citrusleaf the noSQL database for the enterprise

about citrusleaf

Leadership

Brian Bulkowski—CEO & Founder

Brian Bulkowski is co-founder and CEO of Citrusleaf. Brian is an expert at building high-scale platforms and middleware that provide ease of use through technical excellence. As Director of Performance, he lead a team to build a clustered distributed recommendation engine for Aggregate Knowledge. At Liberate, he was Chief Architect of Cable Solutions, as well as managing cross-functional groups and founding a new product line for the company. At Novell, he learned the game-changing power of commodity hardware as Lead of AppleTalk routing for Netware 3 and 4. Brian has also contributed to start-up efforts in the areas of mobile internet, wifi mesh technology, high-scale IP-based television, and the contextual web. Brian holds a B.S. from Brown University in Mathematics/Computer Science.


Srini V. Srinivasan—CTO & Founder

Srini V. Srinivasan is co-founder and CTO of Citrusleaf. As Senior Director of Engineering at Yahoo!, Srini created and managed a global team responsible for the development, deployment and 24X7 operation of Yahoo!'s mobile products that reached tens of millions of users worldwide. As VP Engineering at Verdisoft, Srini oversaw the building of high performance consumer data synchronization products for mobile users. Prior to this, at Liberate Technologies, Srini led the development and deployment of the Connect DTV server product that is used by millions of users. Earlier, at IBM, Srini pioneered the design and development of IBM's first two internet database products.

Srini holds over a dozen US patents in the areas of databases, internet, mobile and distributed systems. He received the B.Tech degree (Computer Science) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, and the M.S. and Ph.D degrees (Computer Science) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.


Miguel Nhuch – VP of Worldwide Sales

Miguel Nhuch is the vice president of worldwide sales for Citrusleaf. He has over 20 years of global sales and business development experience working for a variety of software start ups and played a key role in helping many of them become established companies. Miguel loves to join start up companies, at a very early stage, as the first sales person and build the direct and indirect sales teams in the U.S. and in international markets. Miguel also developed strategic partnerships and helped define go-to-market strategies that resulted in strong revenue growth for these companies. Amongst the companies that Miguel has joined at the formative stage, two enjoyed successful IPO’s and two were acquired; all four exits were very profitable for investors. Miguel played an integral role in winning numerous, key US-based and international accounts (Fortune 100, Japan’s Fortune 50 and Europe’s Fortune 100) during the early stage phase of his startups -- helping catapult these companies to the next stage.

Before joining Citrusleaf, Miguel was vice president of worldwide sales for CrowdFlower, a leading provider of on demand crowd sourced solutions for the Fortune 500. While at Metalogix, as VP of international sales and business development, he successfully recruited dozens of partners distributed around the globe that produced multiple deals and established a significant sales pipeline. He also held executive sales positions at Devicescape, Nominum, Entrust Technologies, BEA (Weblogic), Forte Software and Ingres.

Miguel holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering and Electronics Engineering. He graduated from Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.