Chris Greendale, Chairman and CEO
After a successful high tech sales and marketing career culminating in VP Marketing, Oracle USA in 1990, Chris became one of the three founders of Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP) in 1991. As a systems integrator, CTP designed and developed custom client server software applications for the enterprise. CTP also pioneered a fixed-time, fixed-fee development methodology. Chris ran Sales and Marketing as CTP grew explosively from start-up to over $850m in revenue in 1997. The company had one of the most successful IPO’s of the 90’s and had a market cap of over $5b. In late 1997 Chris left CTP and founded Breakaway Solutions, another integrator focused on the next technology wave, internet driven enterprise solutions. Breakaway also had a successful IPO and had a market cap of over $7b. Chris at the time also made personal investments in Siebel Systems, Clarify (Board seat), and Glasshouse (Board seat). In 2002 Chris joined the dark side as a venture capitalist and made numerous investments including Astadia in 2007 while at Kodiak Venture Partners. A year ago Chris realized the folly of his ways and rejoined the light, founding Cloud Technology Partners. Chris grew up in New Zealand, came to the US on an NCAA tennis scholarship, degreed in Math and Business, played professional tennis, and married Ellen in 1981.
Erik Sebesta
Erik Sebesta served as a National Principal Architect for Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP)/Novell, where he worked for 16 years. As a consultant to CIOs, he helped companies align their IT initiatives with their business strategy. He led successful projects with distributed teams working across several continents and rolled out solutions to hundreds of thousands of users. Erik also founded several web-based start-ups, leveraging cloud computing for significant cost-savings.
With cloudTP, Erik brings to clients the expertise to begin and complete an enterprise-wide transformation to new technology. He facilitates sessions to derive a strategic roadmap of prioritized initiatives, well balanced with the organizations capacity to achieve them. From his recent entrepreneurial endeavors, he separates the true benefits from the hype of cloud computing.
After graduating from Williams College (Go Ephs!), Erik began his career as a programmer at CTP working with C++ and relational databases. Erik worked with clients in the healthcare and manufacturing industries developing solutions to streamline business operations. Seeing an opportunity to provide greater influence, Erik accepted a leadership role where he could raise questions with the business sponsors early in the life cycle to make sure the proper diligence was conducted prior to the lengthy development work. From 1995-1998, Erik led teams on successful implementations of client-server architecture projects, including leading a 25 person team located in Boston, Dublin (Ireland), and Bangalore (India). From 1999-2001, he led a 75+ person team implementing a packaged solution rolled out to 160,000 users and guided Internet start ups on functionality, architecture and budget decisions. From 2002-2006 after Novell acquired CTP, Erik became an expert in secure identity management, leading a large project for the US government, speaking at security conferences, and guiding many financial, consumer product, and healthcare organizations. In 2003, Erik was named to the Novell Worldwide Architecture Community of Practice advisory board. From 2007-2009, Erik founded several Web 2.0 startups including YouHaveNotChangedOneBit.com and Rrankk.com. An avid sports fan, he founded and serves as director of TheUltimateShowcase.com.
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