Chet Kapoor, CEO

As a leader and innovator in the high-tech industry, Chet has spent 20 years in leadership positions in innovative software and hardware companies including VP of Content Management and Search Products at IBM and VP/GM for the Integration Group of BEA Systems. In addition, he was CEO of Gluecode, an open source application server company that IBM acquired. Chet also served as a Vice President at webMethods and held various positions at NeXT.

Ravi Chandra, Engineering

Ravi is a co-founder of Sonoa Systems and was previously the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Redback Networks responsible for all of Research and Development. In Redback, Ravi also architected the software of the groundbreaking SmartEdge Service Gateway, a Subscriber Management and Edge Routing platform. Prior to Redback Networks, he was at Cisco Systems, Inc. and was a pioneer in developing routing protocols, packet forwarding and MPLS.

Kishore Sannidhanam, Business Development

Kishore brings over 14 years of enterprise infrastructure software and systems integration experience. Most recently, he was part of the BEA World Wide Alliances and Channels team responsible for driving revenue through their premier GSI partner, Accenture. Prior to that, he worked as architect on various projects at a federal systems integration company in the Washington DC metro. Kishore has a Masters degree in Computer Science from American University in Washington.

Scott Regan, Marketing

Scott brings 18 years of experience in marketing and product management of enterprise and consumer software platforms.  Previously, he was responsible for Local and Maps products and platforms at Yahoo!.   Prior to that, Scott led developer product marketing and developer relations at BEA.  He has held product management positions with Escalate (acquired by GERS) and Microsoft’s Visual Studio team.   He began his career in Accenture’s Telecom and Technology groups and is a graduate of the Duke Engineering and Stanford Business School.

Lisa Kennedy Crooke, Finance

Lisa has more than 20 years of financial management experience.  Prior to starting her own consulting practice, she was the CFO for Proofpoint, Inc. where she successfully raised $40M in venture funding and guided the company to cash flow positive.  As corporate controller at Documentum, Inc. she created the financial infrastructure and systems to prepare the company for a successful IPO in 1996. She has also held senior financial management positions at Banyan Systems, and Shiva Corporation both of whom executed successful IPOs.  Lisa earned her CPA while serving for Ernst and Young in Boston.