Leadership Team
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Nobuo Kita
President and Chief Executive Officer
Nobuo Kita is also the president and CEO of SIOS Technology, Inc., the parent company of SteelEye Technology. SIOS Technology, headquartered in Tokyo, is an IT infrastructure and web application software development company and a leader in open source software. SIOS Technology went public in 2004 and its stock is traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Nobuo is also on the board of directors and is the founder of Mozilla Japan, an affiliate of Mozilla Foundation/Mozilla Corp., the world’s most successful open source software development organization. Nobuo is also on the board of directors of Seasar Foundation, which is the largest open source software developers' community in Japan. Prior to becoming CEO of SIOS Technology, Nobuo was the CEO of Northern Lights Computer, a pioneer in Linux and system integration services in Japan. Northern Lights merged with Ten Art-ni Corporation which became SIOS Technology. Nobuo has BS in engineering from Kyoto Institute of Technology.
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Bob Williamson
Senior Vice President, Product Management and Product Marketing
Bob joined SteelEye as vice president of engineering to lead its product research, development and delivery process. Bob comes to SteelEye with over 20 years of experience in software, technology, and high-availability related projects on both UNIX and Windows NT platforms, with a more recent emphasis on Linux. Recently, Bob has expanded his areas of responsibility to include Product Management and Product Marketing. Prior to joining SteelEye, Bob managed numerous projects during his 18 years tenure at NCR Corporation in the communications, performance, high availability, and e-Commerce areas. Bob holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina.
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Nella Bishop
Vice President of Engineering
Nella leads SteelEye's Product Development and Customer Support teams defining process, managing resources, and delivering solutions. She supports and is an active practitioner of Agile Software Development processes, specifically Scrum. With 13 years of experience prior to joining SteelEye, Nella has filled both engineering development roles as well as management roles focusing teams on the timely delivery of high quality software products in the telecommunications and high-tech sectors. Nella holds a BA in Mathematics from Columbia College and a MS in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Greg Ewald
Vice President, Marketing
Greg has more than 20 years of international sales, channel/product marketing and business development experience in the domains of systems, enterprise application and security software. Most recently he directed marketing activities at Sana Security a developer of behavior-based anti-malware software. Prior to that Greg was Director of Product Marketing at Phoenix Technologies with line of business responsibilities for Phoenix Embedded firmware. Greg has held Business Development and OEM sales positions at Openwave, Intraware, Novell and Digital Research managing and maintaining account relationships with a broad range of technology companies including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, Oracle, Dell, Tandem, Siemens-Nixdorf, NeXt, Apple and Tandy. Additionally, he has worked closely with major distributors including Tech Data, Ingram and Synnex to establish and drive channel revenue with innovative marketing programs.
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Tom Paone
Director of Channel Sales
Tom comes to SteelEye with more than 10 years of technology and channel sales experience. He is responsible for driving all sales and company initiatives through value-added resellers and channel experts in the Americas region focused on delivering solutions that address business continuity in the SMB, SME and Enterprise markets. Prior to joining SteelEye, Tom held senior sales positions with Symantec, VERITAS Software and Seagate Software. Tom works closely with partners to develop mutually rewarding collaborative sales programs and strategies designed for delivering solutions through two-tier channel models.
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Jeff Roulston
Director, OEM/ISV Partnerships
Jeff is responsible for driving SteelEye's sales activities across all market segments in the United States, Canada and Latin America. Jeff's responsibilities include SteelEye's direct sales and working with value-added resellers/OEM partners.
A sales executive and consultant for more than 13 years, Jeff has broad experience in software sales, with leadership roles in direct sales, telesales, and multi-channel distribution. Prior to joining SteelEye, Jeff also held various sales and management consulting positions at companies such as Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and IBM.
Jeff earned a both a bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of South Carolina.
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John Banfield
Director Sales, EMEA
John brings with him more than 16 years of European sales and marketing experience from his tenure with Smallworldwide Plc., a successful UK start-up software company that John helped take public on NASDAQ in 1996 and which was later acquired by GE, and thereafter with Primus Knowledge Solutions and Zeus Technology. John's past experience also includes building a direct sales presence in the US and indirectly through channels into Japan.
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