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, President and CEO
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.
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.
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.
Jim McManus, VP Channels and Alliances
Jim McManus is the VP of Channels and Alliances for Dataupia. Jim is responsible for driving our Partner Ecosystem with the industry's top ISV, System Integrators and Hardware providers within the Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing industry. Previously, Jim was the Managing Director for BI/DW at Sun Microsystems. Jim was instrumental in helping to drive Sun's BI/DW strategy and was a key spokesperson for Sun at major industry and partner events. Jim worked for Sun for more than 7 years providing his leadership to a variety of technical consulting and management positions.
Throughout his career Jim has held various technical and management positions at Qwest, Thinking Machines, and Bank of Boston. His experience includes implementing super computers, managing large data centers, and managing application and data warehouse development groups. Jim holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Northeastern University.
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 12 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.
