Company
Leadership
Company Executives
Dan Crain
Chief Executive Officer
Dan has had the fortune of spending the past 25 years split between being both an IT executive and a Technology vendor and entrepreneur. He’s held executive technology jobs at such top tier firms as Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank,…
Cathy Chandler
Chief Financial Officer
Cathy contributes more than 25 years of finance and technology experience to WHIPTAIL’s leadership. She previously served as CFO of Vitrue, a social marketing technology platform purchased by Oracle in 2012, and Liaison Technologies, an integration and data management technology…
James Candelaria
Chief Technology Officer
James began his career in high school as a C++ developer, developing SAT preparation software for a small firm in Princeton, NJ. After graduation, James shifted his focus to consulting and spent the next 10 years working in large scale…
Maxwell Riggsbee
VP of Product Management and CMO
Joining WHIPTAIL in February 2012, Max brings over 20 years of experience in distributed computing environments including application development, database infrastructure, operating systems, storage and networking and also has extensive business strategy development experience. He served as Chief Technology Officer…
Ryan Snell
VP and General Manager, Americas
Ryan brings over 15 years of sales experience to WHIPTAIL, spending the last decade in a wholesome variety of customer-facing roles with both new and established IT manufacturing vendors. This background led to a unique understanding of how to successfully…
Brian Feller
VP and General Manager, EMEA
After double majoring in English and Education and planning on changing the world one elementary student at a time, Brian naturally dove headfirst into sales. Upon earning his sales and marketing stripes in the financial services market for both large…
AJ Jennings
VP of Corporate Development
AJ Jennings joined WHIPTAIL in February 2012 as VP of Corporate Development, bringing over 15 years of business development and strategic marketing experience to WHIPTAIL. Previously, AJ served as Senior Vice President of Business Development at Drobo where he held…
Russ Dauer
VP of Engineering
Russ brings over 20 years of experience in technology development for enterprise IT companies with focuses on building technology teams, delivering innovative products to market on-time, establishing engineering best practices and reducing product development cycle times. Previously he served in…
Joe Cutuli
VP of Global Customer Support
Joe joined WHIPTAIL as the Director of Product Management in April of 2011. He brings more than 25 years of executive experience in storage management to the position, most of them in the Banking and Brokerage industries. Joe transitioned to…
Board of Directors
Cristóbal Conde
Chairman of the Board
Richard Fade
Ignition Partners
Avi Faliks, Ph.D.
Spring Mountain Capital
Will Porteous
RRE Ventures
Raymond Wong
Spring Mountain Capital
Board of Advisors
Cameron Pforr
Board Observer
Frank Artale
Ignition Partners
Alex Lam
SanDisk
