Ashish Thusoo is the CEO and co-founder of Qubole, a cloud-based provider of Hadoop services. Before co-founding Qubole, Ashish ran Facebook’s Data Infrastructure team; under his leadership the team built one of the largest data processing and analytics platforms in the world. Ashish helped create Apache Hive while at Facebook. A recognized thought leader, Ashish has spoken in various Linux Foundation events in 2016 including Apache Big Data Canada and delivered a keynote at Apache Big Data 2016 around making data accessible.