James Schellhase

As president and CEO of StoredIQ, James brings a wealth of executive leadership, as well as technology and venture business experience to the company. With a proven track record of achieving immediate and long-term profits and shareholder value, James establishes and oversees the company's operations and strategic direction.

Prior to joining StoredIQ in 2007, James was COO and general partner at Techxas Ventures, where he successfully established all financial, operational, and reporting systems and controls to maximize productivity and functionality for the firm. Prior to Techxas Ventures, James was president and CEO of Rodeer Systems, an industry leading medical transcription company. Prior to Rodeer Systems, James was the COO at IntelliQuest Information Group, which grew from a 20-person start-up to a profitable, rapidly growing technology marketing research company that completed successful initial and secondary public offerings with a market capitalization of $300 million. James also held executive positions at Jones and Neuse and First Federal Savings. He started his career with Deloitte and Touche in their financial services and mergers and acquisitions group. James has served on the Board of Directors for numerous technology companies, charitable and civic organizations.

Keith Zoellner

As CTO and vice president of engineering at StoredIQ, Keith provides a technical voice in strategic planning for the company. He leads and manages the research and development of the StoredIQ's technology offering.

Keith has over 20 years of experience in successfully building and managing technology-based organizations. Prior to joining StoredIQ, Keith was the CTO and vice president of engineering/operations for Mshow.com, where he was instrumental in transforming a start-up operation into an innovative, market-leading technology organization. Prior to Mshow.com, Keith was the CTO and vice president of engineering of Ambac Connect, Inc., where he was responsible for the management of the software engineering organization, software development process and infrastructure, overall technical strategy and architecture design for all of the company's electronic commerce solutions. Keith has also served as vice president of engineering at Commerce Direct International and earlier in his career directed large engineering teams within software product organizations at both EDS and Andersen Consulting (Foundation Software Organization).

Keith is a member of the EDRM XML Project and a frequent speaker at industry-leading events.

Richard J. DeFrancisco

Rich is responsible for the company's sales strategy and revenue growth through direct sales and channel partners. With over 30 years experience, Rich has accelerated the business growth and strategically shaped technology companies - from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies covering domestic and international markets.

Prior to StoredIQ, Rich served as Vice President of Sales at WireCache, Inc., a venture capital-backed database accelerator software company in the Silicon Valley. Prior to WireCache, he spent five years building sales organizations for a number of early-stage to mid-size software and consulting organizations. During his tenure at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Rich established and managed the western US management consulting sales organization, as their director of western US. sales. Rich held sales management positions at Evolve Software, Cap Gemini Consulting, Teradata Corporation, and Oracle Corporation.

Ellis Ishaya

Ellis manages all product operations at StoredIQ. In this role, he is responsible for creating, implementing and managing the company's product logistics, support, professional services, and training programs for customers and partners.

Ellis joins StoredIQ with a wealth of industry knowledge, a proven track record and over 15 years of experience. Prior to StoredIQ, Ellis was vice president of services and support for Kazeon Systems, where his responsibilities included training, support and professional services. Before joining Kazeon, Ellis was vice president of professional services at EVault, a Seagate company; during his tenure at EVault he built a profitable consulting and managed services organization that grew from under two percent to over fifteen percent of total company revenue in less than two years. In addition, he has led professional services and support organizations for ePeople, Primus, and Imparto Software Corporation. Ellis also spent several years at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he was responsible for managing the west, Pacific Northwest, and Rocky Mountain regions for its IAS consulting group.

Ursula Talley

As the vice president of marketing at StoredIQ, Ursula is responsible for the company's marketing direction and initiatives, including brand strategy and positioning, demand generation, communications, and product and channel marketing.

Prior to joining StoredIQ in 2007, Ursula served as vice president of marketing for Neverfail Group, where she managed the strategic launch of the company's brand in the United States. Under her marketing direction, Neverfail became a leading provider of high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection solutions. Prior to Neverfail, Ursula was a consultant assisting companies to successfully accelerate their business growth; clients included NOP World subsidiaries, Symmetrics, Neverfail and Journee Software. Ursula has also served as marketing director for 724 Solutions and TANTAU Software, and played a key role in 724 Solutions' $375 million acquisition of TANTAU and subsequent successful integration process. Ursula previously held marketing management positions with IntelliQuest, National Instruments, and Ariel Communication/Miller Freeman.

Ursula is a member of the EDRM PR Committee and a contributing author to publications and information sites, such as eWeek.com, NetworkWorld.com, Bank Fraud & IT Security, TechRepublic, IT World, Securities Industry News, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal, BusinessWeek, Information Management, and KMWorld.