Summary
Mike Riley is a Field CTO with 14 years of enterprise storage, data management, and cloud strategy experience, now evangelizing Hammerspace’s global data platform to eliminate silos while delivering extreme performance and cost efficiency. He has a long track record at NetApp and Cohesity leading technical strategy, partner enablement, and outcome-based selling for unstructured data, AI/ML, and hyperscale NAS deployments. Mike blends sales leadership and hands-on engineering instincts to translate customer pain into multi-vendor, cloud-native solutions and measurable revenue growth. He’s known for pairing a customer-advocacy mindset with practical automation and integration (Salesforce, ServiceNow, AWS/Azure) to accelerate adoption. Based in Crestwood, KY, he brings an uncommon mix of psychology, MIS, and field engineering that helps him align technical roadmaps with buyer behavior and long-term product strategy.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Management Information Systems, MBA Management Information Systems at Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago
BA Psychology/Computer Applications, BA Psychology/Computer Applications at University of Notre Dame