Ep 32: Mike D. Kail, CTO of Everest and Former CIO of Yahoo on Decentralization & Social Media

Our guest  this week is Mike D. Kail,  CTO of Everest, a decentralized platform incorporating a massively scalable payment solution, Executive Technologist at Palo Alto Strategy Group,  Strategic Advisor at Cloud Remedy, Strategic Advisor at SMV Data, and other. Mike has been CYBRIC’s Chief Technology Officer, Yahoo’s CIO and SVP of Infrastructure, where he led the IT and Data Center functions for the company, and Mike also formerly served as VP of IT Operations at Netflix, where he was responsible for Employee Technology and various Engineering components. Mike has been widely recognized for his insightful industry commentary on social media, and was recently named by the Huffington Post as one of the “Top 100 Most Social CIOs on Twitter.”

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Interested in the future of Internet technology? Join us each week as we talk about the latest news and trends in AI, blockchain, IoT, and cloud with founders and innovators building the next wave. We cover the rise of the fourth platform that will serve billions of connected people, apps, and devices in the age of IoT. Along the way, we interview leaders and executives at some of today’s top technology firms, who share their real-world experiences from the practitioner’s point of view. About our hosts: Dean Nelson is the founder of Infrastructure Masons and CEO of Virtual Power Systems. Previously, he was head of Uber Compute. Dean's an expert in IT and hyperscale infrastructure who's led over $10B in datacenter projects in 9 countries. James Thomason is the CTO of EDJX and President of Rave Media. He was formerly CTO of Cloud at Dell. He's a repeat Silicon Valley technology expert and entrepreneur with over $1B in career exits across 14 startups. Brad Kirby is the COO of EDJX and is a CPA with deep fintech experience gained through various roles over his 15 year career, split between Deloitte and Brookfield prior to EDJX.