Friday's Last Word: Ajubeo CEO Chuck Price
Friday's Last Word: Ajubeo CEO Chuck Price down with Talkin' Cloud to help us understand who he is away from the office. Here are the details.
To find out who Chuck Price is outside of the office, click through this slideshow.
PRICE: Journey and The Steve Miller Band at the Pepsi Center in Denver — awesome!
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: I can’t talk about Journey anymore after watching the last episode of “The Sopranos.”
PRICE: “Dracula Untold” with my nephew — so-so show and clearly left the story open for additional creative liberties.
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: Maybe we’ll take a pass on this one. You didn’t seem that impressed.
PRICE: 2007 Infiniti G35X — solid ride with just enough sport and just enough luxury … at just the right price
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: What a pitch. Were you ever a car salesman?
PRICE: “Game of Thrones.” Love the genre first of all, but also love their complex characters and politics of their world, the amazing scenery and cinematics … oh, and the story’s great too!
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: And I’m still only on book two.
PRICE: “Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing” by Joe Weinman. Deep thinker with detailed analysis — grab your thinking caps for this one.
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: I wonder if this book will make our top 10 list of books for 2014.
PRICE: I built a Hexacopter (DJI F550) with a First Person View (FPV) CCD camera and a 3-axis gimbal with GoPro3+ for some amazing video footage. Having a ton of fun with my kids right now with this bad boy. Here’s a little video we made for fun.
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: There’s a lot going on right there.
PRICE: German Riesling: 2012 J.J. Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Spatlese. I’m a sucker for a nice, sweet German Riesling or Ice Wine.
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: Well, it’s five o’clock somewhere.
PRICE: “Carol of the Bells” by Pentatonix.
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: Perfect timing for the Christmas season.
PRICE: My wife and I went to London this year for our anniversary — a brilliant trip with my best friend, who could ask for more.
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: A trip across the Atlantic.
PRICE: Love me some Uber!
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: It might be time to join the club.
PRICE: Love me some Uber!
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: It might be time to join the club.
Friday's Last Word: Ajubeo CEO Chuck Price — Who exactly is he?
Ajubeo CEO Chuck Price founded the privately-held cloud infrastructure services company with Tom Whitcomb in 2011. The company has several programs for the channel including its cloud partner program.
Prior to Ajubeo, Price was senior vice president of technology at CoreSite Realty Corporation (COR), a publicly traded national datacenter provider. Prior to joining CoreSite, Price was the vice president at TD Ameritrade Trust Company. He has held C-level positions for the past 12 years at Fiserv Investment Support Services, Requisite Technology, Syngistix and Net Library.
What are Price's plans for Ajubeo?
"We opened two new cloud hubs in Germany this year (Frankfurt and Dusseldorf) and added some great channel partners and customers, growing our business by 100 percent year over year," Price says. "In 2015 we'll add more great 'Ajubeo Musketeers' to the team to maintain our high quality of service and partnership, open a couple of new Cloud Hubs domestically and internationally and increase our sales momentum with existing and new channel partners. It's going to be a great year."
Who does Price challenge to sit in the hot seat?
Mark Geene, CEO at Cloud Elements.
What is "Friday's Last Word"?
Friday's Last Word welcomes cloud-centric CEOs who are willing to speak with Talkin' Cloud without someone peeking over a shoulder. Click on each photo to learn more about the CEO you're viewing — it's that simple.
Think you can handle sitting in the hot seat? Send an email to Talkin' Cloud Senior Editor CJ Arlotta at cj.arlotta [at] penton.com for further information. If he doesn't get back to you right away, bother him some more — and more.
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