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Executive Team

 

Jim Scullion – Chairman, President and CEO

Jim is responsible for leading the strategic growth of the company and delivering value to its customers. With more than twenty years of experience as a "C"-level executive in both public and private software companies, Jim is working to extend DecisionView's leadership position by delivering innovative business performance optimization solutions with proven business value to the life sciences industry. In his role as CEO, Jim is involved in corporate strategy, product strategy, business development, general management as well as customer and partner relations.

Before joining DecisionView, Jim served as Chairman and CEO of Tumbleweed Communications, a publicly traded enterprise security software company. Previously he was CEO of ComnetiX, a leading provider of criminal intelligence systems. Prior to that Jim held senior management positions including President and COO with Identix, a publicly traded biometric technology company.

Jim earned a bachelor of sciences degree in business administration - accounting from San Jose State University.

 

Linda Drumright – Chief Operating Officer

Linda is responsible for all products, services and business operations at DecisionView. With more than 27 years of experience in building commercial software products, Linda and her teams are focused on delivering market-leading performance optimization software products and services to meet the needs of life sciences customers.

Before joining the company in 2005, Linda provided management consulting services to DecisionView and several emerging companies and venture capital firms. Prior to this, Linda ran product development and delivery at a number of leading software companies including DigitalThink (custom e-learning solutions), Hyperion (budgeting, planning and forecasting tools), Arbor Software (tools and applications division), and Sybase (SQL Server).

Linda holds a BA in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and has completed the Haas School of Business Executive Program.

 

Dr. Cosimo Spera – Head of Predictive Science

Dr. Spera is responsible for DecisionView’s predictive models and algorithms. He brings over twenty years of experience in the area of applied mathematics and operations research, with an emphasis on supply chain, network optimization and agent technology.

Prior to joining DecisionView, Dr. Spera was the founder and CEO of Zipidy, a company that provides mobile services to nomadic users. He launched iPark, the first solution to allow drivers to locate available parking on-street and pay the meter through the cell phone. Previously he served as Chief Supply Chain Officer at Finmatica where he led the definition, development and go to market strategy for their new suite of supply chain software products. Dr. Spera started his entrepreneurial career as CEO of Saltare, the first start up to fill the gap between planning and execution in supply chain. He has been recognized by blue chip customers and analysts for his vision in the "adaptive enterprise" and the use of agent technology to build an adaptive planning software solution. In 2002, Saltare merged with Vizional. Here Dr. Spera re-positioned the company as the leading provider of RFID agent based supply chain software solutions.

Dr. Spera is a graduate with summa laude from University of Siena and Yale and holds a PhD in Operations Research. He has been a Fulbright Chair Professor at University California at Berkeley, and has taught at University of Michigan, M.I.T, Columbia University and University of Siena. He has published over forty referred papers and has been invited to speak at several universities around the world.

 

Gonzalo Castro – Vice President of Products

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 of Engineering and 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.

 

Dan Maier – Vice President of Marketing

Dan is responsible for demand generation, corporate marketing, and product marketing at DecisionView. With more than 18 years of experience driving corporate strategy, product strategy and marketing execution for both public companies and startups, Dan is focused on promoting DecisionView’s market leadership and engaging with the company’s prospects and customers.

Prior to joining DecisionView, Dan spent two years as a marketing consultant working with a variety of Silicon Valley technology companies, ranging from Internet startups to global software giants. Before that, Dan held a number of marketing positions (including VP of Marketing) at Tumbleweed Communications, where he helped build the company’s market leadership and drove strategic new product initiatives. Dan has also held marketing positions with Platinum Technology, ePeople, Expert Edge, and Oracle.

Dan has a BA in Economics from Stanford University, and an MBA in marketing and operations from UCLA.

 

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