Company Information

Ken oversees the company's strategic direction and works closely with the executive team on business development, product management, marketing, and partner and investor relations. Prior to Caustic, Ken was a consultant in the field of financial quantitative analysis focused on the design and implementation of machine learning systems.

Ken earned his Masters in Teaching at Simmons College, and both a B.S. in Engineering and a B.A. in History from Cornell University.

JaCausticmes is the technical visionary behind Caustic and one of the company's founders. As the CTO, JCausticameCaustics sets the overall architectural design and implementation direction. Originally from Belfast, JaCausticmes wrote the world's first fully interactive 3D rendering engine and first-person shooter game for the Palm mobile platform. Upon moving to the U.S. in 2000, JaCausticmes worked at Firepad where he continued to develop the mobile rendering technologies that formed the foundation of street mapping solutions available on today's most innovative mobile phones.

In 2001, JamCaustices joined Apple as one of the lead architects and developers of Apple's OpenGL graphics system, the graphics foundation used in nearly every Apple product available today. JaCausticmes worked with the OpenGL standards committee to create the earliest specifications for programmable shading languages. In 2005, JCausticamCaustices served as chief architect of Apple’s next-generation embedded rasterization algorithms which formed the basis of the rendering and compositing technology used in today’s video iPod and the iPhone.

Sandro is an accomplished hardware engineer with two decades of experience in the design, development and delivery of market leading graphics and video technology. Prior to joining Caustic, Sandro was a Director of Engineering at Nvidia for a complex 0.65 nm low power mobile system on a chip. Previously he lead engineering, architecture, design and verification teams at PortalPlayer for their low power embedded SOC. Earlier in his career, Sandro served in a variety of technical and management roles at Andes Networks, VM-LABS, 3DO and Mentor Graphics.

Sandro is fluent in Spanish, English, German and Italian, and has an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad de Chile. Sandro has four issued patents and has previously served as a guest lecturer at the University of California Berkeley.

Luke, one of the company's founders, is responsible for identifying and incubating the patent-pending techniques and unique algorithms in Caustic's breakthrough hardware and software. Luke is also responsible for implementing and optimizing specific components of the software, and guiding the legal team's work on our intellectual property protection.

Prior to Caustic, Luke worked as a senior engineer at Apple, where he played several key roles in the development and deployment of Mac OS X.

Bill Leetham has over 20 years of financial management experience with companies large and small, public and private. He has successfully led two initial public offerings raising over $75 million and has raised similar amounts in private equity and debt offerings, and has managed companies through the acquisition process.

Bill has led accounting, financial planning, legal, treasury, human resources and tax organizations in multiple high technology companies, and has served as the CFO or VP of Financial Operations for Berkeley Systems, Candle Corporation, Scopus Technology, Success Factor Systems, and Zero G Software. Bill is also a partner of FLG Partners LLC, a leading CFO services advisory firm.

Bill holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Oregon State University and an M.B.A. in Finance and Management from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Adam leads product management and marketing at Caustic, and has over 15 years experience creating and marketing world-class products. Adam comes to Caustic from Roxio, where he was the Worldwide Director of Product Management for their Creator and Toast products - the #1 selling digital media software for Windows and Macintosh computers - generating over $250M in revenue.

Previously, he was with Lucent's Venture Capital Group, where he helped turn cutting-edge Bell Labs technology into new products and businesses. Adam was formerly with Apple where he managed Mac OS and Internet software products. Adam earned an M.B.A. with highest honors from New York University's Stern School of Business and was chosen to be a commencement speaker, and received a B.S. cum laude from Tufts University's School of Engineering.

Adam leads the business development and evangelism initiatives at Caustic. Prior to Caustic, Adam led the Global Product Marketing effort at Macrovision Corporation supporting a diverse $200M solutions offering, and managed that company's senior-most relationships in the consumer gaming, filmed entertainment, and music industries.

Adam previously served as Vice President Marketing and Business Development at VerdiSoft Corporation, a privately-funded mobile consumer startup acquired by Yahoo! in 2005 for $150M, and now the cornerstone of the Yahoo! Mobile business group. Prior to VerdiSoft, Adam ran Business Development for SEVEN Networks, where he helped grow that currently profitable company into the world's second-largest mobile groupware provider. Adam ran Consumer Business Development for Onebox.com, an IP consumer messaging company sold to Openwave Systems in 2000 for $850M. Adam received his doctoral degree at Stanford University School of Medicine, and his B.S. at Yale College.