Company Team
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Toby Stephen Moore Co-founder and Technology investor Member of the Supervisory Board Director of Clusterpoint Business Development Previously a banker with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), originating, structuring and implementing equity and debt transactions in a variety private equity funds where he represented EBRD as a core investor and was active on a number of fund boards and investment committees. He has a BSc from Adelaide University (Australia) and an MBA from Durham University (UK). Toby is responsible for developing the company business internationally and managing Imprimatur’s investment activities. |
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Martins Jaunarajs Technology Investor Chairman of the Supervisory Board Represents Baltcap VC fund Previously Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets and Investment Banking at Parex Bank He has MBA from Latvian University His duties include preparation of the investment cases, management of the transactions, advising and nwtworking. |
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Girts Karnitis Chairmen of the Scientific Advisory Board Associate Professor at University of Latvia Information Technology and Services Holds PhD, Computer Science Leading university lecturer on database technologies for a Master degree in Computer Sciences An expert in relational database technologies, consults private IT companies, has a number of software inventions. Doing research in emerging area of automated de-normalization processes and algorithms for transforming very complex legacy SQL databases into simplified de-normalized NoSQL database models using artifical intelligence techniques and preventing information loss. Helps Clusterpoint to "glue" together cutting-edge computer science and mathematics with our professional software engineering skills required to make a practically usable software platforms. Mutual feedback for the latest R&D innovations in computer science and in database theory in particular. Doing great networking with other university research projects in C.S. for our company. |
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Gints
Ernestsons CEO and Co-founder of the Clusterpoint Ltd. Member of the Management Board Clusterpoint NoSQL database technology architect and evangelist Started as a computer programmer on IBM Series 360 mainframe in 1983, changed profession to develop the first PC and networking databases in late-80ies. Managing groups of developers in public and private business IT projects since the beginning of 90ies, building large country-wide database systems based on SQL and related application software. More than 22years of hands-on software engineering and database system design experience in large-scale database, enterprise search and Internet search projects in roles of CIO and CTO. Since 2001 pioneered cloud computing concepts in a number of projects requiring natively scalable clustering for application servers, NoSQL database servers and enterprise search. Agile innovator and enterpreneur: co-founder of several IT companies since 1992, conference speaker and technology expert in professional software development, databases, IT security and Internet services. Regular guest lecturer in the Latvian University, Riga Technical university and Ventspils Technology Institute about emerging database technologies. CEO of Clusterpoint Ltd. since 2006. |
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Jurgis
Orups Co-founder Member of the Management Board Chief Technology officer Manages the core team of developers in Clusterpoint. Active contributor to Clusterpoint Server code base, especially for indexing. Prior to joining Clusterpoint, Jurgis spent 5 years as Senior Developer and Team Leader developing national internet crawler software & search engine, which was very successful. This experience perfectly fitted with Clusterpoint vision and the story about company had started. Jurgis holds Master Degree from University of Latvia in computer sciences. |
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Andrejs Krasilnikovs Co-owner A seniour software developer and our team specialist in cloud computing. Holds university bachelor degree in computer science. A leading software engineer with 10+ years of experience in software engineering and development. Holds a bachelor degree in computer science. Passionate about building the cutting-edge database software that fulfils the customer's requirements and addresses the target market's needs and concerns. Enjoys optimizing software, as well as optimizing company practices in engineering and developing said software. Excellent at goal-driven creative development where clear goals are set and where he can find the best methods and algorithms that can be employed to reach those goals. |
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Oskars Viksna Co-founder Head of cluster software development at Clusterpoint Holds a Master Degree from Univerity of Latvia in computer sciences. Professional C/C++ developer with more than 12 years experience. Prior to joining Clusterpoint worked for a large globally operating softwarehouse, where acquired team-work experience in large IT company. Have a good knowledge of applying ISO standards for software quality and testing, skills that are promptly used by Clusterpoint. Avid cloud computing expert and virtualization specialist in Clusterpoint. Also a very shy person who dislike publicity of his own photos. |
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Martins
Berzins Co-owner Sales and marketing Director EMEA Holds a Master Degree from RISEBA in Business Administration (MBA) and a Bachelor degree in Physics from University of Latvia. A leading sales expert with 17+ years of experience. Prior to joining Clusterpoint worked for Hewlett Packard, beeing responsible for building Partner network in Baltic’s and afterwards for SAF Tehnika, beeing Regional Sales Director for Middle East and Asia Pacific. Currently works with the partners and customers within EMEA region.Sales and marketing manager |
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Girt
Palejs Application products manager. Holds university bachelor degree in computer science from University of Latvia. A key expert for Clusterpoint DBMS-enabled application systems. Responsible for customized application solutions for industry verticals such as telecoms, regulatory compliance, network security. Started out as computer/database programmer in early 90-ties. Has a 15-year track record working with Internet-related products and services at Swedish telecom TELIA. Joined Clusterpoint in 2008. |
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Juris Grisins Technology investor Member of the Management Board Represents a venture capital fund Eko Investicijas. |
