Vitria’s Executive Team has Extensive Experience in Building World-Class Software Companies

JoMei Chang, Ph.D.
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. JoMei Chang is the Chief Executive Officer of Vitria Technology, and is widely recognized as a leading entrepreneur and inventor. Dr. Chang has been profiled in many major publications and was named a leading CEO by Fortune magazine and Entrepreneur of the year by Business Week.

With over 30 years of experience Dr. Chang is credited with inventing and patenting the first reliable multicast protocol, as well as co-founding Teknekron Software Systems (now TIBCO), the first digital Trader Workstation, which revolutionized Wall Street information systems.

In 1994, Dr. Chang founded Vitria Technology to help solve one of the most daunting problems facing corporate CIOs today, that of integrating disparate IT systems. Boasting some of the largest names in Telecommunications, US Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Insurance as clients, Vitria has become a major force in the global BPM marketplace.

In 2004, Dr. Chang turned her focus to her native China and founded QilinSoft, a company that focuses on introducing integration technology to China. She serves both as a role model for entrepreneurs and as a technology visionary in the ever-growing technology market in China.

Dr. Chang holds a B.S. in Computer Science from National ChiaoTung University in Taiwan, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering on Database Management Systems from Purdue University.

Dale Skeen, Ph.D.
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Dale Skeen co-founded Vitria with Dr. JoMei Chang in 1994, and oversees the technology direction of the company. He is widely credited with inventing distributed publish-subscribe communication with more than a dozen patents in this and related technologies awarded or pending. Dr. Skeen has more than 20 years experience in designing and implementing large-scale computing systems and is well known for his technical contributions in the areas of distributed computing and database systems. Dr. Skeen is also the industry visionary recognized with creating and developing Business Process Integration and Real-time Business Process Analysis, two of the innovative foundations of Vitria’s solutions.

Dr. Skeen is also a prolific author, having contributed to ten books and written numerous journal articles on distributed computing and integration technology. Prior to founding Vitria, Dr. Skeen was a co-founder of TIBCO, where he served as Chief Scientist. He has held faculty positions at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Cornell University.

Bob Meindl
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Bob Meindl oversees Vitria’s global sales efforts across all the company’s key vertical markets. His responsibilities include both direct and indirect sales, worldwide field support, field strategy and planning, and sales operations. Mr. Meindl has been in the software industry for over 17 years.

Over his career, Mr. Meindl has served in a variety of senior management positions — most recently as vice president of world wide sales for the Aqualogic product stack at BEA Systems. In that capacity he oversaw the sales of all Aqualogic products from their inception and was a member of the Aqualogic Senior Management Team.

Prior to that Mr. Meindl was the head of sales for MetaMatrix Inc., the leading enterprise information integration vendor, where he was responsible for building the sales organization. Additionally, Mr. Meindl has held sales management and sales roles in companies such as Reuters, Bridge Information Systems, and Giga Information Group. He received his BA from Marist College.

Kevin Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Kevin Thompson brings over 20 years of technology management experience to the company. Previously he served as CFO of LiteScape Technologies, OpVista (acquired by Vello Systems), and Entrisphere (acquired by Ericsson). He also served as CFO of DigiLens (acquired by SBG Labs) and as CFO / VP Business Development at Everdream Corporation (acquired by Dell). Prior to his CFO roles, Mr. Thompson was a Managing Director with Amsterdam Pacific Securities—a San Francisco investment bank specializing in telecommunications and information technology. He gained early accounting and consulting experience with PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Arthur Andersen.

Mr. Thompson earned a BS in industrial engineering and economics (double-major) from Stanford University, as well as an MBA from Columbia University.

Brian Bohan 
Vice President of Worldwide Sales Consulting
Brian Bohan is responsible for Vitria’s field technical community, which includes all presales, execution, and professional services.

Prior to joining Vitria, Brian was at BEA Systems where he ran AquaLogic sales in the Northeast US and Canada. Brian joined BEA from Enterpulse, a national systems integrator focused on the strategy and implementation of SOA and enterprise portals. Brian was Enterpulse’s Regional Vice President of Sales for the Northeast before founding that company’s SOA consulting practice. Brian has also held strategic marketing positions at Hewlett-Packard and MetLife. Brian holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and a BS in Economics from Boston College.