T. M. Ravi has had a long career with broad experience in enterprise management and storage. Before Mimosa Systems, Ravi was founder and CEO of Peakstone Corporation, a venture-financed startup providing performance management solutions for Fortune 500 companies. Previously, Ravi was vice president of marketing at Computer Associates (CA). At Computer Associates, Ravi was responsible for the core line of CA enterprise management products, including CA Unicenter, as well as the areas of application, systems and network management; software distribution; and help desk, security, and storage management. He joined CA through the $1.2 billion acquisition of Cheyenne Software, the market leader in storage management and antivirus solutions.
At Cheyenne Software, Ravi was the vice president responsible for managing the company's successful Windows NT business with products such as ARCserve backup and InocuLAN antivirus. Prior to Cheyenne, Ravi founded and was CEO of Media Blitz, a provider of Windows NT storage solutions that was acquired by Cheyenne Software. Earlier in his career, Ravi worked in Hewlett-Packard's Information Architecture Group, where he did product planning for client/server and storage solutions.
Peter Skinner — Vice President of Finance
Peter Skinner has more than 25 years of broad domestic and international experience in the financial and operational management of high-technology companies. Previously, Skinner was CFO of BitPass, Inc, a venture-financed startup engaged in providing micro-payment solutions for monetizing digital content across a global network of content providers. Before that, he was CFO and vice president of finance and administration at IXOS Software, Inc., a provider of enterprise content management software to Fortune 1000 companies. Skinner joined IXOS in its startup phase and helped it grow into a global company with more than $100 million in revenue. At IXOS, he assisted with the planning and execution of a number of acquisitions, as well as reseller arrangements with SAP and HDS. In 1998, Skinner was instrumental in taking the company public on NASDAQ. IXOS was purchased by Open Text, a Canadian corporation, in 2003.
Prior to IXOS, Skinner spent more than eight years as CFO and vice president of international finance operations at CyberData Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of POS systems and software for the retail industry. He managed the company's domestic and international financial and operational functions, including its R&D facility in the UK; offshore manufacturing arrangements in Asia, specifically with Kyocera Corporation; OEM partnerships with UK based ICL Ltd. (now part of Fujitsu) and Epson; as well as a joint venture with DEC (purchased by Compaq) and the Russian Postal Service. During his career, Skinner also held financial and operational positions with iNTELLIGENT Peripherals Inc., and was an auditor with Price Waterhouse.
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Christopher Zang has more than 15 years of experience in the software industry and more than 10 years in managing support and service operations. He joined the company from Tegrity, where he served as vice president of client services and operations. Previously he was with AXS-One as vice president of client services, responsible for customer training, documentation, Q/A, and support operations. Prior to AXS-One, Zang was vice president of technical services at IXOS Software (now OpenText), where he joined early in the startup phase and built a multi-national support and services organization from the ground up. His tenure at IXOS also included achieving a 95 percent customer renewal rate for eight consecutive years.
Additionally, Zang has worked for leading global organizations Siemens and Nixdorf Computer AG.
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Christophe Culine has more than 18 years of experience in global sales and business development in messaging, security, and networking. As senior vice president of worldwide sales for Mimosa, he is responsible for driving and expanding the worldwide sales teams and partner network to meet the growing demand for email archiving and eDiscovery.
Culine was most recently senior vice president of sales for Mirapoint, a leader in secure messaging. Prior to Mirapoint, Culine held positions as vice president of sales at Fortinet and Qualys. He also spent four years as vice president of worldwide sales and president of European and Americas operations for GRIC Communications, which went public on NASDAQ in December 1999. Prior to GRIC, Culine spent five years as vice president of South European sales and vice president of worldwide sales for Network Computing Devices (NCD), which went public on NASDAQ in 1992.
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Matt is a veteran of the high tech industry with over 25 years of management and engineering experience. Responsible for engineering, development, quality and test departments, at Mimosa he brings together geographically dispersed teams. Prior to Mimosa Systems, Matt was vice president of engineering at Cast Iron Systems, where he drove product development and direction from an appliance-only integration solution to a multi-faceted delivery of cloud, virtual machine and appliance solutions. Later, while at ONStor, Inc., he was responsible for product development and delivery of the ONStor NAS Gateway product. He successfully shipped multiple generations of this quality product during his tenure.
Prior to joining ONStor, Matt served as vice president of engineering at Mirapoint, Inc. In this role, he led the engineering team responsible for all aspects of product delivery and development of the Mirapoint messaging infrastructure appliances. While at Mirapoint, his team delivered four new appliance products on schedule, and revamped the software infrastructure.
Prior to Mirapoint, Matt served as vice president of software engineering at Silicon Graphics (SGI). He led a large geographically distributed team responsible for delivery of all software related products for SGI. Matt has held senior positions at SGI of Senior Director, Director and Manager of Engineering prior to the VP role. Prior to SGI, Matt held a number of engineering and product development positions at leading Bay Area companies.
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Scott Whitney brings over 15 years of operations and software industry experience to Mimosa Systems. As Mimosa's messenger for the market, Whitney and his team find and quantify the problems of enterprise companies, validate the solution, and define our release roadmap.
Throughout his career Whitney has held senior roles for companies in both enterprise and consumer technology markets. Prior to joining Mimosa, he was director of product management at Symantec for Enterprise Vault, an integrated content archive and eDiscovery solution.
Before his tenure at Symantec, Whitney led the product management team at Verity, the market-leading enterprise search and classification technology company, which was eventually sold to Autonomy. He was involved in the acquisition and integration of Cardiff for workflow management and NativeMinds for natural language processing for an improved search experience. Prior to this, Whitney led the product management team at Inktomi where he managed Ultraseek, the industry's first enterprise search product that could be downloaded and installed in less than 30 minutes, winning many customers over the Google Search Appliance. He also managed the Inktomi comparison-shopping engine that syndicated merchant search results to Yahoo and MSN. Whitney has also held operations and technical consulting positions at KPMG and FCG.
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Moheimani brings 20 years of management experience in software services practices and delivery to Mimosa Systems. As vice president of services at Mimosa, he is responsible for service delivery and training, including services delivered through partners worldwide.
Before joining Mimosa, Moheimani was vice president of professional services at Mirapoint, a leader in secure messaging, where he was credited with building the company's professional services team globally as well as successfully deploying the company's products to hundreds of enterprises, government institutions, and service providers. Before that he was vice president and general manager of support and operations at Cygnus Solutions, a pioneer in open source software tools development that was acquired by Red Hat. Before Cygnus, Moheimani served 12 years in various management positions at Sun Microsystems, including director of Solaris support.
Moheimani's career began at Tandem Computers, where he was a member of the company's system support group and responsible for supporting Tandem's IBM network connectivity products.
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