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Management
Board of Directors
| Bill Johnson |
CEO and Chairman of Board of Directors
In 1991 Bill Johnson founded TDI to deliver 24/7/365 infrastructure management for mission critical government and corporate networks. Bill and his mission critical customers understood infrastructures had to be independent of the devices they were managing.
Bill's original vision was the delivery of "agentless," no-footprint non-intrusive, active monitoring and remediation of the entire corporate infrastructure---from a single window. He understood that although failover solutions were architected for critical environments, active components still fail and when they do, it is critical to understand root cause and be able to remotely repair and remediate problems to get a device back online as soon as possible.
Bill assembled a team to build remote management and remediation capabilities for the VMS environment, later extending these capabilities to HPux, Linux, Windows, Solaris and most recently, the virtualized data center. Early adaptors included the National Security Agency, MilStar Satellite, European Space Agency, the Federal Land Bank, Mostek Semiconductor, International Telecharge, and Alcatel.
Beginning in 1996, Bill and his team were awarded patents for their innovative methods of "outside-in" infrastructure management, a paradigm where the infrastructure was being actively monitored and managed even if the O/S went down.
Bill has grown TDI organically using customer funded R&D to both find the most compelling infrastructure solutions and to have a ready market for them when they are ready to market.
Bill holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville.
Bill has over 20 years of experience in the infrastructure management field. He is a regular speaker for professional IT organizations regarding data center automation and enterprise computing. Bill is on the Board of Directors of ENCOMPASS, the worldwide HP user group.
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| David Cary |
Chief Operating Officer
As Chief Operating Officer for TDI, Dave has overall responsibility for Finance, Administration and TDI's strategic operations and growth. Dave joined TDI in November, 2006.
Early in 2007, Dave implemented a "customer funded R&D program" where TDI's key commercial and government customers funded extensions of TDI's patented "outside-in" technology into virtualization, log management and infrastructure remediation.
This innovative program paired key customers and TDI engineers in the areas of enterprise-wide virtualization, persistent log management, secure SCADA device management and graphical analysis. It delivered customer-built and tested, industry-ready TDI products to the leading edge of virtualization and log management.
This innovative partnering of key customers with TDI engineers resulted in seven more TDI patents being filed for enterprise-wide virtualization and infrastructure management.
Dave was founding Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel of i2 Technologies, Inc. from June 1992 to May 1999. During that time, i2 grew from a start up to over $5 billion in valuation. While at i2, Dave led the successful efforts to fund i2 internally, thus keeping i2 agile and able to quickly build products for its world class customers. Dave led the successful IPO in 1996.
Dave was head of the audit committee on the Board of Directors of Neon Systems, Inc (Nasdaq: NEON – News) for a number of years until its successful sale.
Dave is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a B.S. in Accounting from San Francisco State University and an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University.
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| Darel Stokes |
Vice President of Engineering
Darel Stokes joined TDI in 2001 and leads the Development and Engineering team. Darel has been instrumental in working with several leading TDI customers to extend TDI's core technologies to virtualization management, logging management and SCADA device management.
Darel has been instrumental in leading TDI developers to build and deploy the world's largest known "outside-in" network management system for one of the world's largest carriers. This system provides 100%, 7/24/365 persistent management for over 1000 consoles each of which is monitoring hundreds of infrastructure devices.
Darel is now leading the TDI development team in delivering the foundation bricks of "The self-healing infrastructure."
TDI, under Darel's technical leadership, recognized the confluence of virtualization, CIMOMs everywhere, the Alert Standards Format growing up, and SMASH actually being deployed. These events were perfectly suited for TDI to take it active remediation technology and begin delivering on the promise of the "outside-in" "self-healing infrastructure."
Darel has long recognized that active forensic analysis while events are occurring, instead of after the thief has left the electronic perimeter, offers the capability to render a cyber attack ‘toothless' while it is occurring. Darel and his team have built the foundation for these capabilities into the TDI products. They are deployed in TDI's Logging Management System today.
Darel holds US Patent 5,959,275 – "System and method for registering and maintaining field equipment inventory based on individualized equipment and location information."
Prior to TDI, Darel held senior management positions with MCI and MCI Worldcom including the leadership role in the Virtual Data Delivery System, as well as the Sr. Systems Architect of the Network Planning Division.
Darel has also held senior technical positions with Digital Equipment Corporation and Bell Helicopter.
Darel holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Technology from Southeastern Oklahoma State University with more than 25 years of software development experience.
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| Jay Valentine |
Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Jay Valentine has over 25 years of direct sales and marketing experience in the enterprise software industry. Jay was the top revenue producer in the 25 year history of ADR, one of the founding firms of the modern computer software industry.
Jay's experience is in working with technology firms with highly innovative, patented technologies moving into a market. Jay developed innovative guerilla marketing tactics enabling small, less well known firms to take market share from highly financed, established companies.
In 1999, Jay became the CEO of InfoGlide, an Austin startup with three employees that built a search engine to identify serial murderers. In 18 months, he repositioned the company as a leader in fraud detection and comparison shopping. Ebay purchased the product as its Internet fraud detection engine and AOL purchased the product as a core for its comparison shopping venture. Jay led the company in filing 7 patents for similarity search and XML search.
Jay built the company from a startup to a $120 million valuation and personally raised over $20 million in capital.
In 2002, Jay was brought into Yantra Corporation to jumpstart sales efforts for the company's innovative distributed order management system. While at Yantra, he closed the largest deal in the company's history for $6 million license with $14 million in consulting. This luminary sale repositioned this $30 million company for acquisition by AT&T for $167 million.
Jay was recruited to Servigistics by board member Jim Maikranz. His task was to dramatically increase the product selling price and fully implement Maikranz's unique value based selling methodology. Valentines area continually doubled revenue and he closed the largest deal in the company's history. He personally found and closed the deal with a large U.S. Government agency that ultimately forced Servigistics' largest competitor to sell the company for $1.
Jay is a graduate of the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University majoring in International Economics and Statistics. He was a National Merit Scholar.
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| David North |
Co-Founder, Board Member, Chief Product Architect
David North is a TDI co-founder with Bill Johnson. David built TDI's first products, emphasizing reliability and architecture for the future. David has helped TDI build its engineering team sharing a common "failure is not an option" vision of product performance and customer support.
David, who holds US Patent Number 6,505,245 -"System and Method for Managing Computer Devices" is a key contributor to TDI's Intellectual Property base.
In 2006, a customer survey of 250 of TDI's customers revealed the common finding: "the TDI product just works, it never breaks." David's experience, attention to fundamental architectural principles and leadership have helped TDI build software products that "just work" 7/24/365.
Prior to co-founding TDI, David worked at ITI, a major telecommunications service company. He led the architecture and development of an automated Operator Assisted Services solution for the company's worldwide operations.
The solution enabled savings, streamlining of operations and real-time fault-tolerance resulting in high availability, customer satisfaction and cost savings and the net result, profitable operations.
David received his Bachelors in Computer Science from Abilene Christian University, in Abliene, TX. He has more than 25 years of experience in the computer science field, specializing in enterprise software engineering.
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| Jim Maikranz |
Board Member
Jim served as senior vice president of sales for SAP, where he developed the sales methodology, strategy and sales tactics which brought SAP from $8 million in sales to over $6 billion.
Jim spent two years with SAP in Europe during where he crafted the company's sales methodologies, market positioning and sales training programs for Europe, Asia and Africa.
Most recently, Jim was senior vice president of worldwide sales at JD Edwards where he was responsible for the development and overall execution of worldwide sales strategies, sales support activities and strategic alliances.
Jim's particular expertise is the deep understanding of the buying psychology in enterprise software. Jim has helped many companies with outstanding core technologies reposition those technologies to align with the buyer.
Jim's success in mining value from deep but not well positioned technologies is legendary. Jim also serves o the boards of Servigistics, Datasynapse and Lombardi Software, Healy-Hudson Corporation, Swift Rivers and IONA.
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| Robert Yellin |
Board Member
Bob Yellin is the former Chief Technology Officer of both IBM Tivoli and founding CTO of LEGENT Corporation. He is a widely recognized expert in systems management and IT technologies, and brings over 30 years of systems management and business expertise to the board.
Bob began his career at Aetna Life and Casualty, where he directed data base and data communications administration for one of the most sophisticated database management applications in the industry. While there he pioneered many high availability and rapid recovery techniques unique to high volume OLTP systems.
In 1985, Bob, and some colleagues founded BST in Marlborough, MA building the industry's first major change control and configuration management system, ENDEVOR, which is today the standard of the mainframe change control software arena. BST was acquired by LEGENT and Bob took the role Sr. VP and CTO, where he charted the strategic course from mainframe to distributed management systems, LEGENT was acquired by CA in 1995, and Bob went on to serve as CEO and board member of Trigent Software LTD, an Indian-based software development company.
In 2000, Bob joined the Tivoli/IBM management team. He served as CTO until 2005 when he left to found Z-Bot LLC, a robotics and embedded systems manufacturing company which he currently owns and operates.
Bob also serves on the board of Hyperformix Inc, a capacity planning and predictive management company based in Austin, TX.
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| Kent Potter |
Board Member
Kent is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of projectLD, LLC. AutismSpot.com is the first release from projectLD which is an incubator for the development of multi-sensory technology projects and specializes in the convergence of technology and digital media. Additionally, Kent is the Co-Founder of RipSolve, LLC, a professional services corporation providing business brokerage, human resources, and intellectual property services to both private and public companies.
Prior to projectLD and RipSolve, Kent was Chief Operating Officer of a privately held technology company focused on children's education and entertainment. Kent has worked extensively in the areas of change management, international human resources, business operations, mergers & acquisitions, and executive search with global leaders McAfee Inc., Nortel Networks, and Solvay Engineered Polymers.
Kent has particular expertise in managing large, diverse human resources and customer facing organizations during periods of volatile change. Kent has developed methods and processes for change management across diverse cultures during both high growth periods and corporate consolidations.
While at McAfee, Kent led Worldwide Service Excellence and utilized the latest in change management processes to transform the global service and support organization into one of the highest performing customer facing organizations in the industry. In this highly successful endeavor, Kent developed and implemented techniques and processes to deliver both high customer satisfaction and recurring sales with minimal employee turnover. This endeavor is today one of the models in the high tech, Web 2.0 industry.
Kent successfully completed the Executive Education Program: Leading Change in Complex Organizations from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA and received a BA from Baylor University in Waco, TX.
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