Cloud Effective’s Team: Knowledgeable, Reliable, Experienced

Jim
Haden

Founder, Chairman, & CEO

Jayesh
Baja

CTO(Chief Technology Officer)

Teresa Thompson

Business Transformation Leader

Russell Genest

Sales & Marketing

Steve Cook

Software and Database Expert

David Greer

Software and Database Expert & VP of Operations

Curtis Green

People Development
Expert

Jim Haden

Founder, Chairman, & CEO

Mr. Haden is a creative leader with > 25 years of proven performance and broad expertise in business, technical and operational responsibilities including revenue growth, establishing and executing strategy, business development, P&L management, building successful teams, and new product/process development. Previous to founding Cloud Effective, Mr. Haden was the Chief Operating Officer at nLIGHT where he successfully transformed international operations (Washington, Oregon, Shanghai, China), product development as well as advanced technology (RnD) and product line management.

Before nLIGHT, Mr. Haden held senior management positions at Coherent and SDL which was acquired by JDSU in 2000 ($41B). Mr. Haden has inspired product and process development since the mid-eighties and business process development since the mid-nineties.

Jayesh Baja

CTO (Chief Technology Officer)

During his career in software development, Mr. Bajaj has developed business relations, set up offshore development centers, driving Web, Mobile, and Cloud technologies.

As part of the Qualcomm android team at Google, he worked with top tier clientele to port the Snapdragon suite.

Teresa Thompson

Business Transformation Leader, Finance and Accounting

A trusted, strategic, and goal driven professional with over 25 years of experience leading Finance, IT and Operational teams on complete business transformations with a specialization in High Tech companies. Partnering with all levels of the business to achieve better than desired results during mergers, acquisitions, software implementations, or business process re-engineering efforts.

Russell Genest

Sales & Marketing

20-year track-record of success scaling field operations for both Enterprise and SaaS focused software companies. Using proven, solution-oriented selling methodologies, my teams have consistently delivered significant growth and shareholder value.

Specialties:
Attracting, developing, motivating and retaining high performance sales teams. Scaling early stage software companies. Capturing Enterprise accounts and renewing them annually. Executing complex sales cycles with a high Win rate. Consistent forecasting. Creating structure and confidence in volatile and rapidly changing environments that often accompany early stage companies and highly competitive markets.

Steve Cook

Software and Database Expert

During his 25+ year career in software and database development, Mr. Cook has worn several hats. Most recently, he was an Associate Director and Systems Architect for PECI/CLEAResult developing energy efficiency tracking systems on Salesforce.com’s Force.com platform and Microsoft .NET and SQLServer. Early in his career, Mr. Cook was a lead developer for Sabre Consulting developing Netware applications and one of the earliest web-based corporate travel systems.

Mr. Cook has instructed C Developers, led and developed early leading edge web applications for the corporate travel reservations market, developed NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs) and Client applications, developed client-server applications in PowerBuilder, PHP, and Oracle at Essilor (previously VisionStar). Mr. Cook holds undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and math from the University of Texas at Austin.

David Greer

Software and Database Expert & VP of Operations

During his 25+ year career in software and database development, Mr. Greer has led critical projects in both startups and established enterprise environments. He directly participated in raising over $100 million in venture capital financing and has a proven track record of creating and leading enterprise project management, implementing business systems, and leading software and database development.

Mr. Greer holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from WSU in Material Science.

Curtis Green

People Development Expert & Government Business Development

Curtis Green is an indispensable professional for innovative organizations, people development, systems development, and building teams in complex environments. After serving 25 highly successful years as an officer in the US Air Force, Curtis began his successful post-military career as a Program Manager, leading Healthcare Information Technology (IT) independent testing for the Veterans Administration (VA) from June 2011 – Mar 2014. He currently serves as a program management consultant/subject matter expert, supporting civilian companies that provide services to both private and public sector entities.

Curtis received multiple citations/awards and military decorations for exemplary performance during his military career (to include, Company Grade Officer of the Year, Cape Canaveral AFS, Florida and SDI Officer of the Year). Curtis’s military decorations include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters, Meritorious Service Medal one oak leaf cluster, Air Force Commendation Medal one oak leaf cluster, Air Force Achievement Medal, Global War on Terrorism Medal and the National Defense Service Medal.

“We chose Cloud Effective because it is the only platform we could find that combines the capabilities to align daily activity to high-level objectives, site-goals, and team-goals, while inspiring collaboration across multiple sites in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California.”

Kenneth Smith

CEO Empirical Wealth Management