Alex Gorelik is CTO and founder of Waterline Data and the founder of three startups. He also served as GM of Informatica's Data Quality Business Unit and managed the company's platform and data integration technology. Also for Informatica, Alex managed a team of 400 engineers and product managers as SVP of R&D for Core Technology, developing Informatica's platform and Data Integration technology. Alex was an IBM Distinguished Engineer and co-founder, CTO and VP of engineering at Exeros and Acta Technology. Previously, Alex was co-founder, CTO and VP of Engineering at Acta Technology (acquired by Business Objects and now marketed as SAP Business Objects Data Services). Prior to founding Acta, Alex managed development of Replication Server at Sybase and worked on Sybase's strategy for enterprise application integration (EAI). Earlier, he developed the database kernel for Amdahl's Design Automation group. Alex holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University School of Engineering and a M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.