Rick Banister, President
Rick Banister has developed application systems for thirty-five years in his roles as a product architect,
project manager, software developer, systems integrator, and database analyst.
His extensive experience in application development includes Oracle and Java programming, database design,
implementation and tuning. He is a leading expert in Database ETL, CRM implementation, Quality Assurance,
and Product Improvement processes, and the inventor of the ExtraView issue tracking product.
Mr. Banister formed Sesame Software in 1988 as a professional services organization. Over the course of the
following fifteen years, he authored a wide array of custom-built ETL systems for major corporations,
including: Cisco, Sony Pictures, Covad, Lifescan, and ebrary. During this period, he observed that all of
these projects could have been accomplished more quickly and efficiently with an ETL tool.
However, product research performed by all of these companies concluded that an efficient and cost-effective
ETL tool did not exist in the market. Thus, he developed the Relational Junction product suite,
which was developed and initially released in 2004 to meet the market demand for Enterprise integration
and information warehousing. Mr. Banister is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and
holds a Master's degree from San Diego State University.
David Hoydic, Vice President of Sales
Dave Hoydic has fifteen years of experience in sales of enterprise software products. As founder of the dialYourWeb ISP in Denver,
Mr. Hoydic managed and sold multiple hosting and services offerings for nationwide clients. As Director of Sales
for Sesame Technology, he sold the ExtraView issue tracking system. As District Sales Manager for Compuware,
he managed a sales team of eight Corporate Account Managers and product specific Sales Representatives.
Steve Hoydic, Director of Global Sales
Steve Hoydic has fifteen years of experience in sales of enterprise software products.
As V.P. of Sales for Sesame Technology, he sold the ExtraView issue tracking system.
Responsibilities included forecasting, management of sales team, account management, and overall increase of
market share in a competitive environment. As District Sales Manager for Compuware, he managed a sales
team of eight Corporate Account Managers and product specific Sales Representatives.
Thomas Hawkes, Director of Client Services
Thomas Hawkes has 30 years of experience in ETL technology, data analysis, data modeling
(conceptual, logical, & physical), relational database design, process analysis, and application design.
Mr. Hawkes is an expert data modeler who has created and developed data modeling techniques and methodologies
and developed and taught data modeling classes. He has successfully led enterprise information repository and
warehouse efforts for Quantum, Southern Pacific, Blue Shield, Crowley Maritime, Bank of America, Fireman's Fund,
American Airlines, Teradata, Apple Computer, Sony Pictures, and DecisionView Software.
Andrea Skov, Vice President of Marketing
Andrea Skov brings 25 years of strategic and tactical experience across the marketing, sales, development,
and operations management disciplines which span the software, systems, and services industries.
She is a competitive, innovative and focused executive with a career signature of excellence in execution and delivery.
Ms. Skov joined Sesame Software from Guild Associates, where she was a Managing Partner assisting companies in planning
and developing both technological and personnel infrastructure to achieve operational, branding and go-to-market objectives
to drive revenue generation. Prior to Guild Associates, Ms. Skov was Chief Marketing Officer for Teneros, Inc.,
with responsibility for guiding product management, product marketing, outward facing marketing, strategic business development
and investor relations. Before assuming her position as a founding employee with Teneros, Ms. Skov served as Vice President
of Marketing and Business Development for All Covered, which she helped build into the leading outsourced IT services company,
with 35 offices across the U.S. servicing the small to medium business arena; Co-Founder and President of Coolspeak.com;
an Internet-based, global communication software and service company acquired by SunCorp Technologies;
President of Webmaster, Inc., an Internet communication software developer and distributor;
and Vice President of Marketing for ICVERIFY, acquired by Cybercash.
Ms. Skov also served as Director of the Video Wall Division, for RasterOps and was founder and
managing partner of a PC application software company in the early days of personal computing. Ms. Skov holds BS and MS degrees
in physics with a minor in English literature from Northeastern University.
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