Florian Leibert is co-founder and Chief Cloud Officer at Mesosphere (now D2iQ), the hybrid cloud platform company which helps companies like NBCUniversal, Deutsche Telekom, and Audi adopt transformative technologies, like machine learning and real-time analytics, with ease. Mesosphere is backed with more than $250M by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price, Khosla Ventures, KDT and more. Leibert was recognized as one of Capital’s “Junge Elite” for the prior two consecutive years and led the company to be named by Business Insider as one of the “Enterprise Startups to Bet Your Career on in 2018” and one of “The 10 Coolest Tech Startups Of 2017,” according to CRN. Prior to Mesosphere, Leibert solved mission-critical infrastructure challenges as an engineering leader at Airbnb and Twitter where he designed machine learning algorithms and built the teams for developing core infrastructure.