William “Bill” Peterson is VP Industry Solutions for MapR. Prior to MapR, Bill was the Director of Product and Solutions Marketing for CenturyLink. Prior to CenturyLink, Bill ran Product and Solutions Marketing for NetApp’s Analytics and Hadoop solutions. In addition to his marketing role at NetApp, Bill was the Marketing Co-Chair for the Analytics and Big Data committee, SNIA. Bill has also served as a research analyst at IDC and The Hurwitz Group, covering the operating environments, content management and business intelligence markets.

Bill did his undergraduate work at Bentley University, and has completed MBA coursework at Suffolk University.