Jay Prassl is the CEO and founder of Automox, a cloud-native IT operations solution provider recognized as one of Colorado's most-watched startups. Automox is disrupting the industry by delivering the speed, simplicity, and cost-efficiency required to outmaneuver attacks while rewriting the rules for how resilient infrastructure can be.

Prior to founding Automox, Jay was an early employee at SolidFire, where he led the marketing and branding efforts for the next-generation flash storage provider that was acquired by NetApp in 2016. Before that, he spent 10 years at LeftHand Networks, where he broke new ground in the storage market with the company's distributed SAN solution. He led multiple parts of the LeftHand business through its acquisition by HP in 2008.