Management Team
Bill Cook
President
Bill Cook leads the Greenplum Division as SVP and GM, and was CEO of Greenplum prior to its acquisition by EMC. Prior to Greenplum, Bill served as Executive Vice President, Sales and Service at Penguin Computing, a high-performance computing and Linux systems vendor. Prior to Penguin Computing, Bill 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. Previously, Bill held positions at Machine Vision International and Datapoint Corporation.
Scott Yara
Senior Vice President, Products and Co-Founder
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.
Luke Lonergan
Chief Technology Officer, Vice President and Co-Founder
A co-founder of Greenplum, Luke served as CTO of the organization and continues in this role 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.
Joe Militello
Senior Director, Human Resources
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.
Ed Jones
Chief Operating Officer
Ed Jones is Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Greenplum Division at EMC. Jones oversees the division’s operations group and is chartered with representing the Voice of the Customer using EMC’s Total Customer Experience (TCE) program. Ed joined EMC in 1998 and has held management positions in Engineering as well as Customer Service. Ed recently managed the Symmetrix Integrated Customer Operations group prior to his move into the Data Computing Division in 2010. Before joining EMC, Ed led Mobil Oil Corporation's North America Operations which included the point of sale network and the company's oil trading floors. Ed is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University with a B.S in Mathematics and has an MBA from the University of Phoenix.
David Wittenkamp
Chief Financial Officer
David Wittenkamp is the CFO of the Greenplum Division at EMC. Prior to Greenplum, David came from Merced Systems, Inc. a successful Bay Area startup which was acquired by NICE Systems in late 2011. David is a die hard entrepreneur, having co-founded two high-tech companies (PhaseOne and TouchWave) and helped build and sell two other rapidly growing and profitable young companies (Dealix and Merced Systems). David has worked on the sales and marketing side at Ford, IBM, and Nokia (running a $100 million sales division), and on the finance side at Motorola and Ericsson. He holds a Masters in Economics from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and attained the rank of Major (retired reserve) in the Danish army.
Joe Otto
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Services
Prior to joining Greenplum, Joe was the Vice President of the Midwest Area for Sun Microsystems, a $1 billion sales unit focused on large enterprises across thirteen states. Previously serving as vice president of sales and marketing for Synergistics Inc., Joe grew the company's revenues more than 300 percent over two years. He also served as operations director for Cisco Systems in its Telco Operations division and spent seven years earlier in his career at Sun Microsystems, where his department was responsible for over $700 million in revenue.
Ronaldo Ama
Vice President, Engineering
Prior to Greenplum, Ronaldo served as Vice President of Information and Platform Services for the Product Group at SAP Business Objects. With more than 20 years of information management experience in the software industry, Ronaldo also worked for Oracle, Sybase and Informix, assisting customers select and deploy technology to manage large-scale OLTP and Data Warehouse systems. He joined Acta Technologies in early 2000, and then became part of the Business Objects Product Group as a result of the Acta acquisition in 2002. He was instrumental in growing the data integration portfolio inside the company, which then became the foundation for the Business Objects Enterprise Information Management line of business, recently acquired by SAP. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, with emphasis on database and operating systems.
Andy O’Brien
Vice President, Americas Sales and Services
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
Vice President, EMEA
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.
Charles McDevitt
Chief Architect
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.
