Paul Martino - CEO
Paul is the CEO and cofounder of Aggregate Knowledge, which is the fourth company that he has founded over his 20 year technology career. Paul was previously the CTO and founder of Tribe Network, which was recently acquired by Cisco. In addition to being a serial entrepreneur, he has held senior business development positions at Intertrust and SkyPilot. The highly scalable architecture of Pique is based on the research work Paul did on massively parallel graph algorithms while a Ph. D. candidate at Princeton University. Paul also holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Lehigh University and an M.S. in Computer Science from Princeton.
Steve Pantelick - CFO
Steve is a seasoned industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in driving growth, strategy, and operations for leading companies such as Kodak Gallery, Blockbuster, Inc. and Cadbury Schweppes Plc. Prior to joining Aggregate Knowledge, Steve was CFO for Kodak Gallery where he helped lead the company's rapid growth as the world's leading online digital printing service. At Kodak Gallery, he was also responsible for the company’s printing and customer service operations. Steve's career included broadband wireless start-up SkyPilot Network where he was CFO. Prior to SkyPilot, Steve held numerous senior executive positions at Blockbuster Inc., helping take the company public in 1999. At Blockbuster, Steve served as chief operating officer of the company's New Media Division, senior vice president of strategic planning, senior vice president of finance responsible for the company's U.S. financial operations, and vice president of worldwide planning. Prior to Blockbuster, Steve spent seven years with Cadbury Schweppes, in a variety of roles in the U.S. and Europe including, VP Finance, Dr Pepper/7Up, and Planning Director, Schweppes Europe. Steve earned an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and an A.B. degree from Harvard College.
Dave Peterson - Chief Marketing Officer
Dave is an experienced executive who has led marketing for companies ranging from start-ups to global billion-dollar public software companies. Prior to Aggregate Knowledge, Dave was vice president of marketing for Mercury Interactive Corporation (acquired by HP). Dave also served as vice president corporate communications at Mercury and helped establish Mercury as the leader in the business technology optimization category. Prior to Mercury, Dave was managing director at marketing consulting firm LOCHHEAD Corporation. He held senior marketing positions at sales configuration company Cybrant, and he co-founded and served as vice president marketing at Internet radio service GiveMeTalk! Dave was vice president of marketing at Pangaea Software, spent two years in marketing at Vantive Corporation (acquired by PeopleSoft), and spent more than four years with marketing agencies in Silicon Valley and the mid-west. Dave earned his B.A. in Communications and Public Relations from the University of Northern Iowa.
Kristopher Wehner - CTO
Kris is perpetually focused on the design and implementation of highly scalable and highly available systems on the Internet. Most recently, Kris worked at salesforce.com, where he focused on next-generation scalable database systems. Previously, he held positions at Securant (which became part of RSA), EDS, and others, where he architected security software and lead teams developing e-commerce and outsourcing software. Prior to graduate school, Kris worked on the network operations staff at Verio and several other regional ISPs. Kris holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Chris Law - VP Products
Chris is the VP Product and cofounder of Aggregate Knowledge. Chris is a serial entrepreneur and was previously a founder of Indigo Technologies and Tribe Networks, which was acquired by Cisco. He has been in product management roles his entire career at companies such as Trilogy/pcOrder and Kontiki. Chris has a Bachelors of Applied Science from the University of Waterloo.
Joe Ghazal - VP Engineering
Joe has over 13 years of experience delivering software and managed services to the enterprise, as well as direct to consumers. He has a proven track record of joining early stage startup companies and building world class engineering teams at companies such as Lotus Development Corporation (acquired by IBM), Broadbase Software Inc., Kontiki (acquired by VeriSign), and most recently Motricity, where he was vice president of Professional Services and Sales Engineering. Joe has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from San Jose State University.
Tim Vogel - Chief Scientist
As Chief Scientist, Tim is responsible for leading Aggregate Knowledge’s Discovery Science Team to develop mathematical models and derive actionable insights from large behavior-based data sets. Tim brings deep domain experience with more than 25 years within the data mining and statistical analysis sector. Before joining Aggregate Knowledge, he helped lead the development of the LikeMinds Personalization Server at Macromedia Inc. as Analytics Architect, and later served as Senior Software Engineer after the product's acquisition by IBM. Prior to Macromedia, Tim was Manager of Data Mining at MCI, Inc., and was responsible for deriving predictive mathematical models and optimizing consumer marketing and pricing strategies for leading marketing analytics firms such as National Demographics & Lifestyles and Abacus Direct. Tim earned a B.S. in Genetics from the University of Illinois and an M.S. in Statistics from Florida State University.
