The Team

The founding team at Terascala brings years of experience in technology-based product companies. Early in their careers, team members earned their stripes at Digital, IBM, and other computing pioneers.  Most began working together at Network Engines, which designed and built high-density, clustered, networked storage and server appliances.  They continued their collaboration at Ammasso, which delivered the industry’s first RDMA-enabled Ethernet adapter, bringing the benefit of high performance and low latency to the expanding world of clustering.

Management

Larry Genovesi is Terascala’s CEO.  A founder of Ammasso, Larry was CEO there from 2002 until 2004.  From 1989 until 2001, Genovesi led Network Engines as president, chief executive officer, and chief technology officer, responsible for the vision of the company and its products, as well as day-to-day operations and its successful IPO.  Prior to joining Network Engines, Larry was founder and president of New England Interconnection Devices, a cable interconnect provider.  Earlier in his career Larry held a variety of senior technical positions at Microsystems International, CPU Computer Corporation, and Digital Equipment Corporation. 

Bill Elliott is Terascala’s COO.  Bill was also a founder of Ammasso and served there as its Chief Marketing Officer.  Before that, Bill became the first Marketing VP for Network Engines in December 1997.  He was a member of the senior management team and was one of the three-person executive team responsible for Network Engines Initial Public Offering in June 2000.  In his earlier career, Bill held executive, marketing, and sales positions at Stratus Computer and IBM.

Rick Friedman is Terascala’s vice president of marketing and product management. Prior to joining Terascala, he was vice president of marketing at Scali, a leader in management and application performance software for High Performance Computing. Rick was also an early employee at Ammasso and Network Engines, where he focused on marketing and product management. Earlier in his career, he held marketing and engineering roles at Phase Forward, Cadence, Viewlogic, DEC and AMD.

Chris Clifford is Terascala’s vice president of supply chain management. Prior to joining Terascala, Chris was director of strategic accounts at TechOnLine, now a CMP Media company. Previously in his career, Chris held the area sales manager position at Broadcom managing distribution for the Eastern US and Eastern Canada, and the North East regional sales manager for Lattice Semiconductor. A graduate of Roger Williams University, Chris’s career began working at two of the largest electronics distributors, Avnet and Arrow Electronics.