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Bruce Armstrong |
Bruce Armstrong
Bruce Armstrong has over 25 years experience developing, marketing, selling, and investing in technology. Currently, as Managing Partner of Verus Ventures, he provides advice and counsel in the areas of corporate strategy, venture financing, business development, sales and marketing. Prior to Verus, he served as President and CEO of publicly-traded KNOVA Software (KNVS), a leading provider of customer service, self-service and intelligent search applications.
Prior to joining KNOVA, Armstrong was a partner at Internet Capital Group (ICGE), where he helped lead the strategy and management of software infrastructure investments; President and CEO of CMPnet, where he led CMP Media's web-based applications and services subsidiary for technology buyers and channel resellers; EVP of Sales & Marketing at Broadbase Software (now KANA), where he helped create the analytic application category for CRM; and VP & GM of the Server Products Group at Sybase, where he ran the company's $700M enterprise database management business.
Armstrong began his career at Teradata Corporation, where, after seeing the company through a successful IPO and acquisition by AT&T/NCR, he was named VP & GM of the $500M Enterprise Solutions Division, President of Teradata, and a company officer of AT&T.
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Don Haderle |
Don Haderle
Don Haderle is a pioneer of relational database and information management technology. From 1968 to 2005, he worked in Research & Development at IBM Corp. where he was responsible for over 50 patents and disclosures. As the technology leader for IBM's relational database, DB2, which debuted in the 1980s and serves most of the major corporations in the world today, Haderle is known as the "Father of DB2." In 1989 Haderle was appointed IBM Fellow, IBM's most prestigious position for technologists.
From 1992 to 2005, Haderle was Vice President and CTO (Chief Technology Officer) for IBM's Information Management business, which encompasses database and content management systems. During this period Haderle led technology for databases on open systems, a federated information infrastructure, content management, spatial systems, and other advances in the IBM portfolio, growing a multi-billion dollar business.
In 2000, Haderle was appointed ACM (Association Computing Machinery) Fellow in recognition of his impact on database technology. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley, with a BA in Economics 1967. Haderle and his wife Gail were wed in 1966 and have one son and 2 grandchildren. He is an avid golfer, hiker, backpacker, skier, and fisherman. He and his wife are active dancers and travelers.
Presently, Haderle consults with VCs, startups, and a few mature businesses.
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Ray Lane |
Ray Lane
Currently Managing Partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Ray Lane was previously President and COO of Oracle Corporation, the world's second-largest software company and leading enterprise software and services company. During his eight-year tenure, Lane led Oracle's business expansion beyond its core database technology into enterprise applications and professional services, and Oracle grew from $1 billion to over $10 billion in annual sales.
Oracle ventures Lane presided over include Ausra, (solar concentrator), GreatPoint Energy (coal to gas conversion), Virsa (compliance for large enterprises), Elance (marketplace for services), MetaMatrix (data integration), Visible Path (relationship networks for enterprises), Xsigo Systems (virtual I/O switch for datacenters), SpikeSource (open source platform for integration and testing) and PodShow (social media network). He also serves on the board of Quest Software.
Before joining Oracle, Lane was a senior partner with Booz-Allen & Hamilton, where he pioneered the Information Systems Group, a worldwide consulting practice targeted at helping senior management achieve better results from information technology. He also served on Booz-Allen's board of directors and executive management committee. Earlier, he served as division vice president with Electronic Data Systems Corp (EDS). In addition, he spent ten years with IBM in various product-management, sales and marketing positions.
Lane received a Bachelor's degree in mathematics and an honorary Ph.D. in Science from West Virginia University (WVU). He was elected to the Academy of Distinguished Graduates of WVU and serves as a director of the Foundation Board for the University. Recently, WVU honored Lane by naming the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Lane serves on the board of trustees of Carnegie Mellon University. He has been an active campaigner and planner for Carnegie Mellon's establishment of a Silicon Valley campus, and the co-creator of a High Dependability Computing Consortium with Carnegie Mellon and NASA. Lane serves as Vice Chairman of Special Olympics International and has served on the International Board of Special Olympics for several years. He also holds an honorary Ph.D. from Golden Gate University.
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Polly Sumner |
Polly Sumner
Polly Sumner is a 30-year veteran in the software industry. She is currently a consultant for Warburg Pincus working with both new and existing portfolio companies. She has had operating and advisory roles at Telcordia, Cassatt, Systinet (now part of HP) , Fortent, Wall Street Systems, Cranite etc. Prior to Warburg Sumner was CEO of analytic Software provider Alphablox which was purchased by IBM and is now part of the WebSphere product line.
Sumner had several roles at Oracle in her 11 year tenure. She ran the OEM group, and the Department of Defense Group. She also built and ran the Oracle Business Alliances Program and was Senior Vice President of the Telecommunications Industry Group.
Prior to Oracle Sumner held various Sales and Marketing positions at Lexidata, Mc Auto and IBM. Sumner also serves on the Board of Directors or TradeCard Inc.
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Mitch Cherniack, Ph.D |
Mitch Cherniack, Ph.D
Mitch Cherniack is currently an associate professor of computer science at Brandeis University. Cherniack has published numerous research papers about database systems, and specifically, in the areas of query optimization, profile-driven data management and stream processing systems.
Cherniack was the winner of the prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, and has served on numerous database conference program committees and review panels. He is also a co-founder of Streambase Systems. He received a bachelor's degree in education from McGill University, a master's in computer science from Concordia University and a Ph.D in computer science from Brown University.
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David Dewitt, Ph.D |
David Dewitt, Ph.D
David Dewitt joined the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin in September 1976 after receiving his Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan. He served as department chair for five years from July 1999 to July 2004 and is currently the John P. Morgridge Professor of Computer Sciences.
In 1995 Dewitt was selected to be an ACM Fellow and received the 1995 SIGMOD Innovation Award for his contributions to the database systems field. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998. His research program has focused on the design and implementation of database management systems including parallel, object-oriented, and object-relational database systems. In the late 1980s the Gamma parallel database system project produced many of key pieces of technology that form the basis for today's generation of large parallel database systems, including products from IBM, Informix, NCR/Teradata, and Oracle.
Throughout his career, Dewitt has also been interested in database system performance evaluation. He developed the first relational database system benchmark in the early 1980s, which became known as the Wisconsin benchmark. More recently, his research program has focused on the design and implementation of distributed database techniques for executing complex queries against the content of the Internet. Dewitt has authored over 100 technical publications and served on numerous program committees and National Science Foundation (NSF) review panels.
He was a member of the NSF CISE Advisor Committee from 2000 to 2003 and has served on several NRC study panels. He was the program chair of the 1983 SIGMOD Conference, program co-chair of the 1988 VLDB Conference, and general chair of the 2002 SIGMOD Conference. He has graduated 30 Ph.D. students.
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Samuel Madden, Ph.D |
Samuel Madden, Ph.D
Samuel Madden is an assistant professor in the EECS department at MIT and a member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). His research interests span all areas of database systems; past projects include the TinyDB system for data collection from sensor networks and the Telegraph adaptive query processing engine. His current research focuses on modeling and statistical techniques for value prediction and outlier detection in sensor networks, high performance database systems, and networking and data processing in disconnected environments.
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Stan Zdonik, Ph.D |
Stan Zdonik, Ph.D
Stan Zdonik is a professor of computer science at Brown University, where he has led the Advanced Data Management Research Group since 1983. He and his team have been involved in a diverse set of research activities including research into object-oriented database systems, semantic query optimization, transaction management, network information systems, data management for mobile systems, data dissemination, and stream processing.
Support for this work has come from many government agencies and industrial sources including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, Apple Computer, Intel, and Sun Microsystems.
Zdonik has written over 100 research papers that have been published in highly competitive database conferences and journals. He is a member of the board of trustees of the VLDB Endowment and an editor of several academic journals, and has been program chair for both the VLDB and the ICDE database conferences. He was the sole recipient of the prestigious Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in computer science in 1986.
In the mid-seventies, Zdonik worked on an advanced data management system for pharmacologists (called Prophet) at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc., in Cambridge, Mass. He also co-founded Streambase Systems and has been a consultant to many major US corporations including Verizon, Xerox, Digital Equipment Corporation, Object Design, and Computer Corporation of America.
Zdonik holds two Bachelor of Science degrees (electrical engineering and industrial management), a Master of Science degree, the degree of Electrical Engineer (EE), and a Ph.D., all from MIT.
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