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Successful technology executive and entrepreneur with a track record of creating some of the world’s highest-performing and pioneering Big Data platform products (SQLstream, HP’s IUM, Xacct IP Mediation), while helping drive their adoption and business growth through securing high-value OEM and direct deals. Trusted leader attracting and retaining world-class talent needed to realize the vision. Repeatedly created new products & market segments adopted by leaders such as Amazon AWS, raising the necessary capital, and leading teams to success. A creative problem solver with deep insights into technology-related business strategy, well versed in AI including recent generative AI LLM breakthroughs (well beyond just ChatGPT). Broad-based functional and international experience. Success selling vision to industry analysts, partners, & major enterprises. Knowledge of a wide range of target markets and industries based on many years of experience in sales and technology.ADDITIONAL STRENGTHS• Managed and inspired large teams, diverse teams, and distributed teams to achieve demanding shared goals.• Successfully managed finances & growth, sustaining cashflow by aligning field compensation with cash collection.• Appreciation of financial governance, rev recognition, GAAP, auditing, including HR and regulatory requirements.• Strong track record of creating strategic partnerships generating millions of dollars of revenue and key references. • Strategic thinker and problem solver, yet capable of getting down into the weeds when the situation so demands.• Repeatedly foresaw new software market segments based on firsthand experience of technology and business. • Created state-of-the-art, high-quality products while working within modest budgetary and resource constraints.• Instinctively mediates between the needs of partners, customers, the field and factory engineering.• Won awards communicating complex concepts in ways that the target audience could grok.• Technical expertise: AI & ML; Real-time Analytics; Big Data Platform/PaaS/SaaS; Distrib’d Cloud/Edge Computing.
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Chief Product And Technology OfficerAnywhere365® Apr 2024 - PresentRotterdam, Zh, NlIt's a rare and exciting opportunity to lead product technology, engineering, product management and product marketing at the leading Microsoft Teams-based solution for Unified Call Center. It integrates voice, text, workflow, routing, automation powered by smart AI actions and routing in an elegant, fun-to-use, cloud-based SaaS offering. This fast-growing company has talented and devoted people who are looking to make it easy, fast and efficient for small, medium and large enterprises to communicate effectively with their customers, partners, stakeholders and employees all enabled in real time by our state-of-the-art scalable managed service integrated with your back-end systems to create seamless solutions.
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Vp Platform Products, Product Management And Business DevelopmentThales Guavus, Through Acquisition Of Sqlstream By Thales And Merged With Guavus Jan 2019 - May 2024Responsible for Guavus’s analytics platform product management team, roadmap, and releases.Joined Thales ($30B aerospace multinational) per its acquisition of SQLstream and collected all 4 years’ retention bonuses.• Marketed Guavus’s AI analytics capabilities across Thales’s business lines and geographies (America, EMEA, APAC).• Evangelized SQLstream platform to Guavus sales force for AI/ML and IoT use cases, winning multiple Verizon Wireless edge analytics deployments for 4G & 5G use cases, making it the “go to” sales differentiator.• Led response to Thales RFI/RFPs requiring AI features such as neural nets (LLM/ChatGPT) or other ML technology.• Managed the platform roadmap powering Guavus’s award-winning real-time streaming SQL+AI application suite, which analyzes streaming service & IoT data making predictions so Mobile operators can optimize operations.• Fundamentally transformed the SQLstream platform quality and productivity by developing a close personal relationship with director of engineering and added key new capabilities including Python support for data scientists, native code generation (>2x speed up) plus a port to ARM chips to support embedding in edge devices.• Established SQLstream and Guavus as key analytics differentiators for several Thales large project bids worldwide, across multiple industries including drone management, identity management and transportation solutions, including $7.2M Guavus component for AI-based predictive maintenance for a comms-based train control system.
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Founder, Ceo, Cto And ChairmanSqlstream Inc Jul 2007 - Dec 2018San Francisco, Ca, UsResponsible for creating the SQLstream product from zero (performance leader in streaming analytics), hired and led the team, chaired the board, managed all employees & operations, raised capital, sold company.• Founded SQLstream, led company’s technical and business direction, establishing SQLstream as a key player and thought leader in a new market of streaming analytics, profitable or breakeven in 11 of its 15 years of operation, and recruited and chaired its board of directors, all C-level executives (or directors) of large public companies.• Developed from zero an award-winning product (Ventana Analytics Performance winner, Forrester leader’s circle, Bloor Research leader, DBTA Top 100 4 years in a row), establishing SQLstream as market performance leader.• Built brand and product differentiation/awareness thru targeted marketing, winning over key analysts at Forrester and Gartner, Bloor Research and Ventana, leading to invitation by ANSI to chair the SQL standards committee for streaming analytics extensions, and ending up presiding over Oracle, MS, IBM, Snowflake, Confluent and others.• Built key partnerships with AWS (Kinesis), Kontron (IIoT), MongoDB & Teradata (Big Data), Data Robot (AI) et al.• Set SQLstream as a de facto standard and leader through securing an $8M strategic OEM with Amazon AWS with publicity rights to power its Kinesis Data Analytics managed service, beating out all competing and open/closed source alternatives, and resulting in ~10,000 AWS enterprise customers relying on SQLstream to process data.• Won $5.5M of traffic analytics projects with Australia’s NSW RTA beating Google Traffic, TomTom and Navteq to create a real-time travel-time service powering an array of third-party smart phone services. • Demonstrated in real-world benchmarks that SQLstream is 100x faster than Apache Flink and Spark (closest Open-Source competitors) using 85% less RAM and showed at least a 10x productivity gain for application developers. -
Vp Of Sales, Ngm AmericasNeustar Inc Dec 2006 - Jul 2007After acquisition, transitioned the Followap business to Neustar, managing the Followap Americas team.• Ensured a smooth transition of Followap into Neustar, leveraging product and business expertise to maximize business, bringing the entire sales team across, and ensuring no opportunities were lost.
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Founder, Ceo And CtoDisruptivetech Sep 2002 - Jul 2007Founder and CEO of Disruptivetech, a stealth mode high tech infrastructure start-up in Silicon Valley. I took this from concept, to prototype product, captured first customers and design partners, filed patents, recruited the entire team, recruited investors, board members and secured venture funding. The company later became known as SQLstream, the pioneer and technical leader in SQL-based streaming analytics, SQLstream is still the fastest and best product in the market!
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Vp Of Global Business Development, Vp Of Sales (And Operations) For Americas And Us Country MgrFollowap Jan 2003 - Nov 2006Ran global business dev & Americas sales operations for Followap (leading mobile instant messaging & presence vendor).• Managed global business development, closing several major OEM deals with industry leaders such as Nortel (built into Nortel’s 3GPP IMS standard solution supplying IM and Presence servers) and HP OpenView.• Post Sequoia Capital’s investment was asked also to rebuild and manage the Americas sales organization, resulting in Followap invited to tender on around $40M of business by all the top-tier US mobile operators.• Secured Followap’s position as the key player in the Instant Messaging and Presence telecom market, resulting in the acquisition by Neustar. -
Vp Products, Applications, Solutions, Business DevelopmentXacct Technologies Ltd 1999 - 2002Responsible all application engineering, related product management and business development.• Increased XACCT's core platform performance by over 30X, establishing it as a performance leader in the market. • Pioneered and evangelized the IPDR billing record standard, facilitating open billing processes and closed a groundbreaking $14M OEM deal with Agilent Technologies, expanding market reach.• Identified key applications, secured funding, and spearheaded business development.• Created successful application suite including business analytics and 7-layer network QoS probes and drove lighthouse customer adoption (Sprint, COLT) resulting in significant growth, and market expansion and leadership.
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Director Of Engineering, Internet Infrastructure DivisionHewlett-Packard Inc 1997 - 1999Responsible for identifying and defining new products (working with marketing) and running all of engineering.• Pioneered the Internet Telecom IP Mediation market, creating the first billing-quality products in that segment. • Developed the industry's fastest IP mediation platform, positioning HP Internet Usage Manager as market leader. • Led and managed engineering teams (~100 engineers) in Cupertino, CA, and Bangalore, India, driving technical excellence and collaboration, using Agile development, and fully-automated regression suites.
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Director Of Hp-Ux 64-Bit Unix Release & TransitionHp Feb 1996 - Sep 1997Palo Alto, Ca, UsManaged the engineering release and business transition of 64-bit HP-UX, HP's leading commercial Unix system. • Managed over 900 engineers/managers, ensuring seamless customer transition and adoption of the new platform. • Accelerated the release thru automated tooling, compatibility libraries, testing, benchmarking & documentation. • Coordinated marketing messages, and key partner (e.g., Oracle) and customer communication. • Successfully launched the first commercial 64-bit Unix, setting a world record for TPCC benchmark on HP's Superdome system with a 64-bit version of Oracle.
Damian Black Education Details
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The University Of ManchesterComputer Science And Engineering
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