Pivotal announced the addition of Hugh E. Williams as senior vice president of research and development. In addition to R&D, Williams will oversee quality assurance, product management, technology operations, and university and technical community relations for the Application and Data Fabric teams. Williams lends years of expertise building meaningful products and services to bring new ideas and innovation to the Pivotal platform -- Pivotal One -- in driving the creation of a new class of agile developed, data-driven, cloud based applications for the enterprise. Most recently, Williams spent four and a half years with eBay where he was responsible for a large cross-disciplinary team that turned around the Marketplaces business.

His teams conceived, designed, and built eBay's user experiences, search engine, Big Data technologies and platforms. Prior to joining eBay, he managed an R&D team at Microsoft's Bing for four and a half years, and spent over 10 years researching and developing search technologies. Prior to that, he ran his own startup and consultancy for several years.