Ariel Amster, Director of Sales Channels for Qubole
Ariel has over twenty years of business development, sales, consulting, product management and business analysis experience in Technology and Finance related businesses and has held various management, consulting and product management positions at companies such as Qubole, First Derivatives, Citi, CheckFree (Fiserv) and marchFirst (USWeb). He is currently the Director of Sales Channels for Qubole, a Big Data company that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to manage analytics at scale on the public cloud. Previously, he has provided consulting services and held positions in Sales & Trading divisions of Tier 1 investment banks as well as being a principle and entrepreneur in a technology start-up, Experient. His experience includes, technology product development, business strategy, account management, change management, and project management within institutional finance (prime brokerage), consumer finance (credit card/payments/unsecured lending), and technology companies (Big Data, portfolio accounting, content management). Ariel holds a BA from UCLA with honors.