Management

Eric Pulier, Chairman & CEO

Mr. Pulier is recognized as among the leading and most successful entrepreneurs in government and enterprise technology. The best-known venture capital groups in the world have financed companies that Mr. Pulier has founded or co-founded. These include rich media presentation (IVT), Enterprise Professional Services (US Interactive), virtual desktops (Desktone), and service oriented infrastructure (SOA Software). Named one of 30 e-Visionaries by VAR Business, Mr. Pulier is a popular public speaker at premier technology conferences around the globe. Pulier is member of Bill Clinton’s Clinton Global Initiative, the Center for Telecommunications Management, and is the Executive Director of the Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council.

Frank Martinez, Co-Founder

Frank Martinez is a recognized expert in the area of distributed, enterprise application and infrastructure platforms. Mr. Martinez is focused on driving development of scalable service-oriented infrastructure software that integrates business processes and information enterprise-wide. Mr. Martinez’s reputation as a technological visionary is demonstrated by his record of bringing innovative and commercially successful software solutions to market. He has held senior executive operations roles at several venture-capital-backed firms. He was instrumental in building Intershop Communications into a multi-billion dollar public company in less than three years. Mr. Martinez was named an InfoWorld Innovator by InfoWorld magazine and has also been named one of 25 leading IT innovators by CRN.

Peter Trepp, Vice-President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Trepp has over 20 years of diversified experience in corporate finance, including a background in investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, operations and management consulting. Prior to joining ServiceMesh, he was Managing Director for Verdant Venture Partners, LLC, a Cleantech venture capital firm. Prior to that, he headed up Barrington Associates’ technology practice and was involved with M&A transactions related to divestitures, valuations, corporate restructurings, and capital fundraising. Mr. Trepp has also been a CEO and a CFO for several technology companies. Prior to senior management roles, Mr. Trepp was a management consultant with KPMG Consulting (currently BearingPoint). Mr. Trepp served as President of the UCLA Anderson Alumni Association, was a member of the UCLA Anderson Board of Visitors, and the UCLA Presidents’ Council. He earned a BA degree in Economics from the UC Irvine and his MBA degree from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Bruce Greenberg, Vice-President, Services

Mr. Greenberg has nearly 20 years of experience helping clients develop and execute innovative, technology-driven business strategies. His expertise includes strategic planning, operations improvement, and innovation management across multiple industries including financial services, transportation, and media & entertainment. He was a Principal (Partner) in the Enterprise Strategy Practice of Luminant Worldwide, which was a publicly traded professional services firm that grew to over $100M in revenues in less than 5 years. Previously, he was a founding member of Potomac Partners Management Consulting, acquired by Luminant Worldwide. Potomac Partners was an innovation-driven professional services firm named an Entrepreneur Magazine Hot 100 Growth Company. Prior to Potomac Partners, Mr. Greenberg was a consultant at AT&T Solutions, the professional services arm of AT&T, and HK Associates, a leading technology consultancy in Ra’anana, Israel. Stemming from his work in online media, he presented at a National Association of Broadcasters Conference on broadband strategy. He has also been quoted in industry publications as a subject matter expert on electronic marketplaces, clearinghouses, and online auctions. Mr. Greenberg earned a BA degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA (Fuqua Scholar) from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Dave Roberts, Vice-President, Strategy and Marketing

Mr. Roberts has two decades of experience in strategic product development. Prior to his current role as vice president of strategy and marketing at ServiceMesh, Mr. Roberts held a similar role at open networking vendor Vyatta, where he crafted the marketing and communications strategy that positioned Vyatta as the leader in open networking. Prior to Vyatta, Mr. Roberts was the co-founder, CTO, and vice president of strategy at Inkra networks where he pioneered virtualized security and networking technology for utility and cloud computing. Prior to Inkra, Mr. Roberts was vice president of product management for Nortel Networks, responsible for product strategy and definition related to the company's line of Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ethernet switches and campus ATM switches. Mr. Roberts has also held management positions at Bay Networks, Rapid City Communications, Cabletron Systems, ZeitNet, and AMD, where he spearheaded Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, and WiFi product lines and strategic marketing initiatives. He began his career with engineering positions at Hewlett-Packard. Experienced in a variety of technologies, Mr. Roberts is the author of eleven patents, three technical books, and numerous industry articles. Mr. Roberts regularly speaks at industry conferences around the world. Mr. Roberts holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

John Catalano, Vice-President, Product Development

Mr. Catalano has over 20 years of experience in leading software teams and bringing products from inception to market. Prior to ServiceMesh, Mr. Catalano was CEO of ExoCloud, which was acquired by ServiceMesh. ExoCloud created Cloud Manager for building, deploying and managing Cloud Resources across multiple commercial Clouds. Mr. Catalano also co-founded RedPoint Network Systems and served as the CEO and President. He was instrumental in the acquisition of RedPoint by NetQoS where he filled multiple roles before starting ExoCloud. Prior to RedPoint, Mr. Catalano served as VP Network Management Systems with ClearSystems, a systems integrator focusing on network management and operational support systems. Mr. Catalano earned a BS in Computer Science from University of Maryland and an MBA from University of Dallas. He has also been an Adjunct Professor for the University of Dallas’ Graduate School of Management.

Anthony Skipper, Vice-President, Infrastructure and Security

Mr. Skipper has more than a decade of engineering experience in both software development and infrastructure management. Mr. Skipper’s early career was focused on consulting with Fortune 500 companies to develop their early web architectures, and he played an instrumental part in developing one of the first DRM implementations with Microsoft, and Barnes & Noble. Mr. Skipper moved to financial services in 2000 when he joined Merrill Lynch, initially as an architect and later as the head of Merrill's Application Infrastructure Services organization. Anthony joined Goldman Sachs in 2007 to lead their Secure Computing group.

Mark Thiele, Vice-President, Data Center Strategy

Mr. Thiele has more than two decades of IT leadership experience. He is responsible for helping to establish product and service direction as it relates to data centers. Prior to joining ServiceMesh, Mr. Thiele was Director of Business Operations for R&D at VMware, where he had global responsibility for data center design, strategy, and capacity. During his time at VMware, Mr. Thiele led the project to build their new sixty-thousand square-foot data center in the state of Washington. This new facility is a model of modularity and efficiency and has been LEED certified platinum. He is also Founder and President of Data Center Pulse, a not-for-profit group focused on improving efficiency in data centers and providing a voice for the owner/operators.

Mark is a globally recognized leader in efforts to improve the business readiness and efficiency of IT. He is an active member of Infrastructure 2.0, has contributed to the Silicon Valley Leadership Group Data Center Efficiency Projects and has participated in The Green Grid. He is a regular speaker at industry events like Gartner, 7X24, Uptime and TM Forum on topics ranging from the future of data centers and cloud computing to carbon reporting. He has also held senior IT Infrastructure roles at Brocade, Gilead and HP.