Management

Zetta's founders are the team who commercialized the web as the leaders of Netscape. They come from companies like EqualLogic, EMC, RSA, Symantec and VeriSign and are collectively responsible for some of the Internet's best known distributed computing standards including: HTTP Cookies, SSL, HTTP Proxying, Server Push and Global Load Balancing.

 

Jeff Treuhaft, CEO, Co-founder

Jeff Treuhaft, CEO, Co-founder

Most recently Jeff Treuhaft spent more than five years at VeriSign where he led the global digital content and messaging business unit to more than a $130M per year run rate in revenues. Prior to VeriSign, Jeff was one of the first employees at Netscape and during more than five years was responsible for standardizing the SSL protocol, leading the product teams that launched JavaScript and Netscape's JVM, managing the W3C and IETF relationships, and establishing the technical infrastructure for Netscape Netcenter including launching RSS, syndicated identity management and growing the DevEdge web developer community. Prior to Netscape, Jeff spent several years in technical marketing roles at Silicon Graphics.

Jeff Whitehead, Vice President of Technical Operations and CTO, Co-founder

Jeff Whitehead, Vice President of Technical Operations and CTO, Co-founder

Most recently Jeff Whitehead spent more than two years as CIO of Shutterfly. At Shutterfly Jeff led the IT and production operations staff through a rapid growth phase from less than one petabyte of online storage to more than six petabytes while improving availability from less than 99% to more than 99.99%. Prior to its acquisition by Shutterfly, Jeff was co-founder of Memory Matrix and led all technical operations. Jeff was previously Director of Operations for Shopping.com, Dealtime and Epinions. Jeff began his career in Silicon Valley as one of the first website administrators at Netscape developing techniques commonly known now as global load balancing.

Lou Montulli, Vice President of Engineering, Co-founder

Lou Montulli, Vice President of Engineering, Co-founder

Most recently Lou Montulli was VP of Engineering at Shutterfly. Prior to its acquisition by Shutterfly, Lou was co-founder and CEO of Memory Matrix, a company that built highly scalable consumer photo services applications. Prior to that Lou was a co-founder and director of operations at Epinions.com. Lou was a founding engineer at Netscape Communications where his responsibilities included the first cross-product networking and caching libraries, cookies, and many other key innovations in HTTP and HTML. Lou was a key early innovator in the web having written the Lynx web browser while at the University of Kansas.

Chris Schin, Vice President Products

Chris Schin, Vice President Products

Chris Schin is responsible for coordinating all product-related initiatives. This includes product strategy, direction, and marketing, as well as business model and go-to-market process definition.

 

Prior to joining Zetta, Chris was acting GM and Senior Director for Symantec Protection Network, Symantec's Software as a Service platform. Prior to joining Symantec, Chris launched and ran a highly successful consulting practice helping technology startups with market research, strategy creation, TCO and competitive analyses. He has also served as director of product management at both Blue Titan Software and Intersperse Software.

Dave Ferretti, VP Worldwide Sales

Dave Ferretti, Vice President Worldwide Sales

Dave has over 20 years experience in creating and scaling worldwide sales for technology/SaaS companies. As VP WW Sales for StoredIQ, addressing eDiscovery, compliance and storage management in one platform, Dave closed the company's first foundation reference customers. Previously Dave was VP Channel Sales for EVault, an early SaaS backup/recovery solution provider acquired by Seagate Technology, where he developed over 50 revenue producing channel partners. Dave also ran worldwide sales for Xerox Corporation's enterprise software division delivering the first web-based content management system. Dave holds a BS Business & Computer Information Systems degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder – Leeds School of Business.

Jason Harrison, Principal Engineer, Co-founder

Jason Harrison, Principal Engineer, Co-founder

Jason Harrison was most recently a senior engineer at Shutterfly. Prior to its acquisition by Shutterfly, Jason was co-founder of Memory Matrix and led the core engineering effort to build their flagship photo services product. Prior to Memory Matrix Jason spent several years as the engineering lead and principal architect for Seascape, an innovator of non-stop, integrated control systems for large sailing vessels.

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