Brent Bensten

Think moving to a FedRAMP-compliant cloud service is daunting? Try building one.

That was the charge given to Brent Bensten by Carpathia CEO Peter Weber when Bensten was promoted from vice president of operations to chief technology officer. He was an experienced data center specialist who managed operations for Fortune 500 firms before turning his attention to public-sector IT. (He holds a patent for innovative methods of "remote management of customer servers.")

He led the development of Carpathia's newest hybrid cloud offering for federal agencies and strengthened his firm's partnership with VMware in the process. The new service was built to be "binary compatible" with existing VMware-based virtualized systems and give agencies an easier migration path to the cloud.

"Brent was instrumental in this process, from design all the way through to operation," a Carpathia colleague said.