Leadership Team for RNA networks, Memory Virtualization Platform

Leadership Team

Clive Cook, Chief Executive Officer
Jim Bole, Vice President, Products & Services
Tom Critser, Vice President, Worldwide Sales
Jason Gross, Vice President and Founder
Ranjit Pandit, Vice President and Founder
Frank Tycksen, Vice President, Engineering

	Clive Cook Chief Executive Officer Clive Cook has a track record of success building and leading technology businesses. Combining expertise in management, strategic business development and technology application, Mr. Cook is an architect of both products and business models. At VeriLAN, Inc., Mr. Cook led the multi-billion dollar consortium of companies seeking to build, own and operate large wireless infrastructure projects. As CEO of Elematics, Clive led the company from business plan development, financing, and deployment. Clive worked in management positions for Nortel Networks, Acterna (now JDSU) and Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman). Clive has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary and earned his master’s degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Carleton University. He holds an M.B.A. from the Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario. Mr. Cook is on the Board of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI). View LinkedIn Profile
	Jim Bole Vice President, Products & Services Jim Bole brings 25 years of entrepreneurial experience to the RNA team, having built and led product strategy, engineering, and professional services organizations across a wide range of enterprise software organizations from startup to billion-dollar levels. An experienced Silicon Valley executive, Jim’s career includes enterprise solutions in areas such as SOA, BPM and content management. Prior to RNA networks, Jim served as the Vice President of SOA Solutions at Software AG/webMethods following their acquisition of Jims previous startup Infravio where Jim served as VP Products and Services and VP Engineering. Before that, Jim has was a member of the founding engineering team at Formtek, which was acquired by Lockheed Martin. Jim holds a Bachelor of Science on Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and is a Board Member of DPAC Technologies (NASD:DPAC). View LinkedIn Profile
	Tom Critser Vice President, Worldwide Sales Tom Critser has 20 years of experience launching and growing successful enterprise software companies. Tom joined RNA networks after five years as the Vice President of World Wide Sales at Infravio, the premier SOA management software company acquired by Software AG (WebMethods). Before joining Infravio, Tom was a co-founder and Vice President of Sales and Business Development at TriStep Systems, the first web-based consultant management and procurement software company. TriStep was acquired by eWork, Inc. in June 2000. Tom received his BS in Marketing and International Business from Oregon State University. View LinkedIn Profile
	Jason Gross Vice President and Founder Jason Gross is a co-founder of RNA networks and has an extensive background in large scale distributed management systems, Web 2.0 architectures and network management protocols. Prior to founding RNA networks, Jason was a Senior Software Engineer at SilverStorm Technologies (now QLogic), where he focused on InfiniBand management systems. Jason also worked at Cisco Systems and General Instrument where he developed VOIP and cable head-end management systems. Jason holds a BS(CE) degree from Drexel University. View LinkedIn Profile
	Ranjit Pandit Vice President and Founder Ranjit is a co-founder of RNA Networks with over 11 years of experience in the field of high performance computing. Prior to RNA, Ranjit led the database clustering initiative at SilverStorm Technologies (now QLogic) and was the creator of Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS). At Intel, Ranjit worked on projects including Intel's InfiniBand initiative and the first Pentium 4 processor architecture. Ranjit holds a M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University and a B.E. in Electronics and Communications from Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College, India. View LinkedIn Profile
	Frank Tycksen Vice President, Engineering Frank Tycksen has more than 23 years of experience in software development, management and technical leadership focused on security, trust and high-volume distributed systems. Before joining RNA networks Frank was VP of Engineering at SignaCert, Inc., delivering an appliance-based solution for independent software measurement, verification and control within the enterprise. Prior to that, Frank was Research Engineering Manager at Intel Corp., involved in leading research efforts in the areas of trust and security. Before joining Intel, Frank was CTO of Swan Island Networks and founder/CTO of Portland Software / Preview Systems. Frank was also instrumental in the success of several other companies such as Second Nature Software, a non-profit company dedicated to donating all profits to The Nature Conservancy, and Central Point Software, which was acquired by Symantec. View LinkedIn Profile