Management Team
Bill Cook
Bill Cook is president of EMC’s Greenplum division. With revenues of $20 billion in 2011, and more than 53,000 employees worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect, and analyze their most valuable asset ---information---in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.
Mr. Cook is responsible for driving Greenplum's strategic direction and delivery of the next generation of data warehousing and analytics to some of the world's most successful companies. Under Cook's leadership, Greenplum grew from a start-up to helping EMC become a leader in Big Data, including acquiring the gold standard in agile software development, Pivotal Labs. Bill Cook reports to EMC's president and chief operating officer, David Goulden.
Prior to joining Greenplum, Cook served in several leadership positions in the IT industry. He spent 19 years at Sun Microsystems, most recently as Senior Vice President of US Sales. In this position he led a field force of 3,500 with revenues in excess of $5 billion. Additionally while at Sun, Bill helped lead the Sun worldwide storage business unit, as well as implementing Sun's global account model and strategic sales organization.
Cook earned his B.A. degree from Michigan State University.
Scott Yara
In his role as SVP, Products, Scott is responsible for the division's overall product development and go-to-market efforts, including engineering, product management, and marketing. Scott is a co-founder of Greenplum and was President of the company. Prior to Greenplum, Scott served as vice president for Digital Island, a publicly traded Internet infrastructure services company that was acquired by Cable & Wireless in 2001. Prior to Digital Island, Scott served as vice president for Sandpiper Networks, an Internet content delivery services company that merged with Digital Island in 1999. At Sandpiper, Scott helped to create the industry's first content delivery network (CDN), a globally distributed computing infrastructure comprised of several thousand servers, and used by many of the industry's largest Internet services including Microsoft and Disney.
Chris Curtis
Chris Curtis leads Global Services at Greenplum, a division of EMC.
He is responsible for the overall Services business for Greenplum, including go-to-market capabilities and customer implementation success. In this role, Chris works closely with other EMC Services units to bring a seamless end-to-end experience on behalf of our customers and to further expand the company’s market position.
Previously, Chris was with SAP, where he built a distinguished record of exceptional performance for their Services division. Most recently, he was the global head of SAP’s HANA/In-Memory Services organization. Prior, he was global head of SAP’s Business Analytics Services organization where he set the strategy, built the organization and led the operational execution of the global, strategic consulting business consisting of all services related to BI, EIM, GRC and EPM, including the post-merger integration of the Business Objects services units. In addition, Chris held a variety of executive appointments at SAP including, vice president of Field Services, and vice president, North America National Competency Center Consulting.
Chris graduated from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.
Luke Lonergan
A co-founder of Greenplum, Luke served as CTO of the organization and continues to consult for the Greenplum Division. Prior to Greenplum, Luke founded Didera, a database clustering company, in 2000 and served as CEO and Chairman. Luke's background includes 16 years of management experience in computing technology ranging from innovations in supercomputing to advances in medical imaging systems. Most recently, he directed data center integration at High Performance Technologies Inc (HPTi), scaling the business to $30M, and setting industry firsts in parallel computing subsequently adopted by IBM and Compaq. Previously he held management positions at Northrop Grumman Corporation. He holds an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University and a B.E. in Mathematics from Vanderbilt University.
Dan Holle
Dan Holle is the CTO of Data Platforms at Greenplum, a division of EMC. Recognized as a pioneer in parallel processing, databases and analytics, Mr. Holle is co-creator of the SQL language, and holds patents in data mining, semantic search, indexing and data profiling. He has extensive experience as a technology industry leader, was one of the founding engineers at Teradata, and has launched several start-up companies related to database management products and services in the data warehousing and big data analytics field.
Joe Militello
Joe Militello leads Greenplum's Human Resources team. He is responsible for global talent acquisition, talent management, and the implementation of world class HR programs that align to the division’s business strategy and priorities. Joe has been with EMC for over 11-years and has held HR leadership positions in Manufacturing, Corporate Staffing, the Storage Division, and was a Senior Business Analyst with the Corporate Development team. Prior to joining EMC, Joe was a Captain in the United States Marine Corps. Joe earned a BS degree from Fairfield University, an MBA from Boston College, and a MSF from Boston College.
Luc Esprit
Luc joined Greenplum with 13 years of experience at EMC. When EMC acquired Data Domain, he was asked to lead the newly created BRS business unit in EMEA South. Before that, he served as Regional Director Sales Operations for EMEA South and successfully contributed to growing business in that region with a focus on developing people and relationships with various business units. Prior to EMC, Luc held a leadership role at Cap Gemini.
Andy O’Brien
Andy leads Sales and Services for the Americas for the Greenplum Division. Andy has spent 20 years at EMC and has held a number of key management roles. Most recently he was the Director of Global Accounts – Financial Services responsible for $450mil in global revenue. In this role, he consistently grew the business and increased customer loyalty in EMC’s largest accounts. Prior to that, he was Area Manager for EMC responsible for their New York based business. He also spent 5 years at Comdisco as Regional Marketing Manager for their Asset Management Division responsible for building and managing their technology portfolio. Andy holds a B.A. in Economics from Boston College.
Elie Simon
Elie joins Greenplum with over 25 years of leadership positions in computer systems, software, storage and RFID. Most recently, Elie was chairman of Insync Software and chairman and co-founder of Digiprice. Prior to this, Elie was the president and CEO of TAGSYS, the global leader in the design and development of RFID infrastructure for item-level asset tracking, where he was instrumental in putting the company in the Top 3 ranking of the industry. While there, he won the Ernst and Young France Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2007 and was runner-up for The Tech-Tour European Entrepreneur of the Year. Mr. Simon also held a number of executive leadership positions at Sun Microsystems, including President of the company's EMEA region, which represented more than $5 billion of Sun's annual revenue.
Josh Klahr
Josh is responsible for driving Greenplum’s Unified Analytics Platform vision and ensuring the Greenplum product portfolio maintains its market-leading position. Prior to Greenplum, he was Senior Director of Product Management for Yahoo!’s User Data and Analytics team, where he helped develop the capabilities that drive industry-leading consumer and advertiser experiences. Before Yahoo!, Josh held senior product management positions at Enkata and Broadbase Software.
Charles McDevitt
Charles brings more than 23 years of industry experience in software development, data warehousing, and Business Intelligence expertise to Greenplum. Most recently, Chuck served as a senior member of the technical staff at Ab Initio Software Corporation, a recognized leader in high-performance data processing. Prior to that Chuck was the CTO and Vice President of Engineering at Cogit, a provider of marketing analytic solutions. Chuck spent more than 15 years at Teradata, where as one of the first 30 employees, he was responsible for architecting and implementing major aspects of the Teradata database system.
