Nobuo Kita

Chairman, Board of Directors

Nobuo Kita is Chairman of SIOS Technology board of directors and president and CEO of its parent company, SIOS Technology Group. Nobuo is also founder and member of the board of directors 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 his current position with SIOS, 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 holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from Kyoto Institute of Technology.

Jerry Melnick

President and Chief Executive Officer

Jerry is responsible for directing the overall corporate strategy for SIOS Technology Corp. and leading the company’s ongoing growth and expansion. He has more than 25 years of experience in the enterprise and high availability software markets. Before joining SIOS, he was CTO at Marathon Technologies where he led business and product strategy for the company’s fault tolerant solutions. His experience also includes executive positions at PPGx, Inc. and Belmont Research, where he was responsible for building a leading-edge software product and consulting business focused on supplying data warehouse and analytical tools. Jerry began his career at Digital Equipment Corporation where he led an entrepreneurial business unit that delivered highly scalable, mission critical database platforms to support enterprise-computing environments in the medical, financial and telecommunication markets. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Beloit College with graduate work in Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Boston University.

Charles Lenis

Senior Vice President, Sales

Charles leads SIOS Technology Corp. sales and business development activities throughout North America, Europe, Middle East, and Africa. His career spans more than 25 years and includes recruiting, building and driving revenues through direct and indirect sales channels, value-added resellers, major system integrators, and first and second-tier distributors. He has held senior level sales and business development positions with a wide range of companies including Verizon, Siemens, Invoice Insight (acquired by Dimension Data), Marathon Technologies, Broadwing Communications and PixStream, Inc. (acquired by Cisco).

Most recently, he served as director of North American sales, at Allot Communications where he managed revenue attainment for Fortune 500 enterprise accounts, satellite network providers and cloud service providers. Charles holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Suffolk University, Sawyer School of Management and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

Michael Bilancieri

VP, Product

Michael Bilancieri is VP, Product, for SIOS, leading the company’s vision, strategy, and execution for products and services. He has been in product management for nearly 20 years, with 4 successful company exits. With his deep technical and business experience, he has a strong track record of driving delivery of market leading products and articulating their value resulting in broad market awareness and adoption. Michael has an extensive background in the high availability market, having led products and services at Marathon Technologies.

Before joining SIOS, he was most recently President and CEO of Carbon Black Federal, Inc., a subsidiary of Carbon Black, Inc. (formerly Bit9). During his tenure at Carbon Black as Senior Director, Product Management, he defined and delivered innovative, market-defining security solutions and built a world-class product team. His experience also includes product leadership roles at Imprivata, Marathon Technologies (acquired by Stratus), Double-Take Software (acquired by Carbonite), and HighGround Systems (acquired by Sun Microsystems). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and lives in the Boston area with his wife and two children.