Nobuo Kita
President and Chief Executive Officer
Nobuo Kita is also the president and CEO of SIOS Technology Group, the parent company of SIOS Technology Corp. SIOS Technology, headquartered in Tokyo, is an IT infrastructure and web application software development company and a leader in open source software. SIOS Technology went public in 2004 and its stock is traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Nobuo is also on the board of directors and is the founder of Mozilla Japan, an affiliate of Mozilla Foundation/Mozilla Corp., the world’s most successful open source software development organization. Nobuo is also on the board of directors of Seasar Foundation, which is the largest open source software developers’ community in Japan. Prior to becoming CEO of SIOS Technology, Nobuo was the CEO of Northern Lights Computer, a pioneer in Linux and system integration services in Japan. Northern Lights merged with Ten Art-ni Corporation which became SIOS Technology. Nobuo has BS in engineering from Kyoto Institute of Technology.
Scott Armour
Chief Operating Officer
Scott is responsible for day to day operations for SIOS and comes from a strong sales and operations background with enterprise software companies. He began his career at IBM, where he spent more than 16 years in various sales and operational functions, including running enterprise sales and operations within IBM’s $7 billion Americas Software business. Scott also led sales and field operations for BEA, Sun Microsystems and has also enjoyed success with early stage software companies including roles running Americas operations for Sphera, and was Sr. Vice President of Business Operations for Aduva. Under his leadership, Aduva rapidly grew revenues and captured Fortune 500 accounts leading to their acquisition by Sun Microsystems. Scott holds a B.S. Degree in mathematics from the University of California at Irvine.
Bob Williamson
Executive Vice President, Product Development and Support
Bob joined SIOS as vice president of engineering to lead its product research, development and delivery process. Bob comes to SIOS with over 20 years of experience in software, technology, and high-availability related projects on both UNIX and Windows NT platforms, with a more recent emphasis on Linux. Recently, Bob has expanded his areas of responsibility to include Product Management and Product Marketing. Prior to joining SIOS, Bob managed numerous projects during his 18 years tenure at NCR Corporation in the communications, performance, high availability, and e-Commerce areas. Bob holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina.
Celia Cattani
Vice President Americas Sales
Celia started her career in financial services technology at JP Morgan in NYC where she spent 10 years in various technology management roles. She then relocated to San Francisco where she headed up the infrastructure and development teams for the finance, sales, research and investment banking divisions of Robertson Stephens. Celia then transitioned from corporate IT to vendor side technology services and sales. In her position as Director – West Coast Sales for Aduva, she quickly grew revenue and secured key account wins. Celia was instrumental in the continued success of the evolution of the Aduva product line and aggressive sales growth throughout the subsequent acquisitions by Sun Microsystems and Oracle.
Celia earned her BS degree from Virginia Tech and MBA from the Stern School of Business – New York University.
Tony Tomarchio
Director, Field Engineering
Tony has over a decade of experience providing systems management and high availability solutions to Enterprise customers. Tony is currently responsible for defining and delivering technical pre-sales services, support and best practices to SIOS customers, prospects and partners. Prior to SIOS, Tony worked at Oracle where he served as the Global Sales Engineering lead for the systems management practice. Tony joined Oracle through the acquisitions of Sun Microsystems and Aduva, Inc., where he served as the lead Sales Engineer / Technical Account Manager and played a critical role in product adoption and evolution.
Tony holds a BS in Computer Science from California Polytechnic (Cal Poly) State University, San Luis Obispo.
