Company

Management Team

Revinetix' management team has a proven history in building corporate value through the development and delivery of successful market driven products and services. Collectively, they have successfully executed the start-up, turnaround and management of multiple companies. They are a no-nonsense team, building their next winner.

Steve "Max" Ackerman, Founder and CTO

Max Ackerman formerly served as co-founder and CTO of Phobos Corp., where, in just 3 years, his extensive entrepreneurial, management, team building, and engineering skills led to SonicWALL's $279 million acquisition of Phobos in 2000. Max has a history of innovative technology product development spanning 13 years for various companies. His past successful product developments include: SonicWALL's and Cisco's internet security offloading devices; fiber channel net card - 3M; gigabit Ethernet - 3Com; Fast Ethernet - Silicon Graphics. Max holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Vermont.

Victor M. Perez, President and CEO

Victor Perez is an industry leader with more than 25 years of global executive leadership in both public and private companies. He has an extensive track record of growing revenues, forging partnerships with industry leaders and building highly effective global teams. Victor's experience includes CEO/President at Panasas, building it into the leading provider of parallel storage software solutions, CEO/President of Chaparral Network Storage, where he architected a successful exit strategy and sold the company to a public company, and COO at StorageTek, a $2 billion computer storage company. Victor earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Catholic University of Puerto Rico and completed various executive management programs at Harvard University.

Kim Michael Gullickson, Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Kim brings over 20 years of global technology sales leadership to Revinetix. He is responsible for developing Revinetix’ sales strategy and team as the company rapidly expands its distribution channels. Prior to Revinetix, Kim helped to build successful businesses as a sales executive at startups Isilon and Panasas. Kim began his career in sales at EDS and HP. Kim received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems and his MBA from the University of Houston.

Joan Wrabetz, Chief Marketing Officer

Joan Wrabetz has over 20 years of executive technology management experience. She is responsible for inbound, outbound and strategic marketing at Revinetix. Prior to joining Revinetix, Joan was the VP of Marketing and Alliances for Visla, an early stage virtualization management company. In addition to holding management positions at StorageTek, Tricord Systems and SRI International, Joan is a serial entrepreneur, having founded and run multiple private and public companies. Joan has also been a Venture Partner with BlueStream Ventures and has been an advisor and consultant to multiple storage and networking companies. She holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, an MSEE from Stanford University, and BSEE from Yale University.

Christopher Hull, Founder and Chief Engineer

Chris Hull has drawn on his early experience at Silicon Graphics to co-develop SonicWALL and Cisco's internet security offloading devices. Currently, Chris draws on his background in systems and network level engineering, embedded operating systems, ASIC design, embedded system motherboard design, device driver and kernel development, compiler design, and IT systems management to direct the development of Revinetix' product line. Chris earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Vermont.

Randall Crocker, Vice President of Marketing

Randall Crocker has led the marketing and sales efforts of technology solutions into SMB/SME and Fortune 50 companies. His expertise includes developing effective marketing strategies and assembling successful teams to execute tactics, particularly in the areas of lead generation, direct marketing and online/SEM marketing. During his career, Randy Crocker has served in executive marketing and sales positions. Most recently, these included Senior Vice President and General Manager at ExeVision; Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Cayenta, Inc (formerly ASSIST Cornerstone Technologies); and Vice President of Marketing at PCs Compleat (acquired by CompUSA, Inc).

John Robertson, Vice President of Operations

A seasoned engineering executive, John Robertson brings over 20 years of successful development experience to guide strategic planning of new data protection technologies and to head the company’s development teams. John comes to Revinetix from Linux Networx, a clustered high performance computing (HPC) company where he was a product manager of their HPC Storage Solutions. Prior to Linux Networx, his work included the development of architectural and product integration designs during his tenures at Novell, Inc., Volera, Inc. and Mobile Productivity, Inc.

Board of Directors

Steve "Max" Ackerman, Chairman

Victor M. Perez

William R. Baumel

Bill Baumel co-founded RWI Ventures in 2000. He has a long-history in the wireless, telecommunications, and enterprise networking markets, including semiconductor firms selling into these markets. Bill was a founding shareholder and Chairman of Optical Solutions, the leading worldwide provider of GPON and IPTV systems acquired by Calix, and NetNet, a Wi-Max equipment provider acquired by Clearwire Communications. RWI Ventures investments include Infinera, Attune Systems, BlueArc, SiGe Semiconductor, Turin Networks and Vimicro (Nasdaq:VIMC). Bill holds a B.S. summa cum laude from Ohio State University and an MBA with high distinction from the University of Michigan.

Dave Norton

Dr.David G. Norton’s career began with IBM where he served as an engineer and in engineering management for 16 years. In 1980, he left IBM and was a co-founder of the Iomega Corporation where he served as vice president of engineering, manufacturing, and operations. In 1994 he was a co-founder of Automated Solutions, Inc. (Intelisys) where he served as its CEO until 1998 when he joined the Utah State University Research Foundation as President. Dr. Norton served as a volunteer member of the Board of Trustees of the USU Research Foundation from April 1991 to April 1997 and as Chairman of the Board of Trustees from April 1997 to December 1999. Dr. Norton has had five patents and ten publications in the IBM Technical Disclosures Bulletin.

Eric Rizza

Mr. Eric Rizza brings more than 12 years of experience in the financial services and wealth management industry. He is currently a Senior Vice-President at United States Trust Company in Seattle. Prior to joining U.S. Trust, he served as Senior Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager at Bank of America where he oversaw the management of approximately $1 billion of assets for ultra-high net worth families, institutions, endowments and foundations. From 1998 to 2005, Mr. Rizza was a Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager with Wells Fargo Private Asset Management where he served both institutional and high net-worth clients. He was also a Senior member of the Investment Strategy Group for Wells Fargo, helping to craft the asset allocation policy decisions and strategies for the firm’s $80 Billion in assets.

Thomas G. Hogan

Tom Hogan is President and CEO of Incremental Management Services (IMS), a strategic business consulting services company, and has 25 years experience in the high technology field in sales and marketing management, executive management, and board directorship. He has built a reputation for implementing winning organizations, often targeted at the SMB market. Career highlights include multiple turnarounds of privately held high tech firms. Through the re-alignment of product offerings, marketing strategy and sales structure, Tom has led these struggling organizations to sustained profitability. He has provided leadership to organizations varying from start-ups to the Fortune 20, and from OEMs to distributors, and manufacturer's reps.