Management Team

Bernard Harguindeguy

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Bernard Harguindeguy is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Atlantis Computing. Mr. Harguindeguy has over 25 years of operating experience in high-technology companies and has served on a number of Boards of technology companies including at Sygate Technologies for 5 years until its sale to Symantec in 2005 and as Chairman of the board of BorderWare which he sold to WatchGuard in 2009. Previously, Mr. Harguindeguy was the President and CEO of GreenBorder, a web security company which he sold to Google in 2007. GreenBorder was the first security company acquired by Google and is now part of the Google Chrome web browser. Before joining GreenBorder, Bernard was the EVP and General Manager of the Identity Management business of Critical Path—at the time the only profitable business within the company—and had earlier held the position of Chief Marketing Officer. Prior to Critical Path, Bernard was the President and CEO of WorldTalk, a publicly-traded (NASDAQ) Internet security software company that he turned around before it was acquired by Tumbleweed Communications. In addition, he held a number of positions at Novell, including General Manager for the Enterprise Division, a division that he built into a $145M business with a focus on enterprise applications integration and IBM connectivity. Mr. Harguindeguy holds a MS in Engineering Management from Stanford University and a BS in Electrical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of California Irvine.

Chetan Venkatesh

Chief Technology Officer and Founder
Chetan Venkatesh is the Chief Technology officer and founder of Atlantis Computing. Mr. Venkatesh is an entrepreneur who has started several enterprise software companies over the last 15 years. Prior to Atlantis Computing, Mr. Venkatesh was the CEO and an angel investor in Etheract Software, a CAD software company that developed tools for Micro Electronic Mechanical Systems (MEMS). Before joining Etheract Software, Mr. Venkatesh was the CEO and founder of Insynchro, an enterprise collaboration product for large and complex projects that was acquired by Commerce Ventures. Prior to Etheract, Mr. Venkatesh started Lucidity, a middleware company that developed products for exporting mainframe database reports to the web. Mr Venkatesh holds a BS in Computer Science from the State University of New York at New Paltz and Inti College in Malaysia.

Rajiv Pimplaskar

Vice President of Sales
Rajiv Pimplaskar is the Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Channels for Atlantis Computing. Mr. Pimplaskar is a proven leader with 15 years of experience in global sales, technology & management. Prior to Atlantis, Mr. Pimplaskar worked for 10 years in prominent management roles for Verizon and its subsidiaries. From 1995 through 2001, he worked at Bell Atlantic in engineering, sales and channel marketing capacities delivering data networking solutions in Southeast Pennsylvania and Delaware. In 2002, he was promoted to be a Regional Manager at Verizon where he led a sales and delivery team to drive $19 million in revenue within the Michigan Auto Vertical. In 2004, he was handpicked to the leadership team at Verizon HQ in New York managing 80 national accounts billing $125 million annually. Mr. Pimplaskar ran a 55 person organization with sales support, solutions engineering, project management and proposal managers across 12 states. In 2006, as part of the Verizon-MCI merger, Mr. Pimplaskar ran global sales teams targeting top Financial Services, Media and Pharmaceutical customers headquartered in the New York Metro area. Mr. Pimplaskar has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Pune University, India, an MS in Computer Engineering and an MBA in Marketing and International Business from Widener University.

 

Investors & Advisors

Tan Sri Rashid Manaf

Investor, Attorney at Law

Charles Beeler

El Dorado Ventures
Charles is an accomplished venture capital investor who has been with EDV since 1999. His primary focus is on companies with the potential to radically change the capabilities, cost/performance and energy efficiency of datacenters and enterprise computing environments. This includes companies in the systems, storage and cloud computing sectors. Prior to joining EDV, Charles served as a partner at Piper Jaffray Ventures, where he helped manage the firm’s technology venture capital funds. Charles gained early venture capital experience at Scripps Ventures, where he helped design and implement an early-stage investment strategy for a newly formed venture fund. Early in his career, Charles was involved with the design and implementation of healthcare IT systems at the Mayo Clinic, including Mayo’s first radiology information system. In addition to his for-profit boards, Charles serves as the Chairman of the Board of the Camp Chippewa Foundation, and works actively with several other education-based non-profits. Charles received a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Colby College and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Nicolas El Baze

Partech Ventures
Prior to Partech, Nicolas spent 15 years as an entrepreneur and was a co-founder of several Partech-funded companies: Softway International (acq. by ITway), Softway Systems (acq. by Microsoft), and ISDnet (acq. by Cable & Wireless). Nicolas also led the Softway Venture Development activity which resulted in the incubation of several successful start-ups in the U.S. and Europe including: RightPoint (acq. by E.piphany), MultiMania (IPO—acq. by Lycos Europe), and LibertySurf (IPO—acq. by Tiscali). Nicolas also served on the boards of Meiosys (IBM), Akimbi (VMware), Pantero (Progress Software), ClearApp (Oracle), and Q-Layer (Sun Microsystems).Nicolas received an MBA from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Paris, France and attended the International Management Program at both UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and Universität zu Köln, Germany.