Executive
Management
Brandt
Williams, Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive
Officer
Mr. Williams and Mr. Bair co-founded if
in late 1995 to empower an
new class of knowledge workers. Mr. Williams has over 18
years in sales and business development experience. Mr.
Williams was the President co-founder of db Industries in
the early 1980's that he successfully sold. After
performing several sales and marketing roles at Microsoft
and Apple Computer Mr. Williams joined Paragon Systems as
Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Williams has
a BS in Entrepreneurship and Marketing from the
University of Southern California.
John
Bair, Co-Founder, Chief of Technology, Senior Vice
President Product Development
Mr. Bair has spent the past 15 years developing
technology for software startup companies that he
co-founded. Mr. Bair was President and Chief Architect
for Paragon Systems, which developed a temporal database
coupled with an object oriented development environment.
He also co-founded Bair Associates, a computer consulting
firm specializing in business accounting, distribution
and manufacturing software. Mr. Bair has two patents
pending in temporal database technology. He has published
several papers and spoken at many conferences on the
subject of temporal data and the data warehouse.
Philip
Chernin, Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Chernin has over 20 years of experience as a senior
financial manager and Certified Public Accountant. Mr.
Chernin is in private practice and has consulted for
technology companies such as Virtual Vinyards,
Stereographics, Alza Corporation, Forecross, and Optical
Coating Labs, Inc. He was formerly with Arthur Young
& Co. (now Ernst and Young), known for its
preeminent, global technology practice, and Moss Adams,
the largest regional accounting firm in the United
States. Mr. Chernin holds a BA from the University of
Wisconsin.
Jay
Jenkins, Vice President Business Development
Mr. Jenkins has 20 years of experience in sales and
business development for large corporate accounts. He was
Vice President of Sales and Marketing for HOPS
International, selling high performance databases for the
Macintosh. He held sales and business development roles
at Tektronix, Apple Computer, Prime Computer, and John H.
Harland. As the National Account Manager at Apple
Computer, he sold the first 200 Apple PowerBooks. Mr.
Jenkins holds a BS from Colorado State University.
Hollis
Chin, Vice President Marketing
Ms. Chin has spent over 8 years in the software industry
in marketing and engineering roles. Prior to joining if
she was Director of
Marketing at Geoworks, responsible for product marketing
and coverage of the European region. Ms. Chin managed the
engineering development efforts at Sybase for the
Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) database and an
application development tool. She has served in the
financial services industry and was Vice President,
Marketing, at Bank of America. Ms. Chin holds an MBA from
Harvard Business School and a BS from the University of
California, Berkeley.
Ryan Sousa, Vice
President Enterprise Applications
Mr. Sousa is an internationally recognized expert,
author, and speaker in the data warehouse industry. He
co-authored the Corporate Information Factory
and Data Warehouse Performance with W.H.
Inmon, "the father of the data warehouse" and
CTO of Pine Cone Systems. Mr. Sousa has extensive
experience in telecommunications, utility, and other
industries as a data warehouse architect for leading edge
solutions. Most recently he was the Data Warehouse
Architect for Primestar where he developed customer
relationship and customer intelligence solutions. At MCI,
Mr. Sousa architected the data warehouse solution for the
highly successful "Friends and Family"
marketing program. Mr. Sousa was the Chief Technologist
of Intelligent Solutions, Inc. and consulted for Global
1000 companies with Claudia Imhoff, founder and CEO. Mr.
Sousa is a frequent speaker at the Data Warehouse
Institute, DCI, and other tradeshows.
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