Cleversafe Inc.

Cleversafe
Company typeFor-profit
Cleversafe Inc
Industrydata storage
Founded2004 (2004)
FounderChris Gladwin
FateAcquired by IBM on November 6, 2015 (2015-11-06)[1]
HeadquartersChicago, Illinois
Area served
worldwide
Key people
  • Chris Gladwin (Founder and CEO, 2004-2013; Founder and Vice Chairman 2013-2015)
  • Christopher Galvin (Board Chairman)[2]
  • John Morris (President and CEO, 2013-2015)[2]
  • Robert Joy (VP:Finance & Operations)[3]
  • Russ Kennedy, SVP Product[4]
  • Jason Resch (Software Engineer)[4]
Productsdispersed data storage
Number of employees
125 - 210 (2014 - 2015)[5][6]

Cleversafe Inc. was an object storage software and systems developer company.[7] It was founded in 2004 by Chris Gladwin, an American technology entrepreneur.[8][5] The company was acquired by IBM in 2015,[9] and became an integral part of IBM Cloud Object Storage.[10]

  1. ^ IBM Completes Acquisition of Cleversafe
  2. ^ a b VCapital: Cleversafe
  3. ^ Bloomberg: Cleversafe Inc
  4. ^ a b Payment Week: Exclusive Q&A With Cleversafe’s Russ Kennedy, Senior VP Of Product Strategy And Consumer Solutions
  5. ^ a b Forbes: Chris Gladwin's Cleversafe Seeks To Lead the 100+ Petabyte Storage Market
  6. ^ Chicago Tribune: IBM to acquire Chicago cloud-storage firm Cleversafe
  7. ^ The New York Times: A Move to Secure Data by Scattering the Pieces
  8. ^ Harvard Business School of Chicago: Chris Gladwin, founder and CEO, Cleversafe
  9. ^ Bloomberg: IBM Paid $1.3 Billion to Acquire Cleversafe in Hybrid-Cloud Push
  10. ^ ChicagoBusiness: Gladwin's $1.3 billion Cleversafe win could change the face of Chicago tech