Management

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

Steve Butler is Terascala's CEO. Prior to joining, Steve was CEO of ManageSoft, which was acquired by Flexera Software. He has been a High Tech CEO for the past 15 years including public company Segue Software (acquired by Borland). His history includes a track record of creating rapid profitable growth by building multi-level channels and includes strong international experience – global channels, offshore development & support. Additionally, he has considerable M&A and funding experience including international M&A. Steve holds a BS in Computer Engineering.

Larry Genovesi is Terascala's Founder and CTO.  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.

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.

Rick Nagengast is Vice President of Business Development at Terascala. Prior to joining Terascala, Rick was VP Channels Sales and Business Development for Actifio. Previously, Rick was at EMC for 7 years, serving at VP, Global Channels Strategy and America's Distribution. Earlier in his career, Rick was the General Manager for Compaq's $2.2B Americas Storageworks Business, responsible for Strategy, Marketing, Operations and Sales.

 

Peter Piela is Terascala's Vice President of Engineering. Prior to joining Terascala, Peter was Director of Software Development for Allen Systems Group managing the development of performance management solutions for Enterprise Java applications and Oracle databases. Previously Peter held the position of Vice President of Software Development at Segue Software where he architected and managed the development of products for functional testing and test management. Peter graduated with a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and spent the early part of his software career at Aspen Technology where he developed products that utilized large-scale mathematical models to optimize the ongoing performance of chemical and refinery processes.

 

Mike Sullivan is Terascala’s CFO. Prior to joining Terascala, Mike was CFO of eIQnetworks, a provider of security and compliance software.  Mike brings over 20 years of financial management experience to Terascala, including roles as CFO of Ecora Software (acquired by Versata) and was the CFO of publicly traded Segue Software when it was acquired by Borland Software.  His background includes a record of success in creating solid fiscal controls, infrastructure  and strategy allowing companies to scale quickly.  In addition, Mike has a vast amount of experience in areas of M&A and funding.  Mike has a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Northeastern University.