Management Team

Executive Team
Joe Gottlieb, President & CEO Joe is well known as an enterprise security thought leader. A respected technology veteran, Joe helped Sensage build and rapidly expand the web's first open security intelligence community, as well as increase consecutive quarterly revenues. Prior to becoming president and CEO in 2011, Joe led all marketing and business development activities, building partnerships and developing new opportunities to drive growth. Joe joined Sensage from McAfee, where he was Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Technology Alliances. He brings a proven track record of innovative business strategies, including building the Security Innovation Alliance partner ecosystem for the industry's first open security management platform. Prior to McAfee, Joe held executive positions leading product and business strategy for such companies as Nokia and META Group. Joe holds a BSEE in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. Read Joe's blog.
Chris Berry, VP Services & Support Chris is a seasoned technology leader responsible for the professional services and technical support teams. An early Sensage employee, Chris is passionate about customer success. Prior to joining Sensage, Chris was a Product Support Engineer at Sybase. As the first Manager of Web Search and Enterprise Search Technical Support at Inktomi, he grew the support organization to a 15 person team serving 2500 customers, and served as Director of Technical Support for Enterprise Search/Ultraseek at both Inktomi and Verity. Chris has a B.A. in Science from San Francisco State University.
Cari Jaquet, VP Marketing Cari is responsible for ensuring the alignment and delivery of strategic marketing around key corporate initiatives and revenue targets. With a 15 year track record of results-oriented programs and innovative marketing strategies, Cari oversees all aspects of integrated marketing campaigns and communications programs, including PR, analyst relations, web properties, channel marketing, sales enablement and customer promotions. Previously, Cari served as the global marketing director for mid-size enteprises at McAfee. Her extensive experience includes driving integrated marketing programs for SAP, Hyperion, and Cisco, managing million dollar marketing budgets.
Stacy Lovelace, VP Finance & Legal Stacy has 20 years of financial and legal experience focused in technology industries. Prior to becoming VP of Finance and Legal, Stacy was SenSage’s Controller. Her financial experience includes General Electric where, as a Financial Analyst after graduating from GE’s Financial Management Program with honors, her responsibilities included leading the business and operating plans for a business unit in the Aerospace Business Group. As Special/Senior Counsel, Stacy was responsible for licensing, intellectual property and contracts at Sprint Nextel where she helped launch Boost Mobile, a wireless telecommunications startup. Before joining Sprint Nextel, she was responsible for securities, corporate and trademark matters, including an IPO, as Staff Attorney at SAGA Software, a database software provider. Stacy holds a BS in Finance from the Ohio State University and a JD from American University Washington College of Law. She is also a Certified Public Accountant.
Eric Warner, VP Sales With more than 20 years of successful sales management experience, Eric Warner brings proactive leadership and proven sales management to Sensage. As Vice President of Sales at Sensage, Eric is responsible for managing sales teams across the U.S. and abroad to increase sales for its market leading event data and security intelligence solutions. Eric has built sales organizations in the enterprise security and business infrastructure markets , consistently exceeding sales goals by focusing on customer success. Prior to Sensage, Eric drove business growth at leading firms including Integralis, VeriSign, BEA and Sun Microsystems . At Integralis, he developed distribution networks for multinational accounts in Asia, Europe, South America, and Russia resulting in record sales performance. Eric holds a B.S. in Business Administration from San Diego State University.
Rao Yendluri, VP Engineering Rao is passionate about leading engineering teams to create innovative, scalable data warehousing products. With more than 25 years of senior managment experience in database development and data warehousing, he joined Sensage from ANTs Software, where he served as VP of Engineering. Previously, Rao founded and was president of iNuCom (now part of IBM), a software development firm specializing in data warehousing components. Prior to iNuCom, Rao served as Vice President of Engineering for Solid Information Technology. Rao has held leadership positions at such companies as Prism Solutions, Centura Software and Tandem Computers, where he helped form the SQL Access Group, developer of an industry standard database programming interface, X/Open CLI API. Rao has achieved a Masters in Computer Science.
Leadership Team
Danny Banks, VP Solutions Engineering & Emerging Markets Danny applies his talents and capabilities to spearhead the resolution of event data management challenges faced by Sensage's customer base and partners. Since joining Sensage in early 2003, Danny has overseen the acquisition of hundreds of Sensage customers and has assisted with the penetration of new markets through Sensage partnerships. Danny has over 14 years of technical sales experience at companies such as Sybase, OnDisplay, and Vignette where he was Chief Technologist of the Content & Wireless group. Danny holds a BS degree in Physics from the University of California at Davis.
Eric Karlson, Chief Architect One of Sensage's founding employees, Eric is an expert in building scalable, distributed processing systems and holds a patent for Sensage's columnar database. A technology veteran, he is passionate about disruptive technologies, and develops the core technologies that drive innovative solutions. Eric serves in an executive managerial capacity to help guide corporate objectives. Prior to Sensage, Eric was recruited from the UC Berkeley' PhD program in Artificial Intelligence to join E-Fax Communications, serving on the board of directors and executive team as VP of Technical Development. Eric has a B.S. with distinction in Computer Science from Cornell University.

Executive Team

Joe Gottlieb, President & CEO

Joe is well known as an enterprise security thought leader. A respected technology veteran, Joe helped Sensage build and rapidly expand the web's first open security intelligence community, as well as increase consecutive quarterly revenues. Prior to becoming president and CEO in 2011, Joe led all marketing and business development activities, building partnerships and developing new opportunities to drive growth.

Joe joined Sensage from McAfee, where he was Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Technology Alliances. He brings a proven track record of innovative business strategies, including building the Security Innovation Alliance partner ecosystem for the industry's first open security management platform. Prior to McAfee, Joe held executive positions leading product and business strategy for such companies as Nokia and META Group.

Joe holds a BSEE in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Read Joe's blog.

Chris Berry, VP Services & Support

Chris is a seasoned technology leader responsible for the professional services and technical support teams. An early Sensage employee, Chris is passionate about customer success.

Prior to joining Sensage, Chris was a Product Support Engineer at Sybase. As the first Manager of Web Search and Enterprise Search Technical Support at Inktomi, he grew the support organization to a 15 person team serving 2500 customers, and served as Director of Technical Support for Enterprise Search/Ultraseek at both Inktomi and Verity.

Chris has a B.A. in Science from San Francisco State University.

Cari Jaquet, VP Marketing

Cari is responsible for ensuring the alignment and delivery of strategic marketing around key corporate initiatives and revenue targets. With a 15 year track record of results-oriented programs and innovative marketing strategies, Cari oversees all aspects of integrated marketing campaigns and communications programs, including PR, analyst relations, web properties, channel marketing, sales enablement and customer promotions.

Previously, Cari served as the global marketing director for mid-size enteprises at McAfee. Her extensive experience includes driving integrated marketing programs for SAP, Hyperion, and Cisco, managing million dollar marketing budgets.

Stacy Lovelace, VP Finance & Legal

Stacy has 20 years of financial and legal experience focused in technology industries. Prior to becoming VP of Finance and Legal, Stacy was SenSage’s Controller.

Her financial experience includes General Electric where, as a Financial Analyst after graduating from GE’s Financial Management Program with honors, her responsibilities included leading the business and operating plans for a business unit in the Aerospace Business Group. As Special/Senior Counsel, Stacy was responsible for licensing, intellectual property and contracts at Sprint Nextel where she helped launch Boost Mobile, a wireless telecommunications startup.

Before joining Sprint Nextel, she was responsible for securities, corporate and trademark matters, including an IPO, as Staff Attorney at SAGA Software, a database software provider. Stacy holds a BS in Finance from the Ohio State University and a JD from American University Washington College of Law. She is also a Certified Public Accountant.

Eric Warner, VP Sales

With more than 20 years of successful sales management experience, Eric Warner brings proactive leadership and proven sales management to Sensage. As Vice President of Sales at Sensage, Eric is responsible for managing sales teams across the U.S. and abroad to increase sales for its market leading event data and security intelligence solutions.

Eric has built sales organizations in the enterprise security and business infrastructure markets , consistently exceeding sales goals by focusing on customer success. Prior to Sensage, Eric drove business growth at leading firms including Integralis, VeriSign, BEA and Sun Microsystems . At Integralis, he developed distribution networks for multinational accounts in Asia, Europe, South America, and Russia resulting in record sales performance.

Eric holds a B.S. in Business Administration from San Diego State University.

Rao Yendluri, VP Engineering

Rao is passionate about leading engineering teams to create innovative, scalable data warehousing products. With more than 25 years of senior managment experience in database development and data warehousing, he joined Sensage from ANTs Software, where he served as VP of Engineering.

Previously, Rao founded and was president of iNuCom (now part of IBM), a software development firm specializing in data warehousing components. Prior to iNuCom, Rao served as Vice President of Engineering for Solid Information Technology. Rao has held leadership positions at such companies as Prism Solutions, Centura Software and Tandem Computers, where he helped form the SQL Access Group, developer of an industry standard database programming interface, X/Open CLI API.

Rao has achieved a Masters in Computer Science.

Leadership Team

Danny Banks, VP Solutions Engineering & Emerging Markets

Danny applies his talents and capabilities to spearhead the resolution of event data management challenges faced by Sensage's customer base and partners. Since joining Sensage in early 2003, Danny has overseen the acquisition of hundreds of Sensage customers and has assisted with the penetration of new markets through Sensage partnerships.

Danny has over 14 years of technical sales experience at companies such as Sybase, OnDisplay, and Vignette where he was Chief Technologist of the Content & Wireless group.

Danny holds a BS degree in Physics from the University of California at Davis.

Eric Karlson, Chief Architect

One of Sensage's founding employees, Eric is an expert in building scalable, distributed processing systems and holds a patent for Sensage's columnar database. A technology veteran, he is passionate about disruptive technologies, and develops the core technologies that drive innovative solutions. Eric serves in an executive managerial capacity to help guide corporate objectives.

Prior to Sensage, Eric was recruited from the UC Berkeley' PhD program in Artificial Intelligence to join E-Fax Communications, serving on the board of directors and executive team as VP of Technical Development.

Eric has a B.S. with distinction in Computer Science from Cornell University.

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