Aditya (Ed) Watal is a Senior Investment Manager with Kavan Life. Mr. Watal is responsible for Kavan's investments in Life and Computing verticals. He is also the founder of Guzool.com, a cloud-based workspace and cloud platform company that is the main supporter of the proposed CARMA: Open Cloud Standard. Mr. Watal is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University (NYU), where he is responsible for helping define the cloud computing curriculum for its School of Continuing and Professional Studies. In his role as a true cloud evangelist, Mr. Watal writes actively for various leading publications and is the author of Cloud Basics, the first book in the series Cloud: The Paradigm Shift. His second book, Cloud Standards, will be released later in 2012. Mr. Watal's contributions extend beyond cloud computing as well. Some of these include Watal's 9 Elements of Corporate Strategy, which bring fresh thinking to Michael Porter's Five Forces of Competition; and Watal's Innovation Curve, a body of work that further develops the work of Nobel Prize winner Simon Kuznets. Mr. Watal shares his thoughts through his blog, Watalon.com. Prior to joining Kavan Life, Mr. Watal worked as an analyst at major financial institutions and as a consultant with global system integrators, experiences that provided him with a rock-solid foundation for his research and writing. He can be reached at awatal at gmail.com.