Gretchen Curtis is a Co-Founder andChief Strategy Officer at Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. Prior to Piston Cloud,she was Director of PR & Communications for NASA’s CTO for IT Chris C. Kempand the NASA Nebula cloud computing project (now known as OpenStack compute). Whileat NASA, she was part of the writing team that created NASA’s open governmentplan as well as a core contributor to the Federal Cloud Computing Strategycreated under federal CIO Vivek Kundra.

Gretchen started her career over adecade years ago in technical recruiting, and helped build engineering teams atseveral Silicon Valley companies, including AOL, Fujitsu, Sun Microsystems and Oracle. In2006 she joined Flock, Inc. as Sr. Manager of Business Operations, where sheoversaw the company’s business operations. Gretchen has a BA in EnglishLiterature from SFSU and lives in Menlo Park, California.