WANdisco is led by a seasoned team of software executives who have served on the boards and advisory boards of a number of Silicon Valley start-up ventures. The team consists of individuals who have built companies from inception to successful exit and people who are regarded as worldwide authorities in the field of distributed computing, network protocols and Java development.

David Richards

Mr. Richards has over 15 years as an executive in the software industry and sits on both boards and advisory boards of Silicon Valley start-up ventures. Mr. Richards is a veteran of several successful start-up companies in Enterprise Software and is recognized as an industry leader in both EAI and EAI standards. He has spoken and written widely about standards in application integration and the adoption of open-source technologies.

Prior to WANdisco, Mr. Richards served as the President and CEO of Librados, where he took the company from an early stage technology company to exponential customer and revenue growth. David led the company's acquisition by NetManage (Nasdaq:NETM) just over a year after joining the company. Following the successful acquisition he joined the executive management team of NetManage where he served as Vice President and General Manager.

Prior to Librados, David was the President and CEO of Insevo, Inc. where he raised venture capital from the world largest venture capital fund, 3i. After becoming a recognized leader in the middleware space the company was acquired.

David has also served on the boards of ObjectWeb, a leading open source application server company based in France and the EAI Industry Consortium where he also chaired the adapter committee.

David currently serves on the boards and advisory boards of several technology companies. He is a strategic advisor to NEC Corporation, where he advises the head of NEC software group (Japan) to define open source strategy. David holds a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Huddersfield, England.

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Yeturu Aahlad

Dr. Aahlad is a recognized world-wide authority on distributed computing where he currently holds 3 patents. It was Dr. Aahlad's vision and persistence that led to the invention of technology that many thought was impossible - that of active-active replication (WANdisco's patent pending DConE technology). Prior to WANdisco, Dr. Aahlad served as the distributed systems architect for iPlanet (Sun/Netscape Alliance) Application Server. At Netscape, Dr. Aahlad joined the elite team in charge of creating a new server platform based on the CORBA distributed object framework.

Prior to Sun/Netscape Dr. Aahlad worked on incorporating the CORBA security service into Fujitsu's Object Request Broker. Dr. Aahlad designed and implemented the CORBA event services while working on Sun's first CORBA initiative. Earlier in his career, Dr. Aahlad worked on a distributed programming language at IBM's Palo Alto Scientific Center.

Dr. Aahlad has a Ph.D in distributed computing from the University of Texas, Austin and a BS in EE from IIT Madras.

Jim Campigli

Jim Campigli has over twenty years of software industry experience at both early-stage and public companies.

In his previous role as a founder and CTO of Librados, Jim was responsible for overall product strategy and product messaging, and served as an evangelist for Librados' standards based approach to enterprise application integration. Jim was a member of the management team that led the company's acquisition by Netmanage, Inc. Following the successful acquisition, Jim joined Netmanage as CTO for the Librados products group.

Prior to Librados, Jim was the VP of Product Management for Insevo, Inc., a middleware company specializing in enterprise application integration. After becoming a recognized leader in the middleware space the company was acquired. Jim also held senior product management and consulting management positions at BEA Systems and SAP. Jim holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Andrew Turner

Andrew has over 18 years experience working with Global 2000 organizations, Software authors and leading consulting organizations. In his previous role, as COO of Tesco Mobile & Operations Director, Tesco Telecoms he was part of the founding team of the new Telecoms business unit within Tesco plc from 2003 now with over 2 million customers. Prior to Telecoms, he spent a number of years in Marketing & Operations roles within Tesco's Financial services joint venture with Royal Bank of Scotland. Prior to Tesco, he worked for MPS Group (NYSE:MPS) in driving the growth of their eBusiness consulting organisation - Idea Integration. Andrew also held senior Marketing, Product Management and Sales positions with SAP and worked with GE across their Industrial and Services businesses in Information Management and business change roles in Europe and North America. Andrew holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Huddersfield and MBA from Ashridge

Rod Casilli

Mr. Casilli has over 15 years of experience in direct and channel sales, business development, and marketing. He joined WANdisco from Soluziona USA where he served as Vice President of Sales & Marketing. He has held various sales and marketing positions at software and services companies including Endymion, Tacit Software, IconMedialab, and eBusiness Technologies and was the co-founder of FourA Technology Group. He began his career as a financial consultant for Merrill Lynch. Mr. Casilli holds a B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles.