Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 8
CB Rank (Person) 55,402

Prior to Cybric, Mike Kail was Yahoo’s CIO and SVP of Infrastructure, where he led the IT and Data Center functions for the company. He has more than 25 years of IT Operations experience with a focus on highly- scalable architectures.

Prior to joining Yahoo, Mike served as VP of IT Operations at Netflix, where he was responsible for Employee

Technology and various Cloud Engineering components.

Before that role, Mike was VP of IT Operations at Attensity, where he was responsible for the Americas data center operations team; including managing various Big Data systems with their Hadoop cluster, HBase, and MongoDB components.

He has been widely recognized widely for his insightful industry commentary on social media Twitter, and was recently named by the Huffington Post as one of the “Top 100 Most Social CIOs on Twitter.”

He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Iowa State University.

Mike is based in Los Gatos, CA, where he lives with his wife and two sons.

Mike's Twitter Handle: https://twitter.com/@mdkail

Mike's LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mdkail

Number of Past Jobs 5
Mike D. Kail has had 5 past jobs including CTO at Everest.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Everest
CTOAug 2018Aug 1, 2020
ZeroNorth
CTOOct 15, 2015May 2018
Yahoo
CIO & SVP of InfrastructureAug 6, 2014Jun 1, 2015
Netflix
VP of IT OperationsOct 29, 2011Aug 15, 2014
Netflix
Director of Employee TechnologyJun 20, 2011Oct 29, 2011
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 8
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 2
Mike D. Kail holds 8 board and advisor roles including Advisory Board at Habla AI, Inc., Senior Technical Advisor at NephoScale, Inc., and Technical Advisor / Investor at ContextSmith.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Zemcar
Technical AdvisorJun 2016Apr 2018
Zylotech
Technical AdvisorJul 2016
Mike D. Kail studied at Iowa State University.