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ManagementThe team at Active Endpoints is dedicated to achieving the company's very expansive mission: to drive mass adoption of process-based applications. You can read biographical information about the management team below.
Mark TaberChief Executive Officer
Mark brings to Active Endpoints more than 25 years of experience driving sales and operations results for businesses that provide cutting-edge middleware, security, networking, and storage technology.
Before joining Active Endpoints, Mark served as IBM's Worldwide Business Unit Executive for their SOA Appliance Division, a part of IBM's Application Infrastructure Middleware Group. He joined IBM through its 2005 acquisition of DataPower, where he was Vice President of Sales. While at IBM/DataPower (before and after the acquisition), Mark provided mission-critical web services infrastructure to more than 300 large enterprise and government customers around the world, helping them to simplify, manage and secure scalable web services communications in heterogeneous environments.
Before DataPower, Mark served as Vice President of Sales at AEP Systems, where he focused on increasing security in financial and government networks and enabling secure remote access for small and medium-sized businesses. Prior to AEP, Mark was Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Chrysalis-ITS, where he worked with computing and networking OEMs to remove security-related performance bottlenecks. Mark also served as Regional Vice President at Toshiba America Information Systems-Storage Division.
Mark holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Chris KellerFounder & Vice President, Product Development
In his career spanning over 25 years, Chris has led the development of award-winning software products. His expertise spans a broad spectrum of infrastructure technologies including integration brokers, transaction/messaging systems, and services-oriented computing models.
Prior to Active Endpoints, Chris was Vice President, Product Development of Novell, Inc.'s eBusiness Integration Products division. Chris was the co-founder of two prior software ventures - GemLogic, Inc. (acquired by Novell/SilverStream), and LexiBridge Corporation (acquired by Level3 Communications). Chris has also held senior level R&D positions at DataEase International, Reuters North America and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
He is a graduate of Long Island University with Bachelor of Science degrees in physics and mathematics.
Eric EgertsonVice President, Business Development and Strategic Accounts
Eric joined Active Endpoints from DataDirect Technologies, an operating company of Progress Software Corporation. In his seven-year tenure as Vice President, Sales with DataDirect, Eric led the company's OEM partnerships with IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun and other leading independent software vendors, with over 200 new OEM relationships with ISVs formed during the last three years. Eric also led DataDirect's move into new corporate and government markets with products ranging from XML query processors to mainframe integration. Eric was a member of the management team that spun off DataDirect from MERANT in the fall of 2001, during which time DataDirect sharpened its focus on its most profitable markets, positioning DataDirect for acquisition by Progress Software in December 2003.
Prior to Eric's Vice President responsibilities with DataDirect, Eric held OEM field sales and sales management positions at MERANT and INTERSOLV, was Director of Marketing and Business Development at TechGnosis, and held product marketing positions at Trinzic Corporation.
Eric received a Bachelor of Arts in Physics from Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT.
Richard NoyesVice President, Sales
Rich joined Active Endpoints from dynaTrace, a leader in the application performance management (APM) space. He ran the inside sales organization, growing the business 386% year over year.
Prior to Rich's responsibilities with dynaTrace, he held the position of Vice President of Sales at Accusoft, a leading provider of imaging technology. Rich has also held sales management positions with Allaire, Sybase and Powersoft.
Rich received a Bachelor of Science from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (formerly North Adams State College).
John CingariChief Marketing Officer
John brings to Active Endpoints 25 years of experience leading marketing organizations at both emerging growth and large enterprise software companies. Prior to Active Endpoints, John was Chief Marketing Officer at Compiere, an enterprise software company based on open source and cloud computing technology. Prior to Compiere, John was VP Marketing at OutlookSoft Corporation, where he was responsible for corporate, product, and field marketing functions. During his tenure, OutlookSoft grew tenfold in 3 years, becoming one of the leaders in the business intelligence market.
Prior to OutlookSoft, John was VP Applications Marketing at Oracle, where he led the market entry into the consumer packaged goods, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries. Prior to Oracle, John held marketing and sales positions at Datalogix, Marcam, and Procter and Gamble.
John holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Boston College, and an MBA from the University of Dallas.
Michael T. Rowley, Ph.D.Chief Technology Officer
Michael Rowley is a leading technologist in SOA and BPM software. He was a contributor on the BPMN 2.0 specification and is an editor of the BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask OASIS standards. He is a key contributor and an editor on OASIS specifications for Service Component Architecture (SCA) and is also co-author of the book Understanding SCA, which was published in July of 2009.
At Active Endpoints, Michael is actively engaged in the design and development of ActiveVOS BPMS and is responsible for accelerating the company's technological leadership in the BPM market. Michael is also the lead designer of the guidance tree technology and Cloud Extend, the commercial product in which guidance trees form the foundation. Before joining Active Endpoints, he worked at BEA Systems, where he was an architect on three products before moving to the office of the CTO, where he worked on innovative technology and standards. Michael received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 1994.
Luc ClementVice President, Products and Services
Luc has 20 years of experience driving product direction and releasing market-leading products. At Active Endpoints Luc has product management responsibilities, and manages the professional services, education, and support teams.
Luc held various product management positions prior to joining Active Endpoints. At Systinet (acquired by HP/Mercury Interactive) he helped develop and take to market the company's market-leading SOA Governance and Registry products. While in Microsoft's Windows Server Group Luc helped develop and ship the Microsoft Identity Integration Server, the Microsoft UDDI Server, and drove UDDI standardization efforts as Co-chair of the OASIS UDDI Technical Committee. At Zoomit (acquired by Microsoft) Luc helped develop and take to market the first and market-leading meta-directory product. Prior to joining the software industry, Luc served as an officer of the Canadian Forces.
Luc holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from the Royal Military College of Canada.
D. Tyler DroletChief Financial Officer
Tyler brings to Active Endpoints more than 25 years of experience driving finance, operations, strategy and capital formation for high growth technology companies. Most recently Tyler was Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary of BlueShift Technologies, a semiconductor systems and automation company. Prior to BlueShift Technologies, Tyler was Director of Finance for Groove Networks (acquired by Microsoft), a software company that introduced the Groove platform for collaboration via the Internet, where he built the company's financial and operating infrastructure. Earlier in his career, Tyler held CFO and senior financial positions for Adero, ZipLink and Auburn International. He began his career in public accounting with Arthur Andersen LLP and Tonneson & Company, CPAs.
Tyler holds a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Bucknell University and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). |
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