Bootstrapping, Mentors and the Road to Acquisition - with Rosemary Francis

Rosemary Francis is an expert on computer architecture, high-performance computing and analytics. She founded, and spent ten years building, Ellexus, which was subsequently acquired by Altair. Ellexus is a leading input/output (I/O) analysis tool, which helps customers find and address issues quickly, improving speed accuracy and cloud readiness. The software products are used for I/O diagnostics, optimization, and dependency detection by HPC administrators of large enterprises. Rosemary now continues in a technical role as Chief Scientist within the HPC team where the Ellexus tools now reside. We've been incredibly fortunate to have had Rosemary on the Advisory Board of ideaSpace and also as an advisor for The Entrepreneurship Clinic - an ideaSpace event for new founders. Rosemary is also a public speaker, mentor, and advisor, and carries out work for the Rasberry Pi Foundation.