Jit Saxena
Chairman & CEO

Jit Saxena, a business-savvy entrepreneur, brings an impressive portfolio of accomplishments, skills and experience to Netezza.

Previously, Saxena was founder, chairman and CEO of Applix Inc., a leading provider of analytical CRM software that he took public in 1994. While at Applix, Saxena guided the company to a leadership position in the CRM market and achieved an eight-fold increase in market value subsequent to the IPO. Through his vision, the company was continually an innovator in new high growth markets.

Prior to founding Applix, Saxena was a senior director at Data General where he was responsible for the development of the company's software products. At Data General, he held several other senior management positions and built a successful development organization that introduced industry-leading software in many categories.

Saxena earned an MS in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University, an MBA from Boston University and a B. Tech (EE) from the Indian Institute of Technology (Mumbai). In July 2003, he was named an Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year and was recently named a Mass High Tech All-Star.

Jim Baum
President & COO

As a veteran of growth companies, Jim Baum brings over 17 years of experience to Netezza.

Prior to Netezza, Jim Baum was president and CEO of Endeca. During his five year tenure, he led Endeca's rise from an innovative start-up to the leading provider of innovative information access and delivery software solutions to the Global 2000, building the customer base to more than 270.

Previously, as executive vice president and general manager at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), Baum helped drive the Company's growth to more than $1 billion in revenues during his 11-year tenure. Overseeing PTC's Windchill Business Unit, he was responsible for all aspects of the business, including product strategy, product development, marketing, operations and services.

Jim holds an M.S. in Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a B.S. in Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Patrick J. Scannell, Jr.
Sr. Vice President, CFO & Treasurer

Patrick Scannell brings more than 28 years experience in finance and operations to Netezza. Most recently he served as CFO of PhotonEx Corporation, a leading provider of next-generation optical systems for core public services networks. Prior to his work at PhotonEx, Scannell was CFO of Silknet Software, a company he took public before orchestrating its sale to Kana (NASDAQ: KANA), a leading provider of enterprise customer support and communications applications.

Before Silknet, Scannell was executive vice president and CFO of Applix, Inc., a global provider of enterprise-wide business performance management solutions. While at Applix, he led the company through a successful initial public offering and a number of strategic acquisitions.

Scannell earned an MBA from Babson College and a BS from Boston College and practiced as a Certified Public Accountant.

Justin Lindsey
CTO

As CTO, Justin Lindsey brings a unique depth of knowledge and expertise to Netezza.

Prior to joining Netezza, Lindsey served as Deputy CIO and CTO at the United States Department of Justice where he guided the Department's technology research and utilization of emerging technologies in support of DOJ's mission. Prior to DOJ, Justin was the CTO for the Federal Bureau of Investigation where he helped shape the technology infrastructure for FBI's core mission systems.

Lindsey's experience in the private sector includes his role as Founder, Chief Solutionist and Director of the Hewlett-Packard Advanced Solutions Lab (ASL), created with the sole purpose of delivering solutions that revolutionize markets, industries, and the world.

Before his tenure at Hewlett-Packard, Lindsey founded LavaStorm, Inc., an Internet systems engineering firm specializing in designing, building, and delivering complex systems for category leader clients. Under his guidance as Founder and Chief Solutions Officer, LavaStorm grew to more than 180 employees with offices in Boston and San Jose, California.

Justin holds an M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a S.B. in Computer Science and Engineering both from MIT.

Ray Tacoma
Sr. Vice President, Worldwide Sales

Ray Tacoma brings more than 25 years of experience in technology sales and sales management to Netezza.

Before joining Netezza, Tacoma was executive vice president of sales and marketing at Corechange, a global provider of portal framework software. Previously, Tacoma also served as vice president of North American sales at MicroStrategy, Inc. where the company's staff grew by more than 200 percent during his tenure. He has also held sales and management positions at Digital, eGrail, Sequent and Tandem.

Tacoma earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Evansville and pursued graduate studies in business at the University of Michigan.

Tricia Cotter
Vice President, Worldwide Customer Support & Manufacturing

Tricia Cotter brings over 20 years of experience in product development, production and customer support to Netezza.

Cotter was previously a vice president at Visual Networks where she successfully created and managed the complete infrastructure necessary for the manufacture, test and direct customer shipment of Frame Relay, IP and ATM telecom products.

Previously, Cotter was responsible for re-engineering the new product introductions to quality, cost and time to market requirements at Stratus Computer. Prior to Stratus, Cotter managed the external manufacturing operations at Sun Microsystems and held positions in manufacturing and quality at Computervision and Honeywell.

Cotter is a graduate of Boston College and the Executive MBA Program at Northeastern University.

Phil Francisco
Vice President, Product Management & Marketing

Phil Francisco brings over 20 years of valuable experience in technology development and global technology marketing. As Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, he fosters new business and product strategies, directs the product portfolio and drives product marketing programs for Netezza.

Prior to Netezza, Francisco was the Vice President of Marketing at PhotonEx, a leading developer of 40 Gb/s optical transport systems for core telecommunications network providers. Before PhotonEx Francisco served as Vice President of Product Marketing for Lucent Technologies' Optical Networking Group, where he worked with some of the world's largest telecommunications carriers in planning and implementing optical network solutions. In addition, he has more than 10 years of experience in software, hardware and systems engineering at AT&T/Lucent Bell Laboratories.

Mr. Francisco holds a patent in advanced optical network architectures. He received B.S. in Electrical Engineering and B.S. in Computer Science degrees magna cum laude, from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and completed the Advanced Management Program at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

John Metzger
Vice President, Product Strategy

John Metzger has two decades of experience designing database software, tools and systems.

As vice president, product strategy, Metzger is focused on consistently driving product direction, ensuring that the Netezza Performance Server® system meets and exceeds customer expectations and integrates with leading partner applications. Prior to Netezza, Metzger was a consultant on applications and database critical projects, and also held senior management positions at Data General Corporation where he was responsible for many product firsts including Data General's first DBMS products.

Tim Young
Vice President, Corporate Marketing

Tim Young has over 15 years experience marketing database and business service management (BSM) products. He has worked for large enterprise vendors such as Oracle and BMC Software and was a founding member to two start-ups: Patrol Software (acquired in 1994 by BMC Software) and Proxima Technology (acquired in 2007 by Compuware). Young has run marketing organizations in Asia-Pacific, Europe and the U.S. and brings a thorough understanding of global marketing to Netezza to complement his domain expertise on database technology.

Young's career in marketing began at Oracle in the early 90s during the Company's rapid growth as a corporate standard for RDBMS. Prior to this, he worked as a consultant conducting large-scale data modelling, database design and business analysis engagements for both Oracle and CACI.

Young has a degree in Computer Science from Greenwich University, London.