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Executive Team

Steve Andrade – Chief Executive Officer

As Chief Executive Officer of DecisionView, Steve is responsible for leading the strategic growth of the company and delivering value to its customers. With a focus on operational excellence and innovation, Steve has developed a stable and strategic foundation for delivering innovative business performance optimization solutions with proven business value to the life sciences industry. In his role as CEO, Steve is involved in corporate strategy, product strategy, business development, general management as well as customer and partner relations.

Steve brings to DecisionView more than 20 years of life sciences industry experience. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Oracle Life Sciences & Healthcare, Group Vice President and General Manager of Siebel System’s Life Sciences business unit and various positions at IMS Health and Eli Lilly & Company. Steve is a graduate from the University of Texas with a B.S. in Pharmacy.

 

Linda Drumright – Chief Operating Officer

As Chief Operating Officer of the company, Linda is responsible for Product Development, Professional Services and Customer Support. Under Linda’s leadership, her teams deliver market-leading performance optimization software products and services to meet the needs of our life sciences customers.

Linda brings more than 22 years of experience in building commercial software products and delivering custom services in technology companies such as Sybase, Arbor Software, Hyperion Solutions and most recently at DigitalThink, Inc. Linda holds a B.A. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

 

Rene Pharisien – Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales
and Marketing

As Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing, Rene is responsible for leading the DecisionView's sales strategy, marketing communications, driving revenue growth and executing on strategic business development opportunities.

With over 25 years of sales and marketing experience in the high tech industry, Rene is recognized for his strong track record of driving significant revenue growth, cultivating strong customer relationships and developing successful strategic business partnerships at leading technology companies including Siebel Systems, Epiphany, Sequent, 3Com and Kintera.

Rene holds a BS in Marketing and Business Administration from Portland State University.

 

Gonzalo Castro – Vice President Product Marketing

As Vice President of Product Marketing, Gonzalo is responsible for setting the product strategy and vision for the company. In his role, he oversees the design, creation, and go-to-market strategies for DecisionView's product portolio with a special focus on exceptional user experience, innovative modeling, and increased business performance.

Prior to joining DecisionView, he was Director of Life Sciences Product Strategy at Oracle Corporation. Before joining Oracle, he worked at Siebel Systems in a number of roles within the Life Sciences Product Marketing group, successfully conceiving, developing, and launching applications that are used by some of the largest global pharmaceutical companies. In addition to his software career, Gonzalo served as an Operations Research Consultant at ZS Associates where he applied advanced modeling to enhance sales and marketing strategies, pioneering the use of optimization algorithms to solve complex business problems and generating new revenue streams for the company.

Gonzalo holds an MS in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

 

Suresh Kannan – Vice President Product Development

As Vice President of Product Development, Suresh is responsible for Product Architecture, Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Technical Documentation. Suresh brings over 15 years of high-tech leadership experience delivering successful commercial software products, managing complex web architecture projects, application server platform integrations, and building effective off-shore product development teams.

Prior to joining DecisionView, he served in various Engineering and Senior Management roles at Oracle spearheading development of Oracle’s Business Analytics software including Oracle Discoverer, an award-winning application for ad-hoc query, analysis, and reporting solution. Prior to Oracle, he designed and developed communication applications for IBM on various platforms. Suresh has a B.S. (Honors) in Computer Science & Engineering from the National Institute of Technology in India, and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley.

 

 

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