Meet the Board of Directors

Jerry Held Executive Chairman	Jerry Held Executive Chairman Jerry Held is currently CEO of the Held Consulting Group, a firm that provides strategic consulting to CEOs and senior executives of technology firms ranging from startups to very large organizations and private equity firms. Prior to his current position, Held was a senior executive at both Oracle Corp. and Tandem Computers. [more] In 1998, Held was "CEO-in-residence" at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Through 1997, at Oracle Corporation's server product division, he led a division of 1,500 people and helped the company grow from $1.5 billion to $6 billion in annual sales. Held spent 18 years at Tandem Computers, where he was a member of the team that grew Tandem from a startup to a $2 billion company. During his tenure at Tandem, he held several senior management positions, including chief technology officer, senior vice president of strategy, and vice president of new ventures. Held received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Purdue, an M.S. in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, where he led the initial development of the INGRES relational database management system. He also attended the Stanford Business School's Executive Program. Held currently serves on the boards of Business Objects, Openwave, MetaMatrix, Mirapoint and is chairman of Software Development Technologies. He is also a member of the board of directors and Vice Chairman of the Tech Museum of Innovation and a member of the board of Montalvo Arts Center. [hide]

Ralph Breslauer CEO	Ralph Breslauer CEO With more than 20 years of enterprise software experience, Ralph Breslauer comes to Vertica from contact center software provider Aspect Software, where he served as executive vice president of global sales and marketing, managing over 700 people. [more] During Breslauer's tenure, the company grew sales from $94 million to over $600 million as it expanded its customer list to include many entries on the Fortune Global 500 list, including a majority of the top airlines, telecommunications companies and commercial banks around the world. In addition, Breslauer lead the strategic development and execution of the company's aggressive branding and marketing efforts. Prior to joining Aspect, Breslauer served as senior vice president of worldwide field operations for eRoom Technology, a leading provider of Web-based collaboration software, now part of EMC. Previously, he was vice president of marketing and business development for Informix Software’s $700 million TransAct Business Group. In addition, Breslauer has held a number of other executive roles during his career, including vice president of marketing for databases and tools at database and data warehousing vendor Ardent Software and executive vice president at enterprise software company System Builder Corporation. [hide]

Paul Maeder Director	Paul Maeder Director Managing General Partner - Highland Capital Partners At Highland Capital Partners, Paul Maeder focuses on information and healthcare technology investments, most notably software, as well as systems, security and diagnostics. He has more than twenty-eight years of software experience and over twenty-two years experience in venture capital. [more] Maeder is a former director of Avid Technology (Nasdaq: AVID), CheckFree (Nasdaq: CKFR), Chipcom, HighGround Systems (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Mainspring (acquired by IBM), Relicore (acquired by Symantec), SCH (acquired by Legato Systems), SQA (acquired by Rational Corporation), Sybase (Nasdaq: SYBS), VistaPrint (Nasdaq: VPRT) and WebLine Communications (acquired by Cisco Systems). Before co-founding Highland, Maeder was a general partner at a Boston-based venture capital partnership where he concentrated on software investments. Prior to entering venture capital, he maeder operating positions for six years in high-growth technology companies. At Novacor Corporation he managed several projects in the development of an implantable artificial heart. Later, Paul was responsible for the development of a complex visual field examination instrument at Synemed Corporation where he also headed the company's mechanical engineering and software development. Maeder currently serves on the boards of Amp Resources LLC, Avidyne, Bit9, BlueTarp Financial, Imprivata, StreamBase Systems, Vertica, and Village Ventures. [hide]

G. Felda Hardymon, Ph.D. Director	G. Felda Hardymon, Ph.D. Director Senior Partner – Bessemer Venture Partners G. Felda Hardymon joined Bessemer Venture Partners in 1981 as a General Partner. After over 20 years with the firm, he became a Senior Partner to enable him to teach and do research at Harvard Business School. [more] During his career, Hardymon has invested in young companies in the software, communications and retail sectors, including AmericanSuperconductor, Cascade Communications (acquired by Ascend), Celcore (acquired by DSC), Celtel (acquired by MTC), Parametric Technology, the Sports Authority, Staples and VideoServer. Previously Hardymon worked at BDSI, the original venture subsidiary of General Electric Corporation, where he was an investor in Ungermann-Bass, Stratus Computer and Western Digital. Prior to that, he taught mathematics and served as Director of Systems and Research at Duke University. Hardymon has a B.S. from Rose Polytechnic, an M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke, and an M.B.A. from Harvard. [hide]

Michael Stonebraker, Ph.D. CTO & Co-Founder	Michael Stonebraker, Ph.D. CTO & Co-Founder Michael Stonebraker has been a pioneer of database research and technology for more than a quarter of a century. He was the main architect of the INGRES relational DBMS, and the object-relational DBMS, POSTGRES. These prototypes were developed at the University of California at Berkeley where Stonebraker was a professor of computer science for 25 years. [more] More recently at MIT, Stonebraker was a co-architect of the Aurora stream processing engine as well as the C-Store high-performance read-oriented database engine. He is the founder of four venture-capital backed startups that have commercialized these prototypes: Ingres Corporation, Illustra Information Technologies (acquired by Informix Corporation), StreamBase Systems, and Vertica. Stonebraker is the author of scores of research papers on database technology, operating systems and the architecture of system software. He was awarded the 2005 IEEE John vonNeumann Medal as well as the ACM System Software Award in 1992, for his work on INGRES. Additionally, he was awarded the first annual Innovation award by the ACM SIGMOD special interest group in 1994, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997. He is also an ACM Fellow. Stonebraker earned a B.S.E.E. degree from Princeton University in 1965 and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1971. [hide]

Andy Palmer Co-Founder	Andy Palmer Co-Founder With a track record of five successful startups in the past 12 years, Andy Palmer specializes in founding and accelerating the growth of early-stage companies. In early 2005, Palmer partnered with Dr. Stonebraker to found Vertica®. Prior to co-founding Vertica, Palmer served as the senior vice president of operations at Infinity Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ : INFI) , where he was a member of the initial startup team. [more] At Infinity, he was responsible for information technology, informatics, operations, finance, human resources, and organizational development as the company raised over $140 million in financing, grew to more than 100 employees, and put its first compound into the clinic for the treatment of cancer. Prior to joining Infinity, as a member of the startup team and vice president of sales and marketing at Bowstreet, Palmer led the creation and execution of all early sales, marketing, and professional services initiatives as the company grew from 3 employees to more than 300 employees. Before joining Bowstreet, Palmer was the first vice president of marketing at pcOrder.com (NASDAQ: PCOR), where he was directly responsible for dramatic revenue growth and rapid customer acquisition in preparation for a successful initial public offering as the company grew from 5 employees to more than 250 employees. Prior to joining pcOrder, Palmer served as marketing director for pcOrder's parent company, Trilogy Software, Inc. Palmer earned an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and bachelor's degrees in English, history, and computer science from Bowdoin College. [hide]