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Rodney Rogers (BS ISE ’87)<\/h2>\nRodney Rogers (BS ISE ’87)<\/h2>\nWith more than 30 years in the technology services industry, Rodney Rogers is recognized as a successful serial entrepreneur and expert technologist, known for his leadership contributions in the realization of two back-to-back \u201cunicorns\u201d \u2014 startups that achieve billion-dollar valuations.<\/p>\n
Rogers co-founded Virtustream in 2009, an enterprise cloud computing company, and was chairman and CEO prior to its acquisition by EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) in 2015 for $1.2 billion. In that acquisition year, Virtustream and Rogers ranked 3rd on the Forbes list of \u201cBest Cloud Computing Companies and Best CEOs To Work For.\u201d In 2016, Dell Technologies acquired EMC for $60+ billion in the largest acquisition in tech industry history. Rogers then led Virtustream on to becoming one of Dell Technologies\u2019 seven ingredient brands prior to his retirement in 2018.<\/p>\n
Prior to Virtustream, Rogers was co-founder, chairman and CEO of Adjoined. From its inception in 2000 through its acquisition by Kanbay (NASDQ: KBAY) in 2006, Adjoined was known as one of the fastest-growing IT services companies in the U.S. After the acquisition, Rogers went on to become COO and SEC Section-16 Officer of Kanbay, a 7,000 person global IT Services firm. In 2007, Kanbay was acquired by Capgemini SE (CAP: EN Paris) for $1.2 billion. Rogers started his career in 1988 at Andersen Consulting, known today as Accenture.<\/p>\n
Rogers has been the recipient of numerous awards including being a three-time E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, an Intel Capital Entrepreneur\/Exit of the Year winner, and an American Business Awards CEO winner. Today, Rogers operates as a founding partner of the Blue Lagoon Companies. Blue Lagoon develops and invests in disruptive technology startups and next-generation companies. Rogers currently serves as Chairman of the Board for Lemongrass Ltd., and UnitedLex, Inc., as Lead Board Director for beep, Inc., and as a Board Director for revenue analytics, Inc. and Agrematch Ltd. Rogers is also co-founder of The Blue Lagoon Foundation, a nonprofit charitable organization.<\/p>\n
Rogers holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial & Systems Engineering from the University of Florida and currently serves on the Advisory Board of the UF\u2019s Innovate Ventures Fund. In spring of 2022, he was recognized with a UF Distinguished Alumnus Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rodney Rogers (BS ISE ’87) With more than 30 years in the technology services industry, Rodney Rogers is recognized as a successful serial entrepreneur and expert technologist, known for his leadership contributions in the realization of two back-to-back \u201cunicorns\u201d \u2014 startups that achieve billion-dollar valuations. Rogers co-founded Virtustream in 2009, an enterprise cloud computing company, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2592,"featured_media":31099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-templates\/single-sidebar-none.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,33,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-spotlight","category-events","category-stories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n