Dennis O'Connell has been leading business development and technology strategy for the last 15 years. He was the Sr. Director of Yahoo's Performance Engineering Team and on the Infrastructure Development team at Verizon Media which was in charge of exploring and on-boarding new technologies and server vendors, sponsoring proof of concepts around new tech, and finding new areas of collaboration with current and future vendors and customers. Dennis has experience in tackling ambitious proof of concepts to help companies onboard new technology, and improve their applications' latency, throughput and cost.

Dennis grew up in Massachusetts and graduated at Northeastern University with a major in International Affairs.