About Us
Acunu was founded in 2009 to bring new storage technology to market.
Its founders met as researchers at Cambridge University Computer Laboratory. They combine experience in a number of high-profile companies and universities with expertise in data centre storage, algorithms and virtualisation.
Acunu is backed by Eden Ventures, Oxford Technology Management and Pentech Ventures, three of the UK's leading early-stage VCs, along with support from Finance Southeast.
Founders
Dr Tim Moreton (CEO) completed his PhD in virtual file systems for the Xen project at Cambridge. He ran a software consultancy before joining Tideway (now BMC), where he created new tools for managing change in enterprise data centres.
Dr Andy Twigg (CTO) completed his PhD (2006) in compact routing algorithms at Cambridge. Before founding Acunu, he worked at Microsoft Research, Thomson Research, and more recently at Oxford University. His PhD thesis was nominated for the BCS Best Dissertation award.
Tom Wilkie (VP Engineering) was a software engineer at Citrix Systems and one of the first UK employees at XenSource, a virtualization startup, before its acquisition by Citrix in 2007. He has a BA in Computer Science from Cambridge.
Technical Advisory
Dr John Wilkes (Chief Technical Advisor) is an expert in storage systems. He received his PhD from Cambridge in 1984. He led the Storage Systems group at HP Labs, Palo Alto for 15 years before moving to Google in 2008.