WANdisco is led by a seasoned team of software executives who have served on the boards and advisory boards of a number of Silicon Valley start-up ventures. The team consists of individuals who have built companies from inception to successful exit and people who are regarded as worldwide authorities in the field of distributed computing, network protocols and Java development.
David Richards has over 15 years experience as an executive in the software industry and sits on both boards and advisory boards of Silicon Valley start-up ventures. David is a veteran of several successful start-up companies in Enterprise Software and is recognized as an industry leader in both EAI and EAI standards. He has spoken and written widely about standards in application integration and the adoption of open-source technologies.
Prior to WANdisco, David served as the President and CEO of Librados, where he took the company from an early stage technology company to exponential customer and revenue growth. David led the company's acquisition by NetManage (Nasdaq:NETM) just over a year after joining the company. Following the successful acquisition he joined the executive management team of NetManage where he served as Vice President and General Manager.
Prior to Librados, David was the president and CEO of Insevo, Inc. where he raised venture capital from the world's largest venture capital fund, 3i. After becoming a recognized leader in the middleware space the company was acquired. During the 1990s David was also an early member of the team at IT Management Consulting firm Druid Group, which was acquired by FI Group for £763m, following a successful flotation on the London Stock Exchange in November 1996.
David has also served on the boards of ObjectWeb, a leading open source application server company based in France and the EAI Industry Consortium where he also chaired the Adapter Technology Committee. David has served on the boards and advisory boards of several technology companies. He was formerly a strategic advisor to NEC Corporation, where he advised the head of NEC software group (Japan) to define open source strategy. David holds a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Huddersfield, England.
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Jim Campigli has over twenty-five years of software industry experience at both early-stage and public companies.
In his previous role as a founder and CTO of Librados, Jim was responsible for overall product strategy and product messaging, and served as an evangelist for Librados' standards based approach to enterprise application integration. Jim was a member of the management team that led the company's acquisition by Netmanage, Inc. Following the successful acquisition, Jim joined Netmanage as CTO for the Librados products group.
Prior to Librados, Jim was the VP of Product Management for Insevo, Inc., a middleware company specializing in enterprise application integration. After becoming a recognized leader in the middleware space the company was acquired. Jim also held senior product management and consulting management positions at BEA Systems and SAP. Jim holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Nick Parker has over 25 years of experience in finance positions, and has been closely involved with value creation for shareholders in London Stock Exchange listed companies. Nick is a widely experienced business professional and chartered accountant (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) and today serves as WANdisco’s CFO, where he oversees the company’s finance, accounting and investor relations.
Prior to WANdisco, Nick was the Dyson Group PLC CFO for over eight years, and was crucial in transforming Dyson into a high-growth performance materials group. He was previously the Chief Executive of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club, where he transformed and then sold the British soccer team to private investors, and the VP of Corporate Development at Carclo PLC, where he oversaw a large volume of corporate activity with numerous acquisitions and disposals in both the UK and overseas.
Nick holds a BA in Accountancy & Economics from the University of Exeter, UK.
Dr. Aahlad is a recognized world-wide authority on distributed computing where he currently holds 3 patents. It was Dr. Aahlad's vision and persistence that led to the invention of technology that many thought was impossible - that of active-active replication (WANdisco's patent pending DConE technology). Prior to WANdisco, Dr. Aahlad served as the distributed systems architect for iPlanet (Sun/Netscape Alliance) Application Server. At Netscape, Dr. Aahlad joined the elite team in charge of creating a new server platform based on the CORBA distributed object framework.
Prior to Sun/Netscape Dr. Aahlad worked on incorporating the CORBA security service into Fujitsu's Object Request Broker. Dr. Aahlad designed and implemented the CORBA event services while working on Sun's first CORBA initiative. Earlier in his career, Dr. Aahlad worked on a distributed programming language at IBM's Palo Alto Scientific Center.
Dr. Aahlad has a Ph.D in distributed computing from the University of Texas, Austin and a BS in EE from IIT Madras.
Rob has over 28 years of experience within the software industry, and has been focused on the Software Configuration Management sector for the last 17 years. In 1995, Rob joined Atria Software as a Principal Engineer and worked through its acquisition by Rational Software in both Engineering and Sales roles. At the beginning of 2001, Rob became a Senior Product Manager for Rational ClearCase. Rational was acquired by IBM in 2003, and Rob left IBM in 2004. Prior to joining WANdisco in 2007, Rob was Senior Systems Engineer at mValent, Inc, and Senior Sales Engineer at Ketera Technologies. He is currently Vice President of Product Management at WANdisco.
Rob holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer and Communications Science from the University of Michigan.
Peter Scott has over 10 years of direct sales and sales management experience in both early stage startup and mature public technology companies. Prior to WANdisco, Peter was a member of the sales management team at Empirix's highly successful Web Business Unit, which was acquired by Oracle. Prior to Empirix, he was part of the sales management team at Vecta Software, a CRM and Business Intelligence software vendor, recognized as EMEA’s leading on-demand Sales Intelligence company. He began his career with Sales Dynamics a sales and marketing consulting company, helping early stage venture backed technology companies establish sales processes that enabled them to achieve aggressive revenue targets.
Prior to his career in technology sales, Peter spent six years in the British Army with the Royal Engineers. He was awarded the accumulated campaign service medal for serving over 1000 days in Northern Ireland.
Ian Wild has been working in fast paced start-up businesses for over 15 years. During this time he has held senior roles within software development, customer support, product management and professional services delivery. Ian spent much of the 10 years before joining WANdisco at Plusnet, an Internet Service Provider based in the UK. During this time Ian was involved in an IPO and a number of acquisitions which saw the business grow from a handful of employees to over 200. Plusnet was acquired by BT in 2007 and Ian left early in 2009 to join WANdisco at their newly opened European HQ in Sheffield.
Hyrum Wright is currently president of the Subversion Corporation and has been the release manager for the Subversion project since early 2008. He is a frequent presenter on Subversion related topics at industry conferences. During his involvement with the Subversion project, Hyrum has worked on a number of major Subversion features including merge tracking and the next generation working copy library (wc-ng). Hyrum holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently working toward a PhD in Software Engineering at the same University. Hyrum received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University.
We don't believe in the fad of company enforced fun, that stuff makes us cringe, but we do believe that teams that play, socialize and have some laughs together also work better together. So we have a social captain, a position that is open to all employees and is elected each quarter. The serving captain is tasked with organising team outings, social events and out-of-office adventures.
Social Captain (Q2 2012) Kevin Southall
Kevin Southall is an Inside Sales Representative at WANdisco. Kevin is well-known in the WANdisco office as being the life and soul of the party (and being able to talk a glass eye to sleep!) so we’re all excited to see what Kev has in store for us, during his stint as Social Captain.
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