Dr. Bogdan Crivat has deep experience in software development, including 10 years with Microsoft Corporation. As VP of Engineering for Predixion Software, Bogdan leads the design and development of the company's public and private cloud platforms.  Before Predixion, he worked in the Analysis Services group at Microsoft as one of the key contributors to the SQL Server Data Mining technology and a co-inventor for the PowerPivot in-memory data storage technology.