caching, content delivery and edge computing software. Previously he headed Marketing at Caringo, acquired by DataCore, establishing the company as a leader in the object storage space. He was on the founding team and headed marketing at Nirvanix, one of the first enterprise cloud storage services, where he helped to grow the company from pre-funding to having over 700 business customers ranging in size from start-ups to Fortune 10 organizations. He was also an early employee at Musicmatch, a digital audio software and streaming service acquired by Yahoo, where he held Business Development and Product Management roles. He holds an MBA specializing in Entrepreneurship from San Diego State University and a BS in Information Systems from Chapman University.