Jim Green
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Jim brings to Composite Software more than 20 years of experience in developing products and technology for enterprise computing. Jim joined Composite in 2003 from webMethods where he served as CTO and executive vice president of product development. Prior to joining webMethods, Jim was CEO of Active Software, where he grew the company from a start-up to an industry leader in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) software. After the merger with webMethods, he spearheaded the integration of the two companies’ product lines to create the industry’s first comprehensive business integration platform. Before that, during a seven year tenure at Sun Microsystems, he led the development of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) specification, the industry standard for distributed objects. In previous companies, he achieved several industry firsts by developing networking and distributed computing products. Jim holds an MS in Industrial Engineering and an MS in Computer Science.
David Besemer
Chief Technical Officer
David brings to Composite Software more than twenty years of software development and management experience, all with leading edge technologies and companies. David joined Composite Software as VP of Engineering in 2002, and became the CTO in 2006. Before joining Composite he was a “freelance CTO”, providing software technology intelligence to venture capital firms. Prior to that he was the CTO of eStyle, an e-commerce retailer serving the lifestyle needs of families. Previously, David ran a successful enterprise software consulting practice, headed software product marketing at NeXT Computer, built program trading systems on Wall Street, and researched natural language processing systems at GE’s Corporate R&D center. David holds a BS in computer science from Michigan State University and an MS in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Steve Vattuone
Chief Financial Officer
Steve brings to Composite over 18 years of experience, primarily with enterprise software and consulting companies. Prior to joining Composite as CFO in 2007, Steve was the Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller at Micromuse, an enterprise software company which was subsequently acquired by IBM. Micromuse developed and licensed business and service assurance software. Prior to joining Micromuse, Steve served as the Corporate Controller of Macrovision, a developer and licensor of copy protection, electronic licensing and rights management software. Before that, he served as the Vice President, Finance of Organic, Inc., an internet professional services provider. Prior to Organic, Steve was the Corporate Controller of Brio Software, an enterprise software company which developed and licensed query and reporting tools. Before Brio Software, he held several positions at Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP, most recently as a Business Assurance Manager in their San Jose, California office. Steve holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and a BS in Business Administration from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is also a Certified Public Accountant in the State of California.
Christian Nall
Executive Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations
Christian’s career has spanned enterprise software, hardware, outsourcing, and ASPs at some of the largest and most innovative companies. Before joining Composite, Christian served as Vice President of WW Sales at Proofpoint, a messaging security company, where he built the companies sales team into a force that drove sales to over $18 million in subscription based revenue in the first two years. Prior to Proofpoint, Christian served as the VP of Global Sales at Exigen Group, VP of Field Operations at Portera Systems, and VP of Sales and Business Development at Spyglass, Inc. Prior to this, Christian’s experience included Sales and Product Management experience at Hitachi Data Systems and more than ten years in sales management in IBM’s Enterprise Systems Sales Organization. Christian holds a BS degree in Finance and Marketing from the University of California at Berkeley.
Robert Eve
Executive Vice President, Marketing
Bob’s experience includes executive level marketing and business development roles at leading enterprise software companies such as Informatica, Mercury Interactive, PeopleSoft, and Oracle. Before Composite, Bob served as VP of Marketing at Right Hemisphere, where he created the product graphics management category and doubled revenues. At Informatica and Mercury, he helped penetrate new segments in his role as the VP of Market Development. Previously, Bob ran Marketing and Alliances at Kintana (acquired by Mercury in 2003) where he defined the IT governance category and helped grow revenue from $15 million to $50 million. As VP of Alliances at PeopleSoft, Bob was responsible for over 300 partners and 100 staff members. In his nearly ten years at Oracle, Bob was on the vanguard of ERP. There he held a number of roles including Oracle Manufacturing’s first product manager and head of Oracle’s revolutionary software integration program, CAI. Bob holds a MS degree in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BS degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.
Marc Breissinger
Executive Vice President
For the past eight years as Chief Technology Officer at webMethods and SPADAC, Marc guided internal and key account technology strategy and architecture resulting in a number of new products including webMethod’s award winning Fabric product suite and millions in revenue growth. While at webMethods, Marc also identitifed and executed seven acquisitions. Prior to webMethods, Marc was a Senior Manager for six years at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) where he successfully led over a dozen major projects in Automotive, Electronics, Chemical and Retail market clients. Marc started working with IT clients during his four years as a Consultant at ZS Associates. At Composite, Marc guides strategy and architecture projects at major accounts. Marc holds a BA in computer science from Yale University. He also holds an active TS clearance.
Avtandil Garakanidze
Sr. Vice President, Product Development
Avtandil brings to Composite over 15 years of technology management and product innovation in both enterprise and consumer software space. Prior to joining Composite Software, Avtandil held executive and senior product and engineering management positions with a number of Silicon Valley technology companies. At VERITAS, Avtandil managed VERITAS Volume Replicator, a $50M/yr enterprise disaster recovery product line leveraged by top financial, pharma, manufacturing and government instutions in the world. Prior to that, Avtandil managed Starfish Software’s TrueSync OTA global synchronization and integration platform for wireless and wireline devices, which became the backbone service of top wireless carriers in the US, Europe and Asia. Among other roles, Avtandil also managed competitive sales and strategy at Siebel Systems, launched Yahoo! 360 Social Networking portal and pioneered color faxing at Compressent. Avtandil holds an MBA degree from the Massachussets Institute of Technology and an MS in Computer Engineering from the Georgian Technical University.
