Corporate Management

Damian Black, President and CEO

Damian Black has over twenty-four years in the software infrastructure business, starting at HP's European Research Labs (HPLabs Europe), designing and developing large-scale knowledge base management systems.  His career at Hewlett-Packard included running a Europe-wide software and services business unit specializing in Corba/DCE development tools and in object/expert systems technology.  Then, after moving to the US in 1996, he pioneered a new market category called IP Mediation by creating HP Internet Usage Manager - software to continuously collect, aggregate and transform IP service data in real-time, serving the Telecommunications industry under the OpenView brand.

After HP, as Vice President of Product Management and Applications Solutions for XACCT Technologies, he helped XACCT achieve joint market leadership in IP Mediation alongside HP.  XACCT was acquired by Amdocs, the world's largest billing systems company, which today uses XACCT's technology as its core real-time mediation technology.  Most recently, Damian headed up Business Development and Americas Sales for Followap, a Sequoia-funded company and market leader in real-time Presence servers and in real-time mobile messaging (now part of NeuStar Inc).

Edan Kabatchnik, Vice President and COO

Edan Kabatchnik joined Oracle from MIT and rose to Director of Engineering. After leaving Oracle, he founded Eventus Software, which was sold to Segue, a leader in the automated software testing market. As CTO and Executive Vice President of Product Development, Edan conceived and delivered highly scalable enterprise software products in the Web content management space. He then joined the Sprout Group as a technology consultant, where he scrutinized the technology infrastructure, architecture, and teams of early-stage companies for investment partners, before joining Relay Health where he rose to COO. Edan graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science with Engineering. At MIT he was elected to the Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi honor societies.

Technology Leadership

Julian Hyde, Founder and Chief Architect

As Chief Architect and cofounder of SQLstream, Julian Hyde is an expert on business intelligence, data integration, and database internals. Julian was the founder and lead developer of the Mondrian – the leading open-source relational OLAP engine, which has been widely deployed and in mission-critical use by many large enterprises across the world. He has been writing database software for most of his professional life: he was a founding engineer at Broadbase Software (now KANA Software), where he built the Broadbase SQL engine, ETL tools, and BI suite. 

Before that, Julian was a kernel engineer at Oracle, where he led the development of Oracle's bitmap indexes. In addition to OLAP, Julian is an expert on relational technology including query optimization and streaming execution. Julian remains active in the Open Source community and blogosphere.  Julian has a degree in Computer Science from Cambridge University, England.