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Flint Brenton, President
and CEO
Flint Brenton is a veteran of the technology industry
with over 20 years of experience as a senior executive
in the IT sector. Formerly Senior Vice President &
General Manager of NetIQ's Security & Administration
business unit, Flint has held leadership positions at
NetIQ Corporation, Compaq Computer Corporation, BMC
Software and IBM.
As Senior Vice President and General Manager at NetIQ,
Flint dramatically increased revenues for the Security
and Administration business unit through organic development
as well as mergers and acquisitions. As Senior Vice
President of Engineering, he managed the company's development
staff of 500 across five locations and delivered all
NetIQ products to market. Flint's team developed more
than 100 major releases of existing products and four
new products, winning over 20 "Product of the Year"
awards.
Prior to NetIQ, Brenton was Vice President of Worldwide
eCommerce for Compaq Computer Corporation, where he
led the team that developed the company's global e-commerce
strategy and built the online applications required
to execute it. Brenton began his career in technology
at IBM where he held a variety of sales and sales management
positions, consistently ranking among the organization's
top performers.
Following IBM, Brenton was general manager of European
operations for I-Net Corporation, a networking services
company. He then joined systems management leader BMC
Software where he managed the assimilation of the Boole
& Babbage products following BMC's acquisition.
Brenton also started and grew BMC's MQ Series product
line to become one of the company's most profitable
business units.
Flint received a Masters in Business and Public Management
from Rice University in 1984 and a Bachelor of Science
degree from Mount Union College in 1978. Flint also
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Ted Trimble, Senior Vice President
of Engineering
Ted has 25 years experience in hi-tech, fifteen of those
years spent in research and development. As Senior VP
of Engineering, at Tidal Ted is responsible for managing
development, quality assurance, support, and user documentation
of all of Tidal's products. He is also responsible for
research and development of future products.
Previous to Tidal, Ted was Vice President of Engineering
for the Security, Administration and Migration products
business unit of NetIQ Corporation, where he managed
the development of products that boosted the company's
quarterly revenue growth by 95 percent within four quarters.
Before NetIQ, Trimble spent 14 years at BMC Software
where he was Vice President, DB2 Solutions, and prior
to that served in various operational and support roles
for several large enterprise corporations' Information
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Christopher Kenessey, Vice President of Sales for EMEA
As Vice President of Sales for EMEA, Christopher Kenessey is responsible for driving growth of Tidal's operations in
this market. Christopher will be focused on expanding Tidal's world class organization to ensure the success of customers
in this key Tidal market.
Christopher has broad experience in software sales, with leadership roles in direct sales and telesales. With over seven
years at Tidal Software, Christopher has served in several operational roles that have directly impacted sales, development,
and customer satisfaction. Prior to joining Tidal, Kenessey had various sales roles at Compuware Corp. and Platinum
Technology. At both companies, he consistently achieved his sales quota and received awards for excellence. He also worked
for Walt Disney Corporation and completed their management training program.
Kenessey earned his bachelor's degree from The University of Illinois in Champaign
- Urbana.
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Charlie Velasquez, CPA - Vice
President of Finance
Charlie has worked in finance for over 14 years, beginning
his career at accounting firm, KPMG. He has served in
a variety of positions in vastly different industries,
moving up the ladder from Senior Auditor at KPMG, to
Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at American
Medical Response, to Corporate Controller at Smith and
Hawken.
At American Medical Response he was responsible for
all financial analysis functions while overseeing a
$400 million revenue generating division. And, at Smith
and Hawken, he played an instrumental role in helping
prepare the company to go IPO while also preparing them
for their first big five audit.
At Tidal, Charlie is responsible for leading the accounting
and finance operations teams as well as human resources
and contract services. As a member of the management
team he developed strategic and operational concepts
for finance, human resources and sales. |
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Thomas Hooker, Vice President, Product & Field Marketing
Thomas Hooker leads the management of all product and field marketing efforts, as well as demand generation.
Thomas brings over 20 years of technology marketing and sales experience to this role. Over the course of seven
years at Tidal, Thomas has held several important roles in product management, development and marketing,
and has played a vital role in the successful release of many of Tidal’s solutions. Prior to his current
role he served as director of product marketing, and as director of marketing and development.
Prior to Tidal, Thomas held a marketing and development positions at both BMC and Boole and Babbage.
Thomas holds a BS degree in both Computer Science and Business Administration from California State University,
Chico. |
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Gary Sellers, Vice President of Development
Gary Sellers leads the design, development, and documentation of company’s commercial software
products. Gary brings over 25 years of experience in information technology and software research
and development to this role. With Tidal since 2004, Gary’s leadership has expanded Tidal’s product
line to cover new markets in support of the company’s strategy. Prior to Tidal, Gary was the Director
of Development for BMC Software where he was responsible for the design, development, testing, and
support of the company’s premier database utilities and performance management software products.
Gary also provided development leadership in other areas within BMC such as data optimization and
messaging middleware. Prior to BMC Software, Gary provided operational and development services
for several large enterprise information technology companies such as Texaco and Wells Fargo. |
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Patti Stephenson, Director, Professional Services
Patti Stephenson leads the professional services organization at Tidal. Patti brings more than 20 years of rich customer experience to this role including support and services experience as well as sales and channels experience. At Tidal, Patti has served in a variety of roles since joining the company in 1998. Prior to her current role she was director of corporate account sales and drove the introduction of new Tidal products to the customer base. Previous to that, Patti managed the technical support group as it grew to serve over 500 customers worldwide. Patti began her career at Tidal as a technical support engineer then became lead trainer for key products. During her career Patti has also held a range of customer facing roles at other companies. |
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Wayne Greene, Vice President, Product Management
Wayne Greene leads the product management team at Tidal. He also manages the Tidal Enterprise Scheduler product line and drives the product strategy across the company. Prior to Tidal, he was Director of Competitive and Market Intelligence at the Wily Technology Division of Computer Associates. Prior to CA, Wayne was at Hewlett Packard for 18 years in a variety of different roles, spending the last 6 years at HP in the Corporate IT and Outsourcing Services division where he was responsible for the enterprise management toolset. He led a team of approximately 120 engineers, was responsible for system, network, and application monitoring, help desk ticketing and case exchange solutions, enterprise application integration, job scheduling, data warehousing and reporting, and end user support portals. Wayne has a PhD from University of California at Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Science from M.I.T. |
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