Damian Black, CEO and President of Sales

Damian Black has over twenty-five years in the software infrastructure business. His career at Hewlett-Packard included working in their European research labs before running a European-wide middleware solutions business. At HP he also led the team that pioneered a new market category within mobile Telecomm known as IP Mediation. The software was used to perform real-time analytics and billing on service usage data and became the market leader. He was also VP Product Management at XACCT, which was acquired by Amdocs to power its real-time data mediation. Damian was also VP Sales and Business Development for Followap until it was acquired by NeuStar. Followap, a Sequoia-funded company, was market leader in mobile Instant Messaging and Presence, continuing Damian's involvement in real-time middleware technologies.

Edan Kabatchnik, Vice President Products

Former Oracle executive, serial entrepreneur and MIT alumnus. 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.

Rick Lemberg, Vice President of Sales

Rick’s impressive track record in the financial services industry began on Sand Hill Road, where he designed and sold his own Corporate Service program to Silicon Valley high tech firms, and culminated in being the youngest of the 140+ Senior Vice Presidents at UBS, responsible for restricted stock, corporate cash management, and complex option and hedge strategies.

Prior to UBS, Rick was ranked in the top 10 from over 10,000 nationally at Smith Barney Shearson (brokerage and investment banking). In 1990, Rick became the first broker in the nation to open portable brokerage operations in client company offices to service employees during pre and post IPO activities. Rick won best Fixed Income cash management performance for 32 consecutive quarters, and was named Broker of Record for over a dozen IPO’s including Atmel.

After 15 successful years, Rick left the brokerage world, and applied his commitment and determination to pursue other interests. He built a business selling rare maps, expanding the collections of over a thousand museum & university archives. Rick has twice won the World Championships of Knife Throwing (2002 and 2005), has spent time as a TV host and Vegas performer, and taught knife throwing and hand weapons to the US Marine Corps & law enforcement. He was inducted into the International Knife Throwers Hall of Fame in 2003.

Ronnie Beggs, Vice President of Marketing

With more than twenty years experience of product management, product marketing and business development in the real-time software business, Ronnie’s career spans a range of industries, from safety critical real-time software in the aerospace industry, real-time performance and data management in telecommunications, and real-time business intelligence and analytics. Ronnie has also worked for a number of successful start-ups, from early stages through to acquisition, including Metrica (acquired by ADC Telecommunications in 1996) and Cramer Systems (acquired by Amdocs in 2006).

Steve Herskovitz, Director of Solutions and Pre-Sales

Steve has that rare blend of technical, managerial and client facing skills, honed over three decades with Silicon Valley startups. Steve has held technical and group management positions at TMI Systems (wholesale banking), Synapse (fault-tolerant multiprocessing), Plexus Computers (fault-tolerant media databases), Founding Engineer at The Mathworks (MATLAB), and Adobe (Acrobat).

With his combination of industry breadth and technical depth across a diverse range of business areas, Steve setup a successful consulting and product company, SiteGear, in 1996. Sitegear helped clients plan technical strategy, perform competitive technology evaluation and investment due diligence, develop software architecture, and execute on prototyping and development plans. Major clients included Xilinx, Washington Mutual Bank, Sony SCEA, Qualys, Reuters Information Technology, Netscape, National Semi, and Adaptec.

Jason Giaimo, Financial Controller

A seasoned financial executive with over 17 years of accounting experience, Jason has worked his way up from entry-level accounting positions to become the Corporate Controller of a $70m VC-backed San Francisco software firm, and to the position of CFO of a $25m, 125-person technology and logistics company. He is a former Accenture consultant with a Masters Degree from Washington University, and is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA), a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), and a member of Financial Executives International (FEI). A self-described "scrappy street-smart entrepreneur-turned accountant from New Jersey," Jason has worked as an oil rig roughneck (laborer) in the oilfields of northern Alaska, and has lived in Egypt, England, Alaska and Missouri. Jason is a 3-time US National Champion fife (like a flute) soloist, and is the founder of a 1776-era musical parade band.