About Striim
Powering digital transformation
Striim was founded with the simple goal of helping companies make data useful the instant it’s born
Managing large-scale data is a challenge for every enterprise. Real-time, integrated data is a requirement to stay competitive, but modernizing data architecture can be an overwhelming task.
We built Striim to handle the volume, complexity, and velocity of enterprise data by connecting legacy systems to modern cloud applications on a scalable platform. Our customers don’t have to pause operations to migrate data or juggle different tools for every data source—they simply connect legacy systems to newer cloud applications and get data streaming in a few clicks.
Seamless integrations. Near-perfect performance. Data up to the moment. That’s what embracing complexity without sacrificing performance looks like to the enterprise with a modern data stack.
Our mission: to power every decision with real-time data.
Meet the Team
Striim was launched by executive and technical members of pioneering organizations like GoldenGate Software (acquired by Oracle in 2009), Informatica, Oracle, Embarcadero Technologies, and BEA/WebLogic.
Ali Kutay
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer
Ali Kutay is a successful serial entrepreneur, executive and investor with 25 years of experience. Before founding Striim, Ali was the Chairman and CEO of GoldenGate Software (acquired by Oracle), the leading infrastructure software company for high availability. Previously, Ali was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AltoWeb, Inc., a provider of e-business infrastructure software. He was an angel investor, President and Chief Executive Officer of WebLogic, Inc., the company that pioneered the Application Server technology which became one of the major building blocks of web-enabled applications. WebLogic merged with BEA Systems, Inc. and was acquired by Oracle in 2007. Earlier in his career, Ali was the President and CEO of Formtek, one of the first enterprise infrastructure software companies, founded in 1984 as a Carnegie-Mellon University spin-off, and acquired by Lockheed Corporation in 1989. He continued to lead Formtek as its CEO under Lockheed Martin for seven years. He currently serves on the boards of public and private companies and advises startups. Ali completed his undergraduate and masters degrees at Middle East Technical University, and his PhD work at Carnegie Mellon University.
Ali Kutay: Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer
Steve Wilkes
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Steve Wilkes is a life-long technologist, architect, and hands-on development executive. Prior to founding Striim, Steve was the senior director of the Advanced Technology Group at GoldenGate Software. Here he focused on data integration, and continued this role following the acquisition by Oracle, where he also took the lead for Oracle’s cloud data integration strategy. His earlier career included Senior Enterprise Architect at The Middleware Company, principal technologist at AltoWeb and a number of product development and consulting roles including Cap Gemini’s Advanced Technology Group. Steve has handled every role in the software lifecycle and most roles in a technology company at some point during his career. He still codes in multiple languages, often at the same time. Steve holds a Master of Engineering Degree in microelectronics and software engineering from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the UK.
Steve Wilkes: Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Derek Yammarino
Chief Revenue Officer
Derek Yammarino is the Chief Revenue Officer of Striim. Derek has over 25 years of experience in sales and marketing in the software industry. He was most recently Vice President of Global Sales at Usermind (backed by Andreesen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures) which was acquired by Qualtrics. His career highlights include strategic go-to-market roles at Oracle, New Relic, Signals Analytics, Yammer, and LivePerson. Derek Yammarino is based out of Striim’s office in greater Dallas, Texas. He is passionate about building high-energy teams and engineering maximum value for Striim’s customers. ‘Go Striim!’ – Derek Yammarino.
Derek Yammarino: Chief Revenue Officer
Alok Pareek
Founder and Executive Vice President, Products
Alok Pareek is a founder of Striim and head of products. Prior to Striim, Alok served as Vice President at Oracle in the Server Technologies development organization, where he had overall responsibility for product strategy, management, and vision for data integration, and data replication products. Alok also led the engineering and performance teams that collaborated on architecture, solutions, and future product functionality with global strategic customers. Alok was the Vice President of Technology at GoldenGate where he led the technology vision and strategy from 2004 through its acquisition by Oracle in 2009. He started his career as an engineer in Oracle’s kernel development team where he worked on redo generation, recovery, and high-speed data movement for over ten years. He has multiple patents, has published several papers, and has presented at numerous academic and industry conferences. Alok holds a graduate degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Alok Pareek: Founder and Executive Vice President, Products
Andrew Lubesnick
CFO
Andy is CFO of Striim. Prior to joining Striim, Andy was CFO of CivicConnect, a cloud-based, real-time smart data management platform with solutions in government, mining, and security industries. Prior to CivicConnect, Andy was head of FP&A and Controller at Empyr, Inc., where he was in charge of the financial, strategy, analytics, and legal functions. Andy is a CPA. At Grant Thornton, LLP he lead international audit teams working with both public and private companies, including 20+ business acquisitions. He holds and MA and BA in accounting from the University of Illinois, Gies College of Business.
Andrew Lubesnick: Chief Financial Officer
Phillip Cockrell
Senior Vice President of Business Development
As Senior Vice President of Business Development, Phillip brings 20+ years of industry experience to Striim. Prior to joining, Phillip lead business development at Quali holding responsibility for strategic partnerships and corporate development initiatives. From 2006 to 2020, Phillip was VP of Global Alliances at SUSE, the world’s largest independent open source company. Phillip’s group was responsible for strategic relationships with SUSE’s top-tier partners such as AWS, Dell, Fujitsu, HPE, IBM, Microsoft Azure, and SAP; which drove nine consecutive years of significant expansion and material growth that resulted in a PE buyout of $2.5bn. Prior joining SUSE in 2006, Phillip managed the infrastructure and technology group at Rackspace. He’s a native Texan and lives in Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Phillip Cockrell: Senior Vice President of Business Development
Joanne Harris
Chief Marketing Officer
As Chief Marketing Officer for Striim, Joanne brings over 25 years of Enterprise IT Marketing experience driving growth and transformation. Previous appointments include CMO at Lightbend, CMO at Polyverse, and Global VP of Marketing at SUSE, a leading provider of Open Source solutions during a period of high growth that resulted in a PE buyout of $2.5bn. Joanne has led and operated all areas of marketing and is passionate about building high-performing teams. Joanne holds an MBA in Marketing and lives and works remotely in Seattle, WA, USA.
Joanne Harris: Chief Marketing Officer
Striim Values
Play to Win!
We drive success
Love your Mondays
Our culture matters
Customers first
Our customers are core
One Striim
We win and lose as a team
Urgency
We choose speed
Careers at Striim
Join a team of experts in integrations real-time streaming, data infrastructure, and more. We all share one vision for the future: a world where companies can transform every aspect of their business with data.
We’re backed by the best.
Striim is fortunate to be backed by some of the top investors in the world.