Mark Geene, CEO – Co-Founder

Mark Geene is a Co-founder of Cloud Elements, a company that accelerates the development of cloud computing applications by combining open cloud platforms with reusable integrations (Elements) and cloud-optimized application development services. Prior to founding Cloud Elements, Mark was the Chief Executive Officer of InfoNow a company that he transformed into two industry-leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies, Channelinsight and Locationinsight. Channelinsight, “… a salesforce.com for B2B channels” according to the Wall Street Journal, is the leading provider of channel sales management solutions providing channel sales managers at companies such as HP, Intel, Adobe, Juniper and AMD with unprecedented visibility and control over their channel sales. Locationinsight is the leading provider of Local SEO services to national brands that do business through multiple locations.

Mark has more than 20 years of experience in sales, consulting and product management including executive positions at IBM and Oracle, and senior executive positions at Tenfold Corporation and Dorado Software. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Software Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Vineet Joshi, CTO – Co-Founder

Prior to founding Cloud Elements Vineet consulted with dozens of companies in architecting, designing and building mobile and cloud applications for companies such as onTargetjobs.com, IQNavigator, Thomson Reuters Healthcare, wine.com, Zeehi and Apogee Physicians. During this time Vineet and Atul Barve began developing a re-usable set of software components used to accelerate the delivery of mobile and cloud applications. These components became the basis for the “Elements” in Cloud Element’s architecture and have been utilized to deploy applications in public, private and hybrid clouds.

As CTO at InfoNow Corporation (Channelinsight and Locationinsight) Vineet led the development of a highly scalable, multi-tenant, configurable and customizable enterprise cloud computing platform, that collected, enriched, distributed and provided analytics for large manufacturers like HP, Juniper, APC, Intel and Nvidia, for channel inventory and Point of Sale (POS) data. The architecture supports tens of million of transactions per month, and was designed to efficiently scale horizontally. Vineet’s multi-tenant platform experience began when he co-architected the cloud platform for Thomson Reuters Healthcare (now Truven Health Analytics) before the term “cloud computing” existed. This multi-tenant platform is the backbone for Truven Health Analytics and supports 80+ cloud applications and thousands of users.

Vineet has more than 20 years experience in technology, in leadership and engineering roles at companies including Reuters and Vignette. Vineet is listed as an inventor on multiple patents and holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington.

 

Atul Barve, VP of Product Development - Co-Founder

As a Co-Founder of Cloud Elements Atul is focused on developing re-usable Elements that make it easy for companies to migrate applications to true cloud-optimized applications.  He has consulted at dozens of companies including Capital One, Advance Solutions, Zeehi, Apogee Physicians, Auctiva and AllGood Media in designing and building mobile and cloud applications.

Atul brings over 19 years of experience in leading the delivery of applications across a variety of industries including technology, oil and gas, transportation and financial services. At British Petroleum he developed complex geological models among other applications. While at American Airlines Decision Technologies he was responsible for the architecture and delivery of their real-time crew alert system, and at Capital One’s Auto Finance division he led the technical team developing their next generation Loan Origination System. As engineering leader at Affinia Corporation,  Atul was responsible for the development and integration of product catalog search engine technologies, as well as an Ad Server for delivering targeted context specific Ads.

Atul is listed as inventor on multiple patents and holds a Masters degree from The University of Texas at Arlington in Mechanical Engineering.

Gary Gaessler, VP Sales & Marketing – Co-Founder

Gary is a sales leader focused on early stage software & Internet ventures.  Previously VP of Sales of StreamStep an enterprise software application release process startup, acquired by BMC Software in 2011. Responsible for the go-to-market sales strategy & revenue execution, Gartner selected StreamStep as the “Cool Release Management” vendor 2011.

Gary has a passion mentoring startups on lean sales strategies and is a top rated Founders Institute mentor. He has presented & mentored at Founders Institute chapters in Denver, Chicago, Puerto Rico, Tel Aviv, Bogota and Paris. He also mentors youth entrepreneurs and Denver inner city college students on finding jobs in the tech industry. Gary is an adjunct faculty instructor at the University of Denver, Information & Technology program. Gary Also co-founded VoIPReview.com, acquired in 2008, the most popular web site in the world for VoIP comparisons and reviews with over 8 million visitors shopping for VoIP services.

Gary has more than 20 years of experience in sales & marketing leadership positions including BMC Software, Sprint, High Speed Access, Trillion & e-Globe. Gary holds a Master of Telecommunications from the University of Denver.