Flint Brenton is a veteran of the technology industry with over 20 years of experience as a senior executive in the IT sector. Formerly Senior Vice President & General Manager of NetIQ's Security & Administration business unit, Flint has held leadership positions at NetIQ Corporation, Compaq Computer Corporation, BMC Software and IBM.

As Senior Vice President and General Manager at NetIQ, Flint dramatically increased revenues for the Security and Administration business unit through organic development as well as mergers and acquisitions. As Senior Vice President of Engineering, he managed the company's development staff of 500 across five locations and delivered all NetIQ products to market. Flint's team developed more than 100 major releases of existing products and four new products, winning over 20 "Product of the Year" awards.

Prior to NetIQ, Brenton was Vice President of Worldwide eCommerce for Compaq Computer Corporation, where he led the team that developed the company's global e-commerce strategy and built the online applications required to execute it. Brenton began his career in technology at IBM where he held a variety of sales and sales management positions, consistently ranking among the organization's top performers.

Following IBM, Brenton was general manager of European operations for I-Net Corporation, a networking services company. He then joined systems management leader BMC Software where he managed the assimilation of the Boole & Babbage products following BMC's acquisition. Brenton also started and grew BMC's MQ Series product line to become one of the company's most profitable business units.

Flint received a Masters in Business and Public Management from Rice University in 1984 and a Bachelor of Science degree from Mount Union College in 1978. Flint also serves on the Board of Directors.

Charlie has worked in finance for over 14 years, beginning his career at accounting firm, KPMG. He has served in a variety of positions in vastly different industries, moving up the ladder from Senior Auditor at KPMG, to Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at American Medical Response, to Corporate Controller at Smith and Hawken.

At American Medical Response he was responsible for all financial analysis functions while overseeing a $400 million revenue generating division. And, at Smith and Hawken, he played an instrumental role in helping prepare the company to go IPO while also preparing them for their first big five audit.

At Tidal, Charlie is responsible for leading the accounting and finance operations teams as well as human resources and contract services. As a member of the management team he developed strategic and operational concepts for finance, human resources and sales.

Don Pate has more than 25 years’ experience in enterprise technology sales and marketing. As senior vice president of worldwide sales at Tidal, he drives initiatives to build its global operations and deliver its market-leading solutions to market.

Prior to joining Tidal, Don was President and CEO of Neon Enterprise Software, a data management solutions company, and President and CEO of Tonic Software, a provider of web applications management solutions. While at Tonic Software, he successfully completed two acquisitions and later sold the company to Altiris, a leader in IT asset and network security management. Earlier, Don was with Neon Systems from 1995 through 2001, where he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Subsystems Management division, Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Vice President of International Sales, and Vice President of Worldwide Marketing. At Neon, he grew sales revenues from $5 to $20 million and led the company’s successful IPO. Don has also served in several sales management positions at BMC Software, Inc., including Manager of International Sales. He started his career at IBM, where he held a variety of sales positions over the course of 10 years with the company.

Mr. Pate holds a B.S. in economics and psychology from Houston Baptist University.

As Vice President of Sales for EMEA, Christopher Kenessey is responsible for driving growth of Tidal's operations in this market. Christopher will be focused on expanding Tidal's world class organization to ensure the success of customers in this key Tidal market.

Christopher has broad experience in software sales, with leadership roles in direct sales and telesales. With over seven years at Tidal Software, Christopher has served in several operational roles that have directly impacted sales, development, and customer satisfaction. Prior to joining Tidal, Kenessey had various sales roles at Compuware Corp. and Platinum Technology. At both companies, he consistently achieved his sales quota and received awards for excellence. He also worked for Walt Disney Corporation and completed their management training program.

Kenessey earned his bachelor's degree from The University of Illinois in Champaign - Urbana.

Ted has 25 years experience in hi-tech, fifteen of those years spent in research and development. As Senior VP of Engineering, at Tidal Ted is responsible for managing development, quality assurance, support, and user documentation of all of Tidal's products. He is also responsible for research and development of future products.

Previous to Tidal, Ted was Vice President of Engineering for the Security, Administration and Migration products business unit of NetIQ Corporation, where he managed the development of products that boosted the company's quarterly revenue growth by 95 percent within four quarters.

Before NetIQ, Trimble spent 14 years at BMC Software where he was Vice President, DB2 Solutions, and prior to that served in various operational and support roles for several large enterprise corporations' Information Technology divisions.

Gary Sellers leads the design, development, and documentation of company’s commercial software products. Gary brings over 25 years of experience in information technology and software research and development to this role. With Tidal since 2004, Gary’s leadership has expanded Tidal’s product line to cover new markets in support of the company’s strategy. Prior to Tidal, Gary was the Director of Development for BMC Software where he was responsible for the design, development, testing, and support of the company’s premier database utilities and performance management software products. Gary also provided development leadership in other areas within BMC such as data optimization and messaging middleware. Prior to BMC Software, Gary provided operational and development services for several large enterprise information technology companies such as Texaco and Wells Fargo.

Thomas Hooker leads the management of all product and field marketing efforts, as well as demand generation. Thomas brings over 20 years of technology marketing and sales experience to this role. Over the course of seven years at Tidal, Thomas has held several important roles in product management, development and marketing, and has played a vital role in the successful release of many of Tidal’s solutions. Prior to his current role he served as director of product marketing, and as director of marketing and development. Prior to Tidal, Thomas held a marketing and development positions at both BMC and Boole and Babbage. Thomas holds a BS degree in both Computer Science and Business Administration from California State University, Chico.

Patti Stephenson leads the professional services organization at Tidal. Patti brings more than 20 years of rich customer experience to this role including support and services experience as well as sales and channels experience. At Tidal, Patti has served in a variety of roles since joining the company in 1998. Prior to her current role she was director of corporate account sales and drove the introduction of new Tidal products to the customer base. Previous to that, Patti managed the technical support group as it grew to serve over 500 customers worldwide. Patti began her career at Tidal as a technical support engineer then became lead trainer for key products. During her career Patti has also held a range of customer facing roles at other companies.

Shane Stevens has more than 13 years’ experience in quality engineering and technical support. As vice president of quality engineering and technical services at Tidal, he leads the teams responsible for supporting all product lines.

Before assuming this role, Shane was senior director of quality engineering, technical support and IT at Tidal where, among other responsibilities, he managed key customer accounts such as HP, Microsoft and the New York Stock Exchange, led teams that supported four product lines across multiple releases and developed the corporate project management process. Earlier, Shane was with systems management provider NetIQ. As manager of quality engineering - security products, he drove the project planning and management, quality metrics and project management processes. In addition, he integrated quality engineering teams following a $300 million acquisition.

Shane attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas where he studied computer engineering.

Wayne Greene leads the product management team at Tidal. He also manages the Tidal Enterprise Scheduler product line and drives the product strategy across the company. Prior to Tidal, he was Director of Competitive and Market Intelligence at the Wily Technology Division of Computer Associates. Prior to CA, Wayne was at Hewlett Packard for 18 years in a variety of different roles, spending the last 6 years at HP in the Corporate IT and Outsourcing Services division where he was responsible for the enterprise management toolset. He led a team of approximately 120 engineers, was responsible for system, network, and application monitoring, help desk ticketing and case exchange solutions, enterprise application integration, job scheduling, data warehousing and reporting, and end user support portals. Wayne has a PhD from University of California at Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Science from M.I.T.