Ali brings more than 20 years of experience in supporting high growth companies in the high tech, cloud and data center sectors. Before joining the Uptime Institute Ali served as CMO at Workshare where he oversaw the company's go to market plan, its expansion in to North America and relaunch of  it service offering after several company acquisitions . In his previous positions he has focused on increasing shareholder value by building multinational sales and marketing programs as CMO at SkyDox, Director of Marketing at Interxion (NYSE:INXN) and SPL WorldGroup (now a part of Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), and Marketing Manager EMEA and Asia-Pacific at Kana (NASDAQ: KANA).