Jacques Nadeau is the CTO and co-founder of Dremio. He is also the PMC Chair of the open source Apache Arrow project, spearheading the project’s technology and community. Prior to Dremio, he was the architect and engineering manager for Apache Drill and other distributed systems technologies at MapR. In addition, Jacques was CTO and co-founder of YapMap, an enterprise search startup, and held engineering leadership roles at Quigo (AOL), Offermatica (ADBE), and aQuantive (MSFT).