Steven Tuecke is Deputy Director of the Computation Institute (CI) at The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, and co-leads the Globus project with Dr. Ian Foster. His focus is on the development of sustainable, cloud-based, software-as-a-service data management solutions to accelerate research. Prior to CI, Steven was co-founder, CEO and CTO of Univa Corporation from 2004-2008, providing open source and proprietary software for the high-performance computing and cloud computing markets. Before that, he spent 14 years at Argonne as research staff. Tuecke graduated summa cum laude with a B.A in mathematics and computer science from St. Olaf College.