Algebraix Data Leadership

CEO – Charles H. Silver

Charlie Silver has more than 25 years of experience as a successful entrepreneur.  Most recently he sold new media company RealAge Inc. to Hearst Corporation in 2007.  Charlie founded RealAge in the late 90s based on a ground-breaking business plan for building revenue and attracting customers.  Prior to his nine years at RealAge, Charlie built a series of profitable franchises in the retail and real estate markets.  After graduating from the University of Michigan in 1981, he spent the first few years of his career as a staffer for the governor of Michigan and for a U.S. Congressman.

Co-Founder, Director and CTO – Christopher M. Piedmonte

Chris is a software entrepreneur with a 30-year track record of creating innovative products and solutions to problems addressed by complex enterprise information technology systems. Since cofounding ADC in 2004, Chris has established himself as the world’s leading expert on the application of extended set mathematics to information technology systems design and development. To date, six patents have been granted to ADC based on Chris’ innovative work in the applications of extended set mathematics to data management for business intelligence, decision support, data mining and heterogeneous system integration.

Prior to Algebraix Data, Chris was the founder and CEO of Eagle Creek Systems, a software product development and enterprise information technology consulting company based in San Diego, California. While at Eagle Creek Systems, he and his team developed cutting edge products in the financial, insurance, brokerage, medical and publishing fields for companies such as Dow Jones/Telerate, Blue Cross, Citibank, Canon, Sony, American Honda Motors, Harcourt, Pitney-Bowes and many others.

Prior to Eagle Creek Systems, Chris was the Vice-President of Software Engineering for MOS Scale International, the pioneers of electronic retail terminals for the USPS and the shipping and mailing industry. While at MOS Scale, Chris and his team designed and developed the first integrated retail terminal for the US Postal Service, as well as their first electronic postage printers, stamp stock control and express mail tracking systems.

Chris holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Cofounder and VP of Administration – David L. R. Stein

Dave Stein is a computer-industry and start-up veteran. From 1999 to 2004, he was an independent management consultant in San Jose, California. From 1992 to 1999, he was vice president and research center director for Gartner Group, a firm of which he is cofounder. From 1985 to 1992, Dave was a general partner of a $225 million venture-capital partnership of which he was cofounder. From 1979 to 1985, he was executive vice president and chief operating officer of Gartner Group, where he managed all operations from day one, grew recurring revenues to $35 million in six years, and established Gartner Group’s franchise as the global leader in strategic IT consulting services.

Prior to 1979, he spent 20 years in the computer industry in a variety of engineering, sales, marketing and general-management roles. During this period, he was instrumental in building the first commercially successful timesharing operating system and the first commercially successful IBM plug-compatible mainframe system. Dave is a past director of 10 companies, including four with combined revenues of more than $1 billion that he cofounded. His track record includes 10 high-technology start-ups.

He holds a B.S. degree with distinction in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology.

Principal Mathematician – Gary J. Sherman, Ph.D.

Gary Sherman’s expertise in modern algebra, linear algebra, probability theory, topology and functional analysis uniquely qualified him to develop the extended set algebra that is at the heart of ALGEBRAIX technology.  During his 35-year tenure at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, he served for six years as Chairman of the Department of Mathematics.  During this period, he also served for 11 years as a reviewer for the American Mathematical Society and for 12 years as a Visiting Lecturer for the Society of Industrial & Applied Mathematics.  Gary received his B.S. and M.A. degrees in Mathematics from Bowling Green University, and a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from Indiana University.

VP of Sales and Business Development – Glenn Hout

Glenn Hout has had successful leadership roles in the business intelligence and database industry for more than 22 years. Glenn brings leadership and industry experience from Oracle, Information Builders, Hyperion Solutions and IBM’s DB2 development group where he worked early in his career. He has built strategic ISV and OEM partnerships in business intelligence with PeopleSoft, i2 Technologies, Comshare and others, which have generated significant revenue streams.  He received a B.S. Cum Laude in Computer Science from the University of Utah and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

VP of Engineering – Marc Marshall

Marc Marshall has 22 years of experience serving as an executive in software start-ups in seven previous software companies spanning database products, business analytics, numerical simulation and modeling, secure data delivery and software engineering tools. Marc has led teams in product development, custom development, services, technical support and training. While at Pervasive Software, he led the company’s database product engineering, services and worldwide support through a successful IPO with over 40,000 end users of the product on diverse platforms. Prior to his executive roles, Marshall spent 16 years developing data correlation software applications and signal processing algorithms and systems. He holds a BS degree and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Rice University.