Nikolai brings more than 20 years experience in designing, building and implementing technology solutions in the travel and hospitality verticals. He served as the CTO for Force.com and VP of Guest Centric Solutions at Amadeus Hospitality, and later as the CEO of Aquiva Labs, a recognized Salesforce and data integration development company with offices in North and South America and Europe. Balba’s experience with complex enterprise implementations of application and data integration solutions for hospitality has led him to believe in a vision of distributed, real time and unified data streaming platform that can open the industry for innovation.