Management Team

A track record of success.

Dataupia is an emerging company led by an experienced management team with a track record of founding and building successful technology companies. Our vision is ambitious and has the potential to change the way the industry thinks of enterprise data management, while setting new standards in ease-of-use, total cost of ownership, and scalability. Let's meet the management team.

Foster Hinshaw, Founder

Foster Hinshaw, often referred to as the Father of Data Warehouse Appliances, brings a wealth of creative, technical, and operational expertise in both hardware and software to Dataupia. Foster is accomplished in designing and developing large, complex systems for both enterprise and departmental applications. Prior to Dataupia, Foster founded Netezza, a market leader in enterprise-class business intelligent appliances that successfully introduced a new category of data warehouse appliance to the market.

Prior to Netezza, Foster consulted to marquee clients on large data systems and eCommerce applications. His career also includes Y2K Practice Manager at Keane, Inc., Chief Financial Officer and Director of Information Systems at VideoGuide (now part of TV Guide), and strategic positions at a number of high tech and marketing consulting firms.

Always up for the challenge of proving a technology's potential, Foster was on the team that won the world's longest electric car race with a converted 1970 Hornet, one of two vehicles that crossed the finish line.

Foster has a B.S. and Masters in Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Tony Sirianni, President and CEO

As President & CEO, Tony Sirianni leads Dataupia's executive team and is an active member of the Board of Directors. Tony joins Dataupia with a proven track record for capitalizing on mainstream adoption of new technology. As the data warehouse appliance market is exploding and businesses recognize the operational benefits of high performance at a low total cost of ownership, Dataupia sits at the forefront of this movement with a compelling, differentiated offering. Tony's experience is a proven asset that will accelerate the mass market adoption of the Dataupia Satori Server. Prior to Dataupia Tony was with Cognos where he helped fuel its revenue growth from $10M in 1993 to over $800M. In his drive to link software to business value, he positioned Cognos products in terms of the contribution BI brought to the enterprise as they moved from reporting and analysis tools to performance applications. While with Cognos, Tony held a variety of strategic positions including SVP, Worldwide Field Operations and President of the Americas.

Prior to Cognos, Tony held sales and marketing roles with Revelation Technologies, Access Technologies, and Data Terminal Systems. Tony holds a B.A. in Business and Economics from Saint Anselm College.

Jeffrey Cooper, Chief Financial Officer

Jeffrey Cooper oversees all areas of finance and accounting at Dataupia. A certified public accountant with over 25 years of experience in the New England High Tech community Jeff has extensive experience in equity funding, acquisitions, business strategy and operations.

Since leaving his management position at Touche Ross & Co., Jeff has been either an advisor, consultant or employee of Northern Light Technology, mValent, Cymfony, Spinnaker Software, Practice Management Systems, divine Inc., Jetsoft and Energy Products Corp.

Jeff holds a B.S. in accounting from Northeastern University.

John O'Brien, Chief Technology Officer

John O'Brien oversees technology direction and product strategy at Dataupia. John specializes in large data warehouse systems architecture and strategy with a particular emphasis on the architecture and management of the ongoing growth and evolution of large-scale, real-time systems and processes. In this capacity, he is frequently a featured speaker and expert for The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI).

Prior to joining Dataupia, John founded Zukeran Technologies, a data warehousing and business intelligence consulting firm. In his 20-year career, John has worked on and built some of the largest real-time data warehouses and decision support systems including Level 3 Communications, Sprint PCS, Southern California Edison and Bank of America.

John holds a B.S. in Engineering from California State University, Sacramento and an Executive MBA from the University of Colorado.

John Chiu, VP Engineering

John Chiu has over 20 years of experience working in product development. John is a veteran of high tech companies with expertise in operating systems, object oriented databases and technologies, Java Application Servers and appliances. Before joining Dataupia, he was VP Engineering at Way Systems, an innovative cellular phone-based mobile point of sales system and processor.

Prior to Way Systems, John was at Imprivata, where he built the first two generations of the award winning OneSign single sign-on appliance. John has spent his career developing products and managing teams for leading technology companies such as Data General, Ontos, SilverStream, Entitlenet and Tizor Systems.

Amrith Kumar, VP of Technology and Product Delivery

Amrith's primary responsibility is to ensure the delivery of industry leading technology solutions, through a customer-focused product delivery team. Amrith brings with him extensive experience in building customer satisfaction by delivering high quality products that exceed customer expectations.

Over the last seventeen years, Amrith has held similar roles at companies that made enterprise storage applications, fault tolerant high performance systems, and massively parallel databases. He served as Director of Product Development at Netezza, where he managed the end-to-end product delivery for all customers and prospects. More recently, he was Director and General Manager Software Engineering at Sepaton, where he was responsible for the development of the core VTL product.

He holds a B.S in Mathematics, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Samantha Stone, VP Marketing

Samantha Stone is the VP of Marketing at Dataupia where she is responsible for marketing communications, product management, product marketing, and demand generation. Samantha has more than 14 years of experience executing product launches and multi-channel marketing programs for award-winning product lines from companies such as Powersoft, Informix, PC DOCS, SAP and Netezza. Samantha has a B.A. in Economics from Trinity College.

Kenneth Lawrence, VP Sales

Ken Lawrence is the VP of Sales for Dataupia. Ken is responsible for driving revenue and growth for Dataupia via our direct and indirect channels. Ken has had great success generating revenue and building sales teams for both startups and established companies focused on enterprise applications as well as enterprise hardware.

Ken has spent the last 7 years leading various strategic selling opportunities for SAS Institute. Ken also worked for Xchange where he was instrumental in developing their growing Retail, Telco and Utilities practice. Ken holds a M.S. in Computer Science from Boston University and a B.S. in Computer Science from Clarkson University.

Jonathan Saunders, VP International Operations

Jonathan Saunders joined Dataupia as VP International Operations, bringing with him extensive experience in growing businesses. Most recently Jonathan held the Managing Director position at QueryObject where he was responsible for establishing the International division for this US based software company.

Prior to Joining QueryObject, Jonathan headed up Thinking Machines as the President Director General (EMEA) in Paris successfully re-engineering the supercomputer operations into the Business Intelligence marketplace. He has also held senior positions within many IT and supercomputer companies in the UK, Germany, and Italy. Jonathan sits on the boards of several international companies.