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.
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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.
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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.
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Mike joined Vertica from Exit41, Inc., where he was CFO and leader of the company’s operations and service organizations. Exit41 is a software company that developed innovative customer ordering systems for the restaurant industry. Prior to Exit41, Mike was CFO of Gotham Networks, a communications equipment supplier.

Mike was also CFO of iBasis (NASDAQ: IBAS), a Voice-over-IP provider that is one of the world’s largest carriers of international telephone calls and operates facilities in over 100 countries. Mike raised over $600 million in both private and public funding and led the company through a highly successful IPO as well as a significant strategic acquisition.

Prior to joining iBasis, he was Director of Finance at Teleport Communications Group (TCG), a national provider of telecommunications services that was acquired by AT&T. Previously, he held various financial positions at Houghton Mifflin Company and served as an auditor at KPMG.

Mike received a B.S. in accounting from Bentley College and an M.B.A. in finance from Babson College. He also practiced as a Certified Public Accountant.
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XOsoft was considered to be the fastest growing software company in the high availability and business continuity market exceeding 2,500 customers within this 4 year period and receiving multiple product excellence awards. During this same period, the number of employees also doubled each year. Because of this success, the company was acquired by CA, Inc. to complement their solutions in the back up and recovery market.

O'Connell has established a successful career in technology companies with great people and innovative products. Prior to XOsoft, he held executive and sales management positions at leading high tech companies such as Exchange Applications (acquired by Amdocs), Sybase, Inc., Oracle Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation (now HP). In these roles, he created and managed both direct and channel sales networks, specializing in enterprise software solutions and provided significant contributions to program development and revenue growth.

O'Connell earned a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Southern New Hampshire University with a concentration in Marketing.
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Lawande is a co-inventor on several patents on query optimization, materialized views and automatic index tuning for databases. She has also co-authored two books on data warehousing using the Oracle database as well as a book on Enterprise Grid Computing.

Lawande has a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
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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.
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