Jerry Rudisin joined Schooner in 2009. From July 2003 to April 2008 he was CEO of Agitar Software, which developed a unit-testing solution sold to over 250 customers worldwide that improved the quality and economics of Java software development. Agitar, funded by Sequoia Capital, New Enterprise Associates, and Globespan, was acquired by McCabe Software in June 2008. From April 1999 to July 2003 Jerry was CEO of NightFire Software, which developed service-management software for telecom carriers. NightFire 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, resulting in its acquisition by NeuStar (NYSE: NSR) in August 2003. From June 1991 to April 1999 Jerry led marketing at Rational Software (now IBM Rational), joining when it was an 11-year-old private company with revenue of $28 million and leaving when it was a public company with revenue of $412 million and a $3.2 billion market cap. He was responsible for product and corporate marketing, sales support, and the marketing aspects of three public-company acquisitions and two stock offerings that raised a total of $217 million. Previously he was VP of marketing and customer support, product manager, and software architect / development manager at startups in Boston and Pittsburgh. Jerry earned an M.S. in computer science from UCLA and a B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.
Dr. John Busch, Founder, Chairman and CTO
Dr. John Busch is the founder of Schooner. Prior to Schooner, John was director of computer system architecture at Sun Microsystems Laboratories from 1999 through 2006. In this role, John led research in multi-core processors, multi-tier scale-out architectures, and advanced high-performance computer systems. John received the President's Award for Innovation at Sun. 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 it in 1997. From 1989 to 1994, John was cofounder, CTO and VP of engineering of Clarity Software, and led the creation of advanced multi-media composition and communication products for Sun, HP, and IBM computer systems (which were awarded UNIX World Product of the Year). From 1976 to 1993, John led many successful R&D; programs at Hewlett Packard in Computer Systems Research and Development. John earned a Ph.D. in computer systems architecture from UCLA, an M.S. in mathematics from UCLA, an M.S. in computer science from Stanford University, and attended the Sloan Program at Stanford.
Darpan Dinker, Vice President of Engineering
Darpan Dinker is responsible for Schooner's engineering organization and the delivery of reliable, high-performance products. Darpan was the third employee at Schooner and has long been the driver behind Schooner's MySQL solution. Before Schooner, Darpan was principal investigator at Sun Microsystems Laboratories from 2004 to 2007. He led his team in pioneering explorations of workload characterization, modeling, prototyping and validation of complex multi-tier clustered systems architectures to achieve order-of-magnitude improvements in price/performance and reliability. Before Sun Labs he led teams in Sun's middleware divisions to create the next-generation architecture for the iPlanet/Sun Application Server. He also got his hands dirty with the development of J2EE server components such as EJB, Servlet/JSP, and the CORBA ORB container to bring Sun to leadership in price/performance. From 1998 to 2000, Darpan worked for Netscape Communications' worldwide professional services focused on e-commerce systems with Fortune 500 customers. Prior to Netscape, Darpan worked for Fujitsu ICIM and Fujistu New Zealand in software development roles. Darpan has fourteen issued patents and several others pending in the fields of distributed and clustered systems. Darpan has a B.S. with Distinction in computer science from the University of Pune, India.
Brian O'Krafka, Fellow and Chief Architect
Brian O'Krafka is a key driver of Schooner's technology and product direction. His expertise is in the architecture and performance of clustered services for internet data centers. Brian received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992, after which he joined the IBM Austin Laboratory. From 1992 to 1997, he worked on multiprocessor verification for RS/6000 servers. In 1997 he joined the RS/6000 performance group, where he worked on multiprocessor performance modeling and analysis. From 2000 to 2007, Brian was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories working on the performance analysis of Sun systems.
