Rogers started his career in 1988 at Andersen Consulting, known today as Accenture. The company has raised a total $120 million. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board for UnitedLex, Inc., Lemongrass Consulting Ltd, and Bestmile S.A., as Lead Board Director for Beep, Inc., and as a Board Director for New Signature, Inc., Revenue Analytics, Inc. and agrematch Ltd.He is also the co-founder and director of The Blue Lagoon Foundation, a non-profit charitable giving organization, and he established the Rodney & Judith Rogers Entrepreneurial Excellence Endowment for the Warrington School of Business at the University of Florida. So he started virtustream with Kevin Reid. The company told CRN via email that the leaders have "decided the time is right to step down. Much [love] to our customers, partners and team [members]," said Rogers in a Tweet Monday. Rogers developed and implemented software technologies in the manufacturing and distribution industries. Virtustream was founded in 2009. At 28 years old, Rogers was hired to run Florida Crystals Corporation's Consumer Products Division as its General Manager, which he continued to do until he co-founded Adjoined in 2000.Rogers is an angel investor and adviser to a variety of technology startups. Read could not be reached for comment by press time. "Today marks my final day as Virtustream CEO. Virtustream became part of Dell Technologies after its $67 billion acquisition of EMC in 2016.Virtusteam has hired former vice president of Oracle Cloud, Deepak Patil, to replace Reid as the company's CTO, who will now report to Read. It’s been a magical 10-[year] run that I’m so thankful for. With more than 30 years in the technology services industry, Rodney Rogers is recognized as a successful serial entrepreneur and expert technologist, known for his leadership contributions in the realization of two back-to-back “unicorns” — startups that achieve billion-dollar valuations. He was an early promote to manager in 1992 and was elected to a variety of firmwide leadership committees. "We thank Rodney and Kevin for their leadership and welcome Rory and Deepak to Virtustream," said Virtusteam in the statement to CRN.Longtime Virtustream leaders Rodney Rogers and Kevin Reid are set to step down after founding the enterprise cloud powerhouse nearly a decade ago.In a statement to CRN, Virtusteam confirmed that Rogers, chairman and CEO, and Reid, president and CTO, will no longer be with the company effective May 8. Prior to Oracle, Patil was one of the founding members of Microsoft Azure and led the growth of the Azure business as a general manager of Azure Infrastructure, according to the company.Rory Read will assume leadership of the company as Virtustream's new president, according to the vendor. Rogers also serves as an Advisor to the University of Florida’s Innovative Ventures Fund.Rogers operates as a founding partner of the Blue Lagoon Companies, which, develops, advises and invests in disruptive technology start-ups and next-generation technology companies.Florida Crystals Corporation has remained a customer of Rogers for 25+ years— from Accenture, to Adjoined, through Kanbay, Capgemini, Virtustream, EMC and Dell Technologies.Rogers has been the recipient of numerous technology industry awards including being an E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist twice, an American Business Awards CEO winner and was recognized along with co-founder Kevin Reid as Intel Capital's Entrepreneur/Exit of the Year in 2015.Rogers currently holds US Department of Defense Secret Clearance, and is co-inventor of US Patent 8,799,920 B2: “Systems and Methods of Host-Aware Resource Management Involving Cluster-Based Resource Pools”. The company raised approximately $40 million in series A funding from Columbia Capital, Blue Lagoon Capital, Intel Capital, Noro-Moseley Partners and TDF Ventures between September 2009 and May 2010, and $15 million in series B funding in July 2011 from Intel Capital, Columbia Capital, Noro-Moseley Partners, QuestMark Capital and TDF Ventures. From 2016 until the time he retired in 2018, within Dell Technologies, Rogers served as the President of the Virtustream business, a member of both the Dell EMC Infrastructure Solutions Group and Dell Services & Digital executive leadership teams, and as member of the Dell Technologies extended leadership team.In 1994, he left to work directly for one of his clients, Florida Crystals Corporation. After three weeks he felt he had to do something. He has also been both the subject and author of several technology industry-related articles and publications. Longtime Virtustream leaders Rodney Rogers and Kevin Reid are set to step down after founding the enterprise cloud powerhouse nearly a decade ago. Read will be joining Elias' leadership team and will retain his role as Dell chief operating executive and member of Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell's executive leadership team. SAN DIEGO — Virtustream‘s founders Rodney Rogers and Kevin Reid made the stressful decision to turn down an acquisition deal with SAP, take an … I’ll be transitioning to a new leader over the next 90 days.
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