Management Team

Executive Team

Board of Directors

Michael Franklin, Founder and CEO

Michael Franklin is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been on the faculty since 1999. Previously he was a faculty member at the University of Maryland, College Park. At Berkeley his research focuses on the architecture and performance of distributed data management and information systems. His recent projects cover the areas of wireless sensor networks, XML message brokers, data stream processing, scientific grid computing, and data management for the digital home. Earlier in his career, he spent five years as a database systems developer. He has held consulting and advisory roles at a number of leading companies, including Intel, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, The Mayfield Fund, and Bell Laboratories, and has served on Technical Advisory Boards for technology start ups including: Business Signatures, DATAllegro, Appstream, RightOrder, and WiseNut. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, a recipient of the National Science Foundation Career Award, and the ACM SIGMOD "Test of Time" award. Mike has his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1993, an M.S.E. from Wang Institute of Graduate Studies in 1986, and a B.S. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1983.

Roman Bukary, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development

Roman Bukary Roman Bukary joins Truviso from SAP, where he served most recently as vice president in the Global Partner Ecosystem Group, responsible for numerous SAP strategic technology partnerships. Previously at SAP, he launched the company's analytic application business after holding positions in composite applications and business intelligence solution marketing. Earlier in his career, Roman was a co-founding executive and vice president of product marketing at Rearden Commerce, a service-oriented architecture personal services procurement firm. At Rearden, he was responsible for the company's marketing, corporate strategy, and strategic alliances. Prior to Rearden, he was part of Informatica Corporation’s management team, which took the company public. Roman also has broad experience in building and leading product and industry marketing groups, corporate strategy, and product management with companies including Baan and Parametric Technology Corporation. He started his career as an aeronautical design engineer at Pratt & Whitney, UTC, and holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in mechanical engineering, as well as a B.S. in psychology, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.

Sailesh Krishnamurthy, Co-Founder and Chief Architect

Sailesh Krishnamurthy is a co-founder and Chief Architect at Truviso where he is responsible for all research and development activity. He investigated the technical ideas at the heart of Truviso's products as part of his doctoral research on stream query processing, earning a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2006. Sailesh is a leading authority in the field of enterprise data management with over a dozen published academic papers and several U.S. patents. Prior to graduate work at Berkeley, he worked at the Database Technology Institute at IBM Corporation where he designed and developed advanced features in IBM database products. Earlier, Sailesh worked on a Java virtual machine implementation at Netscape Communications. Sailesh has a Master's degree in computer Science from Purdue University, and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science , Pilani in India.

Alexander Russakovsky, Vice President of Analytics

Alexander Russakovsky Alex leads Truviso's product strategy and development efforts in complex analytics, algorithms, and data mining. A Ph.D. in Mathematics, Alex was previously distinguished engineer and architect of Hyperion's flagship analytics engine, Essbase, where he designed the core data mining and multi-dimensional OLAP functionality. Hyperion was acquired by Oracle Corporation. Prior to Hyperion, Alex was technology director at Econophysica, a provider of financial instruments pricing and modeling software, where he led work on pricing models and algorithms for exotic financial instruments. Alex was also on the technical staff of C.ATS Software, which developed financial models for foreign exchange options and interest rate derivatives, and was a co-founder of Numerical Objects, a provider of high-performance numerical math tools. Alex has his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Kharkov University in Ukraine.

Terry Opdendyk, ONSET Ventures

Terry Opdendyk has specialized in working with technology based start-ups for more than 30 years. He founded ONSET Ventures, a premier Silicon Valley venture capital firm, in 1984, and is Managing Director and General Partner. Prior to launching the firm, Terry was president of VisiCorp, guiding the software publishing company from inception into an industry leader. Early in his career, Terry worked as a technical manager for Hewlett-Packard as part of the original group of individuals that started HP's computer business. He later headed Intel Corporation's microcomputer systems business, microprocessor architecture activities, several international ventures and human resources.

At ONSET Ventures, Terry maintains a broad spectrum of investment interests including software, communications and new drug delivery technologies. He serves on the boards of both public and private companies, such as Adaptive Planning, Truviso, Arcot, APX, Blue Vector, Callidus, Nextance and Sigma Dynamics. He is also a Fellow at the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haas School of Business, University of California. Terry received a B.S. from the Michigan State University Honors College and a M.S. from Stanford University.

David Lane, Diamondhead Ventures

For the past 25 years David Lane has created, built and financed information technology companies. During the past 20 years he has managed investment funds totaling in excess of $2 billion. In June 2000, David co-founded Diamondhead Ventures, which manages $140 million in its first fund. David is or has been actively involved in the following Diamondhead portfolio companies: Cranite Systems, Entercept Security Technologies (sold to McAfee), Availigent, Habeas and UPEK. Previously, David was a partner with Alpine Technology Ventures, a $72 million information technology-focused venture fund. Prior to joining Alpine, David spent seven years as one of the senior venture capital investment officers at the Harvard Management Company, which manages Harvard University's $28 billion endowment.

David has a passion for working with entrepreneurs spinning out of leading research universities. He is on the University of Southern California Engineering School's Board of Counselors, and was Chairman of USC's Commercialization/Technology Transfer Committee for the School of Engineering. He has guest lectured on entrepreneurship at many leading universities including UC-Berkeley, Stanford, Northwestern, UCLA, Cal Poly and USC. David earned his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and his B.S.E.E. from the University of Southern California.