Board of Directors
Ed Boyajian, President and Chief Executive Officer
Before joining EnterpriseDB, Ed spent six years at Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading open source solutions provider, most recently serving as vice president and general manager of North America. Before that, he was vice president of Red Hat's global OEM business, responsible for all partnerships, including HP, IBM, and Dell. During his time at Red Hat, Ed was instrumental in developing the foundational methods for selling open source software into the enterprise.
Prior to Red Hat, Ed held executive sales and marketing positions at ArsDigita, an early leader in open source software for building database-backed community websites (acquired by Red Hat) and ServiceSoft (now Kana). Ed is a former U.S. Army Captain, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and his undergraduate degree from Boston University.
Andy Astor, Co-Founder and EVP, Business Development
Andy oversees business development, including strategic partnerships with IBM and other industry leaders. Previously, as founding CEO, Andy oversaw EnterpriseDB's growth from start-up to over 200 customers in less than 3 years.
Before 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, 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. Denis currently serves as the Chairman of Fusion’s Board of Directors.
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.
Gene Riechers
Gene is a co-founder of Valhalla Partners and has twenty five years of experience in senior leadership roles at venture capital firms and technology companies.
He is a Director of the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association and a co-founder of The MINDSHARE Program, a leading organization for technology entrepreneurs in the Greater Washington area. He is also a Director of Rivermine Software, RealOps, Inc, LeftHand Networks and webMethods.
Prior to entering the venture capital industry, Gene spent 16 years in senior operating roles with technology companies, including four early-stage ventures, all of which went public.
Austin Westerling
Austin joined Charles River Ventures in early 2000 and focuses on making investments primarily in enterprise software & services. He is currently a director of Secure Software and Trusted Network Technologies. Prior to joining CRV, Austin advised a variety of technology companies on strategic, operational and financial issues at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
Austin also has experience with Analysis Group Economics/Integral, Inc. and the New England Consulting Group.
Austin holds a double BA with distinction in Psychology and Economics from Yale University.
Dave Power
Dave Power is a partner at Fidelity Ventures who focuses on investment opportunities in enterprise technologies. He currently serves on the boards of Black Duck Software, Kajeet, Ping Identity, Polyserve, and SpikeSource.
Prior to Fidelity Ventures, Dave was an operating executive at a number of leading technology companies. Dave was CEO of Novera Software (acquired by Mercator Software), a pioneer in web application integration. Prior to Novera he was SVP of Marketing and Corporate Development at RSA Security. Dave was also a Vice President and General Manager at Sun Microsystems, and a Vice President of Mercer Management, where he co-founded the firm's IT industry practice.
Dave earned his BS and MS degrees in engineering from Tufts University and an MBA from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He also serves as a Trustee at the Perkins School for the Blind.
David Litwack
Dave Litwack has had a long career starting from the early days of the software industry. He was Executive Vice President responsible for product development at Cullinet Software, a mainframe database management company. Subsequently, he founded Powersoft, the leading Client/Server development tool vendor. Powersoft was acquired by Sybase Inc., where Mr. Litwack again headed all product development as Executive Vice President.
After helping drive the first two major phases of computing, Mainframes and Client/Server, Mr. Litwack became co-founder and CEO of SilverStream Software, one of the first companies to provide a Java based application server. SilverStream was acquired by Novell Inc, where he served as Senior Vice President until 2005.
Dave earned a BA degree from Brandeis University and a Masters in Computer Science from Boston University. He has served as Director for numerous companies including: Watermark, Atria, Trellix, eRoom and Excelon, in addition to Powersoft and SilverStream. He currently serves as Director for 170 Systems, mValent and EnterpriseDB.