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The leaders at Coherity have been providing
industry-leading thinking and implementation of E-Commerce,
E-Services and E-Business applications for the last 5 years. Before
the emergence of the Internet, we were involved with architecting
and implementing complex client server applications.
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Emerick Woods, President and Chief Executive
Officer
Emerick Woods is a successful executive and
entrepreneur having managed and founded several early stage high
technology companies. Emerick served as president and chief
executive officer of Vicinity Corporation, a publicly traded company
where he completed its initial public offering and successfully
raised over $140 million. Prior to Vicinity, Emerick held a variety
of general management and executive positions at TuneUp.com,
Quarterdeck, Symantec, Central Point and Microcom. He also has held
consulting positions at McKinsey & Company and Booz Allen &
Hamilton.
Emerick holds an MBA degree from Harvard
Business School and a B.Sc., Computer Science degree from Yale
University. Emerick is a member of the Young Presidents
Organization. He also serves on the board or directors of
ClickAction, Inc., an US-based publicly traded company and Plugged
In Enterprises, a non-profit organization.
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Joe Ellsworth, Chief Technology Officer
Joe Ellsworth is a thought leader in eBusinss
technologies and system application development. Prior to founding
Coherity, Joe directed the E-Speak solution operation at
Hewlett-Packard, driving the evolution for the E-Speak Broker/Market
Maker product (delivered To Helsinki Telephone Corporation in
Finland). In addition, Joe led the development and deployment of
HP’s Enterprise Portal technology (dubbed Enterprise Solutions – Now
ESN, the Quote & Order Assistant (QOA) and Watson on the Web
(WOW). Joe also conceived and launched the HP/O'Reilly SourceXChange
partnership, now part of collab.net. Prior to HP, Joe was a widely
recognized architect serving enterprise clients such as Nortel,
Spring, NCS, and NASA for over 10 years. Earlier in his career Joe
founded his own consulting business selling, building and delivering
complete solutions to small and medium enterprises.
Joe is dedicated to the Open Source
community.
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Jeff Tedesco , Vice President of
Sales
Jeff Tedesco is a 22 year sales
veteran of Silicon Valley. His work
includes over 15 years of
public company service spanning positions at IBM, Convergent
Technologies, Software Publishing Corporation and Banyan Systems.
Jeff has also worked at two pre-public software companies as Vice
President of Sales including FirstFloor Software (acquired by Calico
Technologies) and Andromedia (acquired by Macromedia). Most recently
he was Vice President of Sales of the Enterprise Solutions Division
at Macromedia where he led the sales force and generated over $20M
in annual sales. Jeff also has a successful consulting business,
Amplitude, where he assists startups in hiring and managing their
sales forces.
Jeff graduated from Santa Clara University in
1980 and holds a degree in Business Management.
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Chetan Patel, Vice President of Engineering
Prior to starting Coherity and developing its
vision into a reality, Chetan served as a development manager at
Hewlett-Packard and was directly responsible for several key HP
initiatives. Chetan managed a team that was responsible for
delivering the E-Services Broker application, which represents the
next generation Internet Marketplace E-Service and B2B application
from HP. Chetan was also instrumental in developing and publishing
the first version of the E-Services APIs which provided a framework
for E-Services as envisioned by HP's E-Speak Technology. In
addition, Chetan conceptualized and implemented portal technologies
for HP's enterprise customers and on innovative technologies and
frameworks for integration and interaction between various portals
and web sites within HP.
Chetan is the author of several publications and
has patents pending in his name. Chetan holds a M.S. in Computer
Engineering from Wright State University, Ohio and a B.E. in
Electronics Engineering from Bombay University, India.
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Ken Tsai, Director of Product Marketing
Ken has over 10 years of enterprise software
business development and marketing experience. Prior to joining
Coherity, Ken served as the director of sales consulting at Niku,
where he managed an organization that was responsible for strategic
account sales and development of new business opportunities. Ken has
a tremendous amount of experience in the ERP, SCM, CRM, and PSA
application arena, and led the Electronics Vertical sales
engineering team at Baan Company as a solution architect. Ken also
held development and project management positions at Seer
Technologies, where he delivered online application solutions to
major financial institutions.
Ken holds a B.S. degree from University of
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