Leadership Team

Mark Kremer – Chief Executive Officer

Mark is a seasoned Silicon Valley executive. Before joining Precise, Mark was a general partner at Benchmark Capital where he founded Benchmark Israel. Prior to Benchmark, Mark was CEO of Broadbase Software, Inc (Nasdaq: BBSW); a company that he started and which he took public in 1999. Mark has also held executive positions with Oracle, Verity, Motorola, and Teradyne.

Zohar Gilad – Executive Vice President, Products, Marketing, and Channels

Zohar is a seasoned enterprise software executive. Before joining Precise, Zohar held several senior executive positions with Mercury Interactive, acquired by HP in 2006. At Mercury, Zohar drove expansion into new markets, creating new product categories: Load Testing, Quality Management, Application Management, and finally Business Technology Optimization. From 2000-2003, as the General Manager of the Application Management business unit, he helped grow the business from $0 to about $100M a year. Prior to joining Mercury, Zohar held software development positions at IBM and Daisy Systems.

Tom Doyle – Executive Vice President, World Wide Sales

Tom brings more than 35 years of chief executive and senior operations experience to Precise. Before joining, Tom was Venture Director with Lightspeed Venture Partners. Prior to that, he was CEO of Skybox Security, a leading security risk management software provider, where he grew year-over-year revenues over 100% and established the company as a market leader in the space. Tom has held executive level positions with other leading technology companies like Tandem Computers, Broadbase Software, and Kana Software and served on the Board of Directors of multiple early stage companies.

Peter Donnelly – Chief Financial Officer

Peter is an accomplished financial executive with experience in strategy and operations. Before joining Precise, he was SVP Operations at Activant Solutions. He has been VP of Worldwide Pricing & Licensing at Symantec and held the position of VP of Business Process Engineering at VERITAS Software, (acquired by Symantec). Prior to that, he held positions as VP Finance & Operations, Sr. Finance Director, and Manager of Finance & Administration Channels at Oracle. Peter also held the position of Manager of Audit Services during his tenure at KPMG Peat Marwick.

Avner Yonaei – Vice President Engineering and General Manager Precise Israel

Avner has experience managing large-scale development organizations. Prior to joining Precise, he was VP of Delivery at Amdocs. Before that, Avner was with EMC2 where he held two VP positions; the first was as the VP of Software Technologies for the Office of the CTO and the second was as the VP of Symmetrix SW Engineering for Storage Platform Operations Division. Prior to EMC2, he had a successful career in the Israeli Defense Industry.

Ed Colonna – Vice President, Marketing

Ed is responsible for Precise’s marketing and brand strategy, corporate communications, demand generation, and product marketing efforts. Ed has over 15 years of enterprise software and technology experience. Most recently, Ed was Vice President of Marketing for Symphoniq where he led the company through a complete relaunch and developed an award winning product strategy. Ed has also held management positions with Mercury, Extensity and PeopleSoft.

Suku Krishnaraj – Vice President, Product Management

Suku brings more than 15 years of experience in enterprise software industry in product management, product marketing and engineering disciplines. Prior to joining Precise, Suku was Director of Product management at HP Software and Mercury (acquired by HP in 2006) where he successfully led the Business Availability Center product line. Prior to Mercury he was at HP (OpenView division) and VeriFone in various product, engineering and management positions.

Mike New – Managing Director, Asia Pacific & Japan

Mike is responsible for managing field and sales operations for Asia Pacific and Japan. With 19 years of sales and management experience in IT, Mike has spent considerable time working in countries within Asia Pacific. As a seasoned IT professional, Mike’s approach to the industry has been to place a strong focus on customer service and interpersonal skills. Prior to joining Precise, Mike held various senior positions with Mercury Interactive Asia Pacific and was Managing Director of Telelogic, Greater China Region.

Dione Hedgpeth – Vice President, Professional Services and Managed Services

Dione is responsible for worldwide Professional Services and Managed Services at Precise and brings more than 15 years experience working in the Enterprise software industry. Prior to this, Dione held several executive level positions at Mercury Interactive, ran Alliances and Services at Pano Logic, and held various technology positions at IBM. During her tenure at Mercury, she was responsible for building their Managed Services business from the ground up, running Professional Services for the Americas, Customer Support and building a worldwide Global Services Practice.