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Mark Fussell is the CEO and co-founder of Diagrid. With over 30 years of experience, Mark has a track record of building innovative computing platforms, managing large-scale cloud services, cultivating open source communities, and implementing successful go-to-market business strategies. During his 21 years at Microsoft, he played a pivotal role in developing the distributed systems platform for Azure's hyperscale services, including Azure SQL, CosmosDB, Intune, Dynamics 365, Teams and many othe
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