George Vetticaden is Vice President of Product Management in Emerging Products, and committer on the Apache Metron project. Over the last 4 years at Hortonworks, George has spent time in the field with enterprise customers helping them build big data solutions on top of Hadoop. In his previous role at Hortonworks, George was the Director of Solutions Engineering where he led a team of 15 Big Data Senior Solution Architects helping large enterprise customers with use case inception, design, architecture, to implementation of use cases monetizing data with Hadoop. George graduated from Trinity University with a BA in Computer Science.