George Chaltas is the Director for Strategic Customer & Visual Cloud Software Performance in Intel’s Cloud and Enterprise Solutions Group. He leads a worldwide team of software engineers who partner with Cloud Service Providers and their customers to increase the performance and efficiency of their workloads. George has more than 30 years of experience in software development and performance. Prior to joining Intel in 1998, he was a software engineer and engineering manager at Digital Equipment Corporation. He holds Masters Degrees in both Computer Science and Music Theory from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In his spare time he builds model trains and composes music.