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Adrian Cockcroft From Netflix Joins Battery Ventures

By TechTaffy Desk

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Adrian Cockcroft, a former Netflix cloud architect who helped lead the company’s shift to an all-cloud computing infrastructure, has joined Battery Ventures as its first technology fellow.

In his new role, Mr. Cockcroft will advise Battery and its portfolio of investments on various technology trends and issues, and assist with deal sourcing and due diligence, among other things.

Prior to joining Netflix in 2007, Mr. Cockcroft held distinguished engineer roles at both eBay and Sun Microsystems.

[Image courtesy: Battery Ventures]

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