Navin Nagiah
President and CEO
Navin is a senior business executive with extensive marketing, strategy, and operational experience in high-technology enterprises in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Prior to joining DNN Corp., Navin served as President and CEO of CIGNEX, an open source ECM company, and was the founder, president, and CEO of Xisource, a San Francisco-based enterprise software company with offices in London and Mumbai. Before Xisource, he was one of the founding employees of Internet Securities Inc., where he set up the company’s operations in India, China, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia, and was the managing director for Asia at the time of the company's $60 million merger with Euromoney (LSE Symbol: ERM). Navin also has extensive experience as a board member/advisor of pre-IPO companies and holds a Master's degree in electrical engineering from Kansas State University.
Tom Kress
VP of Sales
Tom brings 25 years of sales and management experience to DNN Corp. Prior to joining DNN, Tom was Vice President of Sales at Hyperic, a venture-backed open source software systems management company, and spent 4 years at Internap Network Solutions, an IP routing and CDN software company. Previous to software sales, Tom spent 15 years working in sales and management roles in the IP and telecom space, including 10 years with MCI communications, where Tom holds the distinction of selling the company’s largest commercial deal in the history to Bank of America. Tom holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
Shaun Walker
Co-Founder and Chief Architect
Shaun has 15 years professional experience in architecting and implementing large-scale software solutions for private and public organizations. He is the creator of DotNetNuke, DNN Corp.’s flagship product and the most successful open source community project on the Microsoft platform. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and a contributing author to the WROX Press book titled Professional DotNetNuke 4 - Open Source Web Application Framework.
Terry Erisman
Director of Marketing
Terry has 20 years of marketing, sales and general management experience. Immediately before joining DotNetNuke Corp., he was Vice President of Marketing & Business Development for Project Hosts, the worldwide leader in on demand Microsoft EPM, CRM and SharePoint Server, and a Microsoft Gold Certified partner. He also served as a marketing executive with CaseCentral, a top 10 SaaS company which provides document management solutions to leading law firms and corporations and which was named to the Inc. 500. Terry spent four years as a consultant launching VC funded, high tech companies including Kagoor Networks (acquired by Juniper Networks), Siperian (acquired by Informatica), and Aduva (acquired by Sun Microsystems). He also previously held senior management positions with Intevac (NASDAQ: IVAC), Spectra-Physics Laser Data Systems, and Atcor. Terry holds a BA degree from Harvard University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Scott Willhite
Co-Founder/Director of Community Relations
Scott has architected, developed, and managed systems built on technologies ranging from COBOL to Java and .NET, solving all kinds of real-world business problems in industries from banking to healthcare. Prior to joining DNN Corp., he served as Senior Manager and Technical Architect for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), acting CTO and VP of Technology for 10x Labs, and Program Director for Safeco's Office of the CIO. Scott holds a BS in Computer Science and an MBA in Information Systems Management from Baylor University.
Joe Brinkman
Co-Founder/Technical Fellow
Joe brings more than 25 years of experience in software development and network administration and broad expertise in a variety of software and hardware architectures to his role at DNN Corp. He blogs at The Accidental Geek and is co-author of two best-selling WROX books on DotNetNuke. Joe holds a degree in Computer Science from the United States Naval Academy.