Drew Major

Drew Major (born June 17, 1956) is a computer scientist and entrepreneur. He was one of the principal engineers of the Novell NetWare operating system from early in Novell's history.

Biography He was born in California but has lived most of his life in Utah.

Novell Major joined Novell in 1983, and his partners Kyle Powell, Dale Neibaur, and Mark Hurst began to work in enabling PCs to share files and other resources via a local area network (LAN). Major left Novell in 2003.

Move Networks After leaving Novell, Major co-founded video networking company Move Networks, Inc.

In 2006, Move Networks was acquired by EchoStar. He later co-founded Arroyo Video Solutions, which was acquired by Cisco in 2006. Major then became the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Sling TV, a subsidiary of Dish Network, where he has been instrumental in developing scalable cloud-based digital video recorders (DVRs) and modernizing traditional TV advertising systems.

Personal life He resides in Orem, Utah, with his wife and four sons.