Management Team

Terry Cunningham
Chief Executive Officer

A graduate of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Terry founded Crystal Decisions in 1984. Under his leadership, Crystal developed its flagship product, Crystal Reports, and strategically partnered with Microsoft and over 200 other OEM's to make Crystal Reports the world's number one reporting tool. In 1994, Terry sold his company to Seagate Technology and continued on as president of Seagate Software. The next 4 years were focused on planning and executing 11 mergers and acquisitions valued at more than $300 million. The result was a high growth, extremely profitable software company with 1800 employees in 22 countries.

In 1998 Terry put together one of the largest software mergers ever undertaken, combining Seagate's Network and Storage Management Group with VERITAS Software. He became the President and Chief Operating Officer of the new VERITAS with approximately 3,500 employees and close to $700 million in revenue. In 1999 Terry retired from VERITAS and continued using his vast experience in mergers & acquisitions, strategic planning and positioning to help software CEO's grow their companies into world-class success stories, until he joined Coral8 in 2003.

Mark Tsimelzon
President & Chief Technology Officer, Founder

A graduate of Mathematics and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mark has proven himself to be a strong entrepreneur and technology innovator. In 1998 Mark founded a Web integration and personalization startup CallTheShots, Inc. which was selected by Red Herring in 2000 as one of top 20 emerging technology companies and by Jupiter Communications as one of their Demo-Finale finalists. He successfully negotiated the acquisition of his company to Akamai Technologies in 2000.

During his two years at Akamai, Mark led the design and architecture of their 'Edge Computing' strategy and platform, which has been acclaimed by customers to deliver unparalleled scalability, reliability, performance, and cost advantages to their applications. Mark was also responsible for major partnerships with IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Vignette, ATG, and other technology vendors. Akamai's Edge Computing is the largest distributed computing platform of its kind, comprised of 15,000 hosts across 65 countries. Mark also has a diverse development and management background amounting to key product releases at CETR, Eclipse International, Teknekron Software Systems (now TIBCO), and Mystic River Software. He also did research in scalable distributed systems at Stanford University.

Gayatri Patel
Vice President of Business Development & Strategic Alliances, Founder

Gayatri has over 17 years of enterprise software management experience as she pioneered and led the introduction of high revenue messaging/integration products, high-performance Internet systems and process-based applications with Hewlett Packard, Oracle, VerticalNet, and IONA. As a senior executive in product management, business development, engineering, and marketing, Gayatri has successfully launched over a dozen products sold to the leading Fortune 500 tier companies and formed key OEM and strategic partnerships with TIBCO, IBM, Netscape, Active Software, OpenMarket, and several leading EAI and technology vendors.

A graduate in Marketing and MIS, she spent 10 years with Tandem Computers (Hewlett-Packard) where she introduced the market's first secure and fault-tolerant Internet Web Server product line in 1996 during the Internet's infancy. As Technical Director at Oracle Corporation, Gayatri initiated and secured several strategic EAI partnerships and the development and release of Oracle's Advanced Queuing product module, which continues to be key to their flagship Data Server product line. As Vice President, she led her global teams to release several EAI/B2B products and flagship supply chain applications at VerticalNet and IONA.

Dr. Rajeev Motwani
Chief Scientist, Founder

Rajeev Motwani is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he co-leads Project STREAM and also serves as the Director of Graduate Studies. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Berkeley in 1988. His research has spanned a diverse set of areas in computer science, including databases and data mining, web search and information retrieval, robotics, computational drug design, and theoretical computer science. Rajeev has written two books -- Randomized Algorithms published by Cambridge University Press in 1995, and an undergraduate textbook published by Addison-Wesley in 2001. He has received the Godel Prize, the Okawa Foundation Research Award, the Arthur Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the Bergmann Memorial Award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, and an IBM Faculty Award.

Rajeev has served on various industry boards and advisory boards, including Adchemy, DotEdu Ventures, Flarion, Flexlogics, Google, Mimosa Systems, Neopath Networks, and Tizor. He is a charter member of TIE (The IndUS Entrepreneurs) and on the board of BASES (Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students).

Dave Galiotto
Vice President Administration & Chief Financial Officer

Dave graduated from Santa Clara University with a degree in Economics. He then joined KPMG, where he spent six years in the public accounting arena. During that time, he became a Certified Public Accountant and served as manager on a number of high-tech clients. Upon leaving public accounting, Dave served in various senior financial and administrative positions with VERITAS Software, Seagate Software, Arcada Software, and Conner Peripherals over a ten year period.

At Seagate Software, Dave was Vice-President of Finance and Administration, where he managed the Human Resources, Information Technology, Facilities, Operations and Finance groups. During his tenure, Dave was integral to the successful merging of 8 companies into the Network and Storage Management Division and oversaw the company's worldwide implementation of Oracle Financials. After the merger between VERITAS Software and Seagate Software NSMG, Dave became VERITAS' Vice-President of Finance and Investor Relations. While with VERITAS, Dave oversaw the company's worldwide planning process and managed all outside communications with investors and Wall Street analysts. During this time, the company broke the $1 billion dollar revenue barrier and was added to the S&P 500.