Caringo was founded by three industry veterans who have over 80 years of combined experience and have worked together for more than 18 years. Caringo's founders have participated in over 17 startups including TechGnosis, Oracle, Sybase, Siebel Systems, Gain Technology, Wave Research, FilePool and BroadVision. They are joined on the management team by an equally strong group of individuals who bring significant leadership, business and technology experience to further develop the company.
Mark Goros | CEO and Founder
With an exceptional background and career in sales, marketing and business development, Mark Goros brings 30 years experience and management to Caringo. Most recently, Mark was a General Partner in a venture firm where he invested and assisted in the development of a number of new startups and executed two secondary venture deals over the last several years. He has worked with 8 startups including Oracle, Sybase, Gain Technology and BroadVision and has served in nearly every role from technical, to sales, to CEO. He has helped execute two IPOs and three M&A transactions. Mark has a gift for setting up an operational structure that allows both technology innovators and sales teams to thrive and to produce results.
Jonathan Ring | President and Founder
Bringing a rare understanding of technology, customers and business, Jonathan Ring brings over 25 years of experience to the company. Most recently, Jonathan was an active angel investor. He helped consummate an M&A transaction between Ineto and Siebel Systems and he served as an active investor and advisor to several companies including SensorLogic. Jonathan was a Vice President of Engineering at Siebel Systems where he was a member of the executive team that grew Siebel from $4 million to $2 billion in sales. Jon has run multinational distributed development groups, small R&D teams and huge divisions at industry giants. With his rich background in technology development, his understanding of requirements from the customer's point of view and his strong operational background, Mr. Ring is an incredible asset to Caringo.
Paul Carpentier | CTO and Founder
Known as the father of the Content Addressing concept, Paul Carpentier invented the patent pending scalable and upgradeable security that is at the heart of Caringo. He was the architect of SequeLink — the first client/server middleware product to connect heterogeneous front ends running over multiple networks to multiple databases on the server side. Paul founded Wave Research and conceived FileWave, the first fully automated, model-driven software distribution and management system. At FilePool, he invented the technology that created the Content Addressed Storage industry. FilePool, was sold to EMC who turned CAS into a multi-billion dollar marketplace. Caringo CAStor, based on two of Mr. Carpentier's six patents promises to revolutionize the data storage business in much the same manner that CAS created a whole new marketplace.
Jeff Mims | CFO
Jeff has over 16 years of financial and accounting experience. Prior to joining Caringo, Jeff was the CFO of a privately held medical device company and has provided in-house financial services to emerging venture backed technology companies as a consultant. He has held various financial positions of increasing responsibility with Ford Motor Company, Hewlett-Packard, General Electric and Dell and has experience as an investment banker with KeyCorp of Cleveland, Ohio. Jeff has a BS in Finance and Information Systems from Boston College and obtained an MBA with a concentration in Finance from Michigan State University.
Cornelius Economou | VP Global Sales
Cornelius Economou has two decades of high-performance sales experience evangelizing complex technical enterprise solutions and developing go-to-market strategy and tactics into the U.S. Federal government and the Fortune 1000. Cornelius' experience spans spans across mission critical HPC systems, networks and storage with a long track record of achievement with both startups and large, established companies. Prior to Caringo, Cornelius was VP of sales for North America at Panasas, Director of sales at Polyserve (acquired by HP), and Director of global sales at SGI and held other sales and management roles at industry leaders Apple Computer and Quantum. CRN magazine has named Cornelius one of the top channel executives in Systems and Storage. Cornelius is also a recipient of the American Legion Leadership Award.
Jennifer Devening | VP Business Development, North America
In a career that spans nearly 20 years, Jennifer brings a wealth of marketing, sales and business development experience to Caringo. Most recently, she served as Vice President of Business Development and Sales for UnWired Nation, a voice publishing platform for mobile devices. Prior to this Jennifer was Founder and President of iLINC Communications and has also served in executive management positions for World Congress on Information Technology, Verge Software, Sprint Business, HP, EO Inc., GO Corporation and Oracle. She holds a BA in Classical Civilizations from the University of California Los Angeles and a language degree from the Sorbonne in Paris, France.
Brandon Canaday | VP Strategic Accounts
Brandon has 20 years of marketing, sales and operations leadership experience with skills in building, motivating and developing globally-distributed organizations. Brandon is responsible for extending Caringo's value-proposition by constructing and executing compelling sell-with partnerships. Brandon serves key-account stakeholders at all levels through reputable communication, interpersonal and facilitation skills and with a strong, energetic, and professional presence. Prior to joining Caringo, Brandon spent 12 years at Dell where he held various senior leadership positions spanning Enterprise Storage, Data Management Solutions, Global Services Management and Engineering Operations functions. Most recently, Brandon led the introduction of Dell's Data Management Solutions strategy including the launch of Dell's Object-Based storage and partner ecosystem portfolio.
Jan Van Riel | VP Advanced Technology
Jan Van Riel and Paul Carpentier together invented the technology that created the CAS industry while they were partners at FilePool. Filepool was sold to EMC, which incorporated the CAS concept into its multimillion-dollar Centera product. Van Riel served eight years as EMC's Director of Technology and was a co-inventor of Centera. Before FilePool, Van Riel was VP of Engineering and co-founder of Wave Research, with Carpentier, where they invented FileWave, the first automated, model-driven software distribution and management system. Prior to that, Van Riel led engineering as cofounder of Gnosis/Technosis, again with Carpentier, where the two invented SequeLink, the first client/server middleware product to connect heterogeneous front ends to multiple databases. Van Riel holds a collection of storage-related patents. He earned a Masters Degree in Industrial Engineering with a specialty in Electronics and Computer Science.
T. W. Cook | VP Product Operations
A software executive with three decades of experience in product development, professional services and research, T. W. has served in roles including VP of Product Development, VP of Professional Services, VP of Software Research and President. His experience includes a variety of startups, large companies such as HP and EDS, and Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), a technology research consortium. T. W.'s technical expertise includes software and enterprise architecture, technology strategy and roadmaps, technical training development, and object-oriented programming and methods. He holds a B. S. in Electrical Engineering from Rice University and an M. S. in Computer Science from the College of William & Mary.