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 ValtanenNumber of Employees 40
Contact Information
20400 Stevens Creek Blvd
Cupertino, California 95014
(408) 454-4700
Peer Companies
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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