Luke Lonergan

Recognized as one of the most influential personalities in the business, Luke Lonergan can be likened to a gold spinner for the series of successes he has reaped in his specific career field. Mr. Lonergan is a hardworking individual who has seen the companies he founded or has been part of become renowned for highly advanced projects and many firsts that have been adopted by other companies. Luke Lonergan is a co-founder of Greenplum, a big data analytics company that has its headquarters in San Mateo, California. Mr. Lonergan is the founder and was the Chairman and CEO of one of the small companies that were merged to form the bigger Greenplum, Didera in Fairfax, Virginia. Didera was a database clustering company that joined Metapa in Los Angeles in that successful merger that boasted a total of $20 million in funding announced during the merger. The investors in the merger included Hudson Ventures, Royal Wulff Ventures and SoundView Ventures.

A partnership with Sun Microsystems was announced by Greenplum in July 2006. Majority of Greenplum customers employed the reference architecture Sun Microsystems to run its database up till a Linux transition was made in the 2009 timeframe. In July 2010, Greenplum was acquired by EMC Corporation, paving the way for the foundation of the Big Data Division of EMC. At the time of the acquisition, Greenplum products included: Chorus; Greenplum Database and Data Science Labs. Greenplum readily grew its customer base in vertical markets ranging from financial services, telecommunications and retail to Internet, transportation and the pharmaceuticals sectors. Those customers included Zions Bancorporation, Silver Spring Networks, NYSE Euronext, Reliance Communications, Havas Digital, Orbitz, NYSE, Tagged and China Unicom.

Thanks to Luke Lonergan’s dependable map for success, he has been able to create a sure path to fulfillment, both professional and personal, that can inspire others after him in myriads of ways.