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Company
VISION
GridGain develops software for companies who see real time big data as a strategic asset and
who need live data business analytics and processing. Our product is a Java-based open
source middleware platform that provides unique integration between compute and in-memory data
grid technologies and can scale up from a single server to thousands of machines.
Unlike complex, decade-old Hadoop ETL systems which use dead data for batch offline analytics,
our platform allows companies to harness live data for smarter, faster real time processing and
analytics.
To learn more about GridGain click on product page.
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Board of Directors
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Kirill Sheynkman
Managing Director at RTP Ventures
Kirill Sheynkman is the Managing Director of RTP Ventures, the U.S. arm of a $750M international
Venture Capital fund. Kirill is 20-year software industry veteran, who has spent 10 of those
years as a CEO of software companies. He is a three-time founder of venture-backed enterprise
software companies, including an early relational OLAP vendor acquired by IBM in 1995 and
Plumtree Software (NASDAQ: PLUM), the creator of the corporate portal market, acquired by
BEA/Oracle in 2005. Kirill's companies were twice backed by Sequoia Capital where he was also
an Entrepreneur in Residence.
Kirill also held sales, product management, and business development positions at Oracle and Microsoft.
Kirill is a passionate technologist, writes code in his spare time, and is fascinated by breakthrough
software that can revolutionize or create big markets.
Kirill was born in Russia and had a chance to
leverage his background when he was part of the first team that took Oracle's technology to the
former USSR in the early 1990's.
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Salil Deshpande
General Partner at Bay Partners
Salil has invested across two themes:
- Open source, enterprise software, and middleware, and
- Infrastructure and apps over social graphs.
These include:
- dynaTrace (continuous performance management),
- SpringSource (open source; acquired by VMware),
- G2One (open source; Groovy and Grails; acquired by SpringSource),
- Sonatype/Maven (open source artifact management),
- Engine Yard (open source; Ruby on Rails),
- MuleSoft (open source ESBs),
- Jambool (virtual currency and payments; acquired by Google),
- Lending Club (peer to peer lending),
- Buddy Media (brand management on Facebook),
- and approximately a dozen others.
Prior, Salil was a hard core developer in CORBA and Java middleware, taught summer
courses at Stanford University, and was founder and CEO of Customware, a CORBA Services
company (acquired by Visigenic, which later became part of Borland), co-founder and
CEO of The Middleware Company (acquired by Precise, now part of Symantec), and of
TheServerSide.com network of social media sites (acquired by TechTarget).
Salil has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, and an M.S. in
Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
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Management
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Nikita Ivanov
Founder & CEO
Foster City, CA
As a founder of GridGain Systems Mr. Ivanov provides technological direction and vision for GridGain.
Mr. Ivanov brings almost 20 years of experience in software development, a vision and pragmatic view of
where development technology is going, and high quality standards in software engineering.
In 1996, Mr. Ivanov was one of the pioneers in using Java technology for server side middleware
development while working at T-Systems GmbH, one of the largest European System Integrator.
Nikita has held various positions architecting and leading software product development for
start-up companies and
working with well-established companies such as Adaptec, Visa and BEA Systems. Mr. Ivanov is an
active member of Java
middleware community and is a contributor to Java specifications.
Mr. Ivanov holds a Master's degree in Electro Mechanics from Baltic State Technical University, Saint
Petersburg, Russia.
Read Nikita Ivanov's personal blog at:
In his "plentiful" free time Nikita is a professional photographer who likes to fish bass, watch his
favorite hokey team San Jose Sharks, and ski in Tahoe...
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Dmitriy Setrakyan
Co-Founder & CTO
Foster City, CA
In this role Mr. Setrakyan manages daily operations of GridGain Systems.
Mr. Setrakyan brings over 15 years of experience to GridGain Systems which spans all areas of
application software development from design and architecture to team management and quality
assurance. His experience includes architecture and leadership in development of distributed
middleware platforms, financial trading systems, CRM applications, and more.
Dmitriy holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of California at
Davis specializing in Networking and Algorithms.
Read Dmitriy's personal blog at:
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Jon Webster
Senior Director, Business Development
New York, NY
In his role, Jon is tasked with architecting the GridGain field sales, and professional
services organizations and developing the sales and partner channel strategies to
drive break-out revenue growth for GridGain. Jon brings multi-disciplinary experience
to the role with over 15 years of experience in senior sales and technical positions.
Most recently Jon has held global account management and senior sales positions in
both small and large companies such as Netuitive, Microsoft, and AmberPoint
(acquired by BEA/Oracle).
Earlier in his career, Jon, a technologist at heart, held a number of hands-on
technical roles. He has deep hands-on experience working with Java, having worked
with a very early version of Java 1.0 for an online game startup he co-founded in
1996, and was an early expert on J2EE and Java Application Servers joining
SilverStream Software (later acquired by Novell) at an early stage.
In his spare time, Jon is active with ESSBarc a Springer Spaniel rescue organization,
is a founding board member of the Huron University College US Foundation, and uses what
remaining spare time he has to work on his family's turn of the century home.
Jon holds a B.Sc. with Honors in Computer Science from the University of Western
Ontario, Canada.
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Jay Patel
Technical Director
New York, NY
Jay Patel is responsible for all of GridGain’s pre- and post-sales technical
activities. With over 12 years of experience designing, implementing and
architecting enterprise solutions for both large and small enterprises Mr. Patel
brings his keen focus on customer success and satisfaction to GridGain's
customers' Big Data initiatives.
Prior to joining GridGain, Jay was Director of Technology Services at Nastel
Technologies. Driven by the belief that talented people are most successful when
given a platform for that success, Jay built and then led Nastel's technology team
to their most successful years. Jay brings this continued commitment for
excellence to his search for the best and brightest minds to share in GridGain's
success.
Time permitting, Jay spends his winter months strapped to a snowboard, and his
summers as an avid certified scuba diver. In thanks for being lucky enough to
truly enjoy the work he does, Jay provides web and technical expertise to the
Share and Care Foundation of New Jersey, an organization dedicated to supporting
Women's Empowerment and Early Childhood Education in rural India. Jay holds an
B.Sc. with Honors in Computer Science from the University of Windsor, Canada where
he specialized in software design and reuse principles.
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Jacob Zhdanov
General Manager, Research and Development
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Mr. Zhdanov brings over 10 years in software development and over 3 years in operations
and technical management. As a recent addition to GridGain Systems team Jacob strengths
operational and technical development management expertise provided by our company.
Before joining GridGain Systems Mr. Zhdanov has been working with a number of Western European
customers and demonstrated solid experience and remarkable results in setting up off-shore
development organizations and managing them from conception through successful product releases.
Mr. Zhdanov holds a Master's degree in Software Engineering from Altai State Technical
University, Barnaul, Russia.
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Advisory Board
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Alex Tkachman
Advisor
COO, MBTE Sweden AB
Alex is co-founder and COO of MBTE Sweden AB, the company behind
Bindows & Infiview AJAX frameworks and Lucy.me social communication
platform. He is creator of Groovy++ programming language and Gretty
web server and active contributor to several other open source
projects. Almost 20 years of his professional life Alex built highly
performant product, systems and algorithms in different business areas
from marine navigation to social media.
In the past Alex was co-founder and CEO of G2One Inc, which was
company behind Groovy programming language and Grails application
framework and after acquisition by SpringSource and than by VmWare
became key element of VmWare's CloudFoundry offering.
Before founding G2One Alex worked for such industry leaders as
JetBrains, Sun Microsystems and Transas.
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Kevin Martin
Advisor
Partner, Patton Martin & Sullivan LLP
Kevin Martin has been practicing law in the Bay Area for over 15 years.
With emphasis on intellectual property, business and real estate issues, Kevin has developed a
reputation as a fair minded but tough negotiator who delivers efficient quality service for his clients.
His practice covers trademark, copyright and patent matters, licensing, business disputes,
commercial litigation, employer/employee disputes, trade secret and unfair competition claims,
real estate litigation, contract disputes, and general counsel and advice.
Mr. Martin regularly appears in both State and Federal Courts throughout California and before the
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in Washington, D.C. Mr. Martin has substantial experience in all areas
of litigation including initial evaluation, fact investigation, discovery, law and motion practice,
mediation, arbitration and trial.
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Victoria Livschitz
Advisor
President and CEO, Grid Dynamics
For the past 15 years, Victoria Livschitz has built a reputation as an entrepreneur, innovator,
and recognized leader in the Java and grid-computing community. She founded Grid Dynamics in 2006,
bringing together an elite team of top-flight architects, engineers, and mathematicians. Previously,
Victoria spent a decade as a principal architect for Sun Microsystems, pioneering the use of Java in
factory automation, designing the industry's first real-time fraud detection system, and architecting
the first utility-computing product for software developers. She has also done advanced research on
next-generation languages and paradigms, and designed Metaphors, an original programming language.
Earlier in her career, Victoria served as a system architect and developer at Ford Motor Company.
Victoria holds numerous patents in grid technology and has won prestigious awards for engineering
excellence, including Ford's Chairman Award and Sun's System Engineer of the Year. She holds a B.S.
in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University.
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Mike Gurevich
Advisor
CEO, Inventigo & Technology Advisor, FTV Capital
Mike is the founder and CEO of Inventigo which
specializes in technology advisory and in development of innovative
software.
Inventigo independent technology advisory practice has been actively
utilized by marquee venture capital investors for over a decade. It
is well known for its technical due diligence service VentureKPI, a
quantitative and actionable assessment that is based on key
performance indicators.
Inventigo software development and licensing practice compliments the
advisory practice and leverages Inventigo’s extensive portfolio of
innovative and patented solutions to help its clientele overcome
persistent technical challenges and achieve their strategic business
objectives.
Since 2001 Mike has been a Technology Advisor to FTV Capital, a
multi-stage growth equity and venture capital firm with over a billion
dollars under management from a group of the world's foremost
financial institutions.
In his past engagements Mike was Chief Architect and VP of Engineering
of 724 Solutions (IPO in 2000, the largest IPO in Canadian history at
that time), co-founder and CTO of Concorde Solutions (acquired by Bank
of America in 1998), co-chair of the Financial Task Force at Object
Management Group (OMG), press advisory board member of OMG Press,
Wiley Publishing. Mike has authored numerous patents and patent
pending applications.
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Investors
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RTP Ventures is the US-based arm of ru-Net Holdings, one of the largest internet and
technology investors in Russia. ru-Net portfolio hits include Ozon and Yandex. With more than
$700M in resources, RTP invests in software companies in the United States focusing on Cloud
Computing, Software as a Service, and Internet Infrastructure.
RTP is led by Kirill Sheynkman, a serial Entrepreneur and experienced Venture Capitalist
based in New York City.
More information:
www.rtp.vc
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User Group
GridGain Systems has started sponsoring and organizing GridGain User Group. Free seminars and latest
product and feature updates are only few of the topics we are planning to cover on our meetup.
Join Us!
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