Leadership

Chris Rice, Chief Executive Officer

Chris Rice has demonstrated unique technical vision and business acumen throughout his career.  In various roles, at different companies, he has created environments that breed innovation, provide integrity, and deliver results.  Most recently serving as CEO of STL Access Solutions, he and his team created a complete line of OpenRAN Radio, RIC and Open OLT software products.  Previously, Chris spent 25 years at AT&T where he led the research, development, and operations of the entire wireline network and had billion-dollar budget in oversight.  Chris holds BSEE/MSEE degrees from Virginia Tech University, as well as an MBA from the University of Central Florida.

Marty Deneroff, Chief Operating Officer

Marty’s prior experience includes VP Server and Micro-Processor Engineering at SGI where he was responsible for delivering systems and VP Engineering at D.E. Shaw Research where he was chief architect of the Anton. Marty has 30+ yrs. experience in the industry in a variety of capacities

Saurabh Kulkarni, Chief Product Officer

Saurabh has held various leadership positions at Intel, Microsoft, Oracle and Graphcore prior to Lucata. He brings more than 20 years of experience covering domains including Computer Architecture, Server Platform Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure and Services, HPC and AI systems. Saurabh’s experience has spanned engineering, product management and business development. He is passionate about taking disruptive technological ideas from concept to product.

Jim Light, VP of Business Development

Jim Light has over five decades in the high-tech industry and has held multiple technical, sales, business and development, and strategic alliance positions during his career. Before joining Lucata, Jim joined Blue Prism.  There he was responsible for the sale Blue Prism RPA robots to the top Telecommunications, Media, and High-Tech companies in the US. Jim previously spent ten years at EMC, leading the creation and development of global system integrators and the SAP partnership.  Both were instrumental to EMC’s meteoric growth in the mid to late 90s. In 2002 Jim was awarded EMC’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his significant contributions to EMC. Jim has start-up experience. He was a top sales contributor at Alliant Computer, and Kendall Square Research, two shared memory MPP companies. He also led sales at Solbourne Computer, producer of a high-performance SunOs compatible server.

Frank Brown, Chief Financial Officer

Frank Brown brings more than 30 years of financial management and operations experience in the technology industry to Lucata.  Most recently, he was CFO at RiskSense until its acquisition by Ivanti. Previously, he was interim CFO at SpringCM, a high growth SaaS company ultimately acquired by DocuSign, and CFO and Chief Operating Officer at Attensity, an industry pioneer in Big Data analytics and artificial intelligence, until its acquisition by InContact in 2016. Frank’s background includes experience as an investment banker, venture capitalist and software developer with Oracle and Accenture. He was also Managing Partner of Amber Ventures Consulting, where he mentored and served as an executive for emerging technology companies, helping them achieve operational and process improvements to optimize cash flow and profitability. Frank holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

Board of Directors

John Donovan, Former CEO of AT&T Communications

Chris Rice, CEO of Lucata Corporation

James Hunt, Managing Partner Lavrock Ventures

David Sutherland, President Middleburg Capital

Bob Bishop, President & Founder of the ICES Foundation

Kevin Connors, Founder, Orbit Venture Partners

Board of Advisors

Dr. Charles Leiserson, Edwin Sibley Webster Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

Don Haderle, IBM (retired)