Leadership
Dries Buytaert Chief Technology Officer
Dries Buytaert is the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform. Buytaert serves as president of the Drupal Association, a non-profit organization formed to help Drupal flourish. He is also co-founder and chief technology officer of Acquia, a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for Drupal. Dries is also a co-founder of Mollom, a web service that helps you identify content quality and, more importantly, helps you stop website spam. A native of Belgium, Buytaert holds a PhD in computer science and engineering from Ghent University and a Licentiate Computer Science (MsC) from the University of Antwerp. In 2008, Buytaert was elected Young Entrepreneurs of Tech by BusinessWeek as well as MIT TR 35 Young Innovator.
Thomas Erickson Chief Executive Officer
Tom is a founding director of Acquia, working with co-founders Dries Buytaert and Jay Batson to develop the company’s open source commercialization model and recruit the early team members. Tom joined Acquia as CEO in 2009, following the sale of Tele Atlas to TomTom, where he had been Chief Products Officer.
As he has done throughout a 30+ year-career in enterprise software, Tom is focused on driving customer success and business strategy at Acquia, Tom also leads the unique blending of open source, digital agency and enterprise software backgrounds, fostering a culture which he perpetuates through extensive travel to the 11 countries and 3 US offices from which Acquia currently operates.
At Acquia, Tom has guided the company to CAGR bookings growth of 1250%. In 2012, Acquia was named the fastest growing software company in the USA in the Inc 500 list of private companies and received the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council Private Company of the Year award. Systinet’s revenue grew 5x in the 18 months Tom was at the helm prior to the sale of the company. Tom led webMethods’ international growth from 2000-2004 at a CAGR of 90% in what was arguably one of the toughest periods for enterprise software ever.
Tom began his career in technical roles after graduating from the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a BS Honors degree in electrical and computer engineering. He has spent 14 years of his career living in Australia, England and France. He continues to be passionate about travel, languages, photography, and food and wines. He knows many pilots on a first name basis.
Dennis Morgan Chief Financial Officer
Dennis Morgan is a digital media and software executive with more than 20 years of experience in finance and corporate/business development. Prior to joining Acquia, he served as the CFO of four venture-backed technology companies in New York City: Buddy Media, EPAC Technologies, Panther Express and Vibrant Media. He helped lead Buddy Media through its explosive growth and sale to Salesforce.com for $745 million.
Prior to his CFO roles, he was Vice President of Corporate Finance at Yahoo in Sunnyvale, CA. At Yahoo, he led the corporate finance efforts for more than $5 billion in acquisitions and business development deals, earning a team Superstar award for his work on Yahoo’s newspaper consortium deal. In addition, he ran Yahoo’s corporate-wide budgeting process and served as finance head of Yahoo’s $3 billion search business.
Dennis began his career as an investment banker at Alex. Brown and Sons and at Thomas Weisel Partners. Dennis has an MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia, where he was a Shermet Scholar, and a BA from Dartmouth College.
Tom Wentworth Chief Marketing Officer
Tom is Acquia's Chief Marketing Officer, responsible for go-to-market strategy, demand generation, branding, positioning, and communications. He has spent most of his 18 year career in the web content management space, most recently at Ektron, where he served as Chief Marketing Officer. Prior to Ektron, Tom spent over 10 years at Interwoven (now HP/Autonomy) where he held a variety of leadership positions in sales and marketing.
Tom holds a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Jess Iandiorio VP, Product Marketing
Jess Iandiorio is the VP of Product Marketing and is responsible for words. The words Acquia uses to convey how we’re solving the toughest digital experience challenges for the biggest brands in the world. She’s spent 10 years in the tech industry focused on a variety of technologies such as CRM, Agile Business Intelligence, Website Search, eCommerce Experience Management, and now focuses on cloud-enabled delivery of extraordinary digital experiences. Jess is responsible for evangelizing Drupal and Acquia's solutions globally. She most recently worked at Endeca (Acquired for 1B+ by Oracle in 2011), and Forrester Research.
Jess holds a BS in Organizational Communication, Learning & Design from Ithaca College.
Chris Comparato VP, Customer Solutions
Chris comes to us with an extensive background in leadership roles at service-oriented software and consulting organizations. Chris was the SVP Worldwide Customer Solutions for Endeca (recently acquired by Oracle) where he led several client-facing functions including consulting, solution enablement, education, and customer care. He often wore numerous hats including the Executive Sponsor for Endeca’s strategic partner initiatives, spearheading Endeca’s initial penetration into the Enterprise space. He also championed Endeca’s strategic partner initiatives, facilitated its initial penetration into the Enterprise space, and re-shaped its client base in the West Region. At Endeca, Chris worked with other Acquians, including Chris Harrop and Jess Iandiorio.
Prior to Endeca, Chris held management roles with Keane, Breakaway Solutions and Cambridge Technology Partners. He started his career at TASC (The Analytical Sciences Corporation) as a team technical lead and developer. Chris holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Union College.
Adriana Zeman VP, Consulting Services
Bringing over 17 years of experience in client service and delivery management, Adriana has led organizations in healthcare, consumer brands, technology and global financial services to develop and execute impactful digital business initiatives. Since joining Acquia in 2012, Adriana focuses on maturing Acquia’s Consulting Services through process and tool innovation, team enablement and development of strategies for service line expansion. Prior to Acquia, Adriana was at Roundarch Isobar where she managed delivery operations for a large portfolio of accounts engaging in enterprise-wide digital business initiatives, including CMS platform migrations. Adriana was also Vice President of Strategic Planning at Cramer, where she was responsible for the delivery of Marketing Strategy, Planning, Analytics and Research to clients in a variety of industry vertical. Since 1996, she has led successful marketing and IT initiatives for such clients and partners as Endeca Technologies, 3M, Covidien, EMD Serono, The Toronto-Dominion Bank, MFS Investment Management, State Street Bank, The Home Depot and Adidas.
Tim Bertrand VP, Worldwide Sales
Tim came to Acquia from OpenSpan (a Matrix Partners company) where he served as Vice President of Worldwide Enterprise Sales & Channels, which included managing many Enterprise relationships and all worldwide ISV/OEM, Reseller, Global System Integrator and Public Sector relationships. Prior to joining OpenSpan, Tim served in various leadership roles including direct, indirect and Public Sector sales roles at Systinet Corporation (acquired by Mercury Interactive), Cape Clear Software (acquired by Workday) and Silverstream Software (acquired by Novell).
At Acquia, Tim oversees the Global sales and pre-sales organizations.
Tim graduated from Bryant University and currently resides in Sturbridge, MA with his wife, daughter and two boxer dogs. Outside of Acquia, Tim and his wife own a semi-professional auto racing team & enjoy traveling, cooking and great wine.
Joe Wykes VP, Global Channels
Joe joined Acquia in March 2012. He came from Percussion Software where he most recently served as President. During his tenure at the web content management software company, he led the company’s expansion into the enterprise market, building strategic partnerships with systems integrators, digital marketing agencies and technology companies. Prior to that Joe ran Worldwide Sales and Alliances for Percussion based out of San Francisco and before that was the Managing Director of Percussion's EMEA operation, again driving record sales in that market.
At Acquia, Joe is responsible for Global Channels. He leads a team responsible for the growth of the Acquia partner ecosystem and its resulting impact on the expansion of Acquia's business. Joe brings together organizations from around the world that are committed to making Drupal the dominant platform for integrated online customer experiences.
Joe grew up in England, graduated in Medieval & Modern History, is a qualified Barrister-at-Law. He and his wife have a son and daughter and live in Marblehead, MA.
Mike Stankus VP, Worldwide Account Management, Sales Ops & Strategic Solutions
Mike is a 25 year veteran of the information technology industry, holding executive leadership positions at CompuServe and Sapient. Mike has also founded three companies including S&H Loyalty Solutions which was sold to Pay by Touch in 2006 for in excess of $100 million.
At Acquia, Mike plays a key part within the worldwide sales organization overseeing the company's worldwide account management team and sales operations team. Mike also spearheads a strategic cross-functional effort, which brings strategic solutions to Acquia's largest customers.
Chris Brookins VP, Engineering
Chris joined Acquia from Vertical Communications, where he managed engineering for several IP PBX and call center products, and lead a large adoption of Scrum. Prior to Vertical, Chris managed engineering at Stylus Innovation, a telephony toolkit startup that was sold to Artisoft. At work, he is passionate about user and developer experiences and facilitating high performance teams. He is the proud father of 2 boys and a very amateur photographer, cook, and tennis player. Chris earned his BS in computer science from Lehigh University.
Bryan House VP, Global Accounts
Bryan joined Acquia in 2008 to run product marketing. He came to Acquia from EMC, where he managed product and outbound marketing for Documentum’s knowledge worker business. Prior to EMC, Bryan worked in product marketing and product management in the social business and collaboration technology space, after brewing beer professionally for seven years. Bryan lives in the Boston area and is an ardent Red Sox fan, he earned his MBA at Harvard.
Michael Meyers VP, Large Scale Drupal
Michael E. Meyers is an Emmy-nominated technologist and entrepreneur with over 17 years of experience managing and leading local and globally distributed teams. His most recent startup, RHO Ventures-backed NowPublic.com, pioneered citizen journalism, user-generated content, and crowdsourcing. As CTO of The Clarity Digital Group, which acquired NowPublic in 2009, Michael led Examiner.com’s migration to open source technology, launching the first Drupal-based top-100 Internet property. Previously as a founding member of domain name marketplace Afternic.com, Michael led development efforts from the company’s launch through its acquisition and integration into Register.com in 2000. During his tenure at Register.com, a top 100 site, Michael led web development across all business units and subsidiaries for the second-largest domain name registrar in the world. A passionate open source advocate and advisor to the Drupal Association board, Michael is a regular speaker at industry events.
Vincent Rerolle VP, Corporate Development
Vincent is responsible for M&A and technology alliances.
Prior to Acquia, Vincent spent 6 years in commercialization of open source software, as President of MontaVista, a leading Embedded Linux vendor, and as GM Linux at Wind River (acquired by Intel), where he also served as SVP Corporate Development. At Mercury Interactive (acquired by HP), he helped drive the growth and transformation of the company through strategic partnerships and acquisitions. At McKinsey, he focused on high tech and strategic use of information technology to transform businesses.
Vincent has an MBA from INSEAD and a degree in CS From ENST Paris. He speaks three languages, enjoys ultralight backpacking and French wine.
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