Board of Directors

Ashutosh Tiwary, Co-founder, CEO, and Chairman 

Ashutosh is Co-founder, CEO, and Chairman of Doyenz. As a successful serial entrepreneur, Ashutosh focuses on creating innovative technologies to solve key industry problems and leverage these technologies to build a successful business. At Doyenz Ashutosh is focused on building the most comprehensive Automated Virtual IT platform for the SMB.

Prior to Doyenz, Ashutosh has held a variety of technology and business leadership roles during his 25 year tenure in the computer industry. Most recently, Ashutosh was co-founder and CTO of Performant, which emerged from his PhD thesis work at the University of Washington. Performant, founded in summer of 2000 and successfully acquired by Mercury in 2003, built enterprise class tools for Performance Diagnostics. At Mercury, (prior to its acquisition by HP for $4 billion), Ashutosh led the diagnostics business as its Vice President and was responsible for driving significant revenue by leveraging the Performant technology. Ashutosh then joined Microsoft as the Senior Architect for Visual Studio Team System. At Microsoft, he also created and managed a Product Unit that built a suite of Tools for Software Testing to drive significant revenue.

Ashutosh earned a bachelor's degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from BITS Pilani, India, a Master's degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University, and was a PhD Candidate in the Computer Science Department at the University of Washington.

Gordon Burns

Gordon Burns is a private investor. He has directed his investments towards companies in the software and national security sectors. Mr. Burns was most recently Chairman and the majority shareholder in SI Government Solutions, a company that provides software solutions to the intelligence and defense communities which was purchased by Raytheon earlier this year. Mr. Burns is a director of Compass Diversified Holdings, a NASDAQ listed company, and several private companies. Previously Mr. Burns worked in the investment banking business. He was responsible for the investment banking activity of UBS Securities from 1992 to 1998 and prior to that was a Managing Director at Salomon Brothers. Mr. Burns graduated from Yale University in 1975 and Harvard Business School in 1977.

Jeremy Jaech

Jeremy Jaech co-founded Trumba Corporation in 2003, a maker of calendaring web services for companies to manage their events online. He stepped down as CEO in January 2008, but remains an investor and director for the company. Jeremy co-founded Visio Corporation in 1990 and served as its president and chief executive officer until its acquisition by Microsoft in January 2000. Prior to forming the company, Jeremy was a co-founder in 1984 of Seattle-based Aldus Corporation (since acquired by Adobe Systems Incorporated.) At Aldus, he served as technical leader in the development of the original PageMaker software program that helped create the desktop publishing industry. Following the introduction of PageMaker, Jeremy became Aldus’ vice president of engineering and oversaw the development of all Aldus products.

Previously, Jeremy held software-engineering positions with Atex, Inc., a manufacturer of high-end publishing systems for newspapers and magazines, and with Boeing Computer Services. He has also been a scientist with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory at the Battelle Research Center.

Jeremy is an active board member of Real Networks, Cozi Group, MindJet, Alibre, and The Technology Alliance. He is holder of the 1993-1994 Alumni Achievement Award and the 2006 Diamond Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence, both presented by the College of Engineering at the University of Washington in recognition of outstanding contributions to the engineering profession.

Jeremy has a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Master’s in Computer Science, both from the University of Washington.