Tom Addis
CEO
Tom is CEO at Kinetica. Tom has spent 30 years successfully developing and expanding business across the tech sector, most recently as the senior vice president and general manager of field operations at Box. During his time at Box, Tom led operations and expansion of the company's enterprise sales organization in North America, taking their revenue from $20 million to $700 million. Prior to joining Box, he was vice president at Salesforce.com and held leadership roles at Siebel Systems (Oracle) and IBM.
Dean Neese
COO & CFO
Dean Neese is COO and CFO at Kinetica. Across his thirty year career in finance and strategy, Neese has seen great success, including executing over 30 acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, and IPOs worldwide, as well as taking a leadership role in two Series E investment rounds. Prior to joining Kinetica, Neese spent several years as CFO of Qubole, where he led financing rounds and debt facilities. Prior to Qubole, Neese was the CFO of Shape Security, where he managed finance, human resources, and operations. Neese was previously the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development at DocuSign, where he led its international growth strategy through several acquisitions.
Amit Vij
President & Co-Founder
Amit is President and Co-Founder of Kinetica. Amit is responsible for the vision and strategic decisions for the company. Having a background in computer engineering, he has over a decade of software development experience in the commercial and federal space, with an emphasis in analyzing and visualizing big data, and helped architect Kinetica. Amit served as the chief GEOINT technical architect as a contractor for a major Top Secret cloud initiative between the US Army, NSA, and the DIA. Prior to Kinetica, Amit was a subject matter expert on geospatial intelligence with General Dynamics AIS and had been chief architect for several Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security contracts. Amit received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland with concentrations in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics.
Nima Negahban
CTO & Co-Founder
Nima is the Chief Technology Officer, original developer and software architect of the Kinetica platform. Leveraging his unique insight into data processing, he established the core vision and goal of the Kinetica platform. Nima leads Kinetica’s technical strategy and roadmap development while also managing the engineering team. He has developed innovative big data systems across a wide spectrum of market sectors, ranging from biotechnology to high-speed trading systems using GPUs, as Lead Architect and Engineer with The Real Deal, Digital Sports, Equipoise Imaging, and Synergetic Data Systems. Early in his career, Nima was a Senior Consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton. Nima holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
Elizabeth McGlauflin
Chief Customer Success Officer
Elizabeth McGlauflin has spent more than 20 years in leadership positions building and leading customer experience programs across a range of start-ups through rapidly growing public companies. She is Chief Customer Success Officer at Kinetica and, prior to that, was at Robin Systems as VP, Customer Success. Before joining Robin Systems, she was COO & VP, Customer Success at Bluescape, VP Services at C3, and held other executive positions at BDNA and Siebel Systems. She brings a wealth of experience in helping customers architect and adopt technology to drive innovation. She has worked with both cloud and on-premises solutions ranging from CRM, MDM, and IT management applications through a range of BI, analytic, IoT, collaboration and DevOps platforms and solutions. In her spare time, you can find her in an ice skating rink. She skates and often competes in Masters events around the world. She’s also a figure skating judge.
Chad Meley
Chief Marketing Officer
Chad Meley is CMO at Kinetica. With over 20 years of experience as a leader in SaaS, big data, advanced analytics, and data-driven marketing, Chad is known for innovative thinking, delivering high-impact results, and building inclusive, global, forward-thinking teams. Prior to joining Kinetica, Chad was VP of Marketing at Teradata, and held a variety of leadership roles centered around data and analytics while at Electronic Arts, Dell, and FedEx.
Lauren Pierce
VP of People
