Ann joined Percona in 2013 and has held various leadership positions in the Services Organization. Prior to Percona, Ann was part of the MySQL Professional Services team at Sun Microsystems and later Oracle. Before entering the world of Open Source Databases, Ann had a career in retail and commercial banking which included foreign currency trading. Ann has a BS in Finance from Miami University and a MBA from Case Western Reserve's Weatherhead School of Management. She and her family live in beautiful Hood River, OR.