J. PETER HERZ, CEO
Peter Herz is a versatile executive with a successful track record building high-tech companies. Mr. Herz is a Partner with Whiteboard Management, a Silicon Valley management company that provides executive management and consulting services to startups and businesses executing through a transition. As a consultant, Mr. Herz has advised startup companies including IO Turbine and GridStore in marketing, strategy and corporate development. Previously, he served as interim President of the biological simulation company Entelos, leading the company through an organization-wide restructuring. Prior to Entelos, he was a serial entrepreneur and founding CEO of 3ware, a revolutionary data storage company that brought enterprise class storage to a new generation of large-scale data businesses such as Google, Avid, and CERN. 3ware was acquired by AMCC for $150M.
Prior to co-founding 3ware, Mr. Herz ran North American Consulting for Synopsys, enabling Fortune 500 technology companies to transition to a new methodology for product design – doubling the business in 18 months – and managed customer engineering for Siemens Semiconductor’s (now Infineon Technologies AG) North American embedded control business for data storage with design wins at Seagate and Western Digital. Mr. Herz has broad international experience including a startup in Munich, Germany and managing sales and partnerships in both Europe and Asia.
Mr. Herz also serves as a member of the board of directors of IPextreme, Inc., a semiconductor intellectual property company, and Kendall Investments, a private equity fund-of-funds company.
Mr. Herz holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University and A-levels from Eastbourne College, Sussex, United Kingdom.
JOE DAVID, CFO, COO
Joe has 16 years of experience in accounting and compliance comprised of experience in fundraising, IPO’s, divestitures, and M&A in both startup and multinational company environments. Joe spent 8 years in public accounting at Deloitte and KPMG and has since been Internal Audit Director at Verisign and Financial Services Partner at both KroneDavid and Personic Solutions. Joe’s specialty is in building financial and operational teams with dynamic backgrounds and with emphasis and focus on leadership during the various stages of a company’s growth.
Sam Edwards, VP Engineering
Over 25 years of management and technical expertise in the software industry, encompassing all phases of product development, working with both startup and large multinational companies including: Commission Junction (ValueClick), Legato, BMC, Hewlett-Packard. Passionate about quality and team empowerment. Experienced Agile coach, ScrumMaster (certified), and Product Owner.
R. Wolfgang Rumpf, PhD., Director of Product
Wolfgang is involved at some level in almost every aspect of the product – design, development, deployment, end-user training, and support. He has a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from The Ohio State University, and has been working in the scientific software industry since 2000. He holds an adjunct faculty position at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), where he teaches graduate-level introductory bioinformatics.
Rob Day, Director of Sales
Rob hails from the UK and has more than 20 years of experience in scientific research, college life-science teaching, and technology projects. He completed his BSc (Hons) in Cell and Molecular Biology at King’s College, London where he worked on microtubule dynamics. One of his undergraduate advisors was Dr. Maurice Wilkins, best known for his x-ray crystallography work with Rosalind Franklin. “Dr Wilkins was an inspiration to me both professionally and personally and I feel very lucky to have known him.” Rob later came to The US to study at The Ohio State University, where his research focussed on the cell biology of marine algae, and later on pedagogic issues in college science classrooms. He joined Rescentris in 2009. His balanced blend of scientific, technological and people skills help to keep the company focussed on understanding and meeting customer’s individual data management needs.
