Sushil Thomas
Co-Founder and CEO
Arcadia Data
Sushil Thomas co-founded Arcadia Data in 2012 with the vision of bringing business value to the big data platforms that customers are investing in. He’s seen data platforms evolve in the valley for 20 years, beginning with making data highly available with Solaris Clusters at Sun Microsystems, moving to big data utility storage with 3PAR (acquired by HPE), building large scale cubes using Amazon and Hadoop at Jovian Data (acquired by MarketShare), and building a next-generation data and analytics platform at Aster Data (acquired by Teradata). He looks forward to a future where data lakes become data playgrounds and is doing his part to ensure business users are allowed in.
Priyank Patel
Co-Founder and CPO
Arcadia Data
Priyank Patel leads the charge in building visually beautiful and highly scalable analytical products. Prior to co-founding Arcadia, he was part of the founding engineering team at Aster Data, where he designed core components of the Aster Database. He later transitioned into field roles to win the company’s first customers in the Eastern US region and then into product management for the SQL-MapReduce and Analytical Frameworks. Following Teradata’s acquisition of Aster, Priyank led product management for its Big Data Appliance in close partnership with Hortonworks.
Shant Hovsepian
Co-Founder and CTO
Arcadia Data
Shant Hovsepian is co-founder and CTO of Arcadia Data and is responsible for long-term innovation and technical direction. He is an expert in high-performance data processing, query optimization, and distributed systems. Previously Shant was with Teradata, through the acquisition of Aster Data, where he was an early member of the engineering team working on numerous features across the stack. Prior to Aster, Shant interned at Google, where he worked on optimizing the AdWords database. His experience includes everything from Linux kernel programming and database optimization all the way to visualization. He started his first lemonade stand at the age of 4 and ran a small IT consulting business in high school. Shant studied computer science at UCLA where he had publications in top-tier computer systems conferences.
Doug Cameron
Co-Founder and Chief Architect
Doug Cameron oversees all things engineering at Arcadia. Prior to co-founding Arcadia, he was principal engineer, distinguished Technologist, and engineering manager at 3par/HP, where he developed RAID, system management, and thin-provisioning management layer components, and led the effort for patent applications on Quality Of Service (QOS) in a distributed storage system. Before 3par/HP, he was lead engineer at Tegic Communications and Strobe Data, Inc.
Carla Ahlstrom
Founding Engineer
Carla Ahlstrom is responsible for Arcadia’s product UI/UX design. She distills business requirements and customer feedback into user-friendly web application designs that incorporate the latest web technologies. She has worked at several early-stage startups designing the initial product UI/UX from the ground up. Notably, she led the UI/UX design of key products at Aster Data (acquired by Teradata) and Tablus (acquired by RSA/EMC).
Charu Anchlia
Founding Engineer
Charu Anchlia is the Systems Architect at Arcadia, focusing on architecting customer solutions as well asUser Interface development. Previously, she was Senior Software Engineer at 3PAR/HP, where she developed HP’s unified File Block Object solution and 3PAR’s solution for HA disk replacement and the chunklet I/O kernel subsystem. Her responsibilities included enhancing system architecture, mentoring engineers and handling customer escalations. She has a Masters in Computer Science from Stanford and a Masters in International Development from Harvard.
Anjali Norwood
Founding Engineer
Anjali Norwood leads the Arcadia Engine team. Her team is responsible for building a high performance, robust and scalable engine to serve queries against massive amounts of data. Prior to joining Arcadia Data, Anjali worked on improving the performance of SQL Map-Reduce functions using collaborative planning at Aster Data (Teradata). She also worked at IBM on DB2 LUW product optimizing queries against data marts and data warehouses, parallelizing XML operations and federating data from diverse sources. Her expertise is in database query optimization and performance over distributed systems.
John Wiederhold
Founding Engineer
John Wiederhold leads the Arcadia Visualization Server engineering team. Prior to joining Arcadia Data, John worked at both early stage startups and large corporations. He was an early member of the engineering team at Tablus, Inc., before it was acquired by RSA Security (EMC Corp). At RSA, John continued to work on security products in both engineering and management roles. Before joining Tablus, John held engineering and management roles at Turbolinux, Inc.
Chitti Keswani
VP Engineering
Chitti Keswani is responsible for all engineering at Arcadia. Prior to Arcadia, he was Sr Director, Engineering at AsterData Division of Teradata Labs. His responsibilities included leading the Database, Systems, and Analytics Engineering teams. Chitti was an early member of the AsterData Engineering team and led the effort to make Aster a leader in the Analytics space. Before Teradata, he held senior leadership roles at Informatica, and Sun Microsystems. Chitti has a bachelors degree in EE from Bombay University and a masters in Computer Science and Engineering Management from Santa Clara University.
Steve Wooledge
VP Marketing
Steve Wooledge is responsible for overall go-to-market strategy and marketing for Arcadia Data. He is a 15-year veteran of enterprise software in both large public companies and early-stage start-ups and has a passion for bringing innovative technology to market. Previously, Steve was with MapR Technologies where he ran all product, solution, and digital marketing for their converged data platform. He previously held senior management positions in marketing at Teradata, Aster Data (acquired by Teradata), Interwoven (acquired by HP), and Business Objects (acquired by SAP), as well as sales and engineering roles at Business Objects, Covalex, and Dow Chemical.
Randy Lea
Chief Revenue Officer
Randy Lea is charged with leading the strong sales momentum at Arcadia Data in his role as Chief Revenue Officer. Passionate about solving customer problems by leveraging analytics and data, Lea was an early participant in the data warehouse/BI analytics market. His impressive experience as part of the Arcadia Data executive team stems from prior leadership positions at companies including Aster Data, Think Big Analytics, and Teradata. Lea has a bachelors degree in Marketing from California State University, Fullerton.
Sushil Thomas
Co-Founder and CEO
Arcadia Data
Sushil Thomas co-founded Arcadia Data in 2012 with the vision of bringing business value to the big data platforms that customers are investing in. He’s seen data platforms evolve in the valley for 20 years, beginning with making data highly available with Solaris Clusters at Sun Microsystems, moving to big data utility storage with 3PAR (acquired by HPE), building large scale cubes using Amazon and Hadoop at Jovian Data (acquired by MarketShare), and building a next-generation data and analytics platform at Aster Data (acquired by Teradata). He looks forward to a future where data lakes become data playgrounds and is doing his part to ensure business users are allowed in.
Priyank Patel
Co-Founder and CPO
Arcadia Data
Priyank Patel leads the charge in building visually beautiful and highly scalable analytical products. Prior to co-founding Arcadia, he was part of the founding engineering team at Aster Data, where he designed core components of the Aster Database. He later transitioned into field roles to win the company’s first customers in the Eastern US region and then into product management for the SQL-MapReduce and Analytical Frameworks. Following Teradata’s acquisition of Aster, Priyank led product management for its Big Data Appliance in close partnership with Hortonworks.
Shant Hovsepian
Co-Founder and CTO
Arcadia Data
Shant Hovsepian is co-founder and CTO of Arcadia Data and is responsible for long-term innovation and technical direction. He is an expert in high-performance data processing, query optimization, and distributed systems. Previously Shant was with Teradata, through the acquisition of Aster Data, where he was an early member of the engineering team working on numerous features across the stack. Prior to Aster, Shant interned at Google, where he worked on optimizing the AdWords database. His experience includes everything from Linux kernel programming and database optimization all the way to visualization. He started his first lemonade stand at the age of 4 and ran a small IT consulting business in high school. Shant studied computer science at UCLA where he had publications in top-tier computer systems conferences.
Navin Chaddha
Mayfield
Navin brings to the Arcadia board a wealth of experience: some of his notable successes include Akamai, SolarCity and the StorSimple/Microsoft: Cloud-integrated storage appliance, among others. In addition to Arcadia, Navin is currently working with Coudgenix, Elastica, MapR and Lyft.
Bruce Taragin
Blumberg Capital
Bruce is Managing Director at Blumberg Capital and has 23 years experience as a venture capital investor, entrepreneur, technology investment banker and corporate attorney. In addition to Arcadia, he serves as a member or observer on the Board of Directors of Appboy, Coverhound, Lenddo, Revionics, Roam and Sigmod Labs.
Igor Taber
Intel Capital
Igor is a director at Intel Capital’s Datacenter Software group, focusing on Big Data, Analytics and Cloud enterprise investments. In addition to Arcadia, he has led investments and serves on the Boards of BlueData (big data virtualization), GoodData (cloud BI), Saffron (cognitive computing), and several other stealth mode companies.
