Charles Crouchman

Charles Crouchman joined Turbonomic in January 2014 and currently serves as the company’s Chief Product Officer. In this role, Charles is responsible for driving product strategy, product management, customer support and engineering in addition to supporting strategic sales and business development. Charles has helped drive the evolution of infrastructure automation from basic job scheduling to complex orchestration and now to analytics driven automation. He believes that the use of advanced analytics to solve complex and important problems in infrastructure represents the future of automation and that the most complex and important problem to solve right now is providing true resource elasticity across both private data centers and public clouds. Charles has over 25 years of leadership experience in product management, engineering and product delivery, software development, consulting and education. Before Turbonomic, he held senior executive positions at technology startups, including Cirba (now Densify), Mformation Technologies, Opalis Software (acquired by Microsoft), and Cybermation (acquired by CA).