Management

John Kish – President and CEO
John Kish is a veteran technology executive and server-based computing visionary who brings more than 20 years of successful corporate leadership while championing new innovations that solve complex business challenges. John served as Senior Vice President of Business Development at Oracle and as Assistant to the President, worked closely with Larry Ellison as the company grew from $125 million to $2 billion. John is widely recognized as having established Oracle on the desktop. During his tenure, the Oracle Desktop Products division expanded to more than 400 employees and over $400 million in revenue. He went on to challenge the high cost of computing, becoming CEO of thin client maker Wyse and advocating a move to a server-based architecture. During his tenure at Wyse, John came to understand how the complexity and lingering high cost of thin client architectures were stalling the widespread adoption of server-based computing. He assumed leadership of Pano Logic to take up the mantle of zero client computing, which eliminates endpoint device support and maintenance entirely and centralizes 100 percent of computing on the server. In addition to his work at Oracle and Wyse, John has held executive roles at five early stage companies. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland and holds a Ph.D. in mathematical logics from The John Hopkins University.

Aly Orady – Chief Technology Officer & Founder
Aly is co-founder and CTO of Pano Logic where he guides the current and future technical architecture for Pano Zero Clients and the Pano System.  Aly has previously held engineering leadership positions at Silicon Valley start-up Kealia, Inc. (acquired by Sun Microsystems) where he architected the world's highest capacity video-on-demand distribution platform. Aly began his career at HP designing high-performance I/O and network sub-systems. He earned an M.S.E.E. from Stanford University and a B.Eng. in computer engineering from McMaster University.

Jeffrey Page – Senior Vice President of Finance & Operations
As senior vice president of finance & operations Jeff brings more than 15 years of business management and financial/accounting experience. Prior to joining Pano Logic, he served as Vice President, Finance and Operations of Firetide, Inc., a leading provider of multi-service mesh networks for industrial and municipal applications. Prior to joining Firetide he served as Director of Sales for Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and spent 4 years as the Region North America Controller. Jeff also spent 5 years with Arthur Andersen in the audit and management consulting divisions. He holds his degree in Accounting from Indiana University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina.

Dana Loof – Executive Vice President of Global Marketing & Americas Sales
As executive vice president of worldwide marketing and Americas sales, Dana leads the sales organizations for the Americas, worldwide marketing and branding initiatives and global corporate, channel and customer communications. Dana is a veteran strategist with 20 years of brand-building and customer development experience in Silicon Valley. Prior to Pano Logic, Dana played pivotal roles in defining the EVault Inc. brand and driving significant customer and revenue growth as vice president of marketing. She also led the successful transition of the brand into i365, A Seagate Company, after EVault was acquired by Seagate Technology. She had joined EVault from Symantec, where she led global marketing and communications. Beginning her career at Oracle, Dana has also held senior marketing posts at Smartage.com and Fabrik Communications.

Wolfgang Staehle – Vice President of International Sales
As vice president of international sales, Wolfgang Staehle is responsible for all sales outside of North America. Wolfgang has over 30 years of experience in sales and management with leading European companies. His ability to leverage a track record of success and a deep understanding of distributed computing platforms and desktop computing makes him a valuable leader of Pano Logic’s international sales team and key to the companies continued growth overseas.  Before joining the company, Wolfgang spent 4 years as the President and General Manager of WYSE EMEA, a thin client computing company. Prior to his position at WYSE, Wolfgang was President and CEO of cloud optimization services provider Akamai EMEA. Wolfgang’s experience and knowledge is critical in helping to bring the simplicity and benefits of Pano Logic’s zero client computing to international users. Wolfgang also brings a long history of leadership and innovation to Pano Logic as demonstrated by successfully founding three companies, including Lehmann & Staehle Informationssysteme and the “Center for Quality of Management in Europe”. Before his work with Akamai, Wolfgang served in senior level positions at Novasoft Systems, Domain Solutions (formerly BBN) and IBM Deutschland. Wolfgang is based out of Pano Logic’s German headquarters.

Ross Werner, Vice President of Engineering
                          Ross brings over 25 years of experience to the role of leading the design, development and delivery of Pano Logic's transformative technology platform. Ross has held multiple executive-level engineering posts and is adept at visualizing and building new technologies in both the established and the startup company arenas. Prior to joining Pano, he held VP posts at Netxen, Precision I/O, and Onstor. His earlier roles include engineering and management at the storied NeXT Computer and Silicon Graphics, and one of the first 10 employees at Terawave Communications. Ross earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

James Buzzard – Vice President of Product Management & Product Marketing
James is vice president of product management and product marketing and guides the development and release process for new products and coordinates their rollout to the marketplace. James joined Pano Logic after six years with IBM, where he served multiple leadership roles in product and corporate marketing for the worldwide health care, pharmaceuticals and life sciences division. During his tenure, James significantly expanded IBM's global market share of the leading hardware, software and services comprising medical content/data management systems. James has also held a number of executive and leadership posts at Oracle, BBN Software, Domain Pharma Corp. and Pharsight Corp., holding executive roles including CTO and general manager and managed product marketing, product management engineering groups.

Ethan O'Rafferty – Vice President of Alliances & Channel Development
                          Ethan is vice president of alliances and channel development, leading the development and management of Pano Logic's global network of resellers and strategic technology partners as well as advancing the company's original equipment manufacturer (OEM) program. A 15-year veteran of Silicon Valley, Ethan has a strong background in driving the transformations of high-growth product companies into channel-driven, partner-centric technology providers. As vice president of alliances and OEM sales, Ethan contributed significantly to the growth of Acronis (~$120M in revenue), where his team recruited and developed market-leading channel partners. And he held two posts pivotal to MySQL, serving as director of strategic alliances at MySQL Inc. and as the head of alliances and business development at a startup that forked the database. He also led the partnership development teams at startups iSpheres and TurboLinux after holding posts at SGI and Sun Microsystems early in his career. He holds an MBA from Cornell University and a bachelor's degree from Columbia University.