Chris Pinkham, Founder, Nimbula:

Before Werner came into the spotlight, it was all Chris Pinkham. Pinkham was the lead project’s manager of Amazon Enterprise Compute Cloud (EC2), while software architect Christopher Brown assisted him as the lead developer.

Pinkham joined Amazon in 2000 as the director of its network engineering group, and then became VP responsible for IT infrastructure worldwide. Pinkham always had an out-of-the-box thought of building a fully virtualized data center. What Pinkham had in mind was to build a self-provisioned virtual server, with a separate chargeback and enough control to allow for virtual server launch, load balancing, storage activation and adding services such as database.

The after math- its Amazon EC2. But in 2006, Pinkham left Amazon to start Nimbula, which now is one of the hottest cloud startups.

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