Peter Richards, Chief Executive Officer

 

Peter Richards joined VirtualLogix as Chief Executive Officer in August 2005. Prior to joining VirtualLogix, he was Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for CoWare, a leading ESL EDA tools provider. Mr. Richards also held senior executive positions with worldwide functional and general management responsibilities at WindRiver Systems Inc. and Tandem Computers Inc. Mr. Richards has over 30 years of business experience in the technology areas of real-time embedded systems, EDA design, and networked enterprise servers covering Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia. Mr. Richards has also held senior management positions in functional areas including sales, marketing, professional services project management, IP development management, and business unit general management. His technology experience encompasses the areas of embedded software design, financial services eft/pos, defense, communication networks and high availability/fault tolerant computing systems. Mr. Richards was educated in Australia and later in the United Kingdom. He holds a US accredited equivalent B.A. in Marketing Management from Westminster College London, U.K.

 

 

Michel Gien, Co-founder and Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy

 

With more than 30 years of experience in the research and software industry, Michel Gien is working to establish VirtualLogix as the global leader in real-time virtualization for connected devices. His passion for technology, working with customer issues, and his commitment to excellence are the foundation of VirtualLogix's culture. Prior to co-founding VirtualLogix as its first CEO in August 2002, Mr. Gien was co-founder, General Manager & Chief Technology Officer of Chorus Systems. He became the first Distinguished Engineer outside North America at Sun Microsystems when they acquired Chorus Systems in 1997. Prior to founding Chorus Systems, Mr. Gien worked as a Director at INRIA (French public IT research center) and CNET (France Telecom's research labs) leading research projects on computer networks, UNIX, and distributed operating systems from 1971 to 1986. He founded, co-chaired then chaired the European Unix Association (EUUG then EurOpen) from 1980 to 1990. Mr. Gien graduated from Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures de Paris, France, in 1971.

 

 

Christian Jacquemot, Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer

 

Christian Jacquemot leads the technology vision for VirtualLogix and ensures that the best technology is being developed for our customers. Before co-founding VirtualLogix, Mr. Jacquemot was a key member of the architect team in charge of the specification and development of Sun's carrier-grade high-availability system software for leading telecom manufacturers. Mr. Jacquemot was a chief architect at Chorus Systems where he extended the Chorus communications-oriented micro-kernel technology with an object oriented middleware addressing the needs of telecom manufacturers. He promoted this middleware as an Object Management Group (OMG) standard (minimum and real-time CORBA). Prior to Chorus Systems, Mr. Jacquemot worked from 1985 to 1990 as a research engineer at France Telecom Research Labs on the development and application of synchronous languages. Mr. Jacquemot graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in 1980 and from Ecole des Télécommunications Paris, France, in 1985.

 

 

Paul May, Chief Financial Officer

 

Paul May brings more than 30 years of experience in financial management to his role as CFO at VirtualLogix. Prior to joining VirtualLogix, Mr. May worked as an independent financial consultant and held several senior-level positions in high-tech and biotech companies. Most recently, as the Director of Finance and Corporate Controller at the biotech start up Avidia, he participated in the sale process of the company to a major publicly traded biotech company. Prior to Avidia Inc., Mr. May held senior level financial positions at companies such as Argonaut Technologies Inc., a publicly held high tech company; Biotechnology Division of Bayer Healthcare LLC; Finnigan Corporation, a scientific instruments company and Siemens Medical Systems. Mr. May began his career with Qantel Corporation (formerly Mohawk Data Sciences Corp), a Fortune 500 high-tech company, holding senior level financial positions throughout the EMEA region before moving to the U.S. headquarters to become the company’s Interim CFO. Mr. May holds a US accredited equivalent Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the New South Wales Institute of Technology, Sydney, Australia and is a certified accountant.

 

 

Manuel Montalban, Vice President of Strategic Business Development

 

In this role, Manuel Montalban is responsible for accelerating the products and company development by engaging with strategic customers and partners, and validating the company strategy for future business models. Mr. Montalban has 15 years of experience in the software industry, first as co-founder of ILOG in 1987 and more recently as Atempo C.O.O. At Atempo, Mr. Montalban was responsible for worldwide operations, managing direct & indirect sales, strategic alliances, customer service and professional services. Atempo's main customers include Telecom and Internet Service Providers (xSP), large enterprises as well as Storage Equipment Manufacturers. During his 13 years at ILOG, he held various senior management positions, including VP/GM WW of the Telecom division, with customers in markets such as Telecom Equipment Manufacturers and Service Providers. Mr. Montalban has a PhD from the University of Nice, France in 1987.

 

 

Gregory Mardinian, Vice President of Engineering

 

Gregory Mardinian is responsible for managing VirtualLogix's engineering team. Mr. Mardinian spent six years at Ingenico, a global provider of secure transaction and payment terminals and solutions, where he was rapidly promoted to director of software engineering and responsible for the organization and optimization of research and development. He also streamlined the company’s product offerings by consolidating their solution down from ten systems to a single platform. Prior to Ingenico, Mr. Mardinian worked as a director at Roland Moreno Technology. While there, he developed the ISO 14443 Type B contactless smart card technology and managed its deployment for the Paris metropolitan area. Mr. Mardinian has also held management and software engineering positions at Alcatel. Mr. Mardinian holds an engineering degree from ENSERG (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingenieur en Electronique et Radioélectricité de Grenoble) as well as a DEA of Computer Science from Université PARIS VI.