Felipe Cariño

CTO

Felipe Cariño graduated NYU with an MS in Computer Science in 1979, and Executive MBA USC 1995. Felipe went on to become Laboratory Head for Teradata from 1987 to 1991 where he founded and managed Teradata’s advanced R&D Intrapreneurial Laboratory including NCR and ATT/Bell Labs. In 1991, Felipe became Chief Architect of Teradata for multimedia databases. In 1992 the first ever 1 TB database was rolled out in production by Walmart, a client of Teradata. In 1997 a Teradata customer boasted a 24 Terabyte Database, at the time, the largest in the world. Felipe is widely considered one of the pioneers of multimedia, distributed databases and storage scalability with 15 Published conference papers and 2 IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers) book chapters on Technology. Felipe holds 8 patents in massively parallel multimedia databases. From 1998 to 2001 Felipe was Director of Strategic New Development at FileTek, and in 2004 became CTO of 4Medica where he led modernization and evolution of an electronic medical record (EMR) ASP for laboratory tests, orders and results. In 2007, Felipe then became Executive Director of Research and Development at MySpace. For over 30 years, Felipe has also contributed to private industry research in Stenography and Cyber-Security.