Management Team
Neeraj Sangal, Founder and CEO
Neeraj was the founder and CEO of Tendril Software, which was acquired by BEA/Webgain. The Tendril product, StructureBuilder, was at the core of Webgain's model based development strategy. Tendril was a pioneer in UML models for Java - it was the first to come up with seamless code and model synchronization capability. Tendril was also the leader in applying this capability to the creation, verification and deployment of Enterprise Java Beans.
Neeraj was previously founder and CTO of Metrix Network Systems and was responsible for the creation of the NetMetrix suite, an award winning application for Network monitoring and analysis. Metrix was acquired by Hewlett Packard (HP) and HPs related product offering was merged with it. At HP, Neeraj eventually headed up a development organization located at three different geographical centers. Neeraj focused on management practices, software process improvements and on the use of tools for running an effective distributed development organization.
Neeraj holds an MS in Computer Engineering and MEng in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. Neeraj has published articles and papers in magazines and conferences. Neeraj holds a patent related to UML and model driven development technology.
Frank Waldman, Founder and VP Sales and Business Development
Frank brings over 20 years of experience building companies, markets, channels and strategic partnerships in a number of industries including engineering software, consumer electronics, manufacturing and product development services. Prior to founding Lattix, Frank was responsible globally for building channels and strategic partnerships for the Product Lifecycle Management software business of Eigner. Eigner was acquired by Agile Software (AGIL) to create the largest pure-play PLM vendor in the global market. Frank founded and served as VP of Business Development at FabConnect, which was acquired by Eigner in June 2001. Prior to FabConnect, Frank was founder and CEO for Aura Communications, where he led the development, marketing and sales of short-range wireless technology and the related consumer products. Frank holds a BS and a MS from MIT.
Ev Jordan, Founder and Board Member
Ev, as VP of Advanced Technologies, oversaw the development of Eigner's product lifecycle management software solutions with a focus on J2EE, Extensible Markup Language (XML) and other Web-based technologies. Previously, Ev served as Vice President of development for FabConnect until its acquisition by Eigner in 2001. At INSO Corporation he was responsible for Corporate Products, including the multi award-winning Quick View Plus (QVP) and Outside In Server (OIS). Ev also served as a member of the management team at EBT through its acquisition by INSO, where he managed a large team responsible for building the XML/SGML based DynaText publishing system, a cross platform, multi-lingual electronic publishing system. Ev holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Brown University.
Matthew Russell, Board Member
Matt has been a successful entrepreneur and investor for almost 30 years. He has been responsible for and served on the Boards of numerous successful startups including Tendril Software, FabConnect, and VitalSigns Software. Matt was a founder and CEO of Metrix Network Systems, which was acquired by Hewlett Packard. Matt holds a BS from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Advisors
Prof. Steve Eppinger, Deputy Dean and GM LFM Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT
Steven Eppinger is an expert in product development and project management whose research deals with how to understand and improve complex development processes, such as those for automobiles, airplanes, and computer systems, and how to organize development teams consisting of hundreds of people. He also examines design methods and practices for small and large products alike. Eppinger is co-author of Product Design and Development (McGraw-Hill, 1995, 2000, 2004), a widely used textbook on structured methods for product development.
Prof. Daniel Jackson, Lab for Computer Science, MIT
Daniel Jackson leads the Laboratory for Computer Science's Software Design Group. He received an MA from Oxford University (1984) in Physics, and his SM (1988) and PhD (1992) from MIT in Computer Science. He was Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (1992-1997), and has been Associate Professor at MIT (since 1997). He sits on the editorial board of ACM TOPLAS, ACM TOSEM and Springer Verlag's Software Tools for Technology Transfer, and has served on the programme committee of more than 20 international conferences, including FSE, ISSTA, OOPSLA and CAV. He has broad interests in several areas of software construction, including development methods, automatic analysis of designs and specifications, and reverse engineering of code.
Kent Summers, MIT VMS Program
Kent Summers advises Lattix through the MIT Venture Mentoring Services program, where he is an active mentor. Kent is a Partner with Garofalo & Associates LLC, a Boston-based investment banking firm that provides provides M&A advisory services to emerging growth software companies. Prior to G&A, Kent served as Chairman & CEO of Collego Corporation (acquired by MRO Software), founder and CEO of MyHelpdesk, Inc. (acquired by PC Support, Inc.), and VP of marketing at Electronic Book Technologies (acquired by INSO Corporation). Kent is a co-founding member of the W3C Technical Advisory Board (MIT 1994), and served as a director with the X Consortium and OASIS.