THE DOYENZ MANAGEMENT TEAM
Ashutosh Tiwary, Founder & Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
Ashutosh is Founder and CEO of Doyenz. As a successful serial entrepreneur, Ashutosh focuses on creating innovative technologies to solve key industry problems, and leverages 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.
Przemek Pardyak, Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Przemek is a Founder and the CTO of Doyenz. He is an experienced technology leader and entrepreneur focused on delivering innovative software solutions to a wide variety of customers. He has been leading development teams and building software for over 15 years and has wide technology experience ranging from operating systems and distributed infrastructure to performance, IT management, and development tools.
Przemek was a co-founder and Chief Architect of Performant, a successful technology startup that built enterprise class tools for performance diagnostics. Performant was founded in summer of 2000 and successfully acquired by Mercury in 2003. After the acquisition, Przemek became the Chief Diagnostics Architect and lead the effort of enhancing and integrating diagnostics solutions across multiple Mercury teams and products. Subsequently, Przemek joined Microsoft as a Software Architect at the Visual Studio Team System. In that role, he lead a cross-division working group that created a multi-year strategic plan for the Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), which created an integrated vision for end-to-end application lifecycle support tools. Prior to creating Doyenz, Przemek was the CTO of Strings, a social networking startup in the area of digital media.
Przemek earned a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Mining and Metallurgy in Cracow, Poland and was a PhD Candidate at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Craig Blessing, Vice President Channel Development
Craig joined Doyenz as VP of Channel Development in 2008. His mission is to build out a strong partner program, enabling global partners to thrive in the new IT economy using Doyenz's revolutionary Virtual Automated IT services.
Craig brings 15 years of solid experience working with partners around the globe. He has managed partnerships ranging from VARs, ISVs, System Integrators, distributors, and telecommunications companies across a variety of vertical markets. Prior to joining Doyenz he was VP of Sales for N2H2 and SeaTab Software, ran global channels for Rendition Networks and Opsware, and started his career with 9 years at Apple Computer.
Craig's passion for empowering partners to scale their businesses with cutting edge technology and delivery methods, has led each his previous companies to outstanding growth. He is now focusing his Knowledge, drive and energy towards the massive success at Doyenz.
Susannah Kirksey, VP, Marketing
Susannah Kirksey brings over 15 years experience in marketing, public relations and business development in executive and senior leadership roles for global Fortune 500 companies and early-stage technology start-ups. Susannah has a proven track record of achieving market leadership and brand recognition for companies in highly competitive industry categories. With deep expertise in virtualization, SaaS and cloud computing, for both enterprise and SMB software markets, Susannah is responsible for driving Doyenz market leadership.
Most recently, Susannah acted as VP, Marketing of VDIworks and ClearCube Technology, where she spun off the software division into its own company in the virtual desktop space. Susannah was director of marketing for Surgient, where she was instrumental in creating early market leadership for the company in the emerging virtual labs category. Prior to Surgient, Susannah served as marketing director for Postini, leader of email security and management solutions, recently acquired by Google, and SoloMio, Vignette spin-off, where she brought leading-edge communications software to mobile telecom operators in Europe. Susannah played senior management roles for Vignette, worldwide leader in content management, and Dell, where she was responsible for expanding Dell’s business overseas, then recruited back to Austin, Texas to be a founding member of the Dell Online team, responsible for building the first multi-million ecommerce store.
Susannah holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Texas in Austin and a Master of Arts from Middlebury College in Vermont and Paris, France.
Carl Sittig, VP, Strategic Business Development
Carl Sittig is a seasoned Sales Executive and General Manger with proven success in strategic leadership, and driving results. His breadth of experience spans successful engagements with the largest Multinational OEMs to the smallest VAR partners across North & South America, Asia, and Europe. At Doyenz, Carl is focused on developing strategic business partnerships with independent hardware and software vendors, OEMs, and other industry leaders to bring the value of Automated Virtual IT services to their customer base.
Prior to Doyenz, Carl held a variety of Sales, Marketing, and Business leadership roles in a 17 year tenure with Microsoft. Most recently, Carl was General Manager of WW OEM Server Sales & General Manager of Industry Alliances, responsible for increasing the adoption of Microsoft technologies across the hardware product lines of all partners. Prior to that, Carl managed the Microsoft engagement worldwide with Dell Computer, increasing attach rates of Windows, Office, and Windows Server products across key customer segments. Prior to Microsoft, Carl spent over ten years with Intel Corporation, where he held several positions in Sales and Distribution Management.
Carl holds a Bachelor of Science in Computing Science from Texas A&M University.