This news just in from Vivisimo!
The company today announced that John M. Kealey and Kevin E. Calderwood have joined the company as its respective CEO and president, effective immediately. Former CEO and co-founder Raul Valdes-Perez will become executive chairman.
Kealey and Calderwood each brings two decades of executive management experience across a variety of technologies and markets. Both will serve on Vivisimo’s board of directors.
“I am truly excited to join Vivisimo at a time when both its market and sales are growing rapidly,” Kealey said. “Vivisimo’s products and services enable companies that struggle with explosive growth in their electronic information to gain real value from this data. Vivisimo has built a strong foundation for success by bringing award-winning innovative solutions to market quickly, capturing leadership spots in independent industry analyst reports and landing marquis accounts such as Procter & Gamble, Airbus, the U.S. Air Force, USA.gov and LexisNexis. I look forward to building on these successes in moving the company forward to take advantage of the strong market demand for enterprise search.”
“After nine consecutive years of growth and a loyal customer base that spans markets and geographies, Vivisimo’s potential couldn’t be greater,” Calderwood said. “I’ve worked for many companies over the years, but none have had this perfect storm combination of the right product with a hungry, growing market and, of course, the right people. The opportunity here is remarkable.”
Formerly serving Vivisimo on its advisory board, Kealey is an experienced senior executive with more than 25 years in the communications and information technology industries. He is the former president and CEO of iDirect Technologies, which he helped grow to more than $120 million in annual revenue when it was acquired by Singapore Technologies. For a full bio on Kealey, visit http://vivisimo.com/about/management.
Calderwood was a founder and managing partner of Amp Capital Partners, a venture capital firm based in Reston, Va., and Palo Alto, Calif. Calderwood served in executive management for two Amp Capital portfolio companies and as the chairman of the board of iDirect Technologies. Calderwood served in executive and management positions at the Baan Company and at the Oracle Corporation during their early years of explosive growth. For a full bio, visit http://vivisimo.com/about/management.
“John is the perfect leader for Vivisimo. His technology background, strong management experience and knowledge of Vivisimo’s culture and operations will help take us to a new, outstanding phase of corporate growth and market leadership,” said Valdes-Perez, the company’s CEO for the past nine years. “John and Kevin Calderwood both have a distinguished record of accomplishment in a variety of executive roles in successful technology companies. They’ve worked closely together for many years and have proven themselves to be a formidable team.”
Valdes-Perez co-founded Vivisimo in 2000 and was a 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the North Central Region. Before Vivisimo he was on the research faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s computer science department, where he earned a doctorate in computer science in 1991.
New Director Named
In addition to the executive changes, Vivisimo has added Phil Carrai to its board of directors. Currently executive vice president of the $100 million IT solutions group for Kratos Defense, Inc., Carrai has more than 20 years’ experience in technology businesses, ranging from enterprise software and service to mobile media and Internet infrastructure. Carrai has served in leadership roles with Ai Metrix, General Atlantic, the Morino Group, McCabe and Associates and Legent Corporation. As a member of the board of directors, Carrai will play a strategic role in the company’s vision and execution of its business and growth goals.
Carrai joins Kealey, Calderwood, Valdes-Perez, Vivisimo Chief Scientist Jerome Pesenti and North Atlantic Capital’s Mark Morrissette on the board, after having served Vivisimo on its advisory board for more than a year.
“I am looking forward to working closely with John, Kevin and Phil and the rest of the Vivisimo team, as we work together to fulfill our ambition of making enterprise search as ubiquitous in the workplace as web search is in the home,” Valdes-Perez said. “I can’t imagine a more capable team to lead the company into the future.”
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