MEMSQL - Key Persons


Adam Prout - CTO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chief Technology Officer
  • Co - Founder
  • Member of the Leadership Team
Adam Prout is the CTO at SingleStore and oversees product architecture and development. He joined SingleStore in 2011 as a co-founding engineer. Previously, Adam led engineering efforts on kernel development at Microsoft SQL Server. He holds Bachelor degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics, and a Masters degree in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo.

Brad Kinnish - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Member of the Leadership Team
Brad brings over 25 years of accounting and finance experience to SingleStore. Previously, Brad was CFO at Aryaka Networks and Marin Software. Prior to Marin Software, Brad was a Managing Director in the Software Investment Banking group at Deutsche Bank. Brad began his career at Ernst & Young as a CPA. Brad received his B.A. degree from the University of Washington.

Bruce Armstrong

Job Titles:
  • Operating Partner at Khosla Ventures
Bruce Armstrong is an Operating Partner at Khosla Ventures, with a focus on big data and enterprise technology companies. Most recently, Bruce was the President and CEO of PivotLink, and held leadership positions at Kickfire, Sybase, Teradata, and AT&T. Bruce holds a Bachelor's, Computer Science from UC Berkeley where he is a current guest lecturer.

Kevin Efrusy

Kevin Efrusy joined Accel in 2003 and focuses on software and consumer investments, including Facebook, Groupon, Couchbase, and others. He also leads the firm's Latin America initiatives. Prior to Accel, Kevin founded Corio and served as the first CEO of IronPlanet. Kevin holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Engineering and an MBA from Stanford University.

Lonne Jaffe

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director at Insight Partners
Lonne Jaffe is a managing director at Insight Partners. He was previously the CEO in Insight portfolio company Syncsort and SVP for corporate strategy at CA Technologies. Prior to CA, Lonne was with IBM, where helped a number of sizable software acquisitions. Lonne holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Harvard University.

Meaghan Nelson - Chief Legal Officer

Job Titles:
  • General Counsel
Meaghan brings over a decade of legal experience to SingleStore. Meaghan was previously associate general counsel at Veeva Systems. Prior to Veeva, she was in private practice at Gunderson Dettmer and Wilson Sonsini focusing on capital markets and IPOs. Meaghan began her career at Cravath Swaine & Moore focusing on M&A. Meaghan received her BS from Georgia Tech and JD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Mick Charles

Job Titles:
  • SVP of Human Resources
Mick Charles is SVP of Human Resources at SingleStore, previously the VP of Corporate Marketing. Prior to SingleStore, he spent nearly two decades in sales at TIBCO Software, with a final position as VP, Head of Sales - Americas East.

Oliver Schabenberger

Job Titles:
  • Chief Innovation Officer
  • Member of the Leadership Team
Oliver Schabenberger is Chief Innovation Officer at SingleStore. He is a former academician and seasoned technology executive with more than 25 years of global experience in data management, advanced analytics, and AI. Oliver was previously COO and CTO at SAS, leading software innovation. Oliver holds Master of Science and PhD degrees from Virginia Polytechnic.

Paul Forte

Job Titles:
  • Chief Revenue Officer
Paul Forte is Chief Revenue Officer at SingleStore, and has decades of executive sales experience in global enterprise software sales with companies such as Actifio, Channel Advisor, Monster, Automic Software, and IBM. Paul has a BA, Chemistry from the University of NH, a MSA degree from Central Michigan University and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

Raj Verma - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • CEO at Single
Raj Verma is CEO at SingleStore and has more than 25 years of global experience in enterprise software and scaling operations. Raj helped grow TIBCO software to over $1B revenue as CMO, EVP Global Sales, and COO. He was also COO at Aptus Software and Hortonworks. Raj holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from BMS College of Engineering in Bangalore, India.

Shireesh Thota

Job Titles:
  • SVP, Engineering
Shireesh Thota is SVP, Engineering at SingleStore responsible for product design and development. Shireesh has experience on large scale, big data, scale-out, relational and schema agnostic distributed systems. He previously ran engineering efforts at Azure Cosmos DB, and PostgreSQL Hyperscale (Citus) services at Microsoft. Shireesh has a B.S in computer science from B.I.T.S Pilani, India and a M.S. in computer science from University of Connecticut.

Suresh Sathyamurthy - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer
Suresh Sathyamurthy leads marketing and product-led growth at SingleStore. Suresh held various product and marketing leadership roles across data and cloud services for Microsoft, Dell EMC and Palo Alto Networks. Suresh is an alumnus of University of Washington (MBA), Bharathiar University (Engineering), and Harvard Business School (General Management).

Ted Kummert

Job Titles:
  • Partner at Madrona Venture Group
Ted Kummert is a partner at Madrona Venture Group. Ted recently led Products and Engineering at Apptio and previously was a Corporate VP at Microsoft and oversaw engineering and business teams for Microsoft's Application Platform, which includes SQL Server and SQL Azure. Ted holds a Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington.

Tim Cabral

Job Titles:
  • Advisor and Former CFO of Veeva Systems
Tim Cabral is an Advisor and Former CFO of Veeva Systems. Tim helped grow Veeva to over $1bn in revenue and was instrumental in the company's IPO in 2013 which raised over $300m in primary and secondary capital. Tim holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance and an MBA in Finance from Santa Clara University, where he is also a current faculty member.

Yatharth Gupta

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Product Management
Yatharth Gupta is Vice President, Product Management at SingleStore. Prior to joining SingleStore, Yatharth spent 13 years at Microsoft driving vision, strategy and execution across a diverse set of consumer and enterprise products. In the enterprise space, Yatharth built businesses with a revenue of over $400 million dollars, and delivered differentiated customer value.