MapR Technologies Names Dan Atler as Chief Financial Officer

SOURCE: MapR Technologies, Inc.

San Jose, CA – November 20, 2013 – MapR Technologies, Inc., the leader in Hadoop technology for Big Data deployments, today announced the appointment of Dan Atler as Chief Financial Officer. Atler brings over 20 years of executive leadership experience in public markets, mergers and acquisitions, and multinational operations, including managing three companies through successful IPOs.

“We are very pleased to welcome Dan to our executive management team at this exciting acceleration point for the company. MapR is growing significantly with more than 500 customers across an array of industries trusting our enterprise Hadoop platform for success with Big Data,” said John Schroeder, CEO and co-founder, MapR Technologies.  “With the recent addition of industry veteran Mike Lehman to our Board of Directors and Dan’s appointment we have the right team in place to achieve our long term goals. Dan’s experience guiding high growth companies to achieve their financial objectives will be a true asset to our team.”

A seasoned financial veteran with public and private company experience including multinational operations, Atler most recently served as CFO for Meraki, a cloud networking and security firm acquired by Cisco. Previously as CFO, he successfully guided Ikanos and Silicon Image through their IPOs. Additionally, he served as CFO to LitePoint, acquired by Teradyne, and Wireless Access, acquired by Glenayre, and as Controller for Global Village Communication during its IPO process. He began his career at Ernst & Young where he spent 10 years in senior roles and received his CPA.

“MapR is on an amazing growth trajectory with Fortune100 and leading Web 2.0 customers across a diverse set of industries,” said Atler.  “MapR’s world-class management team, attractive business model and global footprint attracted me to the company.  I am excited to bring my experiences to the table and help guide MapR through its continued growth and evolution.”

About MapR Technologies

MapR delivers on the promise of Hadoop with a proven, enterprise-grade platform that supports a broad set of mission-critical and real-time production uses. MapR brings unprecedented dependability, ease-of-use and world-record speed to Hadoop, NoSQL, database and streaming applications in one unified Big Data platform. MapR is used by more than 500 customers across financial services, retail, media, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications and government organizations as well as by leading Fortune 100 and Web 2.0 companies. Amazon, Cisco and Google are part of MapR’s broad partner ecosystem. Investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, NEA, and Redpoint Ventures. MapR is based in San Jose, CA. Connect with MapR on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.