BNET Industries

Last Fiscal Year Sales:$3.3M
  • Private
  • US
Dow Jones Description

For nearly two decades, partnerships with leading and emerging companies have been instrumental to Solid's success. Solid partners with companies whose products and services complement our market strategy and product offerings. The results are solutions that remain industry leading, efficient, and cost effective. Solid's partner program ensures tight integration between Solid's core technologies and those of premier hardware and software companies. At Solid, we work hand-in-hand with our partners to address expanding market opportunities and the needs of our joint customers. Solid works collaboratively with hardware and software Platform Partners who are leaders in their field, to address the interoperability and performance requirements of our mutual customers. Part of any successful business is teaming with the right people and businesses to put together a dynamic product offering. Solid has joined with several leading edge companies across the IT, Wireless and Networking industries to provide advanced and highly scalable distributed data management solutions.

Co-Founder, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Ari Valtanen
Number of Employees 40
Contact Information

20400 Stevens Creek Blvd

Cupertino, California 95014

www.solidtech.c...

(408) 454-4700

NAICS Code Computer and Software Stores: 443120

Decision Makers

Name (plus bio) Position
Ari Valtanen Co-Founder, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
George Frie Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Field Operations for Solid's Apac Region
Paola Lubet Senior Vice President, Marketing and Business Development
Ilkka Starck Vice President, Field Operations, Emea
Larry Scroggins Vice President, Field Operations, Americas
Nalin Advani Vice President, Field Operations, Apac
Asko Huumonen Director of Technical Support and Customer Satisfaction
Ronald Weissman Venture Partner With Apax Partners

Board of Directors

Name (plus bio) Position
Vesa WalldEn Chairman of the Board

Organization Position Status
Solid Information Technology Co-Founder, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Current
Solid Corporation Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Former
Solid Corporation Co-Founder Former
Solid Corporation Director of Product Management Former
Solid Information Technology Board of Directors Former

Organization Position Status
Solid Information Technology Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Field Operations for Solid's Apac Region Current
University of St. Thomas Degrees In Economics Former

Organization Position Status
Solid Information Technology Senior Vice President, Marketing and Business Development Current
Apple Inc. Former
Qlusters, Inc. Former
Oblix Former

Organization Position Status
Solid Information Technology Vice President, Field Operations, Emea Current
IT LLC President Former
Helsinki University of Technology Master of Science Former

With over 25 years of sales, business development, and marketing management experience in the high-tech industry, Mr. Scroggins has a proven track record creating and running direct and indirect sales organizations for database and business intelligence software companies. He has been instrumental in developing business development strategy and brings a disciplined and focused approach to operational planning and execution. His mission at Solid is to lead the Americas team to grow the existing OEM relationships and establish new ones, while extending the Solid brand into the open source and enterprise marketplace. Before joining Solid, Scroggins was vice president of business development at Pilot Software and vice president of channel sales at Sagent and Acta Technology. Scroggins has also held executive positions at DecisionPoint and Teradata/NCR.

Organization Position Status
Solid Information Technology Vice President, Field Operations, Americas Current
Pilot Software, Inc. Vice President of Business Development Former
NCR Corporation Former

Organization Position Status
Solid Information Technology Vice President, Field Operations, Apac Current

Asko Huumonen joined Solid in 1995 and is responsible for ensuring the quality of Solid customer support. With over 16 years of experience in software development, technology consulting, project management, and sales engineering, Huumonen was appointed to this position after having managed Solid's Professional Services for US and EMEA for more than ten years. Prior to Solid, Huumonen held various roles in technology consulting with HM&V Research focusing on stock trading systems and technology assessment projects. Huumonen received a Master of Science from the Department of Engineering Physics at Helsinki University of Technology with majors in Operations Research and Software Engineering.

Organization Position Status
Solid Information Technology Director of Technical Support and Customer Satisfaction Current
Helsinki University of Technology Master of Science from the Department of Former

Organization Position Status
Marketbright Director and Chairman Current
Solid Information Technology Venture Partner With Apax Partners Current
Hidden River LLC. Venture Advisor, View Biography Current
Host Analytics, Inc. Executive Chairman Current
Silicon Optix, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Centerbeam Incorporated Board of Directors Current
Attensity Corporation Board of Directors Current
Solid Information Technology Board of Directors Current
Composite Software, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. Board of Directors Current
Chiliad, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Nanomix, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Transera Communications Inc Board of Directors Current
Phi Beta Kappa Board of Directors Current
Phi Beta Kappa Member Current
Verity, Inc. Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Marketing Former
Apax Partners Ltd. Venture Partner Former
NeXT Computer, Inc. Former
University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. degrees Former
University of California, Berkeley MA Former
University of California, Berkeley BA Former

Vesa Wallden is a Senior Partner at CapMan. He holds a chairman position in several boards and is a board member in Solid Information Technology and Hantro. Wallden has previously worked at Tahoe Networks, held positions at Nokia New Ventures and Nokia Mobile Phones, most recently as Head of Technology Sales and Marketing. He also has earlier experience in sales and marketing for Sun Microsystem Inc in Finland and the US.

Organization Position Status
Capman, Inc. Senior Partner Current
CapMan PLC Current
Distocraft, Ltd. Chairman of The Board Current
Secgo Software Inc. Chairman of The Board Current
Hantro Chairman of the Board Current
Solid Information Technology Chairman of the Board Current
Flander Technology Co. Ltd. Board Member Current
Hantro Board Member Current
Flander Member of the Board Current
Solid Information Technology Board Member Current
Sun Microsystems, Inc. Former
Nokia Corporation Former
Hewlett-Packard Company Former
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