Predixion Software was co-founded by a team of successful software industry executives to fulfill their vision of removing the barriers to predictive analytics and launch Self-Service Predictive Analytics to fill a serious functional gap in the business intelligence community.
Simon Arkell
CEO |
Simon Arkell is an experienced technology entrepreneur and executive with extensive global technology management experience. Before co-founding Predixion, Simon was an operating partner with Triton Pacific Capital Partners, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm working with Triton’s software portfolio companies on strategic market entry and corporate development, as well as new acquisitions. Prior to Triton Pacific he served as President of a 600-employee, 10-country software consulting firm based in the UK which developed Oracle solutions, including a SaaS-based ERP based solution which gained traction in Latin America. Earlier Simon was a Principal with Gramercy Venture Advisors, an international boutique investment banking firm with offices in the US, Australia, China and Europe where he assisted over 20 enterprise software and mobility companies with VC fundraising, M&A, and US market-entry strategies.
Simon also co-founded Versifi Technologies, Inc. in Newport Beach, California, an enterprise content management software company which raised two rounds of venture capital before being sold to Reef SA (Belgium). While at Versifi, Simon led the acquisition of AdaptiveInfo, a predictive analytics software vendor in Southern California which developed predictive mobile content delivery solutions for publishers.
Simon holds an MBA from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of New Mexico, and he was a two-time Olympian and Commonwealth Champion (pole vault) for Australia.
|
Steve DeSantis
CFO |
Steve has over 20 years of financial management experience in both the private and public sectors. Prior to co-founding Predixion, he served as CFO of DATAllegro where he was responsible for the finance, accounting, human resources, and IT departments. He also led business planning and budgeting, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and was a key member of the executive team that successfully sold to Microsoft for $275 million.
Steve acquired his public accounting experience with Coopers & Lybrand in Los Angeles. He spent the past 14 years leading venture-backed enterprise software companies as Chief Financial Officer. Most notably was TCI Solutions, an application software company providing software and services to the retail industry. During his tenure, the business grew by 640%, he successfully raised several rounds of venture capital financings, took the company public as a reporting company under regulation D, and sold the business at a premium to Retalix.
Steve is a certified public accountant, holds a bachelor’s degree in business and an MBA from the University of Southern California.
|
Michael Hollenbeck
VP of Healthcare Solutions |
Michael Hollenbeck is a passionate entrepreneur and seasoned advocate of emerging technologies with disruptive market potential. He is responsible for accelerating the adoption of prospective analysis and data mining technologies within American healthcare companies for Predixion Software. Michael has more than 15 years of experience in start-up environments with a series of successful early stage technology companies. Prior to Predixion, Michael led WhiteCloud Analytics’ efforts to apply advanced analytic and business intelligence technologies to prepare healthcare companies for the many challenges presented by the evolving healthcare market.
Earlier in his career Michael led the deployment of analytic and performance management solutions for ProClarity to more than 40 healthcare payer and provider organizations in the U.S. leading up to the acquisition of ProClarity by Microsoft Corp. During his post-acquisition tenure at Microsoft, Michael’s management responsibility grew to include healthcare payer and provider customers both in the U.S. and Canada.
Michael holds a B.A. of Finance from Boise State University. |
Jamie MacLennan
CTO |
Jamie has 18 years of experience in professional software development, including 10 years with Microsoft Corporation. Prior to joining Predixion Jamie directed the development of the current generation of Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, from handwriting the core class architecture to managing, growing and nurturing a team of over 30 world-class developers through multiple release cycles of increasing capabilities and quality. During his 10 years at Microsoft, he designed and implemented SQL Server’s data mining functionality in collaboration with Microsoft Research resulting in 27 patents and patents pending across five product releases.
Jamie is a sought-out and invited speaker at user and partner conferences worldwide, and has written numerous papers and articles about SQL Server Data Mining including two published books that are used heavily in both industry and academia. Prior to joining Microsoft, Jamie ran a development team for Landmark Graphics, Inc. (division of Halliburton) creating cross-platform oil & gas exploration software and at Micrografx, Inc. creating flowcharting and presentation graphics software which has evolved into the iGrafx line of products.
Jamie earned a bachelor of science degree in computer science from Cornell University.
|
|