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Before joining Terracotta, he was senior vice president at TIBCO Software Inc. where he was responsible for all customer-related activities including consulting, sales and after-sales support in the Americas. He also served in an advisory capacity on M&A strategy and implementation. Earlier in his career at TIBCO, he managed all business activities in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America as well as the global financial services business.

Some of his previous positions include vice president of sales at NEON and member of the board of directors at DataSynapse.

Robin Gilthorpe graduated with Honors from Lancaster University (England) in Economics and Italian. He also studied Econometrics in Bologna, Italy. He is a member of the National Association for Business Economics.

Prior to joining Terracotta, Greg served as Chief Architect at Australian online travel giant Wotif.com. He also served as a lead consultant for ThoughtWorks on accounts in the United States and Australia, 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 is a regular speaker at conferences and contributor of articles to the technical press.

Greg earned a Master’s degree in Information Technology from QUT and Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Queensland.

Prior to joining Terracotta, Jill served as founder and Managing Director of boutique consultancy Gray Wolf Partners and as an on-demand consultant to Silicon Valley advisory Catalyst Strategies. She advised start-ups as well as enterprise clients including SAP, Wells Fargo, eBay, and Cisco.

As Vice President at Broderick & Company, Jill helped consulting firms such Bain & Company, Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte, and others better understand and grow their markets. She also served as Vice President of Marketing at Visto Corporation (an online data storage and mobile access service) and directed member acquisition and product marketing at Netscape Communications and America Online.

Jill holds a BA in International Relations from Pomona College and an MBA from The Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Prior to joining Terracotta, Gagan was a leader within Deloitte Consulting's Digital practice where he led web-related projects for clients like Adobe, Agilent, Expedia, HP, McAfee, Seagate and Walmart, among others.

Gagan also worked for software services providers Zensar and Network Programs in India for five years before moving to the US with IT consultancy Techspan.

Gagan is a published author and speaker and who shares his knowledge at conferences and via blogs. He holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from the renowned Delhi College of Engineering.

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.

Prior to Terracotta, Paul led a services team at Yodlee. Other company experience includes Platform Computing, Persistence Software and IBM. Paul has extensive experience in a number of industry domains, including financial services, bio-technology, e-commerce, cloud computing, and semantic technologies. Whether working with the top ten banks in the world, or partnering with a newly-minted startup, his goal is always to provide service that is second to none.

Paul holds a MS in Computer Science from the University of Rochester.

In 1997, Software AG created a separate legal entity/spin off/startup called Saga Software, to which Steve transferred as an original employee. Saga Software focused on building what was then an emerging concept of an Integration Broker based on the new language of "Java". As part of this project, his team built one of the first JMS implementations in existence at the time (Sun credited the team with helping improve the JMS specification) and creating what was then, state of the art adapter concepts and products to backend ERP’s and Databases. In 2000, Steve made the jump to the hot local Fairfax Virginia based startup called webMethods and took a 2 year assignment living in Germany and working onsite in the famous "Basis" building at SAP and managing the SAP Business Connecter project for webMethods. It was a joint SAP/webMethods effort that produced the number 2 distributed product in SAP history, second only to R/3 itself (over 20k distributions).

On return to the USA in 2002, Steve took over the webMethods Adapter Messaging and Integration Server (ESB) projects and was promoted to be a vice president and was in that role till 2007 when Software AG purchased webMethods and he came full circle back to Software AG! Since that time, Steve has been managing the "Integration Core" team inside the webMethods Business Division for Software AG, which includes the ESB, Adapters, e-standards, Trading Networks, B2B, MFT, Rules engine, Platformand Security teams, SOA Governance (Mediator), CloudStreams, MDM, and Messaging solutions. Starting with his tenure at Saga Software, Steve has been actively involved with the corporate M&A activities, from helping select the technologies, due diligence, to integration of the newly acquired companies. At Software AG in 2010 he drove, from idea, lead the selection process and finally to the integration of the acquisition of both Terracotta and then shortly later, the London based my-Channels company (Nirvana Universal Messaging).

With this appointment to Terracotta he is now additionally responsible for all of Terracotta’s engineering, including the In-Genius offering that contains Terracotta, my-Channels Nirvana and RTM’s CEP engine that offers world-class scale of BigData in-memory intelligence platform.