Friday, 28 July 2006

Terracotta Names Amit Pandey as New CEO

Terracotta Inc., has appointed former Network Appliance executive Amit Pandey to the position of chief executive officer. As Terracotta’s CEO, Pandey is largely focused on applying his experience in managing rapid growth to leverage the sweeping business opportunities afforded by the company’s clustered JVM technology.

Prior to joining Terracotta, Pandey was vice president and general manager of the Data Management Business Unit at Network Appliance, where he helped develop and execute a plan that led to accelerated growth and revenue of several hundred million dollars. Earlier, Pandey was vice president and general manager of Network Appliance’s Content Delivery Business Unit. He led that unit into the Enterprise Content Security market and helped establish it as the industry market share leader. Before Network Appliance, he served as a senior manager for McKinsey & Company, focusing on technology strategy and operations effectiveness with Fortune 500 companies.

Pandey holds master’s degrees in Management and Engineering from MIT and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Brown University.

Terracotta delivers plug-in capacity and availability for enterprise Java at runtime with no application code changes.