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President and CEO |
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Chief Architect and Vice President of Engineering |
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Vice President of Finance |
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Vice President of Services and Support |
| Christophe Culine |
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales |
| Bob Kruger |
Senior Vice President of Engineering |
| Scott Whitney |
Vice President of Product Management |
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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.
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Sanjay Mehta possesses extensive experience with enterprise-level email messaging systems and solutions for email data management, archiving, and compliance. Before joining Mimosa, Mehta was vice president of software development at ZANTAZ. During his four years at ZANTAZ, he led the design, development, and evolution of their highly scalable compliance archiving service, which supported a capacity of billions of messages. Mehta was also instrumental in the development of a highly scalable data restoration service that saw significant revenue growth through the processing of thousands of tapes every month. He was also responsible for managing the development of all products and services, including the compliance, electronic discovery, and email management applications.
Prior to ZANTAZ, Mehta was assistant vice president of product development at K2 Technologies, an E.W. Blanch company, where he was responsible for the development of risk management applications for insurance and reinsurance companies. Before joining K2 he spent seven years in senior engineering management positions at Kodak Health Imaging, Adac Laboratories (now part of Philips Medical Systems), and ISG Technologies (now Cedara Software), where he managed the development of Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS), as well as medical image storage and workflow management systems. Mehta spent the earlier part of his career leading the development of computer-aided software engineering (CASE) systems and computer-aided engineering (CAE) systems for VHDL and Verilog based hardware design.
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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 than18 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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Bob Kruger has more than 30 years of senior management experience in the high-tech industry in software engineering and product management. At Mimosa he is responsible for all facets of engineering, including development, test, publications, and third level support for a high-performance team that is split between Santa Clara, California and Pune, India. Prior to Mimosa, Kruger was senior vice president of engineering at Mendocino Software, a startup in the "continuous data protection" market. Previous to Mendocino, he held chief technology officer and/or senior vice president of engineering roles at NDCHealth, Citrix Systems, and BMC Software. At these companies Kruger drove the creation of highly effective multi-site engineering and research, as well as the creation of new, diverse product lines which added measurably to the companies' bottom lines. Prior to this, Kruger capped a successful, 11-year career at Microsoft, where he was most recently the general manager of systems management products and drove the creation of the Web-Based Enterprise Management and Common Information Model standards.
Kruger's high-tech history began with Northern Telecom and the Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities. He was a major contributor and technical reviewer for Bill Gates' second book, Business @ the Speed of Thought, and a contributing author to Aspatore's book, Inside the Minds: Making Critical Technology Decisions.
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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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