Bill has 19 years of marketing and sales experience in the computer industry. Most recently, Bill served as CEO of cloud storage start-up Parascale.  Prior to that, Bill served as SVP of Gateway's International Business Unit, responsible for a $500M business in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. As co-founder of Blue Martini Software, he drove the company from inception through IPO to $75M in revenue as SVP Marketing and, later, served as General Manager Asia-Pacific operations. Prior to joining Blue Martini, Bill launched Objectivity's Aziza Business Unit where he served as General Manager, following his tenure as Objectivity's Vice President of Marketing. Bill led product marketing at Red Brick Systems and held various marketing management positions at ParcPlace Systems and Oracle. Bill holds an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business, an MS in Electrical Engineering from MIT where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow, and a BS, summa cum laude, in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Santa Clara University where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Hubert Verstraete serves as Arkeia’s CTO.  Verstraete is responsible for product strategy and technical direction, and led the definition of the Arkeia’s family of appliance products.  Earlier, he spearheaded Arkeia catalog performance optimization and the architecture of Arkeia’s VTL (virtual tape library), D2D2T, and NDMP capabilities.  Before Arkeia, Verstraete served as a development engineer for ultra-high availability civil aviation communications systems at Thales (formerly Thomson CSF).  At EADS he developed software systems for satellite image analysis.  Verstraete has been a contributor to the XFS, GDB, and libexif open source projects.  He was awarded an Engineer’s degree with a specialization in computer science from the Institut Supérieur d'Electronique du Nord (ISEN) in Lille, France.

Dave Elliott serves as VP of Sales, responsible for sales and revenue generation. Prior to Arkeia, Elliott was responsible for Strategic Development for Iomega Corporations' PSS Business Unit, where he drove strategy, OEM and alliance partnerships. Before that, he was with enterprise software vendor Blue Martini Software where he helped lead the marketing and business development efforts through a successful IPO and to revenues in excess of $70M a year.  Elliott also spent several years in market development at Sun Microsystems, and consulted with technology companies on strategy and marketing while with the high tech strategy practice of management consulting firm A.T. Kearney (now EDS). Early in his career, Elliott co-founded and was vice president of sales & marketing for software training firm Advanced Knowledge Systems (AKS). Elliott holds an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and a BA in Economics from the University of California, San Diego. 

Frederic Renard serves as VP of Marketing and has an extensive track record of success in both marketing and sales. Prior to his current responsibilities, Renard led all business development for Arkeia Software and established Arkeia as a global leader in the data protection market. Prior to Arkeia Software, Renard co-founded VEO, a business development firm helping major US-based Internet firms expand into Europe; clients included AOL Netscape, eBay, and Expedia. Previously, Renard worked with Apple Computer and Micro Warehouse. Renard graduated from LIBS, ( Lincoln International Business School, France) and also studied at UNCC (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA).

Gabriel Ribeiro is Arkeia’s VP of Engineering.  Ribeiro leads Arkeia Network Backup development team which defined the architecture, and built the core systems for three major releases of the Arkeia Network Backup product family:  versions 5, 6, and 7.  He was also responsible for leading the development of the Replication and Central Management Server products.  Earlier, Ribeiro was project lead at Temex for real-time Linux-based systems used for the development of high-spectral-purity frequency generators.  Ribeiro was awarded a civil engineering degree with a specialization in Computer Science from the Ecole des Mines at Saint-Etienne, France.