William Bain

ScaleOut Software was founded in 2003 by Dr. William L. Bain, who earned a Ph.D. (1978) in electrical engineering/parallel computing from Rice University and has worked at Bell Labs research, Intel, and Microsoft. Dr. Bain founded and ran three start-up companies prior to joining Microsoft. In the most recent company (Valence Research), he developed a distributed Web load-balancing software solution that was acquired by Microsoft and is now called Network Load Balancing within the Windows Server operating system.