Engineering Team

The Iteru team is made up of highly talented individuals with extensive knowledge of multi-disciplinary technologies needed for building complex data management products. From the onset the objective was to build a product that democratizes data analysis. The team likes the challenge and thrives on solving difficult problems related to data analysis.

Leadership

Omar Gadir, Ph. D. CEO, President
Omar is an entrepreneurial, accomplished, results-focused executive with over 20 years in various engineering positions. He directly managed 8 complex successfully shipped products. At Auspex, he was responsible for the first shipped NAS Head (storage virtualization) and high availability scalable enterprise servers. At Photon Dynamics he managed the flag product MPS that caused the company to go IPO. Omar was the founder/CEO of Pacific Computer Systems, where he led the effort to build a scalable, content aware server. He also held director position at Kazeon (acquired by EMC) and Dulman Lab. Omar holds M. Sc. and Ph. D. from Great Britain. He is the sole author of four patents about data management, virtualization, distributed processing and the main author of a patent about High Availability Cluster Virtual Server System. Omar writes his own patents.

Business Advisors

David Raun
David has more than 25 years of experience at senior management and board levels in public and private companies including over 10 M&A/fund raising events. He is currently President & CEO of One Stop Systems (Nasdaq: OSS) with a focus on increasing the company’s value proposition and shareholder value since his appointment in early 2020. He was with PLX Technology, Inc., another publicly traded company on Nasdaq, from 2004-2014 where he eventually became president, chief executive officer and a director. In this role, he led the company to an acquisition by Avago (now Broadcom) after driving the company to 70%+ market share, record revenues and profits. Mr. Raun also served as chief operations officer at Home Bay, an on-line technology base real estate company in 2019. Prior to Home Bay, he was the president, COO and interim chief financial officer at ASSIA, Inc. a Silicon Valley-based SaaS providers from 2016-2018. Here he led a quick turnaround driving to record revenues and approached 40% operating margins. Prior to these roles he had multiple VP of Marketing, Business Development, Corporate Development and Sales roles. He was chairman of the board at Kilopass, a semiconductor IP supplier until they were acquired by Synopsys in 2018. Mr. Raun holds a B.S. in computer and electrical engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara.

Peter Tait
Peter Tait has more than 25 years of experience Marketing complex enterprise technology, from pioneering the middleware space at PeerLogic, to repositioning open source search vendor Lucid Imagination for big data growth. At BEA he built the developer program that fueled enterprise app server adoption, and at Documentum (and later EMC Software) he overhauled the company’s global online presence and build a data-driven demand generation powerhouse. Peter has experience in every Marketing discipline from branding to pipeline management, especially in emerging technology markets, and has also held senior Marketing roles at Citrix and Webtrends.

Scientific Advisors

Gilles J. A. Gallant, BPharm Ph.D.
Dr. Gilles Gallant is an oncology expert with broad biotechnology and pharmaceutical experience in strategic cancer drug development, evaluation, and innovations. He has designed and directed global registrational and non-registrational clinical trials of Bristol-Myers Squibb oncology pipeline resulting in the worldwide approval of three indications for the blockbuster Taxol®. As VP of Clinical Oncology, he has led the development strategy and clinical implementation for all oncology and hematology assets at Human Genome Sciences (HGSI) and BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN). Gilles has guided oncology, hematology and immunology in- and out-licensing activities leading the in-licensing of two oncology drug candidates, the GlaxoSmithKline acquisition of HGS and the acquisition of talazoparib by Medivation.

Dr. Gallant received his doctorate in medicinal chemistry and bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the Université de Montréal in Montréal (Québec) Canada. He has co-authored numerous scientific abstracts and peer-reviewed publications in the oncology research field, and is an active member of the Ordre des Pharmaciens du Québec (OPQ), the American Chemical Society (ACS), the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), the American Society of Hematology (ASH), the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNMMI) and the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP).

Board Of Directors

Omar Gadir, Ph. D. CEO, President

Michael Marchi
Marchi has extremely successful sales background, including: North America sales manager of the year (1999), North American sales representative of the year (1998), and sales rookie of the year (1997) at NetApp. Marchi joined NetApp when it was a startup company and held various senior marketing responsibilities, including: all product management and marketing for core products. He drove all outbound marketing and solution delivery for the NetApp NearStore. He managed Product and Segment Marketing at CommVault for data and information management lines of business. At Kazeon executive team member driving NetApp OEM relationship representing more than 80% of Kazeon revenue. Marchi is a strong corporate spokesperson with industry analysts, press, financial analysts and customers.

Patrick J.Conte
Conte has over 25 years of experience in successfully launching companies into the market from pre-revenue into IPOs and major acquisitions. He has consistently demonstrated strong go-to-market execution and growth strategies. Currently, he is Global VP, Field Operations at FixStream . Before that he held a similar position at Accellion, Scale Computing, Azul and Teneros. He was President and CEO of Agiliance, an enterprise software company. He was VP/EVP Field Operations at TopSpin Communications (acquired by Cisco), NetScaler (acquired by Citrix), Dynamic Pictures (acquired by 3dlabs). He was a key member of the executive management team that led Cobalt’s IPO in 1999. Conte was VP of Sales and Marketing at Cobalt Networks He played a major part in its success, culminating in a $2 billion acquisition by Sun in 2000. Experience prior to Cobalt includes VP Worldwide Sales and Channels at Dynamic Pictures (acquired by 3dlabs) and VP Sales at Wyse Technologies (acquired by Dell).