Prior to Couchbase, he served as CTO in Italy's largest radiation therapy practice, designing and managing the development of all of their business-critical treatment facilities as well as developing in-house application suites for nuclear medicine image acquisition and manipulation, full radio immune assay lab automation, and clinical research management and resource planning for the oncological sciences. He later spent the best part of two decades holding several senior technical roles at IBM and has vast experience on aspects of the Informix code, from parser to language manager, SQL caches, query execution, general and OS libraries, global language support, and integration of the SQL layer of the Informix database engine. Marco has several patents filed in both the U.K. and U.S. and earned a bachelor’s degree in electronics and physics from King’s College London.