Management Team
Brian Kelly, CEO
As CEO of Quantivo, Brian Kelly is leading our innovative vision of analytic applications delivered as an on-demand service. Brian has 20 years of experience in enterprise software development and marketing, focusing primarily on Analytic Applications and CRM solutions.
Before joining Quantivo, Brian was Executive Vice President of Products at Kana where he was responsible for worldwide marketing, product management and industry solutions delivery. He came to Kana from Broadbase (now Kana), where he ran product management and engineering. At Broadbase, Brian directed the company's highly successful IPO and managed the acquisition and integration of several technology companies.
Brian has also served as Director of Business Intelligence Applications at Peoplesoft. He was founder and CEO of Kelly Information Systems (acquired by Peoplesoft), which pioneered business intelligence applications for the retail industry. At Teradata, he designed and developed large-scale datawarehouses and BI applications for some of the largest retailers in the US.
Brian holds a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati.
Paul O'Leary, Founder and CTO
As the company founder and Chief Technology Officer, Paul guides the development of the Quantivo platform and on-demand applications. He has more than 15 years of development and engineering experience in the business intelligence and customer relationship management industries.
Paul was a founding engineer at Broadbase, now part of Kana Software. In that role he helped the company develop customer-focused analytic and marketing automation applications that were widely adopted by Fortune 1000 companies.
Paul has also held engineering management and leadership positions at Privia (acquired by SpringCM), Proveer, Kontiki (acquired by VeriSign), and IBM/Lotus Development.
Paul holds a bachelors degree in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Albert Gouyet, VP of Marketing
Albert Gouyet is Quantivo's Vice President of Marketing. In this role, he is responsible for defining and executing the company's worldwide marketing strategy. Albert brings over 20 years of broad technology experience in defining and launching industry-leading products, including client software, server software and online services.
Prior to Quantivo, Albert was the Vice President of Marketing at Nominum where he was responsible for all aspects of product management and marketing, successfully positioning the company as the leading provider of network naming and addressing technologies for mission-critical environments. Albert also served as Vice President of Web Clients and Services at America Online, where he lead the team responsible for the strategy, definition, and launch of the Netscape Browser, Winamp, Radio@Netscape, and Netscape and CompuServe search. Albert has also held senior level positions at Netscape, Sybase and Neuron Data, Inc.
Albert holds engineering degrees from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris and Ecole des Telecommunications, Paris, and an MBA from Stanford University.
Paul Patterson, VP of Sales
Paul Patterson brings over a decade of software sales management experience to his role of Vice President of Sales at Quantivo. In this capacity, Paul directs all sales and pre-sales activities.
Most recently, Paul served as Vice President of Sales for Arena Solutions, a provider of on-demand product lifecycle management (PLM) software for manufacturers. At Arena, Patterson transitioned the company's sales strategy from enterprise software to a SaaS sales model, increasing average sales price by 75 percent and new business subscriptions by 63 percent year over year. Prior to Arena, Patterson managed the global sales organization of Apexon, an on-demand solution for supply chain management and decision support.
Patterson has a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Edwin Meijer, VP of Engineering
Edwin Meijer is Vice President of Engineering at Quantivo, responsible for leading the engineering organizations and managing the development, implementation, and day to day operations of the company's service .
Prior to Quantivo, Meijer was a co-founder and VP of Engineering at Wait-on-Me, an online mobile and web ordering service for restaurants. At Wait-on-Me, Meijer was responsible for product development and operations of its SaaS based business. Prior to that, he was a VP at OuterBay Technologies, a provider of archiving software for enterprise applications and databases (later acquired by Hewlett Packard). Meijer started his career as a software engineer at AT&T and later at Oracle, leading the delivery of Oracle's flagship design tool for ETL, data quality, metadata management and dimensional modeling.
Meijer has a bachelor's degree in computer science from Drenthe University in the Netherlands.
Tom Perry
Tom Perry founded Quaris (now Quantivo) in 2003. As founding CEO, Tom created the company and guided Quaris from the idea stage through its formative period of growth. Tom currently consults to rapidly-growing companies and their investors on strategy, business development, and fundraising. Tom remains an active advisor to Quaris.
Prior to founding Quaris, Tom was an investment banker, advising leading growth companies on mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, and strategic positioning. Tom helped build the technology investment banking franchises at SoundView Technology Group and Montgomery Securities, one of the "Four Horsemen" of growth-oriented investment banks.
Tom began his career as a US Army officer (Artillery), after graduating from the US Military Academy at West Point. Tom also holds an MBA from Northwestern University, where he was an Austin Scholar.
