SCALEOUT SOFTWARE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Sales - Core Products
Dan has over 20 years of experience in sales, marketing and channel management in high-technology companies. Prior to joining ScaleOut Software, he spent six years at Microsoft managing partners and field sales. At Valence Research, Dan was Director of Sales and helped lead the company to profitability and eventual acquisition by Microsoft. Earlier in his career, he held sales positions within the transportation services and telecommunications industries. Dan holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Oregon State University.
Dave has over 25 years of software industry experience in a variety of operational, sales and financial executive roles in both public and private companies. Prior to joining ScaleOut Software, Dave was CEO/Chairman at Webridge, Inc., a pioneer in secure extranets. As an early employee of Mentor Graphics, he started up Asian operations and grew Mentor's Pacific business to more than $80M while stationed in the Japan headquarters. Near the end of his twelve years at Mentor he managed the worldwide field organization, a $400M software sales and consulting business. In addition to raising capital and selling two private businesses, Dave holds a CPA Certificate and spent his early years at KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Founder
ScaleOut Software was founded in 2003 by Dr. William L. Bain. Bill has a Ph.D. (1978) in electrical engineering/parallel computing from Rice University, and he has worked at Bell Labs research, Intel, and Microsoft. Bill founded and ran three start-up companies prior to joining Microsoft. In the most recent company (Valence Research), he developed a distributed Web load-balancing software solution that was acquired by Microsoft and is now called Network Load Balancing within the Windows Server operating system. Dr. Bain holds several patents in computer architecture and distributed computing. As a member of the screening committee for the Seattle-based Alliance of Angels, Dr. Bain is actively involved in entrepreneurship and the angel community.
Job Titles:
- Vice President - Advanced Engineering Solutions
Kevin brings more than 20 years' experience delivering revenue-driven business strategies that align technologies with real business value. Prior to joining ScaleOut, he served as director of business development for Software AG, where he was responsible for channel initiatives across North America. His career spans leadership positions in sales and business development with MoneyGram International, TIBCO Software, Arcot Systems, NetApp and Cisco Systems. Kevin also co-founded ReddShell Corporation, which was acquired by Ambiron Trustwave in 2007. Kevin holds a BSEE from Arizona State University.
Job Titles:
- Senior Director of Engineering
Mark has worked in the software industry since 1997 with a focus on enterprise development, performance tuning, and system integration. Prior to ScaleOut Software, Mark was a lead developer at Washington Mutual and a Senior Software Engineer at Harland Financial Solutions. Since joining ScaleOut Software in 2005, he has led the development team and has worked with dozens of customers to help improve their software's performance and reliability. He holds a BA in philosophy from Yale University.
Job Titles:
- Senior Director of Engineering
Oleg Shmytov has more than two decades of experience in building high performance distributed systems. Prior to joining ScaleOut Software, he led the architecture team at Interlinq Software in building a complex loan origination platform. At ScaleOut Software, Oleg manages the development of best-in-class in-memory grid solutions used by hundreds of customers around the world. He holds a Masters degree in electrical engineering from Saint Petersburg State Electrical Engineering University in Russia, where he also did postgraduate research in neural networks.