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We have assembled an executive team with over 40 years in the testing space as well as experience in other technology fields. We are proud to have a solid Advisory Board that is helping us chart the right direction. As a team, we strive to provide great products and great support to our customers, while having fun doing it!
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Samir Shah is a seasoned QA Executive with over 16 years of direct test management experience ranging from startups in the Silicon Valley to global Fortune 50. Most recently, he was Vice President of QA Practice at Patni Computers (NYSE: PTI) where over a period of 6 years, founded, built and managed a 300+ person Global QA Practice generating $75 million in testing revenue. His broad experience includes various Engineering roles at Wollongong, Attachmate, and PointCast, helping customers such as AT&T, Virgin Mobile, Disney Mobile, Du, Good Technologies, Vodafone, WhitePajama, Bulldog, Grand Central, RCC, Visage Mobile, KnowNow and others.
Samir holds a Bachelor Degree in Electronics from Bangalore University and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from The University of Alabama. Having been on the "other side" and perpetually unsatisfied about the quality, pricing and user experience of existing Test Management tools, Samir founded D Software and Zephyr to take on the challenge of bringing to market a refreshing new way of managing test teams. Read his blog here. |
Vivek Raghavan brings over 12 years of technology, hands-on software development and engineering management experience. Vivek has done pioneering work, and holds patents in the areas of relevant search and mobile platform infrastructures. Most recently, Vivek functioned as the V.P. Of Technology at Visage Mobile and led the engineering team to build and successfully launch multiple mobile operators including Disney Mobile, MobileESPN and Embarq (Formerly the Sprint local company).
Prior to that he spent 3 years as V.P of Integration at Patni Computers (NYSE:PTI) where he built a Business Integration Practice and generated over $50 million in customer revenue. At Patni he was also hands-on at multiple client engagements including running the integration engineering team that launched "Three" (HKG:0013) across 7 different countries. His experience also includes various engineering roles at Standard Charted Bank HK, Cable & Wireless & Time Warner and as a Research Scientist at SRI (Stanford Research Institute). Vivek holds a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Arizona. Read his blog here. |
Issam Bandak's focus for the last 14 years has been in product and services QA, building, leading and managing test and engineering teams of varying sizes for startups, SMB and large companies. Issam has worked with companies such as Virgin Mobile, PointCast, Cingular, Wollongong, KnowNow, Grand Central, Carphone Warehouse, WhitePajama among others.
He has run large community and software delivery sites in the early days of the Internet including the wildly popular Papa Winsock-L site. Issam holds a Bachelor Degree in Information Technology from the Indiana State University. Read his blog here. |
David Bregman has been working in technology for over 16 years across Enterprise Applications, Consumer Applications, IT Infrastructure and Networking. David has been with Zephyr since May 2008 to assist with the continued development of Sales and Marketing. Prior to joining Zephyr he was Western Regional Direction / General Manager for Glasshouse technologies, an IT Infrastructure consulting firm. At Glasshouse he managed the western team and assisted numerous Fortune 500 enterprises to solve their demanding infrastructure and data management issues.
Prior to joining GlassHouse David was the Director of Product Marketing / Senior Technologist at NetReality, makers of WAN bandwidth appliances, where he lead the product marketing team and wrote and spoke extensively on issues regarding managing wide area networks. David has also held Product Management roles at MiddleWire and Contact Networks.
He holds a BS from Emerson College in Boston, MA |
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A seasoned executive with broad industry experience, Edwards has been leading high technology businesses for 35 years and has depth of experience in marketing, sales, channel development, product development, technical support, finance, and venture funding. A successful 15-year veteran CEO, Edwards brings a wealth of experience in leading software technology startups to profitability and through successful IPOs. He is currently CEO of JME Software. In his previous role as CEO of Indicative Software, he successfully engineered a sale to Nimsoft. In his previous role as CEO of Evoke Software, Edwards took this unknown company and its first commercial product release into a fiercely competitive market. Evoke created the market space and named the industry segment now known as Data Profiling. Evoke's premier product, Axio, won several industry awards, consistently placing in the Top One Hundred most important software tools on the market. Under Edwards' skillful direction, the company revenues rose to $19 million positioning Evoke for acquisition.
Prior to Evoke Software, Edwards served as president and COO of Unison Software where he was hired to transition Unison from the proprietary HP 3000 market into the open systems, accelerate growth, and become the dominant contender in the open systems market. This required repositioning the company, bringing to market competitive open systems products, and building a direct sales organization as well as a third party channel sales organization. Within two years, Edwards took Unison from $14M to $30M in revenues then led Unison through a successful public offering in July 1995. Showing strong growth with its stock trading at $32 per share, Unison was acquired by IBM/Tivoli. In the years prior to Unison, Edwards built successful businesses as president and CEO of Servio Corporation, an object database vendor, and XA Systems Corporation, a vendor of software maintenance, application development, DBA, system software, and re-engineering software tools. Edwards held sales management positions with Honeywell Communications, HBO & Company, and Informatics.
Edwards' outstanding achievements have been acknowledged through various industry and corporate recognitions including Insider Magazine "CEO of the Year," Harvard Business School Club of New York "Entrepreneur of The Year," Honeywell Division "Manager of the Year," and twice placing companies in the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Companies. Edwards is a nationally known public speaker and has served in the U.S. Marine Corps. |
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Preetish is CFO at JME Software, where they are creating the next-generation of services and software for the enterprise. Most recently, Preetish was Vice President of Strategic Alliances at NeoEdge Networks, a video game advertising company. Preetish was also Vice President, Portfolio and Program Management for BMC Software, Inc.. Prior to BMC, he was Vice President, Operations of iVita Corporation, a Houston-based asset management software startup he helped found.
Preetish has also counseled senior executives on hardware, software and telecommunications industries for McKinsey and Company, a leading consulting firm. He co-founded Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) in 1998, He also worked for nearly six years in the Electronic Design Automation Division at Intel in various engineering related capacities.Preetish earned a bachelor's of engineering degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, a master's of science in computer engineering from The University of Southern California, and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management. |
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Steve has spent over 20 years leading business development and strategic partnering initiatives with early and mid-staged enterprise software companies. Today, he provides corporate and business development consulting services to emerging and established technology companies. Most recently, Steve served as Vice President of Corporate Business Development for Mercury Interactive (acquired by HP). Previously, he joined Asera, a Kleiner Perkins created company focused on collaborative business processes, as employee #21, leading business development efforts for them.
Prior to Asera, Steve led the North America launch efforts of Mercado Software, an Israel-based developer of catalog search technologies as vice president of business development. He has also led business development for New Moon Software, a developer of thin-client technologies, and Sqribe Technologies (acquired by Brio), a leading provider of production reporting solutions. Steve began his career with Infinium Software (formerly Software 2000), a leader in financial, human resources and manufacturing applications, where he spent nine years in a variety of sales, marketing and strategic partner management positions |
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