David Linthicum, Chief Cloud Strategy officer at Deloitte Consulting, is a cloud computing thought leader, executive, consultant, author, and speaker. He has held the title of CTO at five different companies and has been CEO of three others. David has written 13 books and more than 5,000 articles on computing, and has made numerous appearances on radio and TV programs. He spent the last 20 years leading, showing, and teaching businesses how to use resources more productively, and to innovate constantly. Most recently, he was named the #1 cloud influencer in an Apollo Research report. All of David’s opinions are his own.