Jim Kaskade Biography

Jim Kaskade
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Executive Summary
Jim Kaskade is a passionate executive of sixteen years. Currently leading a business unit of
over 1,000 data-driven people as the VP & GM of Big Data & Analytics at CSC. Mr. Kaskade is
responsible for turning data into revenue for Fortune 1000 clients with a global team
including R&D, Product & Offering Management, Consulting, Delivery, Sales, Marketing,
Finance, Operations, HR and Legal functions.
Mr. Kaskade’s business unit is responsible for Big Data, Business Intelligence, Analytics,
and Enterprise Data Warehousing, addressing an ov erall market where 30B devices (things) will be generating over
40 zetabytes of data annually in 2020, serving as the catalyst of a market growing at a 12.5% CAGR from $1.3 trillion in
2013 to $3.0 trillion in 2020.
Jim leads teams with an entrepreneurial passion of a startup CEO and with a mind for scale of a well-established global
executive. His experience in small and large company environments across all business functions ov er the past 28 years
giv es him a unique perspective of running high-growth and emerging businesses.
Mr. Kaskade not only blends his experience working within a global multi-billion revenue company with his experience at
hi-tech startup businesses, but he also leverages the fact that he started as an engineer, then worked in product and offering
management, sales and marketing, and over the past 15 years as a CEO. Mr. Kaskade has focused on emerging sectors
including Internet of Things, Big Data, cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS), online and mobile digital media,
online and mobile advertising, and semiconductors; leading the companies from their founding to acquisition. He began
his career in enterprise data warehousing, analytical applications, and business intelligence services designed to maximize
the intrinsic value of data.
Prior to CSC, Mr. Kaskade was CEO of Infochimps, a Big Data Cloud
Employment History
company, serving Fortune 1000 with a unique network of analytic services
deployed in Tier 4 data centers across North America. This company was
CSC VP & GM 2014
acquired by CSC in late 2013.
Infochimps CEO 2013
PARC EIR / CEO 2012
SIOS SVP & GM 2010-201 1
Prior to Infochimps, Mr. Kaskade was SVP & GM at SIOS, a publicly traded
StackIQ CEO 2009
firm headquartered in Japan, where he was responsible for th e com pany ’s
Ey espot CEO 2005-2008
global cloud business. He led a US business unit focused on developing a
Integral CEO 2005
cloud application serving platform, addressing Fortune 500 data center
INCEP CEO 2000-2004
CDI VP Sal es & Mr ktg 1999
needs in private cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS).
Ter adata Di r . Pr od Mr ktg 1998
Ter adata Di r . Pr od Mgmt 1997 -1998
Prior to SIOS, Mr. Kaskade was an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) for
NCR Str ategic Planning 1996
Express Ventures in San Diego assisting portfolio and prospect companies
AT&T Pr of Services 1992-1996
with their business. It was then he became enamored with the emerging
NCR Engi neer 1988-1992
DSC Engi neer 1986-1988
private cloud market which was growing to ov er $55B in 2014 at a 51% CAGR
Lockheed El ectric Eng 1986
per IDC. He was CEO of StackIQ, a provider of a unique cloud and Big
Data operating system that incorporated a new linux distribution jointed
dev eloped with the San Diego Super Computing Center.
Prior to that, he was the founder and CEO of a venture-backed video SaaS startup providing broadband and mobile
video publishing, syndication, and advertising to over 10,000 companies. His startup was based on an elastic and scalable
SaaS digital media platform built before cloud solutions from Amazon, Rackspace, and other s were launched. His vision
centered on a sophisticated advertising exchange with targeted and dynamic insertion of in -stream advertising, targeting a
high-growth market segment growing to ov er $5.6B in 2013 at a 63% CAGR. He sold this company in late 2008.
From 1998 to 2005, Mr. Kaskade led three startups in the semiconductor space, leveraging his experience in
electrical engineering and IC design. Mr. Kaskade led the development of a new high frequency ball grid array package used
by the largest brands in CPUs, GPUs, and high-performance ASICs. The company was v enture backed by Paul Capital, and
was positioned in the fastest growing market at the time, forecast to be $29B in 2003 growing at ov er a 46% CAGR. He sold
his company in late 2004.
From 1988 to 1998 Mr. Kaskade became the expert in decision support / business intelligence applications for enterprise
data warehouses. His data warehousing career began as a lead semiconductor designer at NCR where he developed a
Banyan crossbar circuit -switched high-speed netw ork, th e w or ld’s lar gest cir cuit switch ed com pute node netw ork of 4096
processors and the basis for Teradata’s $2B+ data warehousing revenue today.
Blog: www.jameskaskade.com

CSC VP & GM, Infochimps CEO, and PARC EIR, 2012-2014
BUSINESS OUTCOME WITH BIG DATA &
ANALYTICS
In 2013 there were almost as many bits in the Digital Universe as stars in the Physical Universe. Over
44 zettabytes of data will be created annually by the year 2020. The catalyst for this will be the 30B
devices or Internet of Things producing rich information about the environments in which they are
operating.
LOVE YOUR DATA
Global Leader
Mr. Kaskade leads a business unit at CSC that is growing at 100%
“Jim is one of the most dynamic,
year over year. At the core of the CSC business lies the combination
of new web-scale technology and over 1 ,000 passionate analytics
trustworthy, dedicated and multi-dimensional
consultants and data engineers.
leaders I have met over
my 20+ years in the industry. He is
At the core of each CSC client is data. From banking and capital
one of a few executives that has been
markets, to insurance, manufacturing, health, transportation, and
able to successfully and seamlessly
utilities, CEOs and business-line executives are leveraging Mr.
move from leading a start-up
Kaskade’s disruptive analytics capability and new business processes
company to driving growth, change
to ultimately unlock the value of data with new customer insights,
and results in a large global company
product innovation, smart operations, and risk management – all
that is in the middle of a financial re-engineering
producing newly obtained competitive advantage.
and market re-imaging
WHERE DID THE DATA STORY START?
effort.”
Michael Bray, Director of
Mr. Kaskade’s passion for data began when he became a part of a
Marketing, CSC Big Data
team at Teradata in 1988 responsible for developing the most
scalable data warehousing platform, even today. Fast forward to late
2011, when Mr. Kaskade approached the CEO of PARC, a Xerox
company, about building a next-generation Big Data platform. As an Executive In Residence, Mr. Kaskade did
what Steve Jobs did prior to starting Apple – namely, he worked with some of the most brilliant minds at PARC
(the inventors of technologies like Ethernet, the GUI, the mouse), and advanced PARC’s research in graph
analytics to commercial status.
This led to his work at PARC being incorporated into a fledging startup, Infochimps, where he worked with the
Board to reposition the company to become a leading cloud provider of advanced Big Data analytics. Mr.
Kaskade leveraged the expertise in web scale technologies such as Hadoop, NoSQL data stores, real -time
stream processing, and cloud computing.
VALUE OF ANALYTICS
What if you could deploy the most sophisticated data analytics capability of google, Yahoo!, Facebook, Linkedin,
and Twitter, all on demand and in hours? What if you could solve the most pressing business problems within
days? Mr. Kaskade realized his vision to achieve time to value in day s; provide 100x ROI; deliver against the
most stringent SLAs; at any scale; and no matter how challenging the business problem. The value of analytics
is only limited by the degree to which you adopt and deploy across your enterprise.
LEADERSHIP WITH ACTION
Under Mr. Kaskade’s leadership Infoc himps and now CSC has accelerated at quarterly growth rates of 3X. After
CSC’s ac quisition of Infoc himps, Mr. Kaskade tripled the staff, seamlessly integrated the team into the business
unit he then took over, and has invested over $100M in the most advanced technology innovation, powering the
US federal government’s intelligence analytic s, and minimally the top 3 out of 1 0 enterprises in every major
industry vertical. Mr. Kaskade applies stringent management systems, which lead with culture, followed by
strategy, and finish with execution.
Can Big Data Save Them?
Using Big Data to Fight Cancer
Mr. Kaskade believes in business with a purpose. Connecting sophisticated analytic technologies to use-cases that even the average
person understands – this is his way of having a more strategic conversation with enterprise executives. At the 2013 Strata Big Data
Conference in New York, he explains how advanced analytics could be used to predict individual outcomes and proactively apply
preventive measures to give people normal life spans.

SIOS SVP & GM, 2009-2011
CLOUD STRATEGY & INNOVATION
Leading with Culture
“Jim has a playbook for making
teams work together and does his
best to stamp out politics and bad
communication habits.
One of my personal heroes is Ernest
Shackleton and much like him, Jim
will go through great sacrifice for the
sake of his team and the company to
ensure everyone survives and even
come out as better people.”
Joe Kelly, founder & COO,
Infochimps
Business requirements revolve around the application, not
the infrastructure. Even though Cloud Computing has
shown a clear path to infrastructure automation and cost
reduction, the real opportunity lies with the ability to
automate provisioning the application to the end-user.
Mr. Kaskade was tasked to establish SIOS’ ov erall c loud strategy
in such a way that leveraged the company ’s ex isting core
competencies as well as guarantee a sustainable, long-term
revenue stream in a large and high-growth market.
Following a company-wide study of SIOS’ data center expertise,
Mr. Kaskade proposed a multi-phase strategy that involved: 1)
identifying and partnering with complimentary
technologies/companies to augment the existing businesses,
leveraging Cloud; 2) licensing technology to accelerate go -to-market;
3) internally developing new core technology that would
differentiate the company in a completely new long-term growth
business; and 4) invest in academia and startup companies to co-develop
transformative technologies which could completely
leapfrog SIOS beyond its competition.
Mr. Kaskade detailed a three-phased business case to establish
SIOS as a clear leader in Cloud. Phase one involved OEMing a
leading cloud management solution that could initially be sold
standalone and later as an integrated component of a broader
solution. Phase two was to develop the first private cloud
Platform as a Service for Fortune 1000 enterprises through a co-innovation
partnership with one of the largest System
Integrators. Phase 3 involved developing an advanced cloud
storage technology, which would allow the company to address
data storage requirements for consumer and/or enterprises in a
way currently not available.
Mr. Kaskade exhibited a sound process, testing his thesis in a
sy stematic way with peers in the industry, leading analysts, and
most importantly a suite of CIOs and data center architects. Mr.
Kaskade successfully built an “A -team” of industry veterans who
would take his vision and execute seamlessly. He also leveraged
off-shore engineering resources in order to further reduce
execution risk as well as expense.
Four months after Board support of Mr. Kaskade’s strategy,
under his leadership the company was able to build a team that
created its first cloud product, validate market requirements with
UBS, Citibank, JP Morgan, Walgreens, and Flextronics, and
establish a first-of-its-kind CTO and Business-unit sponsored
joint-development partnership with Wipro Technologies in
support of a flawless go-to-market strategy.
Clearly a ‘level 5’
Leader
“I know Jim as fanatic ally driven,
infected with an incurable fire in his
belly to produce results. He could not
stand mediocrity in any form and is
utterly intolerant of anyone who
would ac c ept and satisfy with ‘just
enough’ results. I c ould see at all
times his unwavering resolve to do
whatever must be done to produce
the best long term results – no
matter how difficult it is. He sets high
standards and raises the bar high in
expectations from his direct reports
as well as he exceeds the expectations
of everyone he works with by setting
high standards for himself.”
Surendra Reddy, CTO, SIOS

StackIQ CEO / Express Ventures EIR, 2009
SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR & CLOUD
High-performance computing clusters based on Linux have been
rapidly becoming the dominant computing platform for a wide
range of scientific disciplines. Yet, straightforward software
installation, maintenance, and health monitoring for large-scale
clusters has been a consistent and nagging problem for non-cluster
experts.
Mr. Kaskade was invited in by a group at the UCSD Supercomputing
Center who had been developing a new Linux OS distribution based on
RedHat for over 10 years to address issues with deploying and managing
large HPC clusters.
Mr. Kaskade worked with the Rocks Cluster Distribution team and a
commercial partner, now StackIQ, to reposition the project into a new
growth market with a high-end Fortune 1000 private cloud and Big Data
operating platform.
Mr. Kaskade knew that the HPC market was limited in size and growth
and that Cloud Computing in the commercial space was just beginning to
skyrocket. With the addition of a cloud automation layer, the Rocks
project could be applied to the automated initiation, execution,
management, integration, and availability of mission-critical enterprise
applications on a shared, on-demand, standardized platform – a Private
Platform as A Service.
Mr. Kaskade’s vision was to compete head-to-head with incumbents like
VMware as well as emerging venture-backed startups like Eucalyptus
and Cloud.com.
He believed that the Rocks team had already proven their ability to scale
(installing complete HPC clusters of over 1000 nodes in less than an
hour). What they were missing was an administration interface and
multi-tenant cloud services capability.
Mr. Kaskade assumed the role of CEO and led the team through a
process to further expand the work done at UCSD and the commercial
entity , StackIQ. He worked to recapitalize the company, and prepare the
team for a venture roadshow.
Mr. Kaskade led the process of defining a new engineering roadmap,
creating a new business model and associated business plan.
He carefully sought out Industry veterans to test his thesis, talking to
thought leaders at Amazon, Teradata, and Dell, as well as several venture
groups in Silicon Valley including Sequoia, Trinity, and Redpoint.
It is Mr. Kaskade’s foc us on team, which later led to a significant delay in
executing the new strategy. Although the technology proved to offer
incredible opportunities, the academic team was not yet ready to take the
necessary leap into the commercial space.
Almost 18 months later, both commercial and academic teams where
brought together. StackIQ is now a successfully venture-funded startup
on its way to changing the cloud and BIG DATA landscape.
Vision, Passion,
Tenacity
“I am highly impressed by Jim’s
entreprenurial vision and
tenacity, as well as by his broad
base of managerial and technical
skills. Jim is an ex c ellent CEO.”
Franz Birkner, Managing
Director, Express Ventures
“I hav e known Jim for c lose to
10 years during which time I
have had the pleasure to sit on
the boards of two of his
companies, both of which he
founded and one of which my
firm was the lead investor. As a
result of these experiences I
have found Jim to be an
extremely resourceful CEO who
has vision and passion. Most
importantly I have found Jim to
be the consummate professional
with the highest integrity. Jim is
a charismatic leader who
commands respect and knows
how to build and motivate a
team.“
Mark Czepiel, Partner, Top
Tier Investments/Paul
Capital Partners
“Through all stages of the
startup life cycle, Jim
demonstrated experience and
skills of a successful CEO,
consistently displaying passion
and resolve for the drive, vision
and purpose of the company.
His knowledge in all areas of the
business proved to make him
not only a recognized leader in
the industry, but also within the
company to promote a common
vision with the team, with
customers and vendors, and
with the investment
c ommunity.”
Jeff Gilford, Blackford
Partners

Eyespot Video Network CEO, 2005-2008
THE ERA OF SAAS, MOBILE, &
DIGITAL VIDEO
In 2005 Mr. Kaskade envisioned an online and mobile experience that
would be driven more by video than by text and photos. Two years after
Mr. Kaskade decided to pursue his first digital video startup, properties
like Youtube began to gain traction and analysts began predicting that
over 50% of the US population – 155.2 million people – would be
watching digital video via online and mobile devices by 2008.
Analysts also began to forecast that advertisers would spend much more on
video ads with growth rates of over 55%. And although video advertising was a
small percentage of the total Internet ad spending or of TV ad spending, this
market was soon projected to grow 63% annually to a total of $5.8B by 2013.
Once again, Mr. Kaskade had focused on one of the fastest growth segments,
which was just beginning to gain attention from venture groups.
Mr. Kaskade’s v ision involved first spinning out a technology and team from his
work at Teradata in data mining. He wanted to use product, team, and strategic
capital to realize his vision in targeting marketing for wireless that combined
his knowledge in CRM, mobility middleware, data mining, and databases. It
became clear that Mr. Kaskade was ahead of the market opportunity by at least
a year, which resulted in a two-phased plan to achieve his goals.
Mr. Kaskade raised $10M in venture capital and built a video SaaS platform for
both online and mobile video content publishing. In phase 1, he amassed a
network of over 10,000 web and mobile enterprises using his platform to
distribute video. In phase 2, he then began building a first-of-its-kind video
advertising network exchange (Ad-Exchange), which included an ad-serving
offering that allowed web and mobile content publishers to take advantage of
multiple advertising sources for in-stream video advertisements. Website
owners or mobile carriers simply incorporated a few lines of code into their web
and mobile media players and they obtained access to all the major video ad-networks
globally.
Mr. Kaskade had established advertising partnerships with Google, Tremor,
Yume, Adap.TV, Scanscout, Digitalsmiths, SpotXchange , DoubleClick,
Microsoft, and 24/7, providing him the ability to guarantee a relevant/targeted
ad for any video streamed through his SaaS platform.
These partnerships led to notable deals with Lucasfilm, SonyBMG, News Corp
(Fox Sports, Fox HiLites, Fox On-the-lot), IAC, Vh1, NBA, AETN, Cyworld,
Demand Media, as well as 10,000 middle-market website publishers. Mr.
Kaskade sold the company in 2004 just prior to a major consolidation in the
online advertising marketplace.
Business and
Technology Sense
“One of Jim's strengths is his
ability to engage others to support
his cause, listen to feedback, and
act on it. Jim combines an
unwavering tenacity with a clear
vision to deliver. He's well
respected among his peers,
investors, and the business
community as an extremely
capable entrepreneur and CEO.”
Rick Valencia, Chairman &
Founder, ProfitLine
“Jim is an extremely dynamic
CEO/executive/entrepreneur.
From the day he sold me on his
vision to create a "RightMedia"
advertising exchange for mid-market
website publishers he was
consistently the most determined,
focused, and passionate person I
know.“
David Gilby, Chief Revenue
Officer, Eyespot
Jim is one of the few digital media
veterans that gets it. I watched
Jim grow Eyespot from a single
video destination (eyespot.com)
into a network of thousands of
websites leveraging their media
libraries, media widgets, and video
advertising web services
(eyespotnetwork.com). He is an
extremely strong strategist,
product visionary, people person,
and most of all...deal maker. It is
rare to find a CEO with both a
business and technology sense.
Dmitry Shapiro, CEO &
Founder, Veoh Networks
Front Page of Wall Street Journal, May 24, 2007 (Eyespot & Lucasfilm Partnership)
Make-It-Yourself 'Star Wars'
George Lucas, creator of "Star Wars," has never hesitated to protect his intellectual property, which is why some call him "Lucas the
Litigator." But this week, his Lucasfilm plans to make clips of "Star Wars" available to fans on the Internet to mash up -- meaning to
remix however they want -- at will. In essence, Lucasfilm is going to legi timize and streamline a pastime that has become increasingly
popular on the Web. A search for "Star Wars" on YouTube, for example, turns up some 98,000 results, many of them videos drawing
on original content from the movies. But on third-party video sites, Lucasfilm executives "can't control it, and they can't monetize it,"
says Jim Kaskade, Eyespot's chief executive officer. Eyespot already works with various media companies. But the "Star Wars" project
is the most ambitious yet, says Mr. Kaskade. The "Star Wars" team "understands social media and is embracing it."

INCEP Technology CEO, 1999-2004
GAME CHANGING THE FABLESS
SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY
During this period chip performance and electronic system
performance both were projected to follow the same historically
aggressive growth trajectory over time. However, the capabilities of
semiconductor support technologies were projected to lag. Silicon
performance was not only continuing to be gated by the advances in
semiconductor technology, but also equally dependent on the need for
advances in power delivery, thermal management, and packaging
technologies – starting at the chip and extending out to the system.
Mr. Kaskade founded INCEP in 1999 after spinning out technology and team
from a semiconductor services company where he served as VP of Marketing
& Sales. INCEP was Mr. Kaskade’s first self-founded company, which acted
as a springboard for his career as a CEO.
Over a course of four years Mr. Kaskade engaged strategic joint-developments
with CPU companies including Intel, AMD, Sun, IBM, and HP;
with GPU providers such as NVIDIA; and ASIC/chip manufacturers
including Texas Instruments.
Mr. Kaskade and his team developed a revolutionary chip package with
leading substrate vendors that enabled CPU vendor roadmaps for thermal,
voltage, and instantaneous power delivery for over a decade with cost
reductions of up to 50% for voltage regulation, 16% for device packaging, and
20% at the system-level for OEMs.
The company had 74 patent filings – five US patents issued, 36 pending, and
33 provisionals outstanding when the company was sold. Coverage included
three unique modular and high-performance power delivery methods. Proper
patent prosecution was core to the success of the business.
INCEP had a number of candidate CPUs in test with its packaging, proving
its superior performance over alternatives from companies who were much
better capitalized. Mr. Kaskade was successful in achieving market validation
in an extremely capital efficient manner.
He exhibited an ex ceptional ability to understand the c ompany’s v alue
proposition across the supply chain – a key element to achieving success in
such an established industry. Mr. Kaskade not only navigated sophisticated
MPU end-customers, but packaging, power supply, and connector suppliers,
as well as compute system OEMs.
After a number of strategic projects at Intel and AMD were internally delayed
/ redirected, Mr. Kaskade led the sale of the company to a $2B strategic
investor (who was also a manufacturing partner, joint-development partner,
and customer).
Leads From
Dreams To Success
“I came out of retirement
because of Jim. His energy was
contagious. His focus on big
opportunities was too
compelling. His ability to
articulate his vision was
outstanding. Jim and I spent
over 4 years building a dream,
during which I watched him
grow from an individual
contributor to an exceptional
leader and CEO.”
Jack Shemer, Founder &
CEO, Teradata
Derives Vision
From Listening To
Customers
“Jim has dev eloped a strong
understanding of the Fortune
1000 enterprise and the needs in
the data center. He's stayed
ahead of the industry working
on the bleeding edge, whether
it's building the worlds largest
switch fabric, launching the first
data mining enabled RDBMS,
developing new BI tools, or,
semiconductor packaging. I
would gladly work with Jim.
He's a talented executive and
entrepreneur.”
Jim Dietz, COO, INCEP
Technologies
Beginning of INCEP and Intel partnership, February 26, 2001
INCEP Delivers New IA64 Processor Packaging
INCEP Technologies announced today delivery of core packaging technologies for a high-density concept server scheduled for display
at the Intel Developer Forum. As part of a new prototype development agreement, INCEP has collaborated with Intel to design a small
form-factor IA64 concept server, designed for Intel’s Itani um™ processor family. The conc ept serv er will use INCEP’s power and
thermal technologies as part of an integrated approach to processor packaging. “INCEP enables the power of silicon by comb ining
power, thermal, and EMI solutions within an integrated architecture,” s tated Jim Hjerpe Kask ade, President of IN CEP Technolog ies.
“Only by taking a system-level view to chip-level packaging is INCEP able to provide a solution which offers a roadmap f or several CPU
generations.”

NCR/AT&T/Teradata, 1988-1998
DATA WAREHOUSING REINVENTED
Mr. Kaskade began his career in the data centers of Fortune 1000
enterprises as an engineer at NCR (later Teradata), the leader in data
warehousing solutions. As a young engineer, hungry for the cutting edge, he
was chosen to be among an elite group spun out of core development and
placed in a separately-funded business unit – a BU tasked to create the
next-generation data warehouse offering.
He and four other engineers invented the BYNET (BanYan NETwork, a folded
banyan switching network built on the original YNET). Mr. Kaskade and his team
redesigned the original compute and storage node interconnecting technology used
to create the DBC 1012, invented by Jack Shemer and David Hartke in the early
1980s. The BYNET proved to be linearly scalable, connecting up to 4096 processor
nodes, and addressing scalability limitations of the YNET.
Following his success in engineering, Mr. Kaskade turned to consulting some of the
largest Teradata customers on their data warehouse architecture - customers
including Walmart, Bank Of America, and AT&T to better learn of customer
challenges directly.
He later began developing new products for the company in an advanced R&D or
“spec ial projects” role. It was then that he identified data mining, knowledge
discovery, and business intelligence as a strategic space, which could truly leverage
the depth of data stored in the many data warehouses powered by the Teradata
platform.
Mr. Kaskade had gained experience with every component of the enterprise data
warehouse framework for Fortune 1000 companies, eventually focusing on web-centric
end-user business intelligence applications - applications which could
realize the value of an ever- increasing amount of data captured via the web user
traffic.
Mr. Kaskade embarked on a path, which resulted in making fundamental changes
to the Teradata database to incorporate analytics, which would automate the data
mining process for data warehouses. Mr. Kaskade sold senior management on a
number of business cases which followed his vision of data mining, and what later
became a new age of information democracy with data warehousing and business
intelligence.
Through a set of reseller partnerships, OEM partnerships, and core technology
development, Mr. Kaskade led the Teradata data mining initiatives within the
company, starting with a project referred to as Teradata Scalable Discovery, and
now Teradata Warehouse Miner (TWM), leading to Teradata’s Business
Intelligence program today.
TWM provides advanced analytic capabilities directly within the relational
database. With this development applications can access, through an analytic API,
machine learning algorithms such as rule induction, clustering, regression,
association, and even neural nets, as an integrated operation directly against the
detailed dataset.
This program was successful and has been quickly followed by other leaders in the
industry including Orac le, and IBM. Mr. Kaskade’s intrapreneurial efforts led to his
responsibility for Business Intelligence and it’s impac t on the Teradata RDBMS.
Dedication To
Providing
Shareholder Value
“Jim has the leadership skills to
bring the right people into the
business, and to position the
company over time for the
maximum potential. Jim's
energy and enthusiasm for the
business survives the highs and
lows of the startup process, and
his dedication to providing
shareholder value and
protecting the interests of all of
the stakeholders, is a testament
to his business ethics and
commitment to hard work. I
would gladly work with Jim
again, and gladly support any
entrepreneurial enterprise led
by Jim.“
Marco Thompson,
Managing Partner,
Express Ventures
Ability To See
Through The Noise
“What impresses me about Jim
is that he continues to be
extremely accurate in his
prediction of this industry and
where it is headed. He is also
one of the rare CEOs that really
understands what it takes to
blend technologies and services
that can guarantee distribution,
performance and ROI. Jim is
an outstanding entrepreneur
and CEO and I would not
hesitate to work with him
again.”
Dan Flanegan, Co-
Founder & CEO, Soapbox
Mobile

FOUNDERS GIVING BACK
Mr. Kaskade teaches courses to aspiring CEOs, assisting Adeo Ressi and
team at the Founder Institute (FI), which has become the largest
incubator in the world by number of companies created, number of
locations, number of mentors and pace of company creation.
Founder’s collective efforts have helped launch nearly 250 companies
worldwide by over 300 Founders that employ thousands of people.
FI has encouraged some of the smartest and most talented people on the
planet to give up the safety of their day jobs and pursue a challenging path
to their dreams.
ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS
Mr. Kaskade co-founded (with his wife, Annie) GreenEdge Kids, which
grew to be the largest etailer of sustainable children's clothing for ages 2-
14.
He and his wife also launched their own line of USA-made premium eco-denim
for children, GreenEdge Denim.
GreenEdge Denim was born out of a desire to acknowledge the
importance of the youngest generation, fuel recognition of the world we
come from, and layer meaning into style.
PATENTS
 All digital phase locked loop
 Apparatus for providing power to a microprocessor with integrated
thermal and EMI management
 Method and apparatus for providing power to a microprocessor
with integrated thermal and EMI management
 System and methods for creating, collecting, and using metadata
 System and methods for online collaborative video creation
 Automatic aggregation of content for use in an online video editing
system
 System and methods for storing, editing, and sharing digital video
 System and methods for distributed edit processing in an online
video editing system
EDUCATION
University of San Diego, 1989-1993
Masters in Business Administration
New Product Development, Entrepreneurship, Finance
University of California, Santa Barbara, 1984-1988
Bachelors, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Semiconductor Design, Adv Programming Architectures
Focuses on Return
On Investment
“A s a board member and
investor I was able to observe
Jim Kaskade in a management
role on multiple occasions. Jim
utilized a hands-on, high-energy
approach to managing an early
stage technology company that
ensured good communication
and visibility both inside the
company and at the board level.
Jim’s lev el of preparation and
analysis prior to meetings made
discussion and decision making
a straightforward process. Jim
also displayed good people skills,
ethics and financial acuity. I
would certainly recommend Jim
for a leadership role in a
technology startup.“
Joe Markee, Managing
Director, Express Ventures
Builds Value With A
Focus on Team
“Jim is one of few CEOs who
truly understands what it means
to leverage the strengths of those
who report to him and makes
the effort at building group
c onsensus with his c olleagues.”
Mark Hill, SVP Business
Development, Eyespot
Knows The
Customer
“His understanding of customer
need and properly aligning that
with technology offerings,
coupled with an endless amount
of energy/tenacity is what will
benefit any organization led by
Jim.” Randy Lea, VP Global
Products & Services
Marketing, Teradata

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