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Roger Bamford is the Principal Architect for the Oracle database, a position he has held since 1989. Prior to joining Oracle, he worked at IBM Research and then co-founded Esvel Inc., a RDBMS start-up that was ultimately sold to HP. At Esvel and Oracle, Mr. Bamford was responsible for many software innovations relating to the architecture and performance of relational database management systems and is the holder of dozens of patents relating to database and clustering technology. He currently runs a small research group incubating Xquery-based application development and deployment technology. Mr. Bamford has been an angel investor many times, including in Siebel Systems, which was acquired by Oracle for $5.85 billion, and Truveo, which sold to AOL for $50 million. He is on the advisory board of Fabric7 Systems and on the MIT EECS Visiting Committee. He also manages Bracket Media Group LLC, a private angel fund. Mr. Bamford holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from MIT and a master's in electrical engineering from Stanford University. | 