Hans van Rietschote
SUMMARY
Senior technology strategist with over 30 years of experience in Enterprise software and telecommunication. Proven ability in effectively analyzing 3rd party technology offerings and defining how they will fit with the company's overall strategy. Advanced analytics skills; experienced team builder and manager of 100+ person groups; over 30 submitted patents.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Created, defined and implemented both the Technology Trend Watching Process and the Technology Scouting Process, which shaped Symantec's (previously VERITAS) acquisition and product road map strategies.
Directly influenced Symantec's rise to market leader in Security, Backup, Archiving, High Availability, file system and volume management, through analysis of acquisitions of companies and technologies via the Technology Scouting Process.
Lead and participated in hundreds of detailed product evaluations and tens of due diligences leading to acquisitions which helped Symantec/VERITAS grow from 500 million to over six billion in revenue.
Wrote detailed analyses of technology companies including competitive overviews to assist business units with future proofing of products.
Architected and implemented several proof of concept demos, where external and internal technologies were combined to help drive internal product innovation.
Filed over 30 patents in the areas of virtualization, cloud computing, storage and system management, and security. As a member of the Symantec Patent Filter Committee, I reviewed thousands of invention disclosures and helped to streamline the patent creation process in Symantec.
“Leader” (top 4%) consultant for the Gerson Lehrman Group.
Senior technical advisor for Bycast, Diginome, FortKnock, BlueGem Security, SonaSoft, Transitive Corp, SocialText, SpecialDeals.com, Panta Systems, Qlayer, and DEMO
Founder and CEO of Mercury Swan consulting.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Mercury Swan Consulting, Sunnyvale, CA (2009-present)
CEO and founder
Mercury Swan Consulting provides senior advisor services such as: helping to pitch to potential investors, making introductions to new partners, customers and investors, provide technology strategy and business development support, and helping define high level product architectures to start ups and small companies. For larger companies we provide technology scouting and technology trend monitoring services. Additionally we provide technical due diligence services to investors and venture capital companies.
Symantec/VERITAS Software, Mountain View, CA (1999-2009)
Senior Director of Technology Scouting
Created and implemented the technology trend watching process (a process that tracks trends that are or will become important to Symantec).
Created and implemented the technology scouting process and applied it to thousands of companies and/or Open Source initiatives
Filtered thousands of invention proposals as member of the Patent Filter Committee
Managed a team of very senior engineers and architect
In 1999 discovered VMware and setup and managed the development partnership
Established the VERITAS Linux kernel development group in the UK
Defined and introduced the overall VERITAS product life cycle process
Origin Technology in Business, Santa Clara, US and in the Netherlands (1996-1999)
International Business Development Director, Embedded Software Services
Defined and standardized new service offerings, provided international project support
Strategic Planning for mergers and acquisitions
Created from the ground up local service practice and increased revenue from $0 to $1M
Philips Electronics, Netherlands (1994-1996)
Head of software engineering research
In depth research in Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) and Process Technology.
Managed team of 30 senior software researchers
AT&T Network Systems (now Alcatel-Lucent), Netherlands (1980-1994)
Director, Ukraine Account
Established local office in Kiev and increased revenue from $0M to $50M. Established joint ventures in the Ukraine.
Provided leadership to Ukraine account team and interacted with customers such as the Dutch ministry of Economic affairs, minister and deputy ministers of Ukrainian telecommunications, Dutch PTT, and German Bundespost
Director, Documentation and Training Center
Reorganized and grew the department from 40 to 120 people
Improved customer satisfaction from unsatisfactory to excellent
SKILLS
In-depth knowledge and understanding of the relevant emerging Technology Trends
In-depth knowledge and understanding of Open Source initiatives
Extensive hands-on experience with various technologies such as: cloud computing, cloud services, cloud storage, SaaS, virtual machines, clustering, replication, single system image, scalable Operating Systems, workflow management, application/server/storage provisioning & discovery, High Availability/Fault Tolerance, file systems, volume managers, network attach storage, network management & performance, utility computing, grid technology, Linux, peer-to-peer, filer virtualization, remote desktop access, enterprise and consumer security.
Proven leader and team builder..
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Possess unique ability to “translate” between technical issues and business issues
Fluent in several computer languages such as C, Perl, Python, bash and others.
Maintain several Windows and Linux systems.
EDUCATION
M.S., Applied Mathematics, Technical University Twente, Netherlands
Masters of Business Telecommunications, Technical University Delft, Netherlands
PATENTS/PUBLICATIONS (detailed list available upon request)
30 (pending) patents
6 Telecommunications papers
8 Computer papers
5 Audiology papers
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CITIZENSHIP
U.S. citizen
Dutch citizen
LANGUAGES
English
Dutch
French
German