Dr. Michael Stonebraker is a database technology pioneer and adjunct professor at MIT CSAIL.

He was awarded the 2014 A.M. Turing Award, known as the “Nobel Prize of computing,” for his “contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems.”

Dr. Stonebraker has founded ten data management companies over the last 40 years, including Ingres, Informix, Vertica, VoltDB, Tamr, Illustra, and StreamBase.

Hopara™ is his newest startup, founded to help companies gain greater value from the massive volumes of data accessible to them today.