Executive Team
Andy Astor, President and Chief Executive Officer
Prior to co-founding EnterpriseDB, Andy was a vice president at webMethods, Inc., where he was responsible for technical marketing, corporate acquisition integration and standards leadership and evangelism. While at webMethods, he was elected twice to the Board of Directors of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), and he served as that organization's Marketing Chair.
Prior to joining webMethods, Andy was a vice president at Dun & Bradstreet, where he led worldwide development and deployment of all customer-facing products. Andy has also held product development and professional and technical services leadership positions at American Management Systems, Ernst & Young and startup software companies.
A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Andy received a BA in Mathematics from Clark University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Denis Lussier, Co-founder and Chief Architect
Prior to co-founding EnterpriseDB, Denis was the CEO and Chief Architect at Fusion Technologies, a profitable, 200-employee technology services business that he founded in 1994. Fusion was a pioneer in global development, establishing distributed software development centers as early as 1999.
Prior to founding Fusion, Denis was an architect at Magna Software and a senior consultant at Ernst & Young.
Denis received a BS degree in Management Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Bob Zurek, Chief Technical Officer
Prior to joining EnterpriseDB, Bob was director of product strategy in IBM's Information Platform and Solutions Group, where he was responsible for driving and executing the technical strategy for information integration solutions as they relate to software, hardware, services, vertical industries, and emerging markets.
Before that, Bob was vice president of product management and advanced technologies at Ascential Software, where he was instrumental in developing and driving Ascential's enterprise data integration software strategy. Bob has also held positions with Powersoft and Sybase, and was vice president and chief technology officer of Incentive Systems. Bob is also a popular blogger and leader of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council's Open Source Cluster.
Bob received a BS from Keene State College.
Garland Hall, Chief Customer Officer
Prior to joining EnterpriseDB, Garland Hall was vice president at Composite Software, where he managed the company’s strategic alliances. He was responsible for the integration of Composite’s offerings with partners’ products and the development of go-to-market plans.
Previously, Garland served as chief customer officer at webMethods, Inc., where he was responsible for all facets of customer relationship management. His role included the development of programs to manage customer satisfaction and customers’ overall webMethods experience.
Prior to joining webMethods, he managed customer service groups for KPMG Consulting and Descartes Systems Group.
Tom Stiling, Vice President, Field Operations
Prior to joining EnterpriseDB, Tom Stiling was Chairman, President and CEO of Curl Corp., an enterprise software company.
Before that, he was General Manager of Hewlett Packard’s worldwide sales & operations for its Middleware Division. Tom also served at Bluestone Software, Inc. as Senior Vice President and General Manager of North and South American Sales and Worldwide Sales Operations. Previously, he was Vice President, Worldwide Sales Operations and Human Resources of Seer Technologies, Inc. and the founder and CEO of ORCA Technologies, Inc., a technical consulting firm.
Faiz Husain, Vice President, Product Development
Prior to joining EnterpriseDB, Faiz was a Vice President in the IT Strategy & Governance group at State Street Corporation. While at State Street, Faiz was responsible for managing technology operations for the Investment Management Solutions division, development of a middle-office trade workflow system and Infrastructure enablement of IT globalization projects.
Prior to State Street, Faiz spent 12 years leading development teams at a number of software companies, including Princeton Financial Systems, Datalogix International and Magna Software.
Jim Mlodgenski, Vice President, Services
Jim is one of EnterpriseDB's first employees and joined the company in May, 2005. As vice president, technical services, he is responsible for EnterpriseDB's technical pre-sales, professional services and training.
Prior to joining EnterpriseDB, Jim was a partner and architect at Fusion Technologies, a technology services company founded by EnterpriseDB's chief architect, Denis Lussier. For nearly a decade, Jim developed early designs and concepts for Fusion's consulting projects and specialized in Oracle application development, Web development, and open source.
Jim received a BS degree in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Radhika Samant, Vice President, Finance
Radhika Samant is a Certified Public Accountant and Chartered Accountant (India). Radhika started her career with S.B.Billimoria & Co. (at the time the Indian affiliate of Ernst & Young International and currently Deloitte and Touche) in the field of Public Accounting. After three years in public accounting she joined Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd., Pune, India, where she headed the Foreign Trade Department and was a key contributor in spearheading the foreign exchange risk management policy of the Company.
Since moving to the United States she has worked with Everest Consulting Group as Manager, Finance where she helped set up and manage the Company's international operations. Prior to joining EnterpriseDB she was with Easylink Services Inc. as the Director of Financial Reporting and General Accounting.