Arun Oberoi, President and CEO
Arun is a technology industry veteran who has led and repeatedly built rapidly scaling businesses across the spectrum of start-ups, mid size companies and multi billion dollar global organizations. Most recently he was CEO of Aveksa, a leading Access Governance and Management Software start-up, where he led the company to more than 500% growth in their last two fiscal years. Prior to that he was EVP of Worldwide Sales and Services at Micromuse, a market leading provider of high end network management and service assurance solutions. Micromuse was acquired by IBM where Arun led the integration and its continued fast growth and field expansion as Vice President within IBM Tivoli. Prior to Micromuse Arun had an accomplished career at Hewlett-Packard where he held various Executive roles, including VP & GM of Worldwide Top 100 Corporate Accounts and Industries as well as VP & GM of Worldwide Sales and Marketing for HP's Software Business. In HP's software business he led the development of a dedicated worldwide sales and marketing organization for the portfolio, which included the Openview product, Security and Middleware and led the sales growth from initial stages to 1Billion in revenues.
His passion is working with high performance teams to deliver compelling customer value.
He received his BA (Honors) at Delhi University and a double Masters in Business Administration with an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
Christopher Rocca, Vice President Engineering & Co-Founder
Chris Rocca is an accomplished software professional with 20 years of technical leadership experience. He most recently served as vice president of engineering at Revivio Inc. which he joined in 2003 to lead the development of the company's continuous data protection software and later worked to integrate the company's CDP technology into solutions delivered by leading storage vendors. Prior to joining Revivio, Chris was a senior engineering manager at Motorola, where he led an ASIC development organization. He joined Motorola through the acquisition of C-Port Corporation, a successful semi-conductor startup credited with creating the Network Processor market in the late 1990s. As one of the initial technologists at C-Port, Chris held a number of technical and management positions. Chris started his career as an engineer at Digital Equipment Corp., working in the artificial intelligence, storage and networking systems groups. He went on to work for Intermetics, Inc., building software development tools for the automotive and defense industries. Later at NuThena Systems, he developed advanced system simulation and performance modeling tools. Chris holds a B.A. in computer science from Clark University.
Michael Anthony, Architect & Co-Founder
Michael Anthony is an accomplished software professional with over 15 years of technical experience and project leadership in the areas of networking, storage virtualization, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions. He most recently served as a technical director in the data center management group (Veritas division) of Symantec through the acquisition of continuous data protection startup Revivio. At Symantec and Revivio, Michael provided technical leadership in the areas of CDP and disaster recovery. Prior to Revivio, Michael served as a lead engineer and architect managing several projects at Hewlett Packard's storage division in the areas of fabric-based storage virtualization and disaster recovery. Prior to HP, Michael served as a project lead and technical lead at Concord Communications for Concord's enterprise server and networking performance and fault management products. Michael started his career as an engineer at Banyan Systems working on the Vines Network Operating System. Michael holds a MSCS degree from Boston University.
Patrick Kelly, Vice President of Sales, North America
Patrick joins Viridity with more than 16 years of experience in the networking, systems and application performance management space. His experience includes building high-performance sales teams, developing channel strategies and strategic partnerships. Prior to joining Viridity, Patrick led the Service Assurance Business Unit for CA Technologies, Canada and was responsible for selling and supporting Infrastructure Management Solutions to the Large Enterprise, Federal Sector and Service Provider marketplace. Prior to CA Technologies, Patrick held senior leadership roles at Concord Communication (acquired by CA) and Micromuse (acquired by IBM). Patrick is a graduate of Northeastern University.