Kurt Daniel
Board of Governors
Chief Executive Officer, Virtuozzo
Kurt Daniel is a technology executive, founder, board member, and advisor. He is a five-time CEO with experience at Axyom.Core, Kansys, Titan.ium, Ubersmith, and Virtuozzo and a three-time startup executive with experience at MongoDB, Worklight, and Parallels. Earlier, he was a product management leader at Microsoft and a management consultant at Kearney.
In addition to his executive experience, Mr. Daniel has served as an independent board member or advisor to dozens of organizations, including Acronis, Code Climate, Datadog, Intermedia, Kloog, Lightyear, the MariaDB Foundation, Next Orbit, Quicksave Interactive, Raia, Samanage, Wonderflow, Zlago, and several top venture capital and private equity firms globally.
Virtuozzo is a provider of infrastructure software for AI and the cloud. The company offers an optimized operating system plus orchestration, management, automation, and protection for cloud service providers, SaaS companies, AI, and the enterprise. Virtuozzo provides mainframe-like efficiency, reliability, performance, security, and versatility for more than 100,000 companies in over 100 countries. For more information on Virtuozzo, please visit https://virtuozzo.com.
Mr. Daniel is on record as a proponent of AI as a productivity tool and thinks organizations should do more to help employees and external stakeholders overcome concerns about AI and reduce stress associated with its adoption.
His company, Virtuozzo, is a member of the global Constructor Group ecosystem. The Constructor Group consists of three main pillars – Constructor Knowledge, Constructor Capital, and Constructor Tech – uniting science, technology, research, and education around a single deeply fundamental and yet very applied mission.
The ecosystem focuses on fundamental technology needs relevant to science and education: generative AI, metapresence, computing, robotics, energy, health and bio, and neuroscience.
With more than 1,300 employees across over 30 locations and a community that includes Nobel laureates, Turing Award and Fields Medal winners, leading researchers and educators, and experienced industry and investment partners, Constructor Group is helping solve the challenges of today and tomorrow. For more information on the Constructor Group, please visit https://constructor.org/.
Previously, Mr. Daniel was the founder of Ubersmith as an independent company and sold it to the Lumine Group, which later went public. He then led three larger Lumine Group companies through rapid transformation, growth acceleration, and profitability increases as a result of industry-first product innovation, improved business strategy, stronger go-to-market execution, new and deeper partnerships, and team strengthening. At one of these companies, Axyom.Core, he served as founding CEO post-spinout from Casa Systems.
Prior to Ubersmith, Mr. Daniel helped rename 10gen to MongoDB and helped establish it as the leading modern database platform. Before MongoDB, he helped establish Worklight as a leader in web and hybrid application platform software before its acquisition by IBM. Before Worklight, he helped rename SWsoft to Parallels and helped it grow to more than 1.5 million customers in over 100 countries as a leader in virtualization software for consumers, businesses, and service providers.
His domain experience includes operating systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, AI infrastructure, cloud services, databases, development tools, subscription management, usage billing, and device management.
Mr. Daniel holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Virginia and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.