Steven Kaplan

As a veteran to the IT space, Steven's career spans from managing the PCs for the convenience store chain he worked at, to opening a computer store, to starting, running, and selling two highly awarded channel partner businesses, to helping grow Nutanix from a tiny startup to a datacenter giant. Today Steven is a managing partner in HMG Ventures, a sister company to HMG Strategy which has the largest IT leader network in the world. Apart from HMG, he is advising a handful of startups - all with the potential to disrupt their industry categories. In addition to coauthoring 8 books on Citrix and VMware, Steven also solo authored a book on financial analysis. Steven is currently working with some of the world's top IT architects in contributing to and writing the Foreword for 'Stories from the Field Volume II'.