Company
Our Mission
Striim (pronounced “stream” with two i’s for integration and intelligence) was founded in 2012 with a simple goal of helping companies make data useful the instant it’s born.
Striim’s enterprise-grade, streaming integration with intelligence platform makes it easy to build continuous, streaming data pipelines – including change data capture (CDC) – to power real-time cloud integration, log correlation, edge processing, and streaming analytics.
Experienced Leadership
The leaders behind the Striim platform thrive on building technology companies that raise expectations for how the world does business. The team include core executives from GoldenGate Software (acquired by Oracle in 2009), Informatica, Oracle, Embarcadero Technologies, and BEA / WebLogic. It is led by Ali Kutay who was an angel investor, president and CEO of WebLogic, as well as Chairman and CEO of GoldenGate Software.
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
Sami Akbay
Founder and Executive Vice President
Sami Akbay is a founder of Striim. Prior to Striim, he served as the CEO of Altibase, Inc. – an in-memory RDBMS company with customers in financial services, utilities, and telecommunications. Sami was the Vice President of Marketing and Product Management for GoldenGate Software from 2004 through its acquisition by Oracle. Prior to GoldenGate, he served in senior product marketing and business development roles at Embarcadero and AltoWeb. He spent his earlier career in technical and consulting roles working at Rabobank Nederlands, Hearst New Media, American Stock Exchange, MediaMetrix, OneMain.com (Earthlink), and ALK Associates. He is a graduate of Rutgers University.
Sami Akbay: Founder and Executive Vice President
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: CFO
Codin Pora
Vice President, Business Development
Codin is Vice President of Business Development at Striim where he has been responsible for growing Striim’s partner ecosystem. Prior to joining Striim, Codin was the founder and CTO of MyConsi, a mobile-based travel recommendation engine, where he lead engineering and QA teams, and had overall responsibility for product vision and strategy. Prior to MyConsi, Codin founded multiple B2C startups in the mobile space, and worked at Oracle as a Principal Member of Technical Staff. He started his career as an engineer on GoldenGate Software’s core platform team where he focused on Change Data Capture, and later on as an Integration Architect driving technology partnerships and strategic customer engagements. Codin holds degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics and History from Duke University, where he was an Angier B. Duke Scholar.
Codin Pora: Vice President, Business Development
Who is the team behind Striim?
So who’s on the Striim Team? Experts in data integration and in-memory computing. Application infrastructure gurus. Visualization masters. Real-time technology groupies. All with one goal: helping companies make data useful the instant it’s born.
We’re backed by the best.
Striim is fortunate to be backed by some of the top investors in the world.
Fortune 500 companies power their cloud initiatives with Striim
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