A Team of Proven Professionals

Ranga Rangachari, President and CEO
Robert Fanini, Founder
David Lilly, Founder and Chief Operating Officer
Thomas Stocking, Chief Technical Officer
Will Winkelstein, Vice President of Marketing
Phil Bradley, Vice President of Sales

Ranga Rangachari, President and CEO

Ranga Rangachari is President and CEO of Groundwork. Ranga has over 20 years of experience in sales, marketing and general management for software companies. Prior to joining GroundWork in July 2005, Ranga was CEO and founder of Invio Software, a leading provider of software to automate and control enterprise data storage operations. Invio's leading edge technology was licensed by enterprise software vendors including BMC Software and Veritas Software. The company was acquired by Veritas in July 2004 and is an integral part of Veritas' Utility Computing Strategy.

Previously, Rangachari spent 11 years at Legato Systems, a leader in enterprise storage management acquired by EMC in 2003. During his 11 year tenure, Rangachari held various senior management positions in sales, product management and strategic planning. As Vice President and General Manager of Intercontinental Sales, Rangachari increased Legato Systems' revenue from Asia Pacific, Japan and Latin America by over 300 percent in less than 2 years. Earlier in his career, Ranga served in senior product management roles at Sun Microsystems.

Rangachari holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a M.S. in Industrial and Operational Management.

Robert Fanini, Founder

Robert Fanini is the Founder of GroundWork. Fanini brings more than 20 years of operational experience in sales, marketing, business development and management. He has a strong track record of creating and growing successful technology companies, having founded several including Capital Technologies, a systems administration consulting company; Foglight Software, a systems performance management software company; SiteROCK, a provider of remote monitoring and management services; SiteROCK KK, the first remote manage service provider in Japan; and CapTech Partners, LLC., a company formed to provide seed capital as well as consulting to promising technology ventures.

In the role of CEO over the last eight years, Fanini has closed over $50 million in private equity and has created over $300 million in company valuations. Fanini also serves on several corporate boards.

He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

David Lilly, Founder and Chief Operations Officer

David Lilly is Co-Founder and COO of GroundWork, bringing more than 30 years of engineering and management experience. Prior to founding GroundWork, Lilly co-founded SiteROCK, a provider of remote monitoring and IT management services, and CapTech Partners, a company formed to provide seed capital and consulting to promising technology ventures. Previously, Lilly co-founded software companies concerned with supply chain optimization, image processing, and industrial automation.

Lilly began his career in the United States Navy, where he qualified as Chief Engineer for naval nuclear propulsion plants. He also led two emergency engineering teams at Three Mile Island.

Lilly holds an MBA from Rutgers University and a B.S. in International Relations from the United States Naval Academy.

Thomas Stocking, CTO

Thomas Stocking is the CTO of GroundWork. He brings more than 12 years of experience in systems administration, network integration, information security and IT project management. Prior to joining GroundWork, Mr. Stocking served as Director of Information Security at SiteROCK, a provider of remote monitoring and IT management services where he supervised security incident responses, assessed, implemented, and enhanced security countermeasures, and wrote corporate security documents, including documents required for ISO 9000-2000 certification. Mr. Stocking also held positions in IT management and customer delivery, where he provided technical support for several successful sales. Previously, Mr. Stocking served as President and CEO of InSync Communications, a company offering a better platform for service contracting. Stocking has also served as an independent IT consultant to a number of companies in the healthcare, insurance and manufacturing industries. Prior to that, he served as a PC Systems Manager for the University of California, San Francisco and a Network Engineer for SISINC, a premier systems integrator.

Stocking holds a B.A in Applied Mathematics and a minor in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Will Winkelstein, Vice President of Marketing

Will Winkelstein is the Vice President of Marketing for GroundWork, bringing more than 16 years of senior marketing and general management experience. Prior to GroundWork, Winkelstein offered strategic marketing and management consulting to a diverse range of companies in enterprise software, media, online finance and other areas. He was a co-founder and the General Manager of ClearStation, an online investing application and community sold to E*TRADE Financial, achieving a 12X return on invested capital. In addition, Winkelstein has consulted to senior management at Sony Pictures and Charles Schwab & Company, and was a principal at Regis McKenna Inc, a technology marketing consulting firm. In 2003, he served as the Project Director for the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation's HIV/AIDS Treatment and Care Initiative in Rwanda.

Winkelstein holds a B.A. in History from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

Phil Bradley , Vice President of Sales

Phil Bradley is Vice President of Sales for GroundWork, bringing more than 20 years of sales and management experience. Bradley has a solid track record of designing effective sales strategies and building high impact sales teams for a number of successful technology companies. Prior to GroundWork, Bradley served as Vice President of Sales for nCircle, a provider of vulnerability management solutions, where he grew revenue by 200 percent. Previously, he was Vice President of Sales for Inktomi where he was responsible for developing the company’s Enterprise Search Business. Bradley has also held senior sales positions with Documentum, Odesta Systems and Wang Laboratories.

Bradley holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from the University of Massachusetts and has completed the Executive Program at the University of New South Wales.

GroundWork Leadership

• CEO brings over 20 years of sales, marketing and general management experience with leading enterprise software companies.
• COO has a distinguished track record for growing companies and divisions and was a nuclear engineer in the U.S. Navy, where he led two emergency teams at Three Mile Island
• CTO brings engineering expertise across a broad spectrum of information technologies as well as entrepreneurial experience
• VP of Marketing led marketing strategy for a number of high profile companies and co-founded and managed a successful online financial company acquired by E*TRADE Financial

• VP of Sales has 20+ years of sales and management experience, and doubled company revenue in his most recent executive sales position.