Ismael Ghalimi
Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder
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Ismael Ghalimi is a passionate entrepreneur and fervent industry observer, founder and CEO of Intalio, creator of BPMI.org, initiator of the BPM 2.0 movement, producer of the Office 2.0 Conference, organizer of the Extreme Productivity Seminars, and founder of the Monolab|Workspace. Ismael is an advisor to several high-tech companies, including 3TERA, AdventNet (a.k.a. Zoho), Buzzgain, EchoSign, Egnyte, EveryTrail, Intellimaker, Move & Play, Muchobene, and Presdo. Ismael holds an Engineering Degree from Ecole des Mines de Nancy, and actually spent six weeks as a coal miner in Europe's deepest mine. Ismael is a professional scuba diver, instrument rated private pilot, and American V-Twin rider. Ismael lives with his wife and daughter in Palo Alto, CA.

Mark Tolliver
Chairman of the Board
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Mark Tolliver brings more than 30 years of experience in the high-tech industry to his position as Chairman of Intalio. Mark is also CEO of Palamida, a San Francisco-based software company focused on software intellectual property management and compliance. Prior to Palamida, Tolliver was Executive Vice President, Marketing and Strategy, and Chief Strategy Officer for Sun Microsystems. In that role he was responsible for corporate marketing, product and business strategy, M&A, industry marketing and ISV programs. Before joining Sun, Mark was Vice President of Marketing at MasPar Computer Corp. and spent 16 years at Hewlett-Packard Company, where he drove the acquisition of Apollo Computer by HP. Mark holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.S.E.E. from the University of Illinois.

Marc Friend
CFO

Marc Friend is an experienced software investor, executive and entrepreneur. Prior to Intalio, Marc has held operational roles in Product Management at Microsoft, and Marketing and Finance roles in numerous start-ups. Marc was a founding investor in Acta Technology (acquired by Business Objects) and helped lead industry-defining companies through investment and Board responsibilities at 3dfx Interactive, Check Point Software, NetDynamics, and Salesforce.com. A 17-year veteran of the venture industry, Marc has served in General Partner roles at USVP and Summit Partners and as Venture Partner at Partech International and Saints Capital. Marc holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Stefan Schaffer
COO and GM, Intalio|Cloud Division

Stefan Schaffer joined Intalio in July 2009 as COO and General Manager of Intalio|Cloud. Stefan has more than 16 years of experience in the business applications space. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President at SAP and SAP Business Objects where he held several senior executive positions in development, product management, sales and operations. Stefan holds a degree in mathematics from the University of Karlsruhe and was, prior to moving to California, lecturing at Mannheim University about Organization and Information technology.

Pascal Belloncle
CIO and Vice President of Release Management, Co-founder
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Pascal co-founded Intalio back in 1999, and has held many positions covering engineering, testing, training, consulting, IT, and support. This gives him a very unique perspective on the industry at large, and more specifically on BPMS. He has a deep understanding of what people need, what people want, as well as what is possible to build for them.

Jacques-Alexandre Gerber
Executive Vice President of Sales and Operations
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Currently the EVP of Sales & Operations, Jacques-Alexandre Gerber has spent the last 8 years getting his hands into almost every aspect of BPM. Beyond his experience as an industry expert and his prior work as Vice President of Business Development, he has gone deep into the code, and led several engineering teams to develop the workflow components of Intalio's platform.

As a Client Services Manager he built programs for training, support, pre-sales and consulting services. As OEM Director, he managed all of Intalio's major accounts and projects, including BAE Systems, GD, and TeliaSonera, as well as a major OEM agreement with Informatica. Jacques was also instrumental in transitioning Intalio from a proprietary software company to a commercial open source vendor, taking ownership of creating and implementing a repeatable and scalable sales process that led to profitability within 2 years.

Before coming to Intalio, Jacques served as the Linguistic Attache to the French Cultural Center in Cairo where he developed and led education programs for Egyptian students learning French.

Adam Lieber
GM of Intalio|Works Division

Adam Lieber is the General Manager of Intalio|Works. Previously, he was the CEO of Webtide, which Intalio acquired. Adam was also a co-founder of Gluecode Software, one of the early open source software companies and delivered solutions to numerous industries and served as Gluecode's representative on OASIS. After Gluecode's acquisition by IBM, Adam ran worldwide sales for open source middleware for IBM. Prior to Gluecode, Adam was at the IT-focused venture capital fund Mission Ventures. Adam received his A.B. in Economics concentration, with Computer Science from Princeton University.

Vishal Saxena
Vice President of Engineering, Intalio|Works

Vishal was the Senior Development Manager for the Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite. He is a spokesperson and expert on BPMS and was Oracle’s chief evangelist for BPMS. Prior to his 8 years at Oracle, Vishal was an Architect at startup Abilizer Solutions and spent five years as a Project lead for Tata Consulting Services in the US, UK, Germany and Asia.

Joanne Syben
Vice President of Engineering, Intalio|Cloud

Joanne Syben has 25 years development and leadership experience in OS and storage software. Prior to Intalio, Joanne was Sr. Director ESX R&D in charge of core storage at VMware. Prior to VMware, Joanne was VPE at GreenBorder (sold to Google), VPE at InterSAN (sold to Finisar) and VPE SCO where she led the OpenServer and Linux OS development projects.

Arnaud Blandin
APAC Managing Director and Vice President of Alliances
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Arnaud Blandin acts as Vice President of Alliances for Intalio, where he is responsible for managing Intalio's System Integrator and Technology Provider Partners. Arnaud also acts as Managing Director for APAC, following the successful launch of Intalio's offices in Singapore and Sydney.

Prior to his move to Singapore, Arnaud actively participated in the definition of Intalio's open source business model, by introducing Intalio|BPMS in the EMEA region. In the past 3 years, he established a solid network of partners, which resulted in securing over 200 customers, including several Global 2000 companies. In his early years at Intalio, Arnaud used his industry expertise to manage the first BPM implementations based on the Intalio offering, both in Europe and in the US. He participated in the definition of support, training, and consulting programs, as well as sales campaigns.

Arnaud holds a Master of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from the ENSEEIHT, a renowned French engineering school located in Toulouse.

Karsten Königstein
EMEA Managing Director
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Karsten holds the position of EMEA Managing Director. Previously, Karsten was the founder and Managing Director of Process Square, a company providing a BPM tool capable of automating even the most complex processes (closing, budgeting, etc.), until its acquisition by Intalio in November 2008. Process Square's product has been integrated within the Intalio Business Process Platform.

Karsten has more than 15 years experience in the areas of process management, process redesign, and process implementation, while working in the BPM industry for last 8 years. Before supporting processes with information technology, Karsten was a management consultant helping companies to improve their business processes.