Engine Yard, Inc.

Management Team

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  John Dillon

  CEO

  John has over 20 years of experience in executive leadership positions and has delivered several successful exits as CEO of well-known technology companies including Salesforce.com and Hyperion as well as Navis, the leading provider of shipping logistics software. Prior to his CEO roles, John held sales management positions at Oracle and Arbor Software and was a systems engineer at EDS (Electronic Data Systems). John holds an MBA from Golden Gate University and began his career with a B.S. in engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy, serving for five years as an engineer in the nuclear submarine service.

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  Alan Cyron

  CFO

  Alan is responsible for the company’s finance and administration, human resources, and legal efforts. He has more than twenty-five years of financial experience, leading both public and private backed companies through growth and organizational change. After an extensive banking career at a predecessor of JPMorgan Chase, Alan has been the CFO of four companies, Paragon Trade Brands, Inc., MobileAria, Inc., Axis Systems, Inc and Navis, LLC. Prior to joining Engine Yard, Alan was CFO of Navis, LLC, a private company specializing in software systems for operating large marine terminals and distribution centers throughout the world. Alan holds an MBA in finance from New York University and a BS/BA in finance from Georgetown University.

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  Tom Mornini

  CTO and Co-Founder

  Tom co-founded Engine Yard to provide the infrastructure and support necessary to fuel the development of Ruby on Rails applications. He has spent nearly 30 years as a software programmer and software architect and 20 years leading companies as a serial entrepreneur. Prior to co-founding Engine Yard in 2006, he created FaceBridge Research, Inc., a billing service for video-over-IM systems, and InfoMania Printing and Prepress, Inc., an innovator in Internet print procurement. He also served as software architect at Quios.com, responsible for designing the platform that allowed the mobile messaging company to grow into a global provider with more than 130 employees.

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  Roger Levy

  SVP Products

  Roger is responsible for Engine Yard’s products and leads the product management, engineering, technology and support teams. He has over 30 years of experience leading the design, development and support of high tech products and services including development tools, enterprise software, operating systems, mobility and data networking. Roger has extensive experience in open source software and most recently was the SVP and GM for Novell’s SUSE Linux operating systems business. He has also held executive positions with AT&T and Lucent Technologies and holds a BS degree in physics and a master of science degree in information and computer sciences.

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  Dixon Fiske

  SVP Worldwide Sales

  Dixon brings 22 years of high tech experience to his role as head of worldwide sales. Prior to Engine Yard, he ran sales for Nimsoft, a cloud and datacenter monitoring company, where he tripled revenue in three years and set the stage for CA's acquisition in 2010. Before that, he led HP Software's Americas Corporate Sales Division, one of the largest inside sales organizations in the industry. Previous experience includes sales management positions at Mercury Interactive, DoubleClick, Oracle, and AT&T. Dixon has a BA in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley.

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  Marcy Campbell

  SVP Global Alliances and Business Development

  Marcy manages Engine Yard business development and channel partnerships on a world-wide basis. Previous to this role, Marcy was Vice President of Sales at Engine Yard, and brings 20 plus years of sales management and business development experience from companies such as IBM, Lotus, @Home Networks, Moonlight Systems and Netscape Communications. Prior to joining Engine Yard, Marcy was Vice President of Enterprise Sales at Six Apart, ran worldwide OEM sales and business development for CA, and was an entrepreneur in residence for Bay Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Marcy holds a BA in history and a BA in communications from the University of Hartford.

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  Mark Gaydos

  SVP Worldwide Marketing

  Mark has more than 20 years of enterprise marketing experience. Prior to Engine Yard, he was Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at VirtuOz. Mark has also held a variety of marketing roles at successful technology companies, including Oracle, SAP, Tripwire and Comergent. He is also an instructor at UC Berkeley Extension where he has been teaching for over a decade—a course he founded on software product management and product marketing. Gaydos has an M.B.A. in management science from San Diego State University and a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.