Dr John R. Busch
President and CEO
 
Dr Busch is a co-founder of Schooner Information Technology.   Prior to Schooner, Dr  Busch was Research Director of Computer System Architecture and Analysis at Sun Microsystems laboratories from 1999 through 2006, where he led research explorations in chip-multi-processing, advanced multi-tier clustered systems for deployment of internet based services, and advanced HPC systems.
   Dr Busch  received the top Presidents Award for Innovation at Sun, and effected many  division technology  transfers. Prior to Sun, John was VP of Engineering and Business Partnerships with  Diba Inc, and  was  general manager of the Diba   Division after Sun acquired Diba in 1997.     From 1989 to 1994, John was co-founder and CTO/VP of Engineering of Clarity Software, and led creation of   advanced multi-media composition and communication  products for  Sun, HP, and IBM  computer systems (awarded Unix World Product of the Year).  From 1976 to 1983, Dr Busch  lead many successful R&D programs at Hewlett Packard in  Computer Systems Research and Development. John holds a  Ph.D. in Computer Systems Architecture from UCLA, a Masters degree in Mathematics from UCLA, a Masters degree  in Computer Science from Stanford University,  and attended the Sloan Program at Stanford University.

Dr. Thomas McWilliams
Chairman and CTO

Tom is a co-founder of Schooner Information Technology. He has previously successfully founded three companies. His most recent company, PathScale, developed a very low latency, high bandwidth infiniband system interconnect, and was acquired by QLogic in 2006. Prior to founding PathScale, from 1996 to 2001, Tom was a Distinguished Engineer and Principal Investigator at Sun Microsystems, working on Server Architecture and advanced CAD tools. From 1993 to 1996, he was a Director in the MIPS division of Silicon Graphics managing microprocessor development and the MIPS architecture group. From 1989 to 1992, he was a Vice President at Amdahl in the Systems Architecture group. Before Amdahl, he founded Key Computer Laboratories in 1987. Amdahl acquired Key Computer, a company that designed of one of the first superscalar pipelined architecture computers, in 1989.
In 1981 Tom co-founded Valid Logic Systems, whose products were based around his Ph.D. thesis work at Stanford University. He won the 1984 IEEE "W. Wallace McDowell Award" for the creation of the SCALD design methodology, which is the basis for many of the successful computer-aided engineering systems used in the industry. From 1983 to 1989 he was a Vice President at Valid. Prior to Valid, he was at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where he was one of the principal designers of the S-1 supercomputer, a joint effort between LLNL and Stanford University. Dr. McWilliams received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford. He received his B.S.E.E and M.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.