Who We Are

Girish Pancha
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer
Girish Pancha is a data industry veteran who has spent his career developing successful and innovative products that address the challenge of providing integrated information as a mission-critical, enterprise-grade solution. Before co-founding StreamSets, Girish was the first vice-president engineering and chief product officer at Informatica, where he was responsible for the company’s corporate development and entire product portfolio strategy and delivery. Girish also was co-founder and CEO at Zimba, a developer of a mobile platform providing real-time access to corporate information, which he led to a successful acquisition. Girish began his career at Oracle, where he managed the development of its Discoverer Business Intelligence platform.

Arvind Prabhakar
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer
Arvind Prabhakar is a seasoned technology leader, who has worked on data integration challenges for over 10 years. Before co-founding StreamSets, Arvind was an early employee of Cloudera, and led teams working on integration technologies such as Flume and Sqoop. A member of the Apache Software Foundation, Arvind is heavily involved in the open-source community as the PMC Chair for Apache Flume, the first PMC Chair of Apache Sqoop, and member of various other Apache projects. Prior to Cloudera, Arvind was a software architect at Informatica, where he was responsible for architecting, designing, and implementing several core systems.

Rowan Scranage
Chief Revenue Officer
Rowan brings a proven track record of growth and success in leading sales teams to StreamSets. Over the past 10 years, he has worked for numerous startups within the AI and Analytics field including as SVP of global sales at Alluxio, CRO at Peltarion, EMEA and APAC sales at Couchbase, and Vice President of Global Sales & Business Development for Amdocs’ Big Data, Strategic Initiatives Division. Prior to that, he spent 10 years in the telecoms infrastructure field.

Dima Spivak
COO, Products
Dima is an engineering leader who is passionate about leveraging automation to help teams release high-quality software quickly and efficiently. At StreamSets, he oversees the Engineering Productivity, Systems Tooling, and Documentation teams. Prior to this, Dima was a Software Engineer at Cloudera. He is also a committer and PMC member of the Apache HBase project.

Jarcec Cecho
VP of Engineering, Development
Jarcec is passionate about building. As VP of engineering for development at StreamSets, his mission is to build the best data integration platform on the planet by building a great team and community. Previously, he was manager of data integration at Cloudera for Flume and Sqoop Flume, and responsible for Hadoop clusters in production at AVG security. He is active in the Apache Software Foundation.

Greg Fields
VP of Global Presales
Greg has been in development, post sales, presales, and presales leadership for 30 years, and loves the art and science of technical selling. At StreamSets, he leads an incredible group of talented SE’s who are helping grow the core business by showing true value to our prospects and customers, while staying on the cutting edge of data technology. A data industry veteran, Greg spent 2 decades at Informatica, advancing from individual SE to VP of North America presales, helping to grow the company from a $100M startup to $1.3B in revenues.

Merrick Huang
VP of Global Customer Experience
Merrick has made a career out of support, starting out as a technical support engineer, progressing to a team lead, and eventually making the transition to building support teams. Prior to joining StreamSets, Merrick has held technical support roles at Plumtree Software, BEA Systems, Oracle, Proofpoint, and Couchbase.

Teresa Letlow
VP of Business Development
Teresa is responsible for building partner ecosystems focused on customer success through a cloud-first strategy. With over 25 years of experience in data and analytics working with both system integrators and software companies, Teresa has held leadership roles in Alliances, Marketing, and Business Development, always leveraging cross-functional collaboration as a key to success.

Mike Pickett
VP of Product Growth
Mike is a veteran in the technology industry and specialist in the data integration market. Mike has held Sr. Leadership roles at Tibco Software, Informatica and Talend, spanning Alliances, Sales, Strategic Business Development and Corporate Development. In his role as Vice President of Growth at StreamSets, Mike is responsible for overseeing our Developer self service and Product Led Growth initiatives.

Michele Reister
VP of Global Marketing
Michele Reister is an accomplished marketing leader with more than 20 years of experience in the technology field. She is a strategic thinker and problem solver with a proven track record of success in developing and executing effective go-to-market strategies for B2B technology.
Ms. Reister began her career in marketing while earning her Bachelor of Science degree in Management and Information Technology from Daniel Webster College. She later completed her MBA at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Michele has held various roles in marketing and communications, from software startups to large enterprise companies. She is the Vice President of Global Marketing at StreamSets, a Software AG company.

Ted Torous
General Counsel
Ted leads StreamSets’ legal team with a unique perspective as a former software engineer. He has significant in-house legal leadership and experience supporting SaaS companies in a variety of commercial and corporate matters. His prior experience includes positions at Microsoft, Covington & Burling, and Medallia.

Jerry Yu
VP of DevOps and Cloud Services
Jerry brings 25+ years of experience in Infrastructure and network design, and enterprise application hosting management. At StreamSets, Jerry is responsible for building and managing the StreamSets Cloud Services operation and release management for all of StreamSets products. Prior to joining StreamSets, Jerry held leadership roles in Engineering Services, QA, and Operation at S&P, Siebel System, and Informatica.