John Wills is the Field CTO at Alation. In this role, he focuses on strategic customer and partner advocacy, supporting strategic opportunities, and closely following industry trends to help craft corporate strategy and product priorities. Previously, John led Alation’s Solution Development and Professional Services organizations. He is also the primary author of Alation’s Book of Knowledge, an internal corpus of best practices for using Alation designed for customers. John has 30+ years of experience in data management with a number of startups and service providers.