Cory is Director of Strategic Media Publishers at Databricks, where he advises the world’s largest media, gaming and advertising organizations on data platform and AI strategy. He joined Databricks through its 2024 acquisition of Tabular – founded by the original creators of Apache Iceberg – where he served as Sales Leader. He has 15+ years of expertise in enterprise data, cloud and media technology, including data and analytics, cloud architecture, artificial intelligence and agentic systems.  Prior to Tabular, Cory spent six years as a Major Account Executive at Snowflake, a four-time President’s Club honoree and one of the company’s first 250 employees and held senior enterprise sales roles at Akamai Technologies and Verizon Media. 

Cory holds an MBA in International Business Strategy and a BBA in Business Management and Economics from the University of Denver, where he was a four-year Division I lacrosse athlete.