The Schooner Vision
Schooner Information Technology provides smooth scaling for Web 2.0, cloud computing and enterprise datacenters through its balanced data-access application appliances. Schooner solutions are fast, scalable, cost-effective and green. Schooner customers enjoy eight-to-one server consolidation and save power and space, reducing total cost of ownership by 50 percent and create new business opportunities based on rapid access to terabyte-scale data. Management Schooner Information Technology is led by a team of exceptional technologists and business people with experience launching and growing companies and delivering real value to customers. The executive team includes:
Jerry joined Schooner in December 2009. Previously Jerry was CEO of Agitar Software, a startup which sought to do for software development what Google did for search, from July 2003 to April 2008. Agitar, funded by Sequoia Capital, New Enterprise Associates, and Globespan, was acquired by McCabe Software in June 2008. Before Agitar Jerry was CEO of NightFire Software, a startup offering service-management software to telecom carriers, from April 1999 to July 2003. NightFire, founded in October 1997, was funded by Sequoia Capital, New Enterprise Associates, US Venture Partners, and Technology Partners. Jerry led NightFire to profitability in spite of the telecom depression; the company was sold in August 2003 to NeuStar (NYSE: NSR). Prior to NightFire, Jerry led marketing for almost eight years at Rational Software Corporation (now IBM Rational), joining when it was a private company with $28 million in revenue and leaving when it was a public company with $412 million in revenue and a $3 billion market capitalization. He was responsible for product and corporate marketing, sales support, and the marketing aspects of three public company acquisitions and two stock offerings, which raised a total of $217 million. Previously he was vice president of marketing and customer support, product manager, development manager, and software architect at startups in Boston and Pittsburgh. Jerry earned a master's degree in computer science from the University of California at Los Angeles and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering/computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. John 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. In this role, 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 President's Award for Innovation at Sun, and oversaw many division technology transfers. Prior to Sun, Dr. Busch was vice president of engineering and business partnerships with Diba, Inc., and was general manager of the Diba division after Sun acquired it in 1997. From 1989 to 1994, Dr. Busch 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 1993, Dr. Busch led many successful R&D programs at Hewlett Packard in Computer Systems Research and Development. Dr. Busch holds a Ph.D. in Computer Systems Architecture from UCLA, a master's degree in mathematics from UCLA, a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University, and attended the Sloan Program at Stanford University.
Michael has held a number of executive leadership roles at IBM, including Director of Software Sales, Business Unit Executive for worldwide portal sales, and Executive Assistant to IBM's senior vice president of software. Prior to IBM, Michael held executive sales roles at World Class Technology, ASC, and Univision. Michael is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and has received numerous awards including IBM's Gerstner Excellence Award.
Mark is the Vice President of Products at Schooner, with responsibility for engineering, product management, and product marketing. Prior to Schooner, Mark was a VP/GM at Symantec, with responsibility for the Veritas Cluster Server Product Group, a $300 million business worldwide, with a distributed development organization across the US, India, and China. At VERITAS (prior to its merger with Symantec), Mark led the ISV strategic alliances and business development team. Prior to Symantec/VERITAS, Mark held product management and business development roles at Adaptec, was a strategy consultant at Gemini Consulting, and has designed hardware and software systems for digital image processing at Sarnoff Research Labs. Mark has a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Tom McWilliams is a co-founder of Schooner Information Technology, and previously founded three successful start-ups. His most recent company, PathScale, developed a low-latency, high bandwidth InfiniBand system interconnect, and was acquired by QLogic in 2006. Prior to founding PathScale, from 1996 to 2001 Dr. McWilliams served as 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, Dr. McWilliams 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 served 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.
In his role as Vice President of Engineering Operations at Schooner, Dave is responsible for customer support and quality assurance. With more than thirty-five years of IT industry experience, Dave previously served as Vice President of Engineering at Agami Systems where he oversaw development and customer support. At IP Unity (now Movius Corporation), Dave was responsible for the development of services applications and platforms for telephony service providers. As Vice President of Engineering at Compaq Computer Corporation, he managed strategic relationships with Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, and Siebel Systems. Prior to Compaq, Dave held numerous executive level positions and played a strategic role in the development of balance and symmetry multiprocessor computer systems and the Dynix operating system at Sequent. Dave also founded and ran Sequent's International Development Centers in Nice, France, and Tokyo, Japan. At Digital Equipment Corporation, Dave was one of five VAX architects and a leader in the standardization of Ethernet. Dave has a BSEE degree in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University. Schooner is also guided by an experienced senior management team and a core set of industry experts in system, networking, and application development from IBM, HP, Sun, Oracle, VMware, Amazon, and other industry leaders. Investors Schooner Information Technology is funded by leading technology investment firms Menlo Ventures, CMEA Capital, and Redpoint Ventures.
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