Jay Litkey - Profile

Jay Litkey - CEO and Founder

A serial entrepreneur with extensive experience launching, financing and growing software companies, Jay has been a pioneer in emerging high growth markets that include virtualization, enterprise systems management automation, and internet video content distribution. For the past 8 years he has been a virtualization evangelist and advocate, focusing on the strategic impacts of virtualization and automation within enterprise data centers. Jay is ITIL-certified and frequently spends his time serving as a trusted advisor for IT executives and speaking at industry events.

Prior to Embotics, Jay founded Symbium Corp, a venture-funded company focused on Autonomic Computing and the automated management of IT infrastructure, where he managed business development and product management. Prior to that, he was the founding CEO of BlackholeTV, an internet video company. Jay started his career at Bell-Northern Research designing automated control systems for the telecommunications industry. He is a golf hack, won a Forty under 40 award, and holds an honors degree in Computer Science from Queen's University.