"After finding and implementing the comprehensive email archiving solution from Mimosa, now the eDiscovery search process is reduced substantially – all with less manpower."
— Doug Blackburn, Systems Programmer Analyst, Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department
T. M. Ravi — President and CEO
T. M. Ravi is president and CEO of Mimosa Systems, the leader in enterprise content archiving and eDiscovery. Before Mimosa Systems, Ravi was founder and CEO of Peakstone Corporation, a venture-financed start-up, 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 was the CEO and founder of Media Blitz, a provider of Windows NT storage solutions, which 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.
Michael Sheridan — Chief Financial Officer
Michael Sheridan has more than 23 years of finance, operations and administration experience in the Internet and high technology industries. As Chief Financial Officer for Mimosa, he is responsible for developing our financial and operational capabilities to meet the needs of our rapidly growing business.
Sheridan brings a unique perspective to Mimosa by drawing on his experience in several key leadership positions within successful Web 2.0, Internet entertainment, and Internet security organizations. Prior to joining Mimosa, he served as the CFO of Playlist Inc., a Web-based community of music enthusiasts. Sheridan also served as CFO of Facebook Inc., a Web-based social communication utility. He also served as the CFO of IGN Entertainment, Inc., a leading Internet media and services provider focused on the video game and entertainment markets. As an executive officer of SonicWALL, Inc., an Internet security appliance provider, Sheridan served in various roles including CFO, Chief Operating Officer, and Senior Vice President of Strategy. Earlier in his career, he held senior Finance positions at Genesys Telecommunications Inc. and Network Appliance. He began his career at Arthur Andersen LLP, and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Christophe Culine — Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales
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.
Christopher Zang — Vice President of Services and Support
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.
Scott Whitney — Vice President of Product Management
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.
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, an 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. 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.
Mehdi Moheimani — Vice President of Services
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, where built 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 Mirapoint, he was vice president and general manager of support and operations at Cygnus Solutions. 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.
Matt Johnson — Vice President of Engineering
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. 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. Before joining ONStor, Matt served as vice president of engineering at Mirapoint, Inc. leading the engineering team responsible for all aspects of product delivery and development of the Mirapoint messaging infrastructure appliances. 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.
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