Alfresco People
John Powell
President and CEO
E-mail: john dot powell at alfresco dot com
John Powell is President and CEO of Alfresco and has 25 years of enterprise software sales and operations experience.
Prior to Alfresco, John was responsible for running worldwide operations at Business Objects®. During his tenure, Business Objects grew at 50% per annum to $415m and a market capitalization in excess of $6B. Business Objects was subsequently acquired by SAP for $6.8B. Powell founded Business Objects UK in 1991, and built the UK organization and then the global organization into the most successful Business Intelligence player worldwide.
Prior to joining Business Objects, Powell worked in sales management positions at Oracle® and Comshare®. He has a BS First Class from Birmingham University.
John Newton
CTO and Chairman
E-mail: john dot newton at alfresco dot com
John Newton, CTO and Chairman, has had one of the longest and most influential careers in content management. In 1990, John co-founded, designed and led the development of Documentum®, the leader in content management recently acquired by EMC®.
For the next ten years, he invented many of the concepts widely used in the industry today. In addition, he built Documentum's marketing and professional services organizations in Europe. John has also been an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Benchmark Capital.
John was one of the founding engineers at Ingres® where he helped develop the world's first commercial relational database. John graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Ian Howells
Chief Marketing Officer
E-mail: ian dot howells at alfresco dot com
Dr Ian Howells is Chief Marketing Officer of Alfresco and has 20 years of enterprise software marketing experience in the fields of content management, service oriented architectures and relational database systems.
Prior to Alfresco, Ian was responsible for initially running European marketing and then worldwide marketing at SeeBeyond®. During his tenure Europe grew from $6m to $69m per annum in 4 years and global revenue grew in one year from $137m to $163m. Ian also has a long history in content management. He was the first employee of Documentum® in Europe and held various technical and marketing roles in the 7 years he was there. In this time Documentum grew from a start-up to a $200m per annum company.
Prior to this Ian worked in marketing and technical positions at Ingres®. Ian has a BA in Computing and Statistics and a PhD in Distributed Databases from University College Cardiff.
Steve McLoughlin
Chief Finance Officer
E-mail: steve dot mcLoughlin at alfresco dot com
Stephen McLoughlin is Alfresco's CFO and has over 20 years experience in the software industry. He is responsible for Alfresco’s worldwide finance, internal IT, accounting, HR, legal, and administrative operations. Prior to joining Alfresco was CFO of Vidus, a BT plc spinout, and before that was Finance Director of Business Objects UK. A qualified accountant, Stephen is a graduate of Manchester University and holds a PhD from London University.
Matt Asay
VP Business Development
E-mail: matt dot asay at alfresco dot com
Matt Asay has been involved with open source since 1998, and is one of the industry's leading open source business strategists. Asay currently manages sales and business development activities in the Americas for Alfresco, the open source leader in Enterprise Content Management.
Prior to Alfresco, Asay co-founded Novell®'s Linux Business Office in 2002 and was an early agitator and architect for the company's shift to open source. In 2003 Asay founded the Open Source Business Conference, the industry's premier open source strategy event, and has served as an Entreprenuer-in-Residence for Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, focusing on open source investment opportunities. Before Novell, Asay was General Manager at Lineo®, an embedded Linux software startup, where he ran Lineo's Residential Gateway business.
Asay earned his Juris Doctorate degree at Stanford Law School, spending two of his three years studying software licensing and innovation, and specifically the GNU General Public License, under Professor Larry Lessig. He also holds Masters and Bachelors degrees from the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK) and Brigham Young University, respectively.
Denis Dorval
VP EMEA
E-mail: denis dot dorval at alfresco dot com
As VP of EMEA Denis Dorval manages sales and business development activities in Europe, Middle East & Africa. Denis has significant experience in both content management and growing a partner led European business.
Prior to Alfresco, Denis was Director for Partnerships & Alliance at FileNet, where he played a key role in defining & implementing go-to-market strategy with partners as part of the FileNet P8 launch, as well as managing indirect sales and relationships with key European global system integrators.
Prior to FileNet, Denis was founder and CEO of Webedisoft, a French- BPM software company that he created in 1999, which was subsequently acquired by another BPM software company in 2002.
Kevin Cochrane
VP Web Content Management
E-mail: kevin dot cochrane at alfresco dot com
Kevin Cochrane joins Alfresco from Interwoven®, where he was VP of Web Content Management responsible for Interwoven's WCM platform, TeamSite®. Kevin was the fourth employee and first business hire at Interwoven and was responsible for product strategy and product definition of Interwoven's initial product offerings, TeamSite and OpenDeploy®, since the start of development.
While at Interwoven, Kevin worked closely building and supporting Interwoven's worldwide customer base and bringing to market key extensions to Interwoven's base WCM platform, including Interwoven's MetaTagger®, MediaBin®, and LiveSite® products.
Kevin joins Alfresco to build world-class, standards-based, easy-to-use web content management services atop the Alfresco platform. Kevin is lives and breathes web content management and looks forward to working with the Alfresco community on Alfresco's WCM roadmap.
Paul Holmes-Higgin
VP Engineering
E-mail: paul dot holmes-higgin at alfresco dot com
Dr Paul Holmes-Higgin has a track record of working with major companies, such as IBM®, ICL®, Olivetti®, Siemens®, Ford®, Mercedes Benz®, Resumix® and most recently Documentum®, to realize advanced technology solutions to real world problems.
His expertise covers Knowledge-based Expert Systems, Neural Networks, Information Extraction and Multilingual Natural Language Processing. As well as generating innovative solutions, Paul has extensive experience of rolling them out as corporate production systems.
Most recently, Paul has been working with Portal vendors to help them exploit content management within a Web Services context. Paul has PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Surrey.
Martin Musierowicz
VP Alliances
E-mail: martinm at alfresco dot com
Martin Musierowicz is the VP of Alliances, responsible for managing the partner program, recruitment of new partners and ensuring the success of Alfresco's current partners and OEMs.
Martin joins Alfresco with over 10 years of open source experience including positions with JBoss®, IBM®, Sequent® Computers and an advisory position at the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL). Prior to Alfresco, Martin was responsible for partner business development and marketing at JBoss, Inc. where he created the JBoss Certified Partner Program and grew the partner network from its infancy to well over 150 partners. At IBM, Martin was part of IBM's entry into Linux and managed open source solutions for the telecommunications vertical.
Martin holds a B.S. in molecular biology and an M.B.A. with a concentration in technology management.
Luis Sala
Senior Director of Solutions Engineering
E-mail: luis dot sala at alfresco dot com
Luis Sala is Alfresco's Senior Director of Solutions Engineering, responsible for managing Alfresco's US-based technical account management team.
Luis's previous experience includes being Chief Solutions Architect at Epicentric® which was acquired by Vignette® where he served as Principal Sales Engineer. Most recently, Luis was the Business Development SE at Systinet® (now Mercury™).
Luis has a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Theater from Allegheny College in Meadville, PA.
David Caruana
Chief Architect
E-mail: david dot caruana at alfresco dot com
David Caruana is an experienced and innovative software architect who has been developing high profile software products for over 10 years.
David was designated Documentum's employee of the year for his work on Documentum's Web Development Kit and Webtop version 5. David also designed Documentum® iTeam™, team collaboration and knowledge management software.
Prior to Documentum, David was a principal engineer at Oracle® working as an architect on CASE and repository tools. David's expertise covers J2EE, enterprise systems, UML/CASE tool development and meta-data repositories and has used this to produce a wide range of successful corporate solutions and developer SDK's.
Nancy Garrity
Manager Alfresco Community
E-mail: nancy dot garrity at alfresco dot com
Nancy Garrity is Alfresco’s Community Manager, responsible for cultivating a self-sustaining, highly-collaborative community around Alfresco technology. Nancy works toward providing an infrastructure in which the community can interact, learn from each other and contribute back to the project.
Prior to Alfresco, Nancy started the Documentum Developer Program where she was responsible for several initiatives including the developer website, the WDK component exchange and the annual developer conference. Nancy has a master’s degree in Computer Science and an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy.
