Bio
Paul Brody
Paul runs Sococo's day-to-day operations. He brings 20+ years of experience building software solutions and internet-based services for both consumers and business.
Prior to joining Sococo, Paul had a long career at Yahoo! where he served as Vice President of Products. Paul led the company-wide community initiatives including running services such as Yahoo! Groups. Paul was also responsible for delivering Yahoo's services to consumers via its strategic partners (ATT, Verizon and others).
Paul has served as the Senior VP, Platform Products at InterTrust Technologies, Director of Product Management at Borland International, and was a senior manager at the consulting firm of Pittiglio, Rabin, Todd & McGrath. Paul has a BS and MS in Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Constantin Delivanis
Prior to cofounding BDNA in 2000, Delivanis cofounded Sand Hill Group LLC to invest in and provide management advice to emerging enterprise technology companies. He also cofounded EnaTec Software Systems, where he served as Chief Executive Officer until its acquisition by Wonderware Corporation, now a part of Invensys Systems.
Earlier in his career Delivanis held a number of executive positions in marketing, engineering and business development. He has been listed in Forbes' "Midas 100 List" as one of the most influential investors in technology. Delivanis holds an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University, an M.S. from Stanford University and a B.S. from the University of Alexandria.
Karthik Rau
For over a decade, Karthik Rau has played instrumental roles in defining products and marketing at industry-shaping software companies, including VMware and Opsware. From 2002-2009, he held several executive leadership positions at VMware and reported to CEOs Diane Greene and later Paul Maritz. Rau was most recently Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, overseeing all corporate, field, channel, and alliance marketing across all geographies. Prior to his role in marketing, Rau owned responsibility for VMware's server product portfolio and roadmaps as Vice President of Product Management. Rau led the product and go-to-market strategy for many of VMware's most commercially successful efforts, from the first release of the VirtualCenter management suite to the VMware Infrastructure 3 and vSphere 4 virtualization platforms. Prior to joining VMware, Rau led efforts to create the first commercial version of the Opsware server automation products as a product manager at Opsware (then named Loudcloud).
Rau holds MS and BS degrees in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with distinction, was named a Mayfield and Valentine Fellow, and received the Frederick Terman Engineering Scholastic Award.
Alok Srivastava
Alok Srivastava has been responsible for much of the innovation and development for Oracle clusterware (CRS) and Oracle cluster database server (RAC), which have driven billions of dollars in revenue for Oracle with over 30,000 customer deployments. Most recently, Srivastava managed multiple R&D and multi-platform engineering teams spanning US and India, as Director of Engineering at Oracle.
Srivastava has 22+ years of systems software R&D, engineering, and operations experience spanning real-time systems, parallel and distributed systems, OS internals, cluster database server, and cluster systems management. Srivastava was one of the core designers of India's first massively parallel processing computer, PARAM. He was on the team responsible for defining and implementing the Quality Management System at Wipro Systems in India, leading to its ISO9000 certification.
Srivastava has a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from IIT, Roorkee, India, and an MBA from The Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. He has over 30+ patents and patents pending in the areas of cluster database server internals, cluster systems management, and distributed systems diagnosis.
David Van Wie
David is the visionary leader for Sococo. His concepts for personal communications drive the company's platform and service offerings.
A lifelong entrepreneur, David has founded or co-founded five start-ups. Most recently, David co-founded InterTrust Technologies which pioneered the field of Digital Rights Management (incorporated 1990, NASDAQ listed 1999, sold to Sony/Phillips 2003). To date David holds 47 issued patents on DRM technologies.
Walker White
Walker White is responsible for the technical aspects of all customer-facing activity, from sales to service to support. Additionally, he provides direct guidance to the BDNA engineering about product direction and customer needs. Prior to joining BDNA, he was a 12 year veteran of Oracle Corporation. During his tenure at Oracle, he held positions as Vice President of Applications Technology, Chief Technologist of Oracle Service Industries, Product Line Manager for Hewlett-Packard and other technical management positions. White is a regular speaker at many commercial, government and educational information technology forums. White is a graduate of University of California, San Diego, with a B.S. in Computer Engineering.
Jedidiah Yueh
In 1999, Jedidiah Yueh founded Avamar, a software company that pioneered data de-duplication and shipped a billion-dollar product in the backup and recovery industry, with over 20,000 current customers. Today, de-duplication is a high priority for enterprise data centers, and the technology has become a must-have feature or product for major storage and software vendors. Data de-duplication strips away redundant data to make disks more cost effective than tape media for storing a wide variety of data types, such as daily, repeated backup sets. EMC acquired Avamar in November 2006 for $165 million. EMC executives have stated that Avamar is the best performing investment for EMC since VMware.
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- Internet
Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the University of California at Los Angeles, Stanford Research Institute, the University of California-Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah. ARPANET's purpose was to conduct research into computer networking in order to provide a secure and survivable communications system in case of war. As the network quickly expanded, academics and researchers in other fields began to use it as well. In 1971 the first program for sending e-mail over a distributed network was developed; by 1973, the year international connections to ARPANET were made (from Britain and Norway), e-mail represented most of the traffic on ARPANET. The 1970s also saw the development of mailing lists, newsgroups and bulletin-board systems, and the TCP/IP communications protocols, which were adopted as standard protocols for ARPANET in 1982–83, leading to the widespread use of the term Internet. In 1984 the domain name addressing system was introduced. In 1986 the National Science Foundation established the NSFNET, a distributed network of networks capable of handling far greater traffic, and within a year more than 10,000 hosts were connected to the Internet. In 1988 real-time conversation over the network became possible with the development of Internet Relay Chat protocols (see chat). In 1990 ARPANET ceased to exist, leaving behind the NSFNET, and the first commercial dial-up access to the Internet became available. In 1991 the World Wide Web was released to the public (via FTP). The Mosaic browser was released in 1993, and its popularity led to the proliferation of World Wide Web sites and users. In 1995 the NSFNET reverted to the role of a research network, leaving Internet traffic to be routed through network providers rather than NSF supercomputers. That year the Web became the most popular part of the Internet, surpassing the FTP protocols in traffic volume. By 1997 there were more than 10 million hosts on the Internet and more than 1 million registered domain names. Internet access can now be gained via radio signals, cable-television lines, satellites, and fibre-optic connections, though most traffic still uses a part of the public telecommunications (telephone) network. The Internet is widely regarded as a development of vast significance that will affect nearly every aspect of human culture and commerce in ways still only dimly discernible.
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