SQLstream Executive Management Team

Damian Black, CEO

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.

Julian Hyde, Chief Architect

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.

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.

Eric Allman, Distinguished Engineer

Former Author and CTO of Sendmail.com, and former chief programmer of the Ingres relational database.

Steve Herskovitz, Director of Professional Services

Steve Herskovitz, Director of Professional Services

Founding engineer at Matlab, and MIT alumnus.

Rick Lemberg, Vice President of Sales (Americas)

Former SVP - Investments at UBS, Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park. Chairman's Council (top 100 worldwide) commission sales producer, UBS/PaineWebber. Twice world champion of knife throwing, and 2003 US Martial Arts Hall of Fame Inductee.

Rick Saletta

Rick Saletta, Vice President of Marketing

Led Java Marketing Team at Sun; built J2EE brand. Led teams for Adobe AIR, Flash, PDF and Reader as well as Ajax and Rails based products; entrepreneur and Yale MBA.

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