Thor Culverhouse
President and Chief Executive Officer
With more than 18 years of experience in the technology industry, Mr. Culverhouse possesses deep expertise across a wide range of enterprise software. Prior to joining Stratavia, he served as senior vice president, North American Sales for SeeBeyond, with responsibility for all sales operations for North America. Prior to SeeBeyond, Mr. Culverhouse served as senior vice president, worldwide sales and field operations for Interwoven, the industry’s premier content management solution provider. Prior to Interwoven, Mr. Culverhouse served as IBM’s vice president, SMB & Channel Sales, Data Management. Working closely with IBM’s global business units, he was responsible for direct and channel sales internationally within the enterprise software space, including companies such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, Ariba, and JD Edwards. In addition to his tenure at Interwoven and IBM, Culverhouse served as VP of U.S. Sales for Informix, and held a senior sales and business development position at Tektronix. Thor received his MBA from The University of Portland, and BS in Electrical Engineering from Washington State University.

Venkat S. Devraj
Co-Founder, Chairman, Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Devraj brings diverse background of experience in expanding new and existing businesses. With more than 16 years of experience, his primary focus area at Stratavia is driving the vision and strategies for next-generation IT automation solutions. Additionally, Mr. Devraj is responsible for architecting product functionality and solutions that ensure an outstanding value proposition for customers. Previously, Mr. Devraj founded and managed two companies, in addition to building an e-solutions consulting practice composed of database and infrastructure-focused offerings for a major e-business services company, more than doubling revenue and gross profit within 18 months. He is the author of "Oracle 24x7 Tips & Techniques," previously listed in the Top 5 Oracle bestsellers on Amazon.com, as well as co-author of "Oracle8i Web Development,” both published by Oracle Press/Osborne McGraw-Hill. Mr. Devraj has written numerous articles and white papers and given presentations at several prestigious database conferences including OpenWorld/OracleWorld, Collaborate, International Oracle Users Group (IOUG), ODTUG (Oracle Development Tools User Group) and IEEE. Venkat’s blog is available at vdevraj.blogspot.com.

Ron Krubeck
Vice President, Engineering
Mr. Krubeck leverages over 20 years of software industry engineering management experience to lead the Stratavia research and development teams. Mr. Krubeck began his career at Ingres, after which he joined Sybase where, as employee #18, he was part of the core team that took the company’s first ideas to market as shipping product. He later became responsible for all of Sybase's user interface and application development products. Mr. Krubeck then co-founded Requisite Inc., maker of the requirements management software, RequisitePro. As Executive Vice President, Mr. Krubeck was responsible for all technology at Requisite and helped lead them to a market leading position and eventual sale of the company to Rational Software Corporation. Mr. Krubeck went on to help lead Rational’s Requirements Management Business Unit and served as one of five Principle Rational Architects. He obtained a BA in Mathematics and Computer Sciences from The University of Colorado.

Jennifer Panning
Vice President, Finance and Administration
Ms. Panning is responsible for leading the company’s worldwide finance, administration and logistics, human resources, and information services organizations. She brings more than 15 years of finance and accounting experience working with diverse companies ranging from small start-ups to larger established companies covering a wide variety of industries.  She began her career at Arthur Andersen in the financial and economic consulting group. She then joined Corporate Express, where she was instrumental in the administrative due diligence which culminated in the sale of the company to Burhmann, one of the world’s largest suppliers of office supplies. Most recently, Jennifer was part of the Corporate Finance group in charge of budgeting, forecasting and cash management at Verio, a wholly owned subsidiary of the world’s largest telecommunications company, NTT Communications.  She holds a BS in Finance from the University of Illinois.

Michael Puterbaugh
Vice President, Marketing and Business Development
As Stratavia's Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Mike is responsible for leading key marketing and business development initiatives that support Stratavia's continued strong growth and technology leadership. Previously, he led worldwide marketing at eEye Digital Security, the leading provider of enterprise network security solutions. Under Mr. Puterbaugh's leadership, eEye cemented its reputation as a leader in network security product development, research and education. Prior to eEye, Mike held senior marketing positions at Quest Software, Mercury Interactive and Intel Corporation.

Andre Cuenin
Vice President, Field Operations
Mr. Cuenin is responsible for worldwide field operations, including sales, professional services and channels. Prior to joining Stratavia, Mr. Cuenin spent 15 years with CA (formerly Computer Associates), where he served in several senior management positions, including general manager, Switzerland, general manager, Rocky Mountain region and vice president of worldwide sales operations. He received his MBA from Strathclyde University in Glasgow, and BSc in Computer Science from College FH Brugg-Windisch in Switzerland.