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Stefan Mehlhorn
President and Chief Executive Officer
Stefan has over a decade of in-depth experience in the enterprise-class software industry, managing deployments of large-scale, mission-critical software applications for Fortune 500 customers on four continents.
Stefan was previously Permessa's Vice President of Services where he significantly grew Permessa's professional services business, developed new methodologies and expanded relationship with key integration partners. Prior to joining Permessa, Stefan was the Director Product Strategy, Content Solutions at MRO Software, a position he held after selling his former company, Collego, to MRO in August of 2001. As President and CEO at Collego, Stefan was instrumental in developing a next generation content management solution, enabling the XML based distribution of product information within the industrial supply chain. He has also held the position of Senior Practice Manager at Siebel Systems through Siebel's acquisition of InterActive WorkPlace, a software company where Stefan held key management positions. Prior to his work at Siebel and InterActive WorkPlace, Stefan managed the Professional Services Practice for North America at POINT Information Systems.
Stefan holds a degree as Diplomingenieur in Computer Science and Information Technology from the Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany.
Yuval Shimoni
Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer
Yuval Shimoni has more than 15 years experience in developing large, complex software systems. Since co-founding Permessa (formerly DYS Analytics) in 1993, he has led the design and development of the award-winning Control! Product lines. Yuval's prior experience includes the design and development of software for control of automated warehouse systems and the development of statistical database analysis systems for Harvard University's School of Public Health.
Yuval's earned both his Master of Science and his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
Stephen Grinder
Senior Director of Product Management
Stephen Grinder is the senior director of product management at Permessa and has more than 20 years of marketing and product management experience in the software, networking hardware, and network management industries. With experience in both start-ups and large organizations, Stephen has a proven track record of successfully launching products and services that lead to significant corporate growth and profitability. As the Senior Director of Product Management, he oversees all Permessa product initiatives, as well as spearheads the Permessa-IBM business partnership.
Prior to joining Permessa, Steve held the position of director of Service Marketing at managed service provider Vanguard Managed Solutions where he defined the service/product roadmap, added revenue streams, and created "go to market strategies" for all new service offerings. Steve was also instrumental in the rebranding of proactive performance reporting vendor DeskTalk Systems into Trinagy, Inc., where the re-launched company achieved significant market growth and profitability, leading to their acquisition by Hewlett-Packard 11 months later. Prior to Trinagy, Mr. Grinder worked as a Product Line Manager at 3Com where he was responsible for five successful global network management products, with development teams in 14 locations in five countries. Prior to 3Com, he held several product management and marketing positions with Bay Networks, CrossComm Corporation, Data General, CENTEL Information Systems, and Morris Decision Systems.
Stephen holds a B.S. in Marketing / Computer Science from Lehigh University.
Kenneth Gartner
Director of Software Development
Ken Gartner brings the benefits of nearly 20 years of software development and management experience to the Permessa executive team. Ken is also remains an active developer, architecting the new Permessa Control! Enforcer product family to support realtime mail policy enforcement for Domino. As Director of Software Development, he oversees all software engineering efforts at Permessa.
Before joining Permessa, Ken was Engineering Manager for Hitachi Computer Products, where he led teams developing high performance CORBA Enterprise products, contributed to international standards such as the x/Open Universal Measurement Architecture and the POSIX p1003.4 Realtime specifications, and was a conference speaker for the Computer Measurement Group. An industry veteran, Ken has extensive hardware and software development experience -- from the design for hardware LISP machines and the first CMOS CISC PR1MOS Superminicomputer, to OSF/1 UNIX kernel design and its porting to massively parallel hardware, to UNIX kernel debuggers, crash dump analyzers and process tracing, to performant middleware implementations, to XML security for Web Service architectures, to Exchange and Domino collaboration tools, and myriad other server technologies.
Ken holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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