Don is an accomplished leader in successfully developing and executing business and technology strategy.

Don currently is CEO and founder of Concourse Labs, as well as a Senior Advisor at McKinsey Corporation.

Prior to founding Concourse in August 2018, Don served as President of Vapor.io, a leader in Edge Computing.

Don spent 28 years at Goldman Sachs, during which time he held senior leadership roles in technology in New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Don led the global technology division for Goldman from 2012 to 2016 and was named a partner of the firm in 2006 and Managing Director in 2000. Don was the CIO for Asia Pacific from 2000 to 2006. Since relocating to the US in 2006, Don co-chaired the IBD Technology Investment Committee and was a member of the firm’s Firmwide Risk, Market Risk and Business Standards committee.

Within the technology industry, Don has been an active and vocal proponent of Open Source and Open Standards communities including acting as a founding board member of the Open Compute Project.

Don and his family reside in NYC where he is actively engaged in education and arts, serving on the board of the New York Foundation for the Arts, Columbia University School of Professional Studies, Marist College board of trustees and Teaching Matters.

Scott’s passion is growing large innovative businesses in cloud. Prior to joining Concourse Labs, Scott was Executive Vice President and General Manager of Rackspace, where he led their private cloud business. He served as Senior Vice President at Verisign. At Red Hat, Scott was Vice President and General Manager of their Linux business unit, and also of their Virtualization and Cloud business unit, which included OpenShift, OpenStack and the kvm hypervisor.

J Ram is co-founder of Concourse Labs, the innovator in automated cloud governance.

J Ram is an accomplished technology leader with deep expertise in distributed computing and infrastructure. He has pioneered multiple technology strategies in large-scale enterprises, including Goldman Sachs, where he held positions as CTO of Global Services and Global Head of Cloud Platforms. Notable accomplishments in his tenure at Goldman Sachs include the migration of significant business-critical workloads into multiple public clouds (AWS & Google) with Zero trust architecture and without application refactoring, which enabled Goldman to operate at cloud speed and scale across private and public cloud environments, without compromising enterprise-grade controls. Over the course of a period of 7 years, over 97% of all Goldman Sachs applications adopted the Goldman Sachs Cloud Platform under J Ram’s leadership and remit.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, J Ram was CTO for enterprise computing at Morgan Stanley.

Ivan Melyakov is Chief Technology Officer at Concourse Labs, where among other accomplishments, he personally architected and implemented key backend systems for policy evaluation. He is passionate about accelerating cloud success through automated cloud governance and believes that Concourse Labs addresses the “why” interestingly and uniquely, and combined with an enterprise-grade “how”.

Prior to Concourse, Ivan held positions at Google, where key accomplishments included designing and building high-throughput, low latency ad serving systems for real-time-bidding (RTB), and at Amazon Web Services, where he architected payment processing solutions for the AWS ecosystem, and created the AWS International Expansion team, which focused on lowering compliance overhead when expanding to new regions.

Ivan holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in Philosophy from Columbia University as well as a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from the University of Maryland. He is fluent in English, Russian, and working on mastering Spanish.

Roman is an accomplished sales management & technology executive with a deep technical background and 25 years of proven experience bringing new software concepts and solutions to the enterprise.

Prior to co-founding Concourse, Roman held various senior leadership roles at Amazon, Google, IBM, and OpenText.

At Amazon, Roman incubated the strategic Financial Services Fintech vertical and at Google he built and led Google’s Cloud Financial Services vertical and GTM Strategy, including Google’s Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) Bid.

Before joining Amazon and Google, over the course of 9 years, from product management to sales, Roman built and led the North American Financial Services business for Platform Computing “Symphony”, contributing to the IBM acquisition of Platform Computing (IBM Spectrum Symphony) then leading the transition and integration process into IBM’s Global Financial Services Business.

Before Platform Computing, Roman led product management for Hummingbird (OpenText) flagship products Exceed (created Exceed onDemand), NFS Maestro, and Host Explorer.

Roman received a B.Sc. with a Specialist in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Toronto. Roman is married with three children and lives in New York City.

Ming Fang is a seasoned technologist with over 20 years of experience in diverse industries including capital markets, personal finance, cryptocurrency and adtech. He has deep expertise in groundbreaking and complex technology systems such as cloud computing, Kubernetes, DevOps and automation.

Prior to Concourse, Ming held positions as Chief Architect at Consensys and Northwestern Mutual Insurance.

He’s an active participant in the open source community and when he’s not coding he enjoys distance running.

Slim spent 24 years at Goldman Sachs Where he successively built, re-engineered and led the Model Risk, Market Risk Modeling and Market Risk Quantification functions globally. Notable firm-wide committee memberships with the Risk Governance, the Stress Testing and the Model Risk Control committees. Slim was also Market Risk lead for CCAR and Firm project lead for FRTB.

Vocationally, Michael E. Gruen is VP of Operations at Concourse Labs, where he is responsible for aligning business operations with internal cross-functional collaboration. An entrepreneur with a passion for startups, Michael most recently led the data and analytics function at WorkMarket, an enterprise freelancer management platform, through acquisition to ADP. He’s also advisor to several companies ranging from fitness to online photo journalism.

Recreationally, Michael runs, cycles, skis, and writes—both English and code.

Geographically, Michael travels when he can and lives in Manhattan. You can follow him on Instagram (@gruen) and his travel log (travelcliche.com / @travelcliche {insta} ).

Philanthropically, Michael is on the board of directors at Literacy Trust, a literacy advocate and education nonprofit committed to bringing research-based reading intervention to children in grades K-2.

Phil is a senior advisor to Goldman Sachs and a member of the Goldman Sachs Bank USA Board of Directors. As a senior advisor, he supports the firm’s executive leadership and client franchise on cybersecurity, technology risk, digital business risk, and operational resilience. Prior to becoming a senior advisor, Phil was a line executive as Chief Operational Risk Officer, and before that, the firm’s first Chief Information Security Officer and Head of Technology Risk, a role he held for 17 years.