Friday's Last Word: CloudOne CEO John McDonald
CloudOne CEO John McDonald became the top dog at the Indianapolis, Indiana-based cloud applications company in April 2010. Cloud One provides cloud apps for companies and converts their IBM software into customized, on-demand SaaS Services. McDonald was a technical sales executive at IBM for over 20 years.
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To find out who John McDonald is outside of the office, click through this slideshow.
MCDONALD: Barenaked Ladies — last week.
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: “Chickity China the Chinese chicken. You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin’.”
MCDONALD: “The Imitation Game.”
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: The mission: Break a Nazi code to save lives. No pressure at all.
MCDONALD: “House of Cards” — absolutely the most amazing writing.
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: This reporter finished season three last weekend. When does season four come out?
MCDONALD: “Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love” by Richard Sheridan.
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: Is your workplace leaving you a little down? Here’s how one company changed the environment its employees conducted work in.
MCDONALD: A combo Lightning, mini USB and old-style Apple charge cable.
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: There’s a lot going on there.
MCDONALD: ForkLift.
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: A file manager for Mac users.
MCDONALD: Tanqueray 10 and tonic.
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: Bottoms up.
MCDONALD: “The Motions” by Matthew West.
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: Never heard of Matthew West? Give him a shot.
MCDONALD: Tokyo Disneyland.
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: Disneyland sounds good right about now.
MCDONALD: Tokyo Disneyland.
TALKIN’ CLOUD’S SPIN: Disneyland sounds good right about now.
Friday's Last Word: CloudOne CEO John McDonald — Who exactly is he?
CloudOne CEO John McDonald became the top dog at the Indianapolis, Indiana-based cloud applications company in April 2010. Cloud One provides cloud apps for companies and converts their IBM software into customized, on-demand SaaS Services. McDonald was a technical sales executive at IBM for over 20 years.
What are his plans for CloudOne?
"We’re working on helping our customers fully enter the marketplace for the Internet of things, which involves filling in some of our technology, building new marketing campaigns, and helping them pull together different elements of their factory, development and device telemetry capabilities," he says.
Who does McDonald challenge to sit in the hot seat?
Todd Greene at PubNub.
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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