Bio

Said Ouissal is the CEO/Founder of ZEDEDA and is a Board Member at Marathon Digital Holdings. Said has dedicated his career and over two decades on building out Internet infrastructure. From building and operating one of the first optical/IP/BGP transatlantic Internet backbone networks, to working with telco’s deploying broadband Internet via DSL/Fiber to homes and 4G/LTE to phones, to helping cloud companies and large enterprises build out their data centers and connect them to the Internet, Said has had first-hand experience in how each of these trends have continued to transform the Internet. Said founded ZEDEDA, an edge software infrastructure company, based on his strong conviction that this decade will be all about edge computing, and like with previous large shifts, this trend signals a new and radical change of existing OT, network and computing architectures. In addition, Said is active in the blockchain infrastructure space, including being on the board of Marathon Digital Holdings (NASDAQ:MARA), one of the largest public Bitcoin miners in North America. Prior to founding ZEDEDA and joining the Marathon Digital Holdings board, Said held senior executive roles in product management and sales at Ericsson, Juniper Networks, Violin Systems and Redback Networks. Said is originally from the Netherlands with Moroccan roots, is based in Silicon Valley, has a degree in Computer Science, speaks 5 languages and has authored 2 patents.