Meet our visionary leadership team: including former executives and senior leaders from Alteryx, Apple, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, & Tableau.
Osama has more than 25 years of enterprise software experience. Prior to co-founding Incorta, he was VP of Oracle Applications Development. For two decades Osama developed and helped bring to market Oracle’s enterprise applications and business intelligence tools. He holds multiple patents related to data management and has invented new approaches to mobile strategy and information discovery.
Hichem is a data warehouse and analytics expert and has design experience in a variety of industries, including project management, accounting, financial services, insurance, health services, pharmaceuticals, supply chain and human resources. Hichem spent nearly a decade at Oracle as an applications developer and software development director. Prior to Oracle, Hichem spent seven years at Siebel and helped develop Siebel Analytics. He holds two master’s degrees and a PhD in mathematics and industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Klaus has more than two decades as a software developer and product manager. Klaus co-founded Incorta after more than a dozen years at Oracle where he was a director and developed business intelligence applications including BI Publisher. Klaus is a seasoned veteran of the analytics space. He started his career as a software developer in Germany. Klaus holds an advanced degree in computer science and an MBA from UC Berkeley.
Rob has over 20 years of experience in finance and accounting for software companies. Prior to joining Incorta, he was SVP and CFO of Navis, where he led all global finance and administration functions and drove their M&A and business transformation strategies. Rob has also held leadership positions at Zebra Technologies, where he led finance and accounting for their supply chain software M&A practice, and at Lennar Corporation, scaling operations through hyper-growth and managing a multibillion-dollar P&L. He started his career at Ernst & Young, focused on audit and assurance for software and technology. He holds a BS in accounting from Saint Mary’s College and is a California CPA (inactive).
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Noha Rizk is a seasoned marketing leader with 25+ years of experience across brand strategy, product marketing, and large-scale initiatives. She is currently the CMO of Incorta, the first unified data platform. Previously, she was Global Head of Marketing at Meta AI and Director of Brand & Product Marketing at Meta Commerce & Connections, overseeing global marketing for key products like Facebook and Instagram Shops, Marketplace, Reels, and Meta Pay. Prior to Meta, she held senior marketing roles at PayPal, and earlier led brand and marketing functions at Starwood Hotels across 48 countries. Noha began her career in banking with Amex and Citi, later serving as Strategic Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State during the Arab Spring. She currently sits on the board of Valu, North Africa’s largest fintech, where she oversaw its IPO.
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Steve Velardi is a seasoned sales leader with over 20 years of experience driving transformative growth for enterprise technology companies. Known for scaling businesses and building high-performing teams, he has a proven track record of success across startups and established firms.
Ashwin is an experienced product management and analytics leader with a strong background in building and managing the product life-cycle of data and analytics platforms.He is currently leading the product strategy and product management initiatives at Incorta. Before joining Incorta, Ashwin led several product management initiatives around enterprise-grade analytics for Oracle's enterprise applications, both on-premise and on the cloud. Leveraging the Oracle analytics platform to build pre-packaged enterprise analytics offerings to meet the needs of line of business users.
With over 20 years as a director at Oracle and a further six years of in-depth experience with Incorta, Shinji is our Vice President of Engineering and a great asset to Incorta’s executive team. Shinji specializes in cloud computing, software development, and enterprise software. An innovative collaborator, he likes to lead by example and inspire his teams to perform to the best of their capabilities.
Osama has more than 25 years of enterprise software experience. Prior to co-founding Incorta, he was VP of Oracle Applications Development. For two decades Osama developed and helped bring to market Oracle’s enterprise applications and business intelligence tools. He holds multiple patents related to data management and has invented new approaches to mobile strategy and information discovery.
Ron is a private investor and CEO of Nanoscale Components. His expertise is in enterprise technology development and innovation. He served as EVP at Oracle Corporation for 19 years, where he grew Oracle’s application business from a startup to $1.6 billion of revenue. Ron holds an AB and MBA from Harvard University.
Karim is a General Partner with GV (formerly Google Ventures) and leads its investments in enterprise software, data analytics and security. He brings over a decade of operational and investment experience to his role. He initially joined Google’s corporate development team in 2008. Prior to Google, Karim was a venture capitalist at Atlas Venture, where he worked on investments in software and Internet infrastructure.
Ted Schlein has been with Kleiner Perkins for over 20 years and focuses on early-stage technology companies in the enterprise software and infrastructure markets. Before joining KPCB, Ted served as VP of Enterprise Solutions at Symantec. One of Symantec’s early employees, he played an instrumental role in the company’s growth and dominance as a global software leader.
Rob Rueckert joined Sorenson Capital in 2015 and leads the firm’s growth-stage technology practice. He enjoys working closely with ambitious leaders and is equally devoted to both solving their challenges and celebrating their accomplishments. Prior to joining Sorenson Capital, Rob spent 15 years in Silicon Valley at Intel Capital where he invested in over 50 companies worldwide. Rob holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth and a bachelor’s degree in information systems from BYU. He is a Kauffman Fellow.
Muhammad Mian co-founded Prysm Capital in 2019 where he provides growth capital to disruptive management teams across technology, consumer and healthcare markets. Investing across stages, Muhammad enjoys working with teams reinventing their industries. Prior to Prysm, Muhammad spent 9 years at BlackRock Private Equity Partners where he invested across the private markets. He also spent time at Salesforce and TiVo. Muhammad holds a BBA from The Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and an MBA degree from Wharton. He is a Kauffman Fellow.
