Management Team

Pete Zarras - Founder and President
Pete is the chief catalyst behind CloudStrategies and plays a key role managing the day-to-day operations and growth of the firm. In addition to these responsibilities, he works directly with clients on assignments where bridging business and technical issues are essential to maximizing value. He brings nearly 20 years of hands-on experience solving technology challenges for some of the world's largest enterprises and fastest moving small businesses to the work he performs. Before founding CloudStrategies, Pete worked in sales / service roles for Microsoft Corporation in their NY Metro District, as well as several business and technology consulting firms.

Pete earned a dual track MBA / Technology Management degree from the University of Phoenix and has a BS in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University. Pete is very active in his local community and sits on the board of Morris Habitat for Humanity.

G.S. (Gil) Bautista - Vice President of Sales
Mr. Bautista has served over 25 years in both leadership and management roles in areas of marketing, sales, and consulting services.  He has successfully developed and executed global go-to-market strategies, structured and implemented various integrated solutions in the retail, wholesale distribution, manufacturing and financial services industry segments, and has deep experience in, and a successful track record of applying technology to optimize business processes.

His career began with the IBM Corporation focused on retail, banking and finance companies.  He continued his career with Vertex Interactive leading a $30M software solutions division, and then on to Symbol Technologies/Motorola developing a global go-to-market strategy for automatic data collection and RFID technology. He served as the Global Managing Director at Microsoft responsible for the worldwide relationship with the General Electric Company.

John Alumbaugh - Director of Consulting Services
John oversees all services related client activities and is responsible for growing CloudStrategies consulting business.  In addition to helping clients migrate from legacy infrastructure into modern cloud infrastructure, John is responsible for setting consulting business strategy.

John is a US Navy Veteran with more than 20 years of IT infrastructure experience.  Prior to joining CloudStrategies, John worked at Hewlett Packard in a variety of professional services roles, most notably as the Practice Manager for the Great Lakes Microsoft Infrastructure Practices where he lead consulting teams focused on enterprise migrations to Microsoft platforms.  John lives outside of Indianapolis with his family, where he is active in his community.

Mark Gordon- Senior Solutions Architect
Mark has been applying technology solutions to business opportunities and challenges for over 18 years.   Since 1997, Mark held progressively more responsible positions at Microsoft Corporation culminating in his last six years as an Enterprise Technology Strategist.  In this role, Mark had the opportunity to work with many companies in the Healthcare industry such as Eli Lilly, WellPoint, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Cook Medical, Zimmer, Biomet and HCSC as well as Adesa, Sallie Mae, and Brightpoint. He helped develop, implement and operate collaboration platforms that have allowed these companies to consolidate workforce, easily integrate new acquisitions, enable high value business partnerships and build deep customer relationships.

Rose Reda - Marketing & Operations Manager
Rose oversees all Marketing as well as Operations activities for CloudStrategies. She brings a very strong and varied background to the company.

Her experience includes successfully executing Marketing, Innovation, Public Relations, Sales and Operations initiatives for companies including the ABC-TV Network, the Colgate-Palmolive Company, Passage Events where she was a Marketing Account Manager for the Starbucks Coffee Company account, and Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

She holds a BA degree in Communication from Rutgers, The State University of NJ.