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Management Team
Neal Margulis,
Founder and COB
John Schroeder,
President and CEO
Anil Kumar,
Co-founder and Vice President of Engineering
Asael Dror,
Co-founder and Chief Architect
Max Herrmann,
Vice President of Marketing
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Neal has almost 20 years
of experience in the technology industry. With a powerful combination
of engineering and marketing expertise, Neal has formulated winning development
strategies and helped build several successful companies. Prior to Calista,
Neal was president and CEO of iCompression, a leading developer of voice
and video codec technology for the broadband and consumer markets. Prior
to iCompression, Neal was general manager at S3 responsible for their
market-leading 3D graphics technology. Neal started his career as a x86
engineer at Intel. Neal is the primary inventor on nine issued U.S. patents
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John joined Calista Technologies
based on seeing enterprises struggle with the challenges of efficiently
managing physical IT resources while responding to ever increasing business
requirements. John has over 25 years of enterprise technology industry
experience. In his most recent operating role, John was President and
CEO of Rainfinity. Rainfinity is now a key technology in the EMC’s
server (VMWare) and storage virtualization strategy. In addition to Rainfinity
previous positions include Senior Vice President of SQRIBE Technologies;
Open Systems General Manager at Compuware and General Manager of DB2
Products at Candle Corp. John has a BS in computer science from Southern
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Anil
has over twenty years of experience delivering successful computer video/graphics
systems to market. Previously, Anil co-founded DigitalQuake Inc., a flat
panel display controller company which was acquired by National Semiconductor
in 2002. Prior to National Semiconductor, he founded Dxtrous Inc., a
Software Consulting company whose clients included iCompression, ICS,
STB/3DFx and Sony Transcom. Anil has also held technical and managerial
positions at S3 Inc. Anil has a MS degree in Computer Science from Washington
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Asael Dror
has over 20 years experience in conceiving, architecting, developing,
and evaluating cutting-edge system software and hardware. At Calista
Technologies, he is responsible for the overall system architecture and
key algorithms. His graphics experience began at Chips and Technologies,
where he invented and implemented the first 32-bit, flat-memory display
architecture for Windows. He has also consulted to industry leaders,
including: ATI, Microsoft, MGI Software, Oak Technology, S3, Sigma Designs,
Standard Microsystems, Western Digital, and Zoran. Asael was the founder
and Editor-in-Chief of the Windows Developer Letter, as well as the author
of three computer programming books. Prior to joining Calista, Asael
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Max has spent
most of his career in the virtual desktop and server-based computing
market. Max leads Calista’s
worldwide marketing efforts and has over 17 years of marketing, sales
and management experience in the high-tech industry. Max joined Calista
from the desktop marketing team at Sun Microsystems. Prior to Sun, Max
held executive marketing roles at both Tarantella and New Moon Systems.
Max holds the equivalents of a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering
from the University of Stuttgart, and of an MBA from the Technical University
of Munich.
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