Ray Stata , Chairman

Ray Stata co-founded Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE: ADI) in 1965 and served as CEO until 1996. He now serves as Chairman of the Board. With revenue of $2.5B, ADI is recognized as a worldwide leader in signal processing semiconductors.

Besides ADI, Ray is founder of Stata Venture Partners, a venture capital firm in Boston area. He co-founded or contributed to the success of many Boston area startups (for example, he co-founded Nexabit Networks, a router company acquired by Lucent for $960M).

Ray is active in the high technology industry and in public service. Throughout his career, he has committed himself to numerous programs designed to develop learning skills in our youth, promote interest in engineering, and establish quality as a key cultural values for people and corporations around the world.

At state level, he co-founded and served as the first President of the Massachusetts High Technology Council. He is also co-chairman of the Massachusetts STEM Collaborative.

At the federal level, he served on the Executive Committee of the Council on Competitiveness from 1987 to 2005. Ray's service on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Board of Overseers stemmed from his professional commitment to total quality management. He was also a founder of the Center for Quality of Management in 1989.

A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Ray holds a BSEE and MSEE from MIT, is now Chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In 1984 he was elected to MIT's Corporation and today is a member of its Executive Committee. In 1987-1988 he served as President of the MIT Alumni Association.

In 1997, Ray provided major funding for the Ray and Maria Stata Center, an academic complex on the MIT campus that cost more than $280M.

Ray is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, and was the recipient of the 2003 IEEE Founder's Medal.

Larry Bohn , Board Director

As a Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners, Larry invests in both new and existing technology businesses. Larry is a board member of Black Duck Software; Demandware; Good Data; HubSpot; Optaros; QUMAS, VisibleMeasures and Yottaa, which are all active General Catalyst investments. Larry also served on the Board of Venetica, a General Catalyst investment that was acquired by IBM in October 2004.

Prior to joining General Catalyst, Larry was the chairman, president and CEO of NetGenesis, a market leading software and analytic solutions provider. Larry led NetGenesis from 1997 to 2001, overseeing the company’s business, product strategy and direction. During this time, NetGenesis was a two-time Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 award winner and was included among the Inc 500. In February 2000, Larry took the company public (NTGX) and in December 2001, NetGenesis was acquired by SPSS, Inc. (SPSS).

Prior to his role as CEO and president of NetGenesis, Larry was president of PC DOCS, Inc. (DOCSF), a leading developer of document management software for enterprise networks. Under his leadership, PC DOCS’ product advanced to the number one market position. He also led the company's public offering in 1998. Prior to joining PC DOCS, Larry was senior vice president of marketing and business development at Interleaf, Inc. (LEAF), where he defined and implemented the corporate strategy that put its electronic publishing solutions in a top market position and helped grow the business to more than $120 million in revenue.

An acknowledged thought leader, Larry has spoken at leading industry events and has been a guest lecturer at Harvard, Stanford, and the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He was also a founder and the first president of OASIS, the industry consortium promoting XML adoption.

Larry is an honors graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and holds a masters of arts degree in Linguistics from Clark University.

Raymie Stata , Board Director

Raymie joined Yottaa’s Board in 2012. Raymie was the Chief Technology Officer at Yahoo!. Prior to joining Yahoo!, he founded Stata Laboratories, maker of the Bloomba search-based e-mail client and the SAProxy anti-spam filter, which he sold to Yahoo!. He previously worked for Digital Equipment Corporation and he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. He has also collaborated with the Internet Archive. Stata is an alumnus of MIT, with bachelor’s and master's degrees as well as a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering.

Coach Wei , CEO

Coach's favorite activity is to explain Yottaa to people and what yottaa-scale computing means. His favorite word is "yottaarific".

Besides Yottaa, Coach is also Chairman of Nexaweb Technologies , a Boston based company he founded in 2000 that pioneered Rich Internet Applications and enterprise web 2.0. He raised over $20MM venture capital for Nexaweb, built a global team, grew the revenue from zero to multi-million dollar and achieved over 7,000 global deployments of Nexaweb Platform. At Nexaweb, he served a variety of roles including CEO, VP Engineering, CTO and marketing from 2000 to 2008. Before Nexaweb, Coach designed software for managing storage networks at EMC Corporation.

Coach is a frequent speaker on technology, industry trends and startup ecosystem. He also serves on advisory boards of Boston area startups. He received various awards for his work on Ajax, Rich Internet Application and Entrepreneurship, such as "Interactive Experience Award" 2005 and "Boston Top 40 under 40" 2007.

Coach obtained his master's degree from MIT, holds six patents and maintains a blog on startups, web 2.0 and entrepreneurship at http://www.coachwei.com .

Bob Buffone , Co-founder & CTO

Bob at a very early age learned the meaning of "keep it simple, stupid" and how good debugging skills will get you farther faster. Given a broken snowmobile by his uncle, he set out on a mission to get it running. After spending countless hours rebuilding the engine, making endless trips to the parts store and wasting a bunch of money to get the snowmobile running. He discovered the problem all along was simply a hole in the gas tank, and that a $2 tube of epoxy would have fixed the problem in less than an hour. See how that lesson learned has guided his career to guided his career to Yottaa .

Drew Zalkind , CFO

Ever since he was a kid upselling candy bars at his first lemonade stand, Drew has been passionate about building businesses. Drew has over 25 years experience working day-and-night to build great teams, introduce innovative products, and increase speed to market, while arranging the financing needed to make it all happen. Prior to joining Yottaa, he was the CEO and CFO of Liquid Machines, a pioneer and leading software provider of data protection solutions, where he helped lead the company from its initial founding in 2001 through its acquisition by Check Point Security Technologies in 2010. In prior lives, Drew was an investment banker, venture investor, and strategy consultant. Over the years, he has served as an advisor to numerous firms and non-profits. Drew has a B.S. in Marketing from the Wharton School of Business and a B.A. in Psychology from University of Pennsylvania. Drew looks forward to bringing faster websites to lemonade stand owners around the world. We dare you to call him an accountant.

Phil Stanhope , Vice President of Engineering and Operations

Phil has been around. He knows startups. He knows how to make robots fly. Phil is an entrepreneurial technology executive operating at the intersection of business and technology for the past 25 years. He has consistently demonstrated success developing and executing strategies to create new products, leverage emergent technologies to bring new life to existing products lines and oversee service delivery and operations. His experiences cover the spectrum from desktop, client/server, messaging oriented middleware and integration, mobile, internet infrastructure, and SaaS.

For over twenty years Phil has focused on distributed systems (and companies). Before joining Yottaa, Phil was VP/Chief Software Architect for Wimba a leading provider of collaboration software for the education market. Wimba was acquired by Blackboard in 2010.

He was the VP/CTO of Adesso Systems, the builder of the first distributed data and applications platform for building occasionally connected mobile, desktop and the cloud solutions.

He founded a consulting practice that was built around Groove Networks in 2001 and spent many years fostering the eco-system that operated at the intersection of peer-to-peer and enterprise systems. He authored the book "Get in the Groove" by John Wiley and Sons.

He founded and sold a company in 1996 to Perot Systems through which he and his partners provided technology strategy and operational consulting to the Global 2000 and served in management roles in affiliated companies. He wore many hats during this period – investor, advisor, Director, CTO, and CEO.

He spent many years at Lotus Development. He was a co-founder of the Next Generation Product Group with responsibilities that included the strategic planning, design, and development of Lotus Components. Other roles at Lotus included lead engineer for Freelance Graphics and platform architect for LotusScript.

Phil started his career in the AI industry where he worked on expert systems and semantic web solutions at three startups between 1983 and 1990.

Phil holds a bachelor's degree in computer and information sciences from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Phil’s Bio is the longest on the Yottaa team page, we think that’s just fine, luckily he is probably somewhere in the world making the Yobots help our customers’ websites fly today and everyday.

Morris Porter , VP of Sales and Business Development

As a collector of fast and powerful classic cars, it was almost a given that Morris would join Yottaa to head up our Sales and Business Development effort. After all, who better to sell a service that makes websites faster? Beyond having a passion for speed and horsepower, Morris also happens to be a pretty good sales leader and entrepreneur. Prior to joining Yottaa, Morris ran Corporate Sales at Citrix Online, a leading provider of SaaS collaboration and conferencing solutions. While there, Morris drove the rapid expansion of Citrix Online’s Corporate Sales Team, growing the team from 2 managers and 10 sales reps to a team of quota-exceeding 6 sales managers and 50 sales reps.

Prior to joining Citrix Online, Morris was VP of Sales at Intranets.com, a SaaS company which delivered collaboration services in the early days of the dot-com era. Morris managed the entire sales team and helped implement a sales and marketing model that redefined the idea of an inside sales team. After building the corporate sales team and establishing a consistent record of strong sales growth, the company achieved profitability and recognition as the world’s leading provider of collaboration services. That success was recognized by WebEx Communications, which purchased Intranets.com and integrated the team into their collaboration offerings in 2005. Morris continued on as VP of Sales at WebEx and helped manage his teams through Cisco’s acquisition of WebEx in 2007, continuing to drive quota attainment and outstanding sales performance until 2010. Prior to working for Intranets.com, Morris was a Sales Manager at MCI/WorldCom, where he managed the New England region of the Wireless Division. While there, he built the sales team from scratch and established a record of sales excellence.

Before joining MCI/WorldCom, Morris worked for Metriplex, Inc., a leading provider of wireless data to the financial services industry. Morris was the top Metriplex sales representative, consistently achieving Presidents Club recognition by selling to accounts such as Chase Manhattan, Citibank, Fleet Bank, Merrill Lynch and American Express. He later was promoted to Sales Manager and continued to drive the success of the sales team, culminating in a successful business exit.

Morris earned a BS in Management from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA with a focus in entrepreneurship from Babson College.

William Toll , VP, Marketing

William Toll has held Marketing and Product Management positions in the Web hosting, Internet infrastructure and Cloud Computing industries since the late 1990s. In those years he has worked hard to make sure every business has a successful website. He was lucky to work for some forward thinking Web hosts who offered popular services like online marketing services, ecommerce tools and SaaS enablement services. William's dream of every business and ISV being successful on the Web is ongoing. Yottaa's Web Performance Optimization services are a key component to helping to make that dream come true. William received a BA in Marketing from New England College in Arundel, England. William can be found on Twitter: @utollwi