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Stephen Savignano
Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer
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 Steve Savignano is founder and chief executive officer of Ketera Technologies and has served as chairman of the Board of Directors since 2002. He has overall responsibility for the company’s strategy, organization and operations. Prior to Ketera, Savignano served as senior vice president of AOL where he was responsible for iPlanet, AOL’s partnership with Sun Microsystems. Savignano founded and served as senior vice president and general manager for the Application Products Division of Netscape Communications. As a member of the senior management team there, Savignano was responsible for Netscape’s e-commerce applications for commerce exchange, customer relationship management, internet procurement and online selling. Prior to the acquisition of Netscape by AOL, he grew the business to $50 million in under 18 months. Before joining Netscape, Savignano headed the product development organization for Manugistics, Inc. where he was responsible for managing and overseeing the company’s industry-leading Supply Chain Management solution. Savignano holds an MBA from Northeastern University, an MS in Computer Science, and a BS in Civil Engineering. |
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Percival Tieng
Chief Technology Officer
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 As Chief Technology Officer, Percival Tieng is responsible for Ketera′s technical strategy and overall platform architecture. He has over 13 years of experience in designing, building, and delivering enterprise applications at various Silicon Valley companies.
Prior to joining Ketera, Percival held engineering and architecture management positions at Netscape and iPlanet, a Sun and AOL alliance, responsible for product design and development. Previously, he led development teams at Oracle working on the Oracle Applications suite.
He holds a BS in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. |
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Pravin Kumar
Vice President of Products
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 As VP of Products at Ketera, Pravin is responsible for all aspects of product delivery for the entire Ketera Spend Management solution suite, including product management, development and QA.
He has nearly 20 years of experience in developing and delivering enterprise software systems. Prior to Ketera, Pravin held two senior management positions at SAP. The first position was Director of Product Marketing for Supply Chain Collaboration solutions and the second was a Director in the Mid–Market Market Strategy Group.
He has delivered a wide variety of commercially successful applications including enterprise online documentation systems, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), supply chain planning, collaboration and execution, and on demand spend management systems. He has run product development groups at both startups and mature companies such as HotDispatch, CrossWorlds Software, Manugistics, Marcam and Sun.
He holds a BSEE from the University of Maryland, College Park. |
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Madhusudan Krishnapuram
Vice President of Engineering and General Manager of Ketera India
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 As VP of Engineering and General Manager of Ketera India, Madhusudan Krishnapuram is responsible for all aspects of Ketera India operations, including product development, management and professional services. He has over 14 years of experience designing, developing and delivering large scale, distributed, mission critical enterprise applications at Kontiki, Netscape and Oracle.
Before joining Ketera, Madhu was the director of engineering at Kontiki, a distributed peer to peer network communication platform. He was responsible for the delivery of Kontiki′s client and network platform, and its successful deployment in several large enterprises. Prior to Kontiki, Madhu held positions as Engineering Manager and as the Director of Architecture for eCommerce applications at Netscape and iPlanet. He worked on the initial versions of Netscape′s procurement and supplier–side ecommerce solutions. Prior to Netscape, Madhu was at Oracle as architect and group manager for Oracle′s integrated distributed lock manager, a core part of Oracle′s RAC.
Madhu holds a MS in Computer Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. |
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Thomas W. Webb
Vice President of Marketing and Business Development
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 Thomas (Tom) W. Webb joined Ketera in 2006 as Vice President of Business Development and is responsible for the overall strategy and execution of Ketera′s partners, indirect channels and M&A activities. He has over 25 years of experience in various sales, marketing, product management and business development leadership roles in the software industry.
Prior to Ketera, Tom managed the IBM Rational Software business development team where he focused on partner strategy and developed Rational′s Solutions Partnering Program across the worldwide ISV community. Prior to Rational′s acquisition by IBM in February 2003, Tom held the position of Vice President of Corporate Development and was responsible for strategic planning and market development initiatives. Before Rational, Tom was Vice President of Business Development for Sterling Software′s Application Development Business and also held executive marketing positions at two venture–funded software startups. Tom began his career in Hewlett Packard′s computer group.
Tom holds a bachelor′s degree in Systems Analysis and Design from the University of Texas at Arlington. |
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Donna Sytsma
Vice President of Professional Services
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As Vice President of Professional Services, Donna is responsible for managing the day–to–day operations and delivery of Ketera’s solutions across the customer base. She has more than 10 years of experience delivering large scale enterprise software systems.
Donna joined Ketera in January 2003 and has contributed in several key areas of the business including delivering professional services, driving sales, influencing product strategy and leading support. Prior to joining Ketera, she gained extensive leadership and professional services experience through services management roles at IBM and Accenture.
Donna holds a bachelor’s of science degree in Management of Information Systems from the Illinois Institute of Technology. |
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