DATAWIZA - Key Persons
Alan has more than 20 years of experience as an executive, advisor and investor in high-growth technology companies. He has scaled multiple companies from the start-up stage through IPO across a variety of leadership roles. In his most recent executive role, Alan helped lead Medallia as EVP and General Counsel from boot-strapped start-up through over 50x revenue growth and global expansion before departing the company after a successful IPO in 2019. As an advisor, Alan works closely with founders and management teams that have established a strong product-market fit to help them navigate the challenges of expanding, scaling and evolving their business for long-term sustainable growth.
Canming co-founded Datawiza with Cunhao "Alex" Gao in 2018, following more than 10 years honing his expertise in network security and cloud technologies. Before Datawiza, he spent about 4 years at Shape Security, where he was a founding member of the company's cloud team that built a big data cloud platform from scratch. This solution, which continues to protect some of the world's largest banks, airlines, retailers and government agencies, was a key element in the 2020 acquisition of Shape Security by F5 for $1 billion. Prior to Shape, Canming began his career at Cisco as a security software engineer. He holds a Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from Virginia Tech, a master's degree in computer engineering from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China.
Canming was a founding member of the Shape Security cloud team that built a big data cloud platform from scratch to protect some of the world's largest banks, airlines, retailers and government agencies. Shape Security was acquired by F5 for $1 billion in Q1 of 2020.
Dwaine Omyer, a former vice president of digital security at T-Mobile, has over 22 years of experience leading world-class cybersecurity teams for Fortune 100 companies. He supported the largest telecom merger in U.S. history by directing the integration of the T-Mobile and Sprint cyber teams. He has long been a champion of a cloud-native security strategy that includes broader adoption of public cloud and hybrid cloud services, and he was instrumental in T-Mobile's digital transformation. Dwaine was nominated for a prestigious 2019 Information Security Executive® (ISE®) North America Award for his work on T-Mobile's Identity and Access Management solution.
Job Titles:
- Head of Product Marketing and Business Development
Rocky is a successful entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in business strategy, marketing and business development. He has worked with Fortune 500 technology companies, fast-growing mid-market companies, and startups, leading and advising them in the areas of mobile, cloud, media and enterprise applications and building high-growth, innovative organizations. He has advised founders and executives on product and market strategy and worked with venture and private equity investors. Rocky has held executive-level positions at Hewlett-Packard, Baan, Blue Martini, and SeeSaw Networks, and he is a former Investment Chair for UCLA Ventures.