LEADERSHIP TEAM
An Experienced Management Team with a Track Record of Success
Cassatt’s leadership team brings extensive management and technology expertise— from BEA to Sun to Cray, and from numerous successful startups.
Executive Team
Board of Directors
Executive Team
Bill Coleman, CEO
Bill Coleman has more than 30 years of corporate and entrepreneurial leadership experience. Prior to Cassatt, he founded and was the first chairman and CEO of BEA Systems, the world’s leading infrastructure software company. Under his leadership, BEA became the fastest software firm ever to exceed $1 billion in annual revenue. Before BEA, he served as vice president of system software at Sun Microsystems, where his team transformed SunOS into the commercially successful Solaris operating system. While at Sun he also founded Sun’s Professional Services Division and co-founded Sun’s Federal Division. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the U.S. Air Force Academy and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Stanford University. He also has an honorary doctorate from the University of Colorado.
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Jim Flatley, Executive Vice President, Field Operations
Jim Flatley has over 25 years of enterprise software and hardware solutions experience. Prior to joining Cassatt, he served as the executive vice president of worldwide field operations for Tumbleweed Communications, which provides secure Internet communication solutions for enterprises. Prior to Tumbleweed, he served as president and executive vice president of sales and marketing at Network General Corporation. He was a founding member of the management team leading the company's revival as an independent company. Before Network General, Flatley was vice president of worldwide sales at Plumtree Software, the leader in enterprise Web portal technology. In his four years at Plumtree, he increased year-over-year revenues, growing sales from $300,000 to $80 million in just 21 months. Prior to that, he ran Americas operations at Network General/Network Associates, and has held positions at Siebel Systems, AT&T, and IBM. Jim holds a B.A. in business administration from Penn State.
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Rob Gingell, CTO and Executive Vice President, Products
Rob Gingell has over 30 years of technology expertise, primarily in systems software. Before joining Cassatt, he was Sun Microsystems' Chief Engineer and a Sun Fellow and Vice President, with responsibilities for overall architectural management and in technical direction of the company. He has also been Chief Technologist for Sun's software efforts, and was technical leader for several generations of Solaris and its predecessor SunOS operating systems. Gingell's contributions range from creating the original dynamic linking mechanisms now found in all UNIX implementations, to memory management technologies and operating system organization, to developing the Application Binary Interface (ABI) technologies that provided robust compatibility to applications in the face of significant implementation change. Prior to Sun, he built a variety of special purpose operating systems for network and graphics computers, real-time applications, CAD environments, and more. A strong advocate of open standards, he has served as the chair of the Java Community Process and on the boards of X/Open, the Open Software Foundation, and The Open Group. He has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.
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Steven Oberlin, Chief Scientist
Steven Oberlin brings more than 25 years of technology experience to his position at Cassatt, and is considered one of the world's leading authorities in supercomputing. He joined Cassatt from Unlimited Scale, where he was co-founder, president and CEO. Oberlin was the chief architect of the CRAY T3D and T3E systems, massively parallel processing systems that are widely recognized as the most efficient highly-scalable production computers ever built. He holds several communications, synchronization, and design patents for his work at Cray. He was Cray's Director of the MPP Project as well as vice president of Hardware. After SGI acquired Cray, Oberlin served as vice president of Software for SGI and general manager of the Cray Research Business Unit. Oberlin began his technology career with Cray Research in 1980, bringing up the original Cray-1 supercomputer systems, and as a designer for Seymour Cray on his Cray-2 and Cray 3 projects.
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Board of Directors
Bill Coleman
CEO
Cassatt
Bill Coleman has more than 30 years of corporate and entrepreneurial leadership experience. Prior to Cassatt, he founded and was the first chairman and CEO of BEA Systems, the world’s leading infrastructure software company. Under his leadership, BEA became the fastest software firm ever to exceed $1 billion in annual revenue. Before BEA, he served as vice president of system software at Sun Microsystems, where his team transformed SunOS into the commercially successful Solaris operating system. While at Sun he also founded Sun’s Professional Services Division and co-founded Sun’s Federal Division. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the U.S. Air Force Academy and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Stanford University. He also has an honorary doctorate from the University of Colorado.
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John Seely Brown
Former Chief Scientist
Xerox Corp.
Director
Xerox PARC
John Seely Brown is currently a visiting scholar at USC and prior to that he was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). He is a member of the National Academy of Education and a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and of AAAS and a Trustee of Brown University and the MacArthur Foundation. He serves on numerous public boards (Amazon, Corning, Varian Medical Systems and Polycom) and private boards of directors. He received a B.A. from Brown University in mathematics and physics and a Ph.D. from University of Michigan in computer and communication sciences.
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Cary Davis
Managing Director
Warburg Pincus
Cary Davis joined Warburg Pincus in 1994 and focuses on investments in the infrastructure software sector. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, he was executive assistant to Michael Dell at Dell Computer and a consultant at McKinsey & Company. Davis has been involved in a number of prior investments including OpenVision Technologies (now VERITAS Software) and BEA Systems. Davis is an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business and Treasurer of the Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst. He received a B.A. in economics from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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Pat Hackett
Managing Director
Warburg Pincus
Patrick T. Hackett is a co-head of the technology, media, and telecommunications group at Warburg Pincus. Prior to joining the firm in 1990, he was the Vice President of Cove Capital Associates, a private merchant banking partnership, and previously a partner of Acadia Partners, a private equity partnership. Hackett graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in chemistry and a B.S. in economics from The Wharton School. He is a director of GT Nexus, New Breed, UGS, and Workscape.
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Paul Hsiao
General Partner
New Enterprise Associates
Paul joined NEA in 2003. He heads up NEA's energy technology investment practice. At present, he is a director of 3jam, Actions Semiconductor (NASDAQ: ACTS), Boingo Wireless, Cassatt, DreamFactory, Jentro Technologies, and Luminary Micro. At NEA, he has supported the management teams and boards at Arch Rock, BCD Semiconductor, Deeya Energy, FineGround Networks (acquired by Cisco), Glu Mobile (NASDAQ: GLUU), HelioVolt, Interlace Systems (acquired by Oracle), Motion Computing, SMIC (NYSE: SMI), SolFocus, Spreadtrum Communications (NASDAQ: SPRD), Telegent Systems, UltraDNS (acquired by Neustar), Visual Edge Technology, and WholeSecurity (acquired by Symantec). Prior to NEA, Paul co-founded Mazu Networks, a software company financed by Benchmark Capital, Greylock, and Matrix Partners. He began his career at Medtronic and McKinsey & Company. Paul received his MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Mark Leslie
Managing Director
Leslie Ventures
Mark Leslie served as Chairman of the Board of VERITAS Software (NASDQ:VRTS) from 1997 to 2001. He joined the company in 1988 as a director and became president and founding CEO when VERITAS restarted as a software company in 1990. Prior to VERITAS, he served as president and chief executive officer of two Silicon Valley high-tech start-up companies. He currently is on the board of two public companies: Avaya and Network Appliance. He received a B.A. in physics and mathematics from New York University and completed Harvard Business School’s program for management development.
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John Rollwagen
Principal
Quatris
John Rollwagen has been affiliated with St. Paul Venture Capital as an advisor and venture partner since 1993. Previously, Rollwagen was chairman and chief executive officer of Cray Research, Inc., the leading supplier of supercomputers worldwide. He was a founding member of the Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP), an organization of chief executive officers of the 12 leading computer systems companies in the US. Created in 1989, CSPP identifies and advocates industry positions on trade and technology policy. He received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and his B.S.E.E. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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