Kathryn Erickson leads the Technology Partnership Program for DataStax. Prior to joining DataStax, Kathryn was a leader within the Sales Engineering team at Fusion-io and prior to that she conducted and patented research at the MITRE Corporation. She also worked as part of the CyberTrust team at the National Science Foundation (NSF), which guided academic research in information security. Kathryn has two small children and enjoys oil painting, even though she's not great at it.