# Jeff Denworth

> Jeff Denworth is a co-founder of VAST Data and a technical go-to-market executive whose career has tracked the evolution of enterprise storage from memory hardware and parallel file systems to cloud data and AI infrastructure. After roles at Dataram, Cluster File Systems, DDN and CTERA, he joined the founding team of VAST in 2016. During its stealth years, he was the small team’s lone go-to-market voice, speaking with roughly 300 to 400 organizations before the company launched publicly in 2019. He remains one of VAST’s most visible interpreters of its architecture and long-range ambitions.

- **Role:** Co-Founder at VAST Data
- **Organizations:** VAST Data, CTERA Networks, DDN Storage, Cluster File Systems, Dataram
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Marketing, The College of New Jersey (then Trenton State College)
- **Known for:** Co-founded VAST Data and served as its early product and go-to-market leader., Helped take VAST from a three-year stealth period to a public launch in 2019., Built more than two decades of experience across big data, high-performance computing, cloud and enterprise storage.

## Career timeline

- **1999-2004** — Worked as Business Development Manager at Dataram.
- **2004-2006** — Served as Director of Sales at Cluster File Systems, the company behind the Lustre parallel file system.
- **2006-2009** — Joined DDN Storage as Director of Platform Solutions.
- **2009-2014** — Became Vice President of Marketing at DDN Storage, with responsibility spanning marketing, business development and corporate development.
- **2014-2016** — Served as Senior Vice President of Marketing at CTERA Networks.
- **2016** — Joined VAST Data as a co-founder and initially served as Vice President of Products.
- **2016-2019** — Worked through VAST’s stealth period; the founding team consulted roughly 300 to 400 organizations before public launch.
- **2019** — VAST Data emerged from stealth with its Universal Storage system and disclosed $80 million in funding.
- **2023** — Helped introduce the broader VAST Data Platform, extending the company narrative beyond storage.
- **2026** — Presented VAST’s continuous AI systems thesis at VAST Forward and wrote the company’s account of its $30 billion Series F valuation.

## Achievements

- Co-founded VAST Data and served as its early product and go-to-market leader.
- Helped take VAST from a three-year stealth period to a public launch in 2019.
- Built more than two decades of experience across big data, high-performance computing, cloud and enterprise storage.
- Became a prominent public interpreter of VAST’s move from universal storage to a broader AI data and computing platform.
- Contributed to the company’s market development through extensive customer discovery before launch and continued industry speaking and writing.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Appeared in VAST Data’s Shared Everything discussion about context as a core enterprise AI resource.
- **2026-04** — Published N=1, his account of VAST Data’s development as the company announced a Series F transaction at a $30 billion valuation.
- **2026-03** — Delivered a VAST Forward keynote describing continuous AI systems and the infrastructure needed to support them.

## Links

- Website: https://www.vastdata.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreydenworth
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/JeffDenworth

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Last updated: 2026-09-26