Jim kaskade biography (updated)

Jim Kaskade
Executive Summary
Jim Kaskade is a passionate executive of twenty years. Most recently, Jim led a digital
identity security company, as CEO, through a 3-year journey of turn-around, growth,
profitability, and exit.
Jim leads teams with an entrepreneurial passion of a startup CEO that understands “T2D3” (or
“triple, triple, double, double, double” revenue over 5 years). He also uniquely understands
what it takes to operate at $1B scale. His experience in small and large company environments across all
business functions over the past 30 years gives him a unique perspective of running high-growth businesses at
any scale.
As CEO at Janrain, Jim led the PE-backed turnaround through a business transformation, leveraging the
McKinsey playbooks he studied previously at CSC. Janrain was a digital identity security SaaS provider that
became the #1 leader in a high-growth Identity and Access Management (IAM) market. Janrain was successfully
sold to Akamai in 2019.
Prior to Janrain Jim focused on building a high-performing team leading a $1B business unit at CSC - the largest
“cell in the matrix” and a business unit that was responsible for digital transformation initiatives using
technologies from Oracle, SAP, IBM, Microsoft, and several SaaS offerings including Salesforce, Workday, and
ServiceNow. CSC was successfully merged with HPE in 2016 to form DXC.
Jim also led a business unit at CSC that was responsible for Big Data, Business Intelligence, Analytics, and
Enterprise Data Warehousing, addressing an overall market where 50B devices (things) will be generating over
40 zetabytes of data annually by 2020, serving as the catalyst of a market growing at a 12.5% CAGR from $1.3
trillion in 2013 to $3.0 trillion in 2020. The Big Data BU became the highest growth business in all of CSC.
Prior to CSC, Jim was CEO of Infochimps, a Big Data Cloud company, serving Fortune 1000 with a unique
network of analytic services deployed in Tier 4 data centers across North America. Under Jim’s leadership the
company grew from $0 to $50M in only 2.5 years. This company was acquired by CSC in late 2013.
Prior to Infochimps, Jim was SVP & GM at SIOS, a publicly traded firm headquartered in Japan, where he was
responsible for the company’s global cloud business. He led a US business unit focused on developing a first-of-
its-kind cloud application serving platform, addressing Fortune 500 data center needs in private cloud Platform
as a Service (PaaS).
Prior to SIOS, Jim was an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) for Express
Ventures in San Diego assisting portfolio and prospect companies with
their business. It was then he envisioned an emerging private cloud
market. He became CEO of StackIQ, a provider of a unique private cloud
and Big Data operating system that was jointed developed with the UCSD
Super Computing Center. StackIQ was acquired by Teradata in 2017.
Prior to that, he was the founder and CEO of a venture-backed video SaaS
startup providing broadband and mobile video publishing, syndication,
and advertising to over 10,000 companies. His startup was based on an
elastic and scalable SaaS digital media platform built before cloud
solutions from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft were launched. His vision
centered on a sophisticated advertising exchange with targeted and
dynamic insertion of in-stream advertising, targeting a high-growth
market segment growing to over $5.6B in 2013 at a 63% CAGR. He sold
this company in late 2008.
From 1998 to 2005, Jim led three startups in the semiconductor space, leveraging his experience in electrical
engineering and IC design. Jim led the development of a new high frequency ball grid array package used by the
largest brands in CPUs, GPUs, and high-performance ASICs. This company was venture backed by Paul Capital
and sold in late 2004.
From 1988 to 1998 Jim became the expert in decision support / business intelligence applications for enterprise
data warehouses. His data warehousing career began as a lead semiconductor designer at NCR where he
developed a Banyan crossbar circuit-switched high-speed network, the world’s largest circuit switched compute
node network of 4096 processors and the basis for Teradata’s $2B+ data warehousing revenue today.
231 Hillside Drive, Woodside, CA 94062, +1.415.938.7891 tweet: @jimkaskade email: jim.kaskade@gmail.com
Employment History
Janrain CEO 2016-2019
CSC VP & GM, Dig Apps 2015-2016
CSC VP & GM, Big Data 2014-2015
Infochimps CEO 2013
PARC EIR / CEO 2012
SIOS SVP & GM 2010-2011
StackIQ CEO 2009
Eyespot CEO 2005-2008
Integral CEO 2005
INCEP CEO 2000-2004
CDI VP Sales & Mrktg 1999
Teradata Dir. Prod Mrktg 1998
Teradata Dir. Prod Mgmt 1997-1998
NCR Strategic Planning 1996
AT&T Prof Services 1992-1996
NCR Engineer 1988-1992
DSC Engineer 1986-1988
Lockheed Engineer 1986
Blog: www.jameskaskade.com

Janrain CEO, CSC VP & GM, 2015-2019
SEAMLESS AND SECURE DIGITAL APPLICATIONS
Customers expect an excellent digital experience, driving organizations to deliver a
frictionless, omnichannel customer journey. Security and risk leaders strive to meet these
digital expectations, but the resulting convenience opens the door to new risks. Who are
your legitimate users? How can you build digital identity
trust without traditional, cumbersome identity proofing
or physical identification?
DIGITAL IDENTITY SECURITY @ JANRAIN
Seamless and secure were our pillars in the business -
seamless experiences when you entered your digital world
through registration and login services, provided by us; and
secure given that we had built the most sophisticated
adaptive risk-based authentication in partnership with
Akamai (which led to our acquisition).
Janrain was a Private-Equity-backed rocket ship. But it didn’t
start like that. Focused on SMB marketing use-cases only, a
shift to enterprise security changed the shape of the business
from flat to 48% year-over-year growth on enterprise revenue
from global 1000 customers with >$1B in revenue; from $11K
to $250K ACVs; from $40K to $550K TCVs; from 76% to 90%
GRR; from 88% to 117% DRR; from $6.32 to $1.10 CAC; and
1.46 to 6.86 LTV:CAC.
With over 11B digital identities breached in the US over the
last decade, the number of breaches per year has gone up an
order of magnitude (130M in 2008 vs. 1.3B in 2018 in the US alone). Why? Our worlds have become
much more digital.
DIGITAL APPLICATIONS @ CSC
Jim was asked to lead the “largest cell in the matrix” at CSC – Digital Applications for the Americas.
It was close to a $1B business with 7,000 people and over 30 direct reports. The mission for Jim was
focused on operating income. Our largest problem was that we had 7 distinct technology partners
(IBM, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow), 8 consulting groups, 10 delivery
teams, 6 industry verticals, and all with literally hundreds of offerings.
In less than 6 months, he combined all the “legos” into one lean machine. He reduced offerings to
only three per technology partner and managed each customer as it’s own P&L. Not only did he
increase operating income from 0% to 20% during this time, but he also increased growth from -5% to
12%. This resulted in his team creating $2B in enterprise value at 20% OI on $1B, trading at a PE of 10.
THE NEW ERA OF SECURITY
Half of his Big Data & Analytics revenue was generated from our US Homeland Security, investing
into the most sophisticated analytics for our intelligence community. During his time with CSC’s
digital applications business he experienced every type of digital transformation project known to
mankind across every vertical. And finally at Janrain, he learned that losing one’s digital identity has
become crippling - how does anyone operate without a digital presence across every aspect of his or
her lives these days?
Change is Good
“A quintessential change agent.
Jim has a tireless work rate and a
relentless demand for high
performing teams. As a seasoned
veteran he brings well thought
out playbooks and processes to
the table, which foster deep
analysis and data driven
discussions. Jim is also excellent
at identifying orthogonal growth
vectors and chasing them to
ground. He is transparent, leads
by example and constantly places
stretch goals on his team.”
Brian Peters, Managing Director
HighBar Partners
Growth + Profitability + Liquidity = Enterprise Value That Investors Like
Align with you Investor’s Goals
Jim believes that his role as a CEO starts with the “investment thesis”. At Janrain, Jim not only aligned with his Private Equity
partnership at HighBar Partners, but with all investors including Anthem Venture Partners, Millennium Technology Value Partners,
Split Rock Partners, Epic Ventures, Emergence Capital, RPM Ventures, DFJ, and Salesforce Ventures. “Jim is the highest on our list.”
Samit Varma, Anthem. “Fantastic job! Our partnership is a huge fan of Jim.” Ray Cheng, Millennium. “Jim did a VERY nice job.” Jim
Simons, Split Rock Ventures. “A great positive experience! Thank you Jim!” Kent Madsen, Epic Ventures. “Jim exceeded our
expectations” Brian Jacobs, Emergence Capital. “Jim is a sales and marketing centric CEO, who doesn’t shy away from transforming
any/all aspects of the business to support his bookings and revenue growth targets.” Tony Grover, RPM Ventures. “He reinvigorated
the team, the mission and the operations. And then he sold the company. For a lot of money.” David Cremin, DFJ Frontier.

CSC VP & GM, Infochimps CEO, and PARC EIR, 2012-2014
BUSINESS OUTCOME WITH BIG DATA & ANALYTICS
In 2013 there were almost as many bits in the Digital Universe as stars in the Physical
Universe. Over 44 zettabytes of data will be created annually by the year 2020. The catalyst
for this will be the 50B devices or Internet of Things producing rich information about the
environments in which they are operating.
LOVE YOUR DATA
Jim led a business unit at CSC that became the fastest
growing at 51% year over year. At the core of the CSC
business lies the combination of new web-scale technology
and over 1,000 passionate analytics consultants, data
scientists, and data engineers.
At the core of each CSC client is data. From banking and
capital markets, to insurance, manufacturing, health,
transportation, and utilities, CEOs and business-line
executives leveraged Jim’s disruptive analytics capabilities
and new business processes to ultimately unlock the value of
data with new customer insights, product innovation, smart
operations, and risk management – all producing newly
obtained competitive advantage.
WHERE DID THE DATA STORY START?
Jim’s passion for data began when he became a part of a team
at Teradata in 1988 responsible for developing the most
scalable data warehousing platform, even today. Fast forward to late 2011, when Jim approached the
CEO of PARC, a Xerox company, about building a next-generation Big Data platform. As an Executive
In Residence, Jim did what Steve Jobs did prior to starting Apple – namely, he worked with some of
the most brilliant minds at PARC (the inventors of technologies like Ethernet, the GUI, the mouse),
and advanced PARC’s research in graph analytics to commercial status.
This led to his work at PARC being incorporated into a fledging startups, Infochimps and Quantiply,
At Infochimps he worked with the Board to reposition the company to become a leading cloud
provider of advanced Big Data analytics. At Quantiply, graph analytics became explainable AI for
Anti-money laundering.
VALUE OF ANALYTICS
What if you could deploy the most sophisticated data analytics capability of google, Yahoo!,
Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter, all on demand and in hours? What if you could solve the most
pressing business problems within days? Jim realized his vision to achieve time to value in days;
provide 100x ROI; deliver against the most stringent SLAs; at any scale; and no matter how
challenging the business problem. The value of analytics is only limited by the degree to which you
adopt and deploy across your enterprise.
LEADERSHIP WITH ACTION
Under Jim’s leadership Infochimps went from $0 to $50M in revenue, becoming 20% of a $250M line
of business after CSC’s acquisition of Infochimps. Jim tripled the staff, seamlessly integrated the
team into the business unit he then took over, and invested over $100M in the most advanced
technology innovation, powering the US federal government’s intelligence analytics, and minimally
the top 3 out of 10 enterprises in every major industry vertical. Jim applies stringent management
systems, which lead with culture, followed by strategy, and finish with execution.
Can Big Data Save Them?
Using Big Data to Fight Cancer
Jim believes in business with a purpose. Connecting sophisticated analytic technologies to use-cases that even the average person
understands – this is his way of having a more strategic conversation with enterprise executives. At the 2013 Strata Big Data
Conference in New York, he explains how advanced analytics could be used to predict individual outcomes and proactively apply
preventive measures to give people normal life spans. In his talk, he discusses the cure to cancer.
Global Leader
“Jim is one of the most dynamic,
trustworthy, dedicated and multi-
dimensional leaders I have met
over my 20+ years in the
industry. He is one of a few
executives that has been able to
successfully and seamlessly move
from leading a start-up company
to driving growth, change and
results in a large global company
that is in the middle of a financial
re-engineering and market re-
imaging effort.”
Michael Bray, Director of
Marketing, CSC Big Data

SIOS SVP & GM, 2009-2011
CLOUD STRATEGY & INNOVATION
Leading with Culture
“Jim has a playbook for making
teams work together and does his
best to stamp out politics and
bad communication habits.
One of my personal heroes is
Ernest Shackleton and much like
him, Jim will go through great
sacrifice for the sake of his team
and the company to ensure
everyone survives and even come
out as better people.”
Joe Kelly, founder & COO,
Infochimps
Business requirements revolve around the
application, not the infrastructure. Even though
Cloud Computing has shown a clear path to
infrastructure automation and cost reduction, the
real opportunity lies with the ability to automate
provisioning the application to the end-user.
Jim was tasked to establish SIOS’ overall cloud strategy in
such a way that leveraged the company’s existing core
competencies as well as guarantee a sustainable, long-term
revenue stream in a large and high-growth market.
Following a company-wide study of SIOS’ data center
expertise, Jim proposed a multi-phase strategy that
involved: 1) identifying and partnering with complimentary
technologies/companies to augment the existing
businesses, leveraging Cloud; 2) licensing technology to
accelerate go-to-market; 3) internally developing new core
technology that would differentiate the company in a
completely new long-term growth business; and 4) invest in
academia and startup companies to co-develop
transformative technologies which could completely
leapfrog SIOS beyond its competition.
Jim detailed a three-phased business case to establish SIOS
as a clear leader in Cloud. Phase one involved OEMing a
leading cloud management solution that could initially be
sold standalone and later as an integrated component of a
broader solution. Phase two was to develop the first
private cloud Platform as a Service for Fortune 1000
enterprises through a co-innovation partnership with one
of the largest System Integrators. Phase 3 involved
developing an advanced cloud storage technology, which
would allow the company to address data storage
requirements for consumer and/or enterprises in a way
currently not available.
Jim exhibited a sound process, testing his thesis in a
systematic way with peers in the industry, leading analysts,
and most importantly a suite of CIOs and data center
architects. Jim successfully built an “A-team” of industry
veterans who would take his vision and execute
seamlessly. He also leveraged off-shore engineering
resources in order to further reduce execution risk as well
as expense.
Four months after Board support of Jim’s strategy, under
his leadership the company was able to build a team that
created its first cloud product, validate market
requirements with UBS, Citibank, JP Morgan, Walgreens,
and Flextronics, and establish a first-of-its-kind CTO and
Business-unit sponsored joint-development partnership
with Wipro Technologies in support of a flawless go-to-
market strategy.

Clearly a ‘level 5’
Leader
“I know Jim as fanatically driven,
infected with an incurable fire in
his belly to produce results. He
could not stand mediocrity in any
form and is utterly intolerant of
anyone who would accept and
satisfy with ‘just enough’ results.
I could see at all times his
unwavering resolve to do
whatever must be done to
produce the best long term
results – no matter how difficult
it is. He sets high standards and
raises the bar high in
expectations from his direct
reports as well as he exceeds the
expectations of everyone he
works with by setting high
standards for himself.”
Surendra Reddy, CTO, SIOS

StackIQ CEO / Express Ventures EIR, 2009
SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR & CLOUD
High-performance computing clusters based on Linux have
been rapidly becoming the dominant computing platform
for a wide range of scientific disciplines. Yet,
straightforward software installation, maintenance, and
health monitoring for large-scale clusters has been a
consistent and nagging problem for non-cluster experts.
Jim was invited in by a group at the UCSD Supercomputing Center
who had been developing a new Linux OS distribution based on
RedHat for over 10 years to address issues with deploying and
managing large HPC clusters.
Jim worked with the Rocks Cluster Distribution team and a
commercial partner, now StackIQ, to reposition the project into a
new growth market with a high-end Fortune 1000 private cloud
and Big Data operating platform.
Jim knew that the HPC market was limited in size and growth and
that Cloud Computing in the commercial space was just
beginning to skyrocket. With the addition of a cloud automation
layer, the Rocks project could be applied to the automated
initiation, execution, management, integration, and availability of
mission-critical enterprise applications on a shared, on-demand,
standardized platform – a Private Platform as A Service.
Jim’s vision was to compete head-to-head with incumbents like
VMware as well as emerging venture-backed startups like
Eucalyptus and Cloud.com.
He believed that the Rocks team had already proven their ability
to scale (installing complete HPC clusters of over 1000 nodes in
less than an hour). What they were missing was an administration
interface and multi-tenant cloud services capability.
Jim assumed the role of CEO and led the team through a process
to further expand the work done at UCSD and the commercial
entity, StackIQ. He worked to recapitalize the company, and
prepare the team for a venture roadshow.
Jim led the process of defining a new engineering roadmap,
creating a new business model and associated business plan.
He carefully sought out Industry veterans to test his thesis,
talking to thought leaders at Amazon, Teradata, and Dell, as well
as several venture groups in Silicon Valley including Sequoia,
Trinity, and Redpoint.
It is Jim’s focus on team, which later led to a significant delay in
executing the new strategy. Although the technology proved to
offer incredible opportunities, the academic team was not yet
ready to take the necessary leap into the commercial space.
Almost 18 months later, both commercial and academic teams
where brought together. StackIQ is now a successfully venture-
funded startup on its way to changing the cloud and BIG DATA
landscape.
Vision, Passion,
Tenacity
“I am highly impressed by
Jim’s entreprenurial vision
and tenacity, as well as by his
broad base of managerial and
technical skills. Jim is an
excellent CEO.”
Franz Birkner, Managing
Director, Express Ventures
“I have known Jim for close
to 10 years during which
time I have had the pleasure
to sit on the boards of two of
his companies, both of which
he founded and one of which
my firm was the lead
investor. As a result of these
experiences I have found Jim
to be an extremely
resourceful CEO who has
vision and passion. Most
importantly I have found Jim
to be the consummate
professional with the highest
integrity. Jim is a charismatic
leader who commands
respect and knows how to
build and motivate a team.“
Mark Czepiel, Partner, Top
Tier Investments/Paul
Capital Partners
“Through all stages of the
startup life cycle, Jim
demonstrated experience and
skills of a successful CEO,
consistently displaying
passion and resolve for the
drive, vision and purpose of
the company. His knowledge
in all areas of the business
proved to make him not only
a recognized leader in the
industry, but also within the
company to promote a
common vision with the
team, with customers and
vendors, and with the
investment community.”
Jeff Gilford, Blackford
Partners

Eyespot Video Network CEO, 2005-2008
THE ERA OF SAAS, MOBILE, &
DIGITAL VIDEO
In 2005 Jim envisioned an online and mobile experience that
would be driven more by video than by text and photos. Two
years after Jim decided to pursue his first digital video startup,
properties like Youtube began to gain traction and analysts began
predicting that over 50% of the US population – 155.2 million
people – would be watching digital video via online and mobile
devices by 2008.
Analysts also began to forecast that advertisers would spend much
more on video ads with growth rates of over 55%. And although video
advertising was a small percentage of the total Internet ad spending or
of TV ad spending, this market was soon projected to grow 63%
annually to a total of $5.8B by 2013. Once again, Jim had focused on
one of the fastest growth segments, which was just beginning to gain
attention from venture groups.
Jim’s vision involved first spinning out a technology and team from his
work at Teradata in data mining. He wanted to use product, team, and
strategic capital to realize his vision in targeting marketing for wireless
that combined his knowledge in CRM, mobility middleware, data mining,
and databases. It became clear that Jim was ahead of the market
opportunity by at least a year, which resulted in a two-phased plan to
achieve his goals.
Jim raised $10M in venture capital and built a video SaaS platform for
both online and mobile video content publishing. In phase 1, he
amassed a network of over 10,000 web and mobile enterprises using his
platform to distribute video. In phase 2, he then began building a first-
of-its-kind video advertising network exchange (Ad-Exchange), which
included an ad-serving offering that allowed web and mobile content
publishers to take advantage of multiple advertising sources for in-
stream video advertisements. Website owners or mobile carriers simply
incorporated a few lines of code into their web and mobile media
players and they obtained access to all the major video ad-networks
globally.
Jim had established advertising partnerships with Google, Tremor,
Yume, Adap.TV, Scanscout, Digitalsmiths, SpotXchange, DoubleClick,
Microsoft, and 24/7, providing him the ability to guarantee a
relevant/targeted ad for any video streamed through his SaaS platform.
These partnerships led to notable deals with Lucasfilm, SonyBMG, News
Corp (Fox Sports, Fox HiLites, Fox On-the-lot), IAC, Vh1, NBA, AETN,
Cyworld, Demand Media, as well as 10,000 middle-market website
publishers. Jim sold the company in 2004 just prior to a major
consolidation in the online advertising marketplace.
Business and
Technology Sense
“One of Jim's strengths is his
ability to engage others to
support his cause, listen to
feedback, and act on it. Jim
combines an unwavering
tenacity with a clear vision to
deliver. He's well respected
among his peers, investors,
and the business community
as an extremely capable
entrepreneur and CEO.”
Rick Valencia, Chairman &
Founder, ProfitLine
“Jim is an extremely dynamic
CEO/executive/entrepreneur.
From the day he sold me on his
vision to create a "RightMedia"
advertising exchange for mid-
market website publishers he
was consistently the most
determined, focused, and
passionate person I know.“
David Gilby, Chief Revenue
Officer, Eyespot
Jim is one of the few digital
media veterans that gets it. I
watched Jim grow Eyespot
from a single video destination
(eyespot.com) into a network
of thousands of websites
leveraging their media
libraries, media widgets, and
video advertising web services
(eyespotnetwork.com). He is an
extremely strong strategist,
product visionary, people
person, and most of all...deal
maker. It is rare to find a CEO
with both a business and
technology sense.
Dmitry Shapiro, CEO &
Founder, Veoh Networks
Front Page of Wall Street Journal, May 24, 2007 (Eyespot & Lucasfilm Partnership)
Make-It-Yourself 'Star Wars'
George Lucas, creator of "Star Wars," has never hesitated to protect his intellectual property, which is why some call him "Lucas the
Litigator." But this week, his Lucasfilm [and Eyespot] plans to make clips of "Star Wars" available to fans on the Internet to mash up --
meaning to remix however they want -- at will. In essence, Lucasfilm is going to legitimize and streamline a pastime that has become
increasingly popular on the Web.

INCEP Technology CEO, 1999-2004
GAME CHANGING THE FABLESS
SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY
During this period chip performance and electronic system
performance both were projected to follow the same
historically aggressive growth trajectory over time. However,
the capabilities of semiconductor support technologies were
projected to lag. Silicon performance was not only continuing
to be gated by the advances in semiconductor technology, but
also equally dependent on the need for advances in power
delivery, thermal management, and packaging technologies –
starting at the chip and extending out to the system.
Jim founded INCEP in 1999 after spinning out technology and team
from a semiconductor services company where he served as VP of
Marketing & Sales. INCEP was Jim’s first self-founded company, which
acted as a springboard for his career as a CEO.
Over a course of four years Jim engaged strategic joint-developments
with CPU companies including Intel, AMD, Sun, IBM, and HP; with GPU
providers such as NVIDIA; and ASIC/chip manufacturers including
Texas Instruments.
Jim and his team developed a revolutionary chip package with leading
substrate vendors that enabled CPU vendor roadmaps for thermal,
voltage, and instantaneous power delivery for over a decade with cost
reductions of up to 50% for voltage regulation, 16% for device
packaging, and 20% at the system-level for OEMs.
The company had 74 patent filings – five US patents issued, 36
pending, and 33 provisionals outstanding when the company was
sold. Coverage included three unique modular and high-performance
power delivery methods. Proper patent prosecution was core to the
success of the business.
INCEP had a number of candidate CPUs in test with its packaging,
proving its superior performance over alternatives from companies
who were much better capitalized. Jim was successful in achieving
market validation in an extremely capital efficient manner.
He exhibited an exceptional ability to understand the company’s
value proposition across the supply chain – a key element to
achieving success in such an established industry. Jim not only
navigated sophisticated MPU end-customers, but packaging, power
supply, and connector suppliers, as well as compute system OEMs.
After a number of strategic projects at Intel and AMD were internally
delayed / redirected, Jim led the sale of the company to a $2B
strategic investor (who was also a manufacturing partner, joint-
development partner, and customer).
Leads From Dreams
To Success
“I came out of retirement
because of Jim. His energy
was contagious. His focus on
big opportunities was too
compelling. His ability to
articulate his vision was
outstanding. Jim and I spent
over 4 years building a
dream, during which I
watched him grow from an
individual contributor to an
exceptional leader and CEO.”
Jack Shemer, Founder &
CEO, Teradata
Derives Vision From
Listening To
Customers
“Jim has developed a strong
understanding of the Fortune
1000 enterprise and the
needs in the data center. He's
stayed ahead of the industry
working on the bleeding
edge, whether it's building
the worlds largest switch
fabric, launching the first
data mining enabled RDBMS,
developing new BI tools, or,
semiconductor packaging. I
would gladly work with Jim.
He's a talented executive and
entrepreneur.”
Jim Dietz, COO, INCEP
Technologies
Beginning of INCEP and Intel partnership, February 26, 2001
INCEP Delivers New IA64 Processor Packaging
INCEP Technologies announced today delivery of core packaging technologies for a high-density concept server scheduled for display
at the Intel Developer Forum. As part of a new prototype development agreement, INCEP has collaborated with Intel to design a small
form-factor IA64 concept server, designed for Intel’s Itanium™ processor family. The concept server will use INCEP’s power and
thermal technologies as part of an integrated approach to processor packaging. “INCEP enables the power of silicon by combining
power, thermal, and EMI solutions within an integrated architecture.” “Only by taking a system-level view to chip-level packaging is
INCEP able to provide a solution which offers a roadmap for several CPU generations.”

NCR/AT&T/Teradata, 1988-1998
DATA WAREHOUSING REINVENTED
Jim began his career in the data centers of Fortune 1000 enterprises
as an engineer at NCR (later Teradata), the leader in data
warehousing solutions. As a young engineer, hungry for the cutting
edge, he was chosen to be among an elite group spun out of core
development and placed in a separately-funded business unit – a BU
tasked to create the next-generation data warehouse offering.
He and four other engineers invented the BYNET (BanYan NETwork, a
folded banyan switching network built on the original YNET). Jim and his
team redesigned the original compute and storage node interconnecting
technology used to create the DBC 1012, invented by Jack Shemer and
David Hartke in the early 1980s. The BYNET proved to be linearly scalable,
connecting up to 4096 processor nodes, and addressing scalability
limitations of the YNET.
Following his success in engineering, Jim turned to consulting some of the
largest Teradata customers on their data warehouse architecture -
customers including Walmart, Bank Of America, and AT&T to better learn
of customer challenges directly.
He later began developing new products for the company in an advanced
R&D or “special projects” role. It was then that he identified data mining,
knowledge discovery, and business intelligence as a strategic space, which
could truly leverage the depth of data stored in the many data warehouses
powered by the Teradata platform.
Jim had gained experience with every component of the enterprise data
warehouse framework for Fortune 1000 companies, eventually focusing on
web-centric end-user business intelligence applications - applications
which could realize the value of an ever- increasing amount of data
captured via the web user traffic.
Jim embarked on a path, which resulted in making fundamental changes to
the Teradata database to incorporate analytics, which would automate the
data mining process for data warehouses. Jim sold senior management on
a number of business cases which followed his vision of data mining, and
what later became a new age of information democracy with data
warehousing and business intelligence.
Through a set of reseller partnerships, OEM partnerships, and core
technology development, Jim led the Teradata data mining initiatives
within the company, starting with a project referred to as Teradata Scalable
Discovery, and now Teradata Warehouse Miner (TWM), leading to
Teradata’s Business Intelligence program today.
TWM provides advanced analytic capabilities directly within the relational
database. With this development applications can access, through an
analytic API, machine learning algorithms such as rule induction, clustering,
regression, association, and even neural nets, as an integrated operation
directly against the detailed dataset.
This program was successful and has been quickly followed by other
leaders in the industry including Oracle, and IBM. Jim’s intrapreneurial
efforts led to his responsibility for Business Intelligence and it’s impact on
the Teradata RDBMS.
Dedication To
Providing
Shareholder Value
“Jim has the leadership
skills to bring the right
people into the business,
and to position the company
over time for the maximum
potential. Jim's energy and
enthusiasm for the business
survives the highs and lows
of the startup process, and
his dedication to providing
shareholder value and
protecting the interests of
all of the stakeholders, is a
testament to his business
ethics and commitment to
hard work. I would gladly
work with Jim again, and
gladly support any
entrepreneurial enterprise
led by Jim.“
Marco Thompson,
Managing Partner, Express
Ventures
Ability To See
Through The Noise
“What impresses me about
Jim is that he continues to
be extremely accurate in his
prediction of this industry
and where it is headed. He is
also one of the rare CEOs
that really understands what
it takes to blend
technologies and services
that can guarantee
distribution, performance
and ROI. Jim is an
outstanding entrepreneur
and CEO and I would not
hesitate to work with him
again.”
Dan Flanegan, Co-Founder
& CEO, Soapbox Mobile

FOUNDERS GIVING BACK
Jim teaches courses to aspiring CEOs, assisting Adeo Ressi and
team at the Founder Institute (FI), which has become the largest
incubator in the world by number of companies created, number of
locations, number of mentors and pace of company creation.
Founder’s collective efforts have helped launch nearly 250
companies worldwide by over 300 Founders that employ
thousands of people.
FI has encouraged some of the smartest and most talented people
on the planet to give up the safety of their day jobs and pursue a
challenging path to their dreams.
ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS
Jim co-founded (with his wife, Annie) GreenEdge Kids, which grew
to be the largest etailer of sustainable children's clothing for ages
2-14.
He and his wife also launched their own line of USA-made
premium eco-denim for children, GreenEdge Denim.
GreenEdge Denim was born out of a desire to acknowledge the
importance of the youngest generation, fuel recognition of the
world we come from, and layer meaning into style.
PATENTS
• All digital phase locked loop
• Apparatus for providing power to a microprocessor with
integrated thermal and EMI management
• Method and apparatus for providing power to a
microprocessor with integrated thermal and EMI
management
• System and methods for creating, collecting, and using
metadata
• System and methods for online collaborative video creation
• Automatic aggregation of content for use in an online video
editing system
• System and methods for storing, editing, and sharing digital
video
• System and methods for distributed edit processing in an
online video editing system
EDUCATION
University of San Diego, 1989-1993
Masters in Business Administration
New Product Development, Entrepreneurship, Finance
University of California, Santa Barbara, 1984-1988
Bachelors, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Semiconductor Design, Adv Programming Architectures
Focuses on Return
On Investment
“As a board member and
investor I was able to observe
Jim Kaskade in a
management role on multiple
occasions. Jim utilized a
hands-on, high-energy
approach to managing an
early stage technology
company that ensured good
communication and visibility
both inside the company and
at the board level. Jim’s level
of preparation and analysis
prior to meetings made
discussion and decision
making a straightforward
process. Jim also displayed
good people skills, ethics and
financial acuity. I would
certainly recommend Jim for
a leadership role in a
technology startup.“
Joe Markee, Managing
Director, Express Ventures
Builds Value With A
Focus on Team
“Jim is one of few CEOs who
truly understands what it
means to leverage the
strengths of those who report
to him and makes the effort
at building group consensus
with his colleagues.”
Mark Hill, SVP Business
Development, Eyespot
Knows The
Customer
“His understanding of
customer need and properly
aligning that with technology
offerings, coupled with an
endless amount of
energy/tenacity is what will
benefit any organization led
by Jim.”
Randy Lea, VP Global
Products & Services
Marketing, Teradata

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