Executive Team

Jedidiah Yueh, President and CEO

In 1999, Jedidiah Yueh founded Avamar, a software company that pioneered data de-duplication and shipped a billion-dollar product in the backup and recovery industry, with over 20,000 current customers. Today, de-duplication is a high priority for enterprise data centers, and the technology has become a must-have feature or product for major storage and software vendors. Data de-duplication strips away redundant data to make disks more cost effective than tape media for storing a wide variety of data types, such as daily, repeated backup sets. EMC acquired Avamar in November 2006 for $165 million. EMC executives have stated that Avamar is the best performing investment for EMC since VMware.

Yueh has demonstrated a successful track record for identifying new market opportunities and staying ahead of industry trends. As VP of Product Management at EMC, Yueh helped launch the Avamar Data Store and the Avamar Virtual Edition in 2007, two innovative and successful products that have helped EMC maintain a leadership position in the industry. Prior to Avamar, Yueh served as Chief Operating Officer for NTD, an optical storage startup. He brings over a decade of experience in the software and data storage industries and has more than 6 patents or patents pending.

Yueh graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude with an AB from Harvard University. Under former President George H. Bush, he was designated a US Presidential Scholar, one of the highest academic achievements awarded nationally.

Kevin Mosher has scaled global sales operations at a variety of successful enterprise software companies. Most recently, Mosher led worldwide field operations for ArcSight, the market leader in SIEM and Log Management, acquired by HP in 2010 for over $1.5 Billion. Mosher drove sales at ArcSight from a few million to over $400 million in annual sales, including the most successful IPO in Silicon Valley in 2008. Before ArcSight, Mosher  served as Senior Vice President of Sales at Portal Software, Inc., a provider of billing and customer management solutions. Mosher grew sales at Portal from a few million to over $300 million in annual sales, including a successful IPO in 1999. Mosher began his sales career at Oracle, where he saw the company scale from tens of millions to over a billion in annual sales. Mr. Mosher holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Connecticut.

For over a decade, Karthik Rau has played instrumental roles in defining and delivering products at industry-shaping software companies, including VMware and Opsware. From 2002-2009, he held several executive leadership positions at VMware and reported to CEOs Diane Greene and later Paul Maritz. Rau owned responsibility for VMware’s server product portfolio and roadmaps as Vice President of Product Management. Rau led the product and go-to-market strategy for many of VMware’s most commercially successful efforts, from the first release of the VirtualCenter management suite to the VMware Infrastructure 3 and vSphere 4 virtualization platforms. Prior to joining VMware, Rau led efforts to create the first commercial version of the Opsware server automation products as a product manager at Opsware (then named Loudcloud).

Rau holds MS and BS degrees in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with distinction, was named a Mayfield and Valentine Fellow, and received the Frederick Terman Engineering Scholastic Award.

Rick Caccia, VP Marketing

Rick Caccia has spent over 15 years marketing enterprise infrastructure products, most recently leading product and channel marketing as VP Product Marketing at ArcSight, the market share leader in SIEM and log management (acquired by HP for over $1.5 billion in 2010). Caccia joined ArcSight pre-IPO and led the repositioning and packaging of ArcSight products into a repeat winner of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for security intelligence platforms. Prior to ArcSight, he led product management for messaging and web security products at Symantec—one of the fastest growing business units in the company. Earlier in his career he held product marketing leadership roles at groundbreaking software companies including Oblix (acquired by Oracle) and NetDynamics, the first commercial web application server vendor.

Caccia began his career in the management consulting and systems integration groups at Deloitte and Accenture. He has an MBA in technology marketing from U.C. Berkeley.