Jamie
Lerner, President & CEO |
Ross
Fujii, Vice President, Engineering |
Jack
Meeks, Vice President, Sales |
Christina
Ellwood,
Acting Vice President, Marketing |
Jim
Smith, Vice President, Business Development
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David
Sakamoto, Vice President, Operations |
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President & CEO
Jamie Lerner has over fifteen years of experience
in software development and high growth company
management as the President and CEO of
CITTIO. In 2001, Lerner founded CITTIO to address
the need for cost-effective, easy-to-use; enterprise
management software that
he found was not available
in the industry while managing thousands of servers
at XUMA, Inc. Lerner co-founded XUMA in 1997
to serve the rapidly growing need for Internet
services where he served as Chairman of the Board,
co-CEO and
Chief Technology Officer. Lerner and XUMA's management
team grew the company to 340 employees and over
$20M of annual revenues in just two
years. XUMA served over 90 domestic and international
customers, including Cannon, Logitec, Bristol
Meyers Squib, Bayer, Boeing, Riverdeep, Chase
H&Q, General Electric, PG&E and Aegis Insurance. Prior to XUMA,
Lerner held senior positions at Platinum Technology
Andersen Consulting.
Lerner drives the development of award-winning software and is widely quoted in top-tier publications including Fortune, Red Herring, Industry Standard, Computerworld, InfoWorld and Inc. Magazine. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Quantitative Economics and Decision Sciences from U.C. San Diego. |
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Vice President, Engineering
Ross Fujii is Vice President of Engineering at CITTIO with over thirteen years of system architecture and development experience across multiple technology platforms. Before joining CITTIO in 2003, Fujii spent three years as a Co-Founder & General Partner of IdeaWave Systems, offering web application architecture and consulting services where he successfully sold and delivered over two dozen projects, leveraging various technologies such as J2EE, LAMP (PHP, perl), and Microsoft ASP.NET.
Prior to IdeaWave Systems, Fujii was a Senior Architect at XUMA where he helped define and deliver the company’s three core products: CommerceX built on ATG Dynamo; ExchangeX built on WebLogic (Moai); and a generic adapter for EAI built on Java and TIBCO (i.e. Rendezvous). While at XUMA he delivered over fifteen e-commerce projects for companies such as Columbia Tri-Star Home Entertainment, VeriFone, Xilinx, Wired Digital, and Larry Flynt Publications.
Fujii is a graduate of the ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS rotational Engineering Systems Development program and earned a B.S.E in Electrical Engineering degree (Cum Laude) from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. |
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Vice President, Sales
Jack Meeks is Vice President of Sales at CITTIO. Meeks is a skilled executive with extensive sales, marketing and business development experience in software, data communications, network optimization & acceleration, content distribution, VoIP and network security. Prior to joining CITTIO in 2006, Meeks was a Director of Sales and General Manager for Asia Pacific operations at Internap Network Services, a solutions provider for advanced network services and technologies. Meeks consistently accomplished the strongest regional sales results during his seven years. In addition, he built the organizational structure and held P&L responsibility for Internap's Asia Pacific operations.
Meeks has also held senior sales positions at AT&T and MFS. Meeks earned a Bachelor's of Science degree in Marketing from Arizona State University. |
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Acting Vice President, Marketing
Christina Ellwood is serving as the Acting Vice President of Marketing at CITTIO, responsible for driving and directing all aspects of the marketing activities and accelerating the sales efforts. Ellwood has over 20 years experience in the technology industry working with start-ups, services providers, and enterprises. She provides expert counsel and interim executive leadership through her company Moreland Associates, which she founded in 2001. Prior to Moreland Associates, she founded and served as President and CEO of OfficePlease Inc., an intranet software company and ASP and currently serves as the Chairman for the OfficePlease Foundation. Prior to OfficePlease, she was the VP of Marketing for Sentient Networks a telecom switch manufacturer, until their acquisition by Cisco Systems. Previously, she held numerous management positions including director of carrier development and marketing at Premisys, a telecom and enterprise Integrated Access Device (IAD) manufacturer, which was later acquired by Zhone, and development and marketing positions with N.E.T., a TI multiplexer manufacturer and Kevex Instruments, a provider of EDX and XRF spectrometers and detectors.
Ellwood is known for her strong, clear leadership and drive. She earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Chemistry and Biology from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
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Vice President, Business Development
Jim Smith is Vice President of Business Development at CITTIO, responsible for defining, creating and managing all partner and channel relationships. An accomplished executive with over twenty years of sales, marketing and business development experience in the software industry, Smith possesses a comprehensive knowledge of application development, security and network infrastructure solutions along with a proven track record of structuring and closing complex transactions. Prior to CITTIO Smith held a variety of executive positions with eEye Digital Security, Select Software, Meridian Software and Starbase. As an Executive Vice President at Starbase Corporation, Smith managed world-wide sales, marketing and business development, growing revenue from $6 million to $48 million in three years, leading to an acquisition by Borland.
Smith brings to CITTIO a gift for identifying targeted ecosystems and formalizing strategic partnerships required to create and implement a winning value proposition. Smith earned a BSEE in Marketing from the Universityof Rhode Island. |
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Vice President, Operations
Based on a foundation of project and program management, David Sakamoto has over fifteen years of experience managing service development, service delivery and process improvement. Sakamoto is responsible for Customer Support, Professional Services, Maintenance and Quality Assurance for CITTIO. Prior to joining CITTIO, Sakamoto was a Senior Program Manager at Genentech and was responsible for large software deployments within the Product Operations division. Sakamoto successfully managed large scale eCommerce projects at XUMA and provided portfolio management services to Yahoo. While at SGI, he developed core skills inoperations while managing product and process development for their Linux and high-end supercomputing platform.
Sakamoto earned a Bachelor's of Science degree in Industrial Engineering at California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo. |
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