Team Members
Brian Hodges
CEO | Co-Founder
Prior to co-founding nCloud Integrators, Brian was SVP of Worldwide Professional Services at Informatica. A member of the ‘Founders Circle’ at Informatica, Brian successfully grew the professional services team to over $100M in revenue with 400+ employees worldwide. Informatica is recognized as the trusted leader for Data Integration products with over 7000 customers worldwide. Over his 20+ year tenure, Brian participated in taking the company to the public markets in 1999 (INFA – Nasdaq), and helped the company grow organically and through acquisitions to achieve revenues of over $1B.
As part of the leadership team Brian participated in the transition from publicly traded to private equity ownership in 2015. In his role as leader of the professional services organization Brian inspired and challenged his teams around the globe with the personal philosophy of ‘achieve your full potential’. His professional services team was recognized by SPI research as a Top 5 consulting practice, and as an accomplished industry leader Brian served on the Technology Services Industry Association advisory board.
Prior to Informatica, Brian worked as a management consultant with Ernst & Young LLC in a number of client serving and internal roles, including the development of the Global Practice Internal Knowledge Base and practice development programs within the Center for Business Transformation in Irving Texas.
Brian is a Veteran of the United States Army Military Police Corp and served as a Physical Security and Personal Security specialist within the 59 th Ordinance Brigade in West Germany.
Brian holds a B.S. from The Ohio State University with a major in Business Administration - Management Information Systems.
Chris Darius
COO | Co-Founder
Prior to co-founding nCloud Integrators, Chris was VP of Professional Services at Informatica. Chris has spent over two decades maintaining a focus on customer success and company growth throughout his career.
Joining in 1999, as a member of Informatica’s ‘Founder’s Circle’, Chris developed and led the most capable and skilled consulting organizations, ensuring topmost customer satisfaction ratings and record production deployments year after year, on-time and on-budget.
For thousands of the largest corporations around the world, Chris’ teams have continually created and enhanced delivery and development best-practices processes as the industry standard for consistency and efficiency.
Chris is fixated on building trust and the most solid relationships with his teams and customers through a genuine care for their own achievements.
Chris holds a B.B.A. in Finance from James Madison University in Virginia.