Louis Columbus is currently serving as Director, Global Cloud Product Management at Ingram Cloud, is a frequent contributor to Forbes.com, and teaches graduate-level marketing and international business courses at a variety of universities. Previous positions include product marketing at iBASEt, Plex Systems, senior analyst at AMR Research (now Gartner), marketing and business development at Cincom Systems, Ingram Micro, a SaaS start-up and at hardware companies. Mr. Columbus’ background includes marketing, product management, sales and industry analyst roles in the enterprise software and IT industries. Louis has an MBA from Pepperdine University and completion of the Strategic Marketing Management Program at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He has taught at California State University, Fullerton: University of California, Irvine; Marymount University, and Webster University.