Zenoss Management

Bill Karpovich, CEO & Co-Founder

Since co-founding Zenoss in 2005, Bill has established the company as the fastest growing company in the enterprise IT management software market. Bill conceived the company's disruptive business strategy and has successfully guided the company from start-up to a category leader. As an IT management and cloud computing visionary, Bill has received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2011 Maryland Award in the Emerging company category, has been featured on the cover of InformationWeek Magazine, and is frequently consulted by the media and industry analysts for his insights on IT management and the broader open source software market.

Prior to Zenoss, Bill held product and strategy leadership positions with two of the early pioneers in cloud computing – Digex (now owned by Verizon) and USinternetworking (now owned by AT&T). With Bill’s help, both of these companies delivered ground-breaking offerings, became global category leaders, and had successful IPOs on the NASDAQ. Before entering the start-up domain, Bill spent 5 years with Accenture, Inc. (formerly Andersen Consulting) where he led architecture and development of large-scale OSS/BSS applications for global telecommunications providers.

Bill is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with distinction from Duke University, where he earned a degree in Electrical Engineering and played Varsity Soccer. Bill sits on the Boards of Era Corporation, a subsidiary of SRA, the Open Management Consortium, and the Chesapeake Regional Tech Council.

Tim Galligan, SVP Customer Operations

Tim Galligan is responsible for all customer-facing operations at Zenoss, including Sales, Services, Support and Marketing, driving a 360 degree holistic view of Zenoss customers. Under his leadership, the company has added over 300 enterprise customers, including brand name companies like VMware, Rackspace, Hosting.com, LinkedIn, Carlson, Motorola, and Deutsche Bank.

Prior to Zenoss, Tim was responsible for worldwide sales of the Microsystems Identity Management business unit, joining them via the highly successful acquisition of Waveset Technologies. At Waveset, a leading provider of identity management software, Tim was VP of International Operations and instrumental in growing international business 300%. Tim joined Waveset after serving as VP Sales and Business Development for Bowstreet, a web services platform company that was subsequently acquired by IBM. Tim has also led the technical sales organization at Motive Communications and the worldwide sales engineering team at Tivoli, through their highly successful IPO and subsequent sale to IBM.

Tim received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Towson University.

Peter Repetti, CFO

Peter Repetti is responsible for all of Zenoss' financial and administrative groups, bringing over 20 years of strategic and operating management experience. He has helped a number of early stage software companies achieve successful and rapid growth and has hands-on experience with both public and private market companies.

Prior to joining Zenoss, Pete served as CFO for several successful software companies including Blackboard, WebOS and Manugistics. During his five year tenure with Blackboard, Pete oversaw several mergers and acquisitions, guided an initial public offering, and help build the infrastructure that fueled the company's dynamic growth from 400 to 800 employees and $20-$200 million in revenue. He has also served in financial management roles at US Airways and Flow General and began his career at Arthur Andersen & Co.

Pete holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from The George Washington University and an MBA in Finance and Business Strategy from The University of Chicago.

Rick Houlihan, VP Engineering

Rick Houlihan joined Zenoss in 2010 to lead the company's product development efforts in IT management, virtualization, and cloud computing. Rick is a proven thought leader in virtualization and cloud computing and has authored several patents related to policy driven management of virtual partition mobility and dynamic allocation of CPU cores. Prior to joining Zenoss, Rick was a Software Architect at IBM for IBM Systems Director. Rick joined IBM via the acquisition of his previous  company, Meiosys, a leading provider of virtual server management products, where he was VP of Management Software. Prior to Meiosys, Rick held senior level engineering and architecture positions at Ejascent, a provider of application virtualization technology for utility computing that was subsequently acquired by Veritas. Rick also held positions at Ambex Venture Group and NETFrame Systems.

Alan Conley, CTO

Alan Conley joined Zenoss in 2011 as CTO where he is responsible for driving the Zenoss cloud management vision, direction and on-going innovation. He brings over 20 years of hands-on experience running large scale IT operations and building management products that span virtual, physical and cloud-based IT.

Prior to Zenoss, he served as CTO of the Network Management Group and as a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems, where he was a key driver of Cisco's strategy and architecture for Cloud management, next generation network API, OpenStack, DMTF OVF 2.0, and Open Network Foundation (ONF). He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Davis.