Education
University of Cape Town.
University of Cape Town.
Pinkham was formerly Vice President, Information Technology Infrastructure, at Amazon.com, responsible for the company"s global infrastructure engineering and operations. While in this role, he conceived, proposed and, together with Willem Van Biljon, built Amazon"s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), the highly successful public cloud service. Prior to Amazon, Pinkham co-created and ran the first commercial Internet service provider in South Africa, TICSA (later renamed Internet Africa), which he sold to UUNET in 1996.
The company, now owned by MTN, remains one of the largest ISPs on the African continent.
The company, Nimbula, was focused on Cloud Computing software and was funded by Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners. In March 2013, Nimbula was acquired by Oracle Corporation.
Pinkham has co-authored a couple of patent applications: "Managing Communications Between Computing Nodes" and "Managing Execution of Programs by Multiple Computing Systems".
