Amit Vij
CEO and Co-Founder
Amit is a co-founder, board member, and CEO of Kinetica. Amit is responsible for the vision, administrative, and executive 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 and 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.
Marcus Holm
VP of Global Field Operations
Marcus currently serves as the VP of Global Field Operations at Kinetica, where he leads the sales, business development, and services teams. Prior to Kinetica, Marcus oversaw the Western US Region for Cloudera, a commercial distributor of Apache Hadoop. Before transitioning into the big data space, Marcus spent several years at Cisco Systems in both the US and APAC, where he focused on Cisco's Intelligent Automation Solutions, a comprehensive cloud management and data center automation platform. Marcus holds a B.S. in Business Management from Brigham Young University.
Michele Nemschoff
VP of Marketing
Michele is the VP of Marketing at Kinetica, where she is responsible for all aspects of marketing, including marketing communication and branding, public relations, events, product marketing, and lead generation programs. Michele joins Kinetica from MapR Technologies, where she served as Vice President of Corporate Marketing. Prior to MapR, Michele led the marketing team at PARC, a Xerox company. She was also a principal with Indigo Partners, developing and executing successful marketing strategies to drive growth for a variety of technology companies. Earlier in her career, Michele held marketing positions at Linuxcare, Apple, NeXT, Rand McNally, and Strategic Mapping. Michele received an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Charles Veley
Head of People
Charles is the Head of People at Kinetica, where he is responsible for driving all HR and recruiting programs in the company. Prior to Kinetica, Charles held several roles at MicroStrategy, Inc., including VP of Marketing, VP of Corporate Development, VP of Americas Recruiting, and EVP of Corporate Development. Earlier in his career, Charles was an Account Manager for Cambridge Technology Partners, as well as an Associate for The Boston Consulting Group in Boston. An avid traveler, Charles has visited 97% of the land area in the world, including every country, and founded the extreme travel community MostTraveledPeople.com, where he is currently ranked #3. Charles holds an A.B. in Computer Science from Harvard University.
Eli Glaser
VP of Engineering
Eli is a Vice President of Engineering at Kinetica. He was one of the original developers of the Kinetica platform, and now leads the development of the core server product. Eli is responsible for the implementation of new features as well as making sure Kinetica runs as fast as possible. He has a background in high performance computing and algorithm development in the fields of signal, image and video processing with a focus on GPU implementation. Prior to joining Kinetica he held positions at several Department of Defense contractors guiding advanced technology projects from prototype to production. Eli holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
John Labenski
VP of Engineering
John is the Chief Scientist and VP of Engineering at Kinetica. One of the original developers and architects of the Kinetica platform, John leads product development, innovation, and hardware optimization efforts. Previously at BAE Systems, he was an architect for gigapixel and hyperspectral airborne camera systems using GPUs for image processing and real-time target tracking. John also investigated low-frequency EM wave generation and propagation from RF ionospheric heating. At NIST, he studied Johnson Noise Thermometry at the tin and zinc fixed-points using a synthetic quantized-voltage noise source as the reference. John holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Lehigh University
Chris Prendergast
VP of Global Business Development
Chris serves as the Vice President of Global Business Development and Alliances at Kinetica. Prior to joining Kinetica, Chris led a team of specialists evangelizing new use cases to help SAP customers leverage HANA for big data analytics. Chris was an early employee of both Cloudera and Hortonworks and has over 10 years of experience working with open source technology. For the better part of the last decade, Chris has been bringing organizations together to solve customer challenges in the US and abroad. This work spans cloud, on premise, BI, platforms and applications. Chris has a B.S. is Business Management from the University of West Virginia, College of Business & Economics.
Subir Dutt
VP of Worldwide Professional Services
Subir leads the solution architecture and delivery teams as well as worldwide support. He joins Kinetica from MicroStrategy, where he was EVP, Worldwide Consulting. Prior to MicroStrategy, he was SVP, Global Oracle Practice Leader at CapGemini, driving their transformation to Emerging Technologies, XaaS, Big Data & Analytics. Prior to CapGemini, Subir spent 15 years at Oracle in a variety of SaaS, On-premise license & consulting leadership roles. Subir has extensive experience working with large customers.
Eric Mizell
VP of Global Solution Engineering
Eric is VP of Global Solution Engineering at Kinetica. Prior to Kinetica, Eric was the Director of Solution Engineering for Hortonworks, a distributor of Apache Hadoop. Earlier in his career, Eric was both a Director of Field Engineering and a Solutions Architect for Terracotta, a provider of in-memory data management and big data solutions for the enterprise. He started his career in systems and software engineering roles at both McCamish Systems and E/W Group. Eric holds a B.S. in Information Systems from DeVry University.
Charles Sutton
Managing Director, Europe
Charles serves as the Managing Director of Europe at Kinetica. Charles has over 20 years experience in technology start-ups and has built a strong Big Data network across EMEA. Prior to Kinetica, Charles was the Managing Director of Europe at Platfora, a leading big data analytics platform acquired by Workday. Previously, Charles held Senior Sales positions at Cloudera, where he established their initial clients across Europe, Salesforce.com, spending six years disrupting the traditional enterprise software market and Changepoint Corporation. He began his career as a Managing Consultant at HSO a leading ERP consultancy, working on projects across Europe and North America before becoming UK Country Manager. He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Loughborough University in England.
