Jeff Dickerson, President and CEO
Mr. Dickerson is responsible for overall company leadership, strategic direction, and financial performance. He brings more than 20 years of executive experience in the technology sector and a proven track record building companies in emerging markets to the Sonian leadership team. Most recently Mr. Dickerson was the CEO of Metatomix, a provider of semantic based applications acquired by Versata, Inc. In 2004, he orchestrated a notable turnaround at eCredit, Inc, a provider of credit risk management and collections software, which was acquired by Fidelity Ventures in late 2006. He was previously the senior vice president of worldwide sales and services at MCK Communications, where he expanded revenue from $2 million in 1997 to $50 million in 2001, setting the foundation for a successful public offering in 1999. He was a vice president sales at Vmark Software, and held management positions at Prime Computer and Parametric Technologies.
Mr. Dickerson graduated from North Adams State College with a Bachelor’s of Science in Finance and Economics.
An avid bicyclist, Mr. Dickerson participates in the Annual Pan Mass Challenge, the nation’s original fundraising bike-a-thon that raises more money than any other athletic fundraising event in the country.
Greg Arnette, Founder & CTO
Mr. Arnette is responsible for product vision, technical innovation, and engineering leadership. He has been a messaging, collaboration, Internet, and networking expert for over 15 years, and has been consulted by leading corporations on the management and administration of email systems. Mr. Arnette has created messaging products and services for over ten years, starting with AlertWare which was acquired by Netpro, and most recently IntelliReach, which was acquired by Infocrossing in May 2006. Mr. Arnette has designed leading messaging system solutions for all communication platforms.
Mr. Arnette was founder and CTO for IntelliReach Corporation from 1998 to 2006. Intellireach Corporation was a pioneer in integrated messaging management products and services. Since 2006 Mr. Arnette has been developing web-based information management solutions leveraging open source technology with virtualization infrastructure.
Mr. Arnette has a BA/BS from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Follow Greg on Twitter and read his blog for thoughts on cloud computing, collaboration and startups gregarnette.com
Joe Kinsella, VP of Engineering
Mr. Kinsella has 19+ years experience delivering commercial software for both startups and large enterprises. He joined Sonian from Dell, where he was a managing director leading global engineering teams delivering multiple software as a service (SaaS) products. Mr. Kinsella was also Vice President of Engineering at SilverBack Technologies, where he helped pioneer remote management software, acquired by Dell in 2007.
Mr. Kinsella has a proven track record in leading high performance teams that deliver products that solve complex business problems. He is also a high-tech enthusiast that stays engaged with the Boston technology community. He is an advisor to the University of Massachusetts Boston Entrepreneur Center, and blogs at High Tech in the Hub. You can also follow Mr Kinsella on Twitter.
Mr. Kinsella holds a computer science degree from the State University of New York at Oswego.
Meghan Larochelle, VP of Finance
Ms. Larochelle is responsible for the overall finance and accounting at Sonian. She has been working in the software market space for over 10 years and has experience with finance managing and accountancy. She most recently came from IBM, which she joined as a result of the Unica acquisition where she was accounting manager. Â Ms. Larochelle has also worked at the start-up company, Basho Technologies as controller. Â She was the account manager for Cognos Corporation where she directed the operational processes to exceed revenue expectations.
Ms. Larochelle has a BS from Bentley University. In addition to her accounting degree, she also has a law degree from Massachusetts School of Law, and is bar approved in the state of Massachusetts.
Jenn McAuliffe, VP of Sales
Jon Pilkington, VP of Marketing and Product Management
Mr. Pilkington is responsible for marketing, product management and support. With over 25 years of experience in the software industry, Mr. Pilkington also brings 15 years executive leadership to Sonian. Most recently Jon was the VP of Sales and Marketing of Metatomix, a provider of semantic based applications acquired by Versata, Inc. Prior to joining Metatomix, Mr. Pilkington spent 12 years at Cognos in a variety of executive level roles, including Vice President of Global Sales Operations, VP Global Pre-Sales operations, VP Product Management, VP Professional Services and VP of Field Marketing. During this tenure at Cognos, Cognos grew from $150M to nearly $1B. He has also held several other leadership positions and has won numerous internal and external awards, including the Mass Technology CXO of the year award in 2008.
Mr. Pilkington holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Bryant University.
