Ari Zilka
Terracotta Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Prior to founding Terracotta in 2003, Ari was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at
Accel Partners. Before joining Accel, Ari was the Chief Architect at
Walmart.com, where he led the innovation and development of the company's new
engineering initiatives. At Walmart.com, he built and led a team of core
engineers focused on performance management, and operations cost-saving
measures.
Prior to Walmart.com, Ari worked as a consultant at Sapient and before that
at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. During these years, he managed development and
advised businesses on high technology strategy and deployment. His
accomplishments at Sapient include the successful launch of Walmart.com, as well
as successful engagements with Gap.com and Nike.com. At PriceWaterhouseCoopers,
he worked with Harrod's of London, Siemens, Intel, Compaq, Barnes & Noble,
and others.
Ari's career started as a software engineer for a subsidiary of Motorola,
where he wrote groundbreaking wireless paging software. Since then, his software
development accomplishments also include projects revolving around statistical
analysis and data warehousing. In the mid 1990's, Ari invented a new object
relational database that still exceeds the capabilities and performance of
database technology today.
Ari holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering Computer Science as well as in
Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley.
Greg Luck
Founder and CTO of Ehcache for Terracotta
Greg founded Ehcache in 2003. Upon Terracotta’s acquisition of Ehcache in 2009, he assumed
the role as the project’s CTO and has been instrumental in building the technology into an
enterprise-class caching solution. Greg is also deeply committed to fostering Ehcache’s loyal
open source community and regularly speaks at international conferences and seminars.
Before joining Terracotta, Greg was Chief Architect at Wotif.com where he provided technical
leadership as the company grew from a single product start-up to a billion-dollar public company
with multiple product lines. Greg also served as a consultant for ThoughtWorks, managing
accounts in the United States and Australia. He was CIO at Virgin Blue, Tempo Services, Stamford
Hotels and Resorts and Australian Resorts and spent seven years as a Chartered Accountant in
KPMG’s small business and insolvency divisions. He also founded and maintains the JPam and
Spnego open source projects, which focus on security.
Greg holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Queensland and a Masters in
Information Technology from the Queensland University of Technology.
Gary Nakamura
Vice President, Sales
Prior to Terracotta, Gary was the Director of HP World Wide Channel &
Alliance business at BEA Systems. As Director of the HP World Wide Channel &
Alliance business, Gary was responsible for overseeing BEA's HP channel strategy
and execution on a global basis.
Prior to this Gary was Director of ISV Sales responsible for OEM sales where
he worked on BEA's global ISV strategy, messaging and sales execution. Gary
began his career at BEA as a senior sales manager in the enterprise sales
organization in the western United States and was consistently one of BEA's top
global performers.
Before joining BEA Systems in 1999, Gary held various sales management
positions at Netscape Communications Corp and Merrill Lynch.
Gary graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in
Economics and Rhetoric.
Steven Harris
Vice President, Engineering
Steve has been instrumental in developing
Terracotta’s technologies from the ground up. He
started his career at Terracotta as the Chief
Architect of the Terracotta platform and quickly
progressed from there to lead the Engineering
organization. Under his stewardship, Terracotta has
built a widely-adopted and highly-acclaimed product
family and has gained industry recognition for the
quality of its engineering team. One of his most
recent accomplishments has been the highly
successful integration of the Terracotta platform
with Ehcache.
Steve is a seasoned veteran of infrastructure
software. Prior to his work at Terracotta, Steve
spent 12 years at organizations such as Kenemea, J.P.
Morgan, and Florida Power and Light leading teams and
developing infrastructure software focused on
helping developers achieve simple scale for their
applications.
Mike Allen
Vice President, Product Management
Mike is responsible for Terracotta's product strategy and execution. He applies his technological
know-how and keen market insights to develop new products that not only meet the users’ needs but also
exceed them.
With more than a decade of experience in the software industry, Mike’s expertise is with high-scale,
performance-critical web solutions. Before joining Terracotta, he managed systems ranging from real-time
trading in financial services to in-flight internet service in aerospace. Most recently, Mike was
responsible for CA Wily's Introscope Application Performance Management product line.
He holds a BSc in Computer Science from University College London.
Lynn Vojvodich
Chief Marketing Officer
As CMO, Lynn oversees all corporate marketing programs, including field
marketing, corporate communications, global customer programs, advertising,
events and corporate branding. Lynn joined Terracotta to help scale the
company and the elastic caching category globally.
Lynn is also the founder and Chairman of Take3, a marketing strategy firm
that specializes in B2B Marketing for high-tech clients. Prior to starting
Take3, she ran Enterprise Marketing Strategy and Planning Worldwide at Microsoft;
held several executive roles at BEA Systems; was a consultant at Bain & Company;
and managed the R&D for the interior of the GV, a business jet, at Gulfstream Aerospace.
She holds a BS in Product Design/Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University
and an MBA from Harvard.
