Bill Johnson

CEO and Chairman of Board of Directors

Bill Johnson founded TDi Technologies to deliver 24/7/365 infrastructure management for mission critical government and corporate networks. Mr. Johnson and his mission critical customers understood infrastructures had to be independent of the devices they were managing.

He is a recognized Thought Leader by such prestigious organizations as The SANS Technology Institute and the Software Security Institute – the first person to “sound the clarion call that we may be vulnerable to attacks via the baseboard management controller.” (www.sans.org)

Mr. Johnson has over 20 years of experience in the infrastructure management field. He is a regular speaker for professional IT organizations regarding data center automation and enterprise computing and is on the Board of Directors of Connect, the worldwide HP user group.

Beginning in 1996, Mr. Johnson and his team were awarded patents for their innovative methods of “outside-in” infrastructure management, a paradigm where the infrastructure was being actively monitored and managed even if the O/S went down. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville.

David North

Board Member

David North is a TDi Technologies co-founder with Bill Johnson. David built the company’s first products, emphasizing reliability and architecture for the future. David has helped TDi Technologies build its engineering team sharing a common “failure is not an option” vision of product performance and customer support.

David, who holds US Patent Number 6,505,245 -”System and Method for Managing Computer Devices” is a key contributor to the company’s Intellectual Property base.

In 2006, a customer survey of 250 of customers revealed the common finding: “the TDi Technologies product just works, it never breaks.” David’s experience, attention to fundamental architectural principles and leadership have helped build software products that “just work” 7/24/365.

Prior to co-founding TDi Technologies, David worked at ITI, a major telecommunications service company. He led the architecture and development of an automated Operator Assisted Services solution for the company’s worldwide operations.

The solution enabled savings, streamlining of operations and real-time fault-tolerance resulting in high availability, customer satisfaction and cost savings and the net result, profitable operations.

David received his Bachelors in Computer Science from Abilene Christian University, in Abilene, TX. He has more than 25 years of experience in the computer science field, specializing in enterprise software engineering.

Robert Yellin

Board Member

Bob Yellin is the former Chief Technology Officer of both IBM Tivoli and founding CTO of LEGENT Corporation. He is a widely recognized expert in systems management and IT technologies, and brings over 30 years of systems management and business expertise to the board.

Bob began his career at Aetna Life and Casualty, where he directed data base and data communications administration for one of the most sophisticated database management applications in the industry. While there he pioneered many high availability and rapid recovery techniques unique to high volume OLTP systems.

In 1985, Bob, and some colleagues founded BST in Marlborough, MA building the industry’s first major change control and configuration management system, ENDEVOR, which is today the standard of the mainframe change control software arena. BST was acquired by LEGENT and Bob took the role Sr. VP and CTO, where he charted the strategic course from mainframe to distributed management systems, LEGENT was acquired by CA in 1995, and Bob went on to serve as CEO and board member of Trigent Software LTD, an Indian-based software development company.

In 2000, Bob joined the Tivoli/IBM management team. He served as CTO until 2005 when he left to found Z-Bot LLC, a robotics and embedded systems manufacturing company which he currently owns and operates.

Bob also serves on the board of Hyperformix Inc, a capacity planning and predictive management company based in Austin, TX.

Jim Maikranz

Board Member

Jim served as senior vice president of sales for SAP, where he developed the sales methodology, strategy and sales tactics which brought SAP from $8 million in sales to over $6 billion.

Jim spent two years with SAP in Europe during where he crafted the company’s sales methodologies, market positioning and sales training programs for Europe, Asia and Africa.

Most recently, Jim was senior vice president of worldwide sales at JD Edwards where he was responsible for the development and overall execution of worldwide sales strategies, sales support activities and strategic alliances.

Jim’s particular expertise is the deep understanding of the buying psychology in enterprise software. Jim has helped many companies with outstanding core technologies reposition those technologies to align with the buyer.

Jim’s success in mining value from deep but not well positioned technologies is legendary. Jim also serves on the boards of Servigistics, Datasynapse and Lombardi Software, Healy-Hudson Corporation, Swift Rivers and IONA.

Kent Potter

Board Member

Kent is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of projectLD, LLC. AutismSpot.com is the first release from projectLD which is an incubator for the development of multi-sensory technology projects and specializes in the convergence of technology and digital media. Additionally, Kent is the Co-Founder of RipSolve, LLC, a professional services corporation providing business brokerage, human resources, and intellectual property services to both private and public companies.

Prior to projectLD and RipSolve, Kent was Chief Operating Officer of a privately held technology company focused on children’s education and entertainment. Kent has worked extensively in the areas of change management, international human resources, business operations, mergers & acquisitions, and executive search with global leaders McAfee Inc., Nortel Networks, and Solvay Engineered Polymers.

Kent has particular expertise in managing large, diverse human resources and customer facing organizations during periods of volatile change. Kent has developed methods and processes for change management across diverse cultures during both high growth periods and corporate consolidations.

While at McAfee, Kent led Worldwide Service Excellence and utilized the latest in change management processes to transform the global service and support organization into one of the highest performing customer facing organizations in the industry. In this highly successful endeavor, Kent developed and implemented techniques and processes to deliver both high customer satisfaction and recurring sales with minimal employee turnover. This endeavor is today one of the models in the high tech, Web 2.0 industry.

Kent successfully completed the Executive Education Program: Leading Change in Complex Organizations from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA and received a BA from Baylor University in Waco, TX.