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Bruce Reading
President & CEO
As president and CEO of VoltDB, Bruce Reading brings over 27 years of experience building shareholder value in a variety of operating roles including sales, marketing, asset management and operations.
Before joining VoltDB, Bruce was Senior Vice President and General Manager for Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ:CPWR), prior to which he spent six years as President, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President for Gomez, Inc., which was ultimately acquired by Compuware. Previously, he served in senior management capacities at Access International, Cayman Systems and Dictaphone Corporation.
Mike Stonebraker
Co-Founder & CTO
Dr. Michael Stonebraker has been a pioneer of database research and technology for more than a quarter of a century. He was the main architect of the Ingres relational DBMS, and the object-relational DBMS PostgreSQL. These prototypes were developed at the University of California at Berkeley where Stonebraker was a Professor of Computer Science for twenty five years. More recently at M.I.T., he was a co-architect of the Aurora Borealis stream processing engine (commercialized as StreamBase), the C-Store column-oriented DBMS (commercialized as Vertica), and the H-Store transaction processing engine (commercialized as VoltDB). Currently, he is working on science-oriented DBMSs and search engines for accessing the deep web. He is the co-founder of six venture capital backed start-ups.
Professor Stonebraker is the author of scores of research papers on data base technology, operating systems and the architecture of system software services. He was awarded the ACM System Software Award in 1992, for his work on Ingres. Additionally, he was awarded the first annual Innovation award by the ACM SIGMOD special interest group in 1994, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997. He was awarded the IEEE John Von Neumann award in 2005, and is presently Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at M.I.T.
Scott Jarr
Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Scott Jarr brings over 20 years experience building, launching and growing technology companies from inception to market leadership in highly competitive environments.
Prior to joining VoltDB, Scott was VP Product Management and Marketing at on-line backup SaaS leader LiveVault Corporation. While at LiveVault, Scott was key in growing the recurring revenue business to 2000 customers strong, leading to an acquisition by Iron Mountain. Scott has also served as board member and advisor to other early-stage companies in the search, mobile, security, storage and virtualization markets.
Scott has an undergraduate degree in mathematical programming from the University of Tampa and an MBA from the University of South Florida.
Sam Berg
Vice President, Field Operations
Sam Berg is responsible for VoltDB’s worldwide sales operations, as well as forming strategic partnerships with leading systems integrators and technology companies for geographic and vertical solutions.
Prior to joining VoltDB, Sam was vice president of sales at Nexaweb. Previously he served in critical sales and account management roles with SAP America and IBM. At SAP America, Sam led key initiatives for new customer acquisition and the revival of dormant enterprise accounts. Likewise, Sam’s three-years at IBM included consistent over-achievement of quota, year-over-year pipeline growth, and back-to-back top sales honors. Prior to joining IBM, Sam held account management and sales roles with Ascential Software and Vality Software.
Sam is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
John Piekos
Vice President, Engineering
John Piekos is responsible for VoltDB’s engineering operations, including product development, QA, technical support, documentation and field engineering. He has over 25 years of experience leading teams and building software, delivering both enterprise and internet-based solutions.
John has held technical leadership positions at several companies, most recently at Progress Software where he led the OpenEdge database, ObjectStore database and Orbix product lines. Previously, John was vice president of Web Engineering at EasyAsk, and chief architect Novera Software, where he led the effort to build the industry's first Java Application Server.
John holds a MS in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and BS in Computer Science from the University of Lowell.
Fred Holahan
Vice President, Marketing
Fred Holahan leads VoltDB initiatives to build visibility, demand and market traction. Fred is a repeat entrepreneur and recognized open source leader, with more than 25 years of software industry experience.
Prior to joining VoltDB, Fred was founder of Open Source Advisory, a consulting boutique specializing in market strategies for open source companies. Previously, he was co-founder of Active Endpoints, Inc., GemLogic, Inc. (acquired by SilverStream/Novell) and LexiBridge Corporation (acquired by Level3 Communications). Fred has also held marketing and engineering leadership roles at DataEase International, Progress Software and Interactive Data.
Fred holds a MBA from the Olin School of Management at Babson College, and a BS in Management Science from the University of Maine.
Bruce Reading
President & CEO, VoltDB
As president and CEO of VoltDB, Bruce Reading brings over 27 years of experience building shareholder value in a variety of operating roles including sales, marketing, asset management and operations.
Before joining VoltDB, Bruce was Senior Vice President and General Manager for Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ:CPWR), prior to which he spent six years as President, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President for Gomez, Inc., which was ultimately acquired by Compuware. Previously, he served in senior management capacities at Access International, Cayman Systems and Dictaphone Corporation.
John Mandile
Partner, Sigma Partners
John joined Sigma Partners in 1996. With over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur, a business unit manager, and an investor, John uses motivation, enthusiasm, and his own technology and operational expertise to support Sigma’s portfolio companies. Throughout his career, he has held executive management positions, created new business units and departments, and sponsored new projects at some of the industry’s most successful technology companies.
Jo Tango
Partner, Kepha Partners
Jo Tango founded Kepha Partners. Jo is passionate about start-ups and loves working with entrepreneurs who dare to strive. He has been a founding or first institutional investor in AutoVirt, Azuki Systems, Bit9, ExaGrid, StreamBase Systems, Vertica Systems, Virtual Iron (acquired by Oracle) and VoltDB, getting involved nearly always at the company inception phase. Other investments include Ask Jeeves (Nasdaq: ASKJ), Digital Market (acquired by Agile Software), and NextCard (Nasdaq: NXCD).
Mike Stonebraker
Co-Founder & CTO, VoltDB
Dr. Michael Stonebraker has been a pioneer of database research and technology for more than a quarter of a century. While serving as a professor at the University of California at Berkely and at MIT, he was the main architect of many data management software products including the Ingres relational DBMS, the object-relational DBMS PostgreSQL, the stream processing engine, Streambase, the Vertica analytic DBMS, and the in-memory OLTP relational DBMS VoltDB. He is presently Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at M.I.T.
