leadership

The company is led by a seasoned management team, and team members average 20 years of hands-on experience and have a track record for success in launching and scaling industry-leading data warehousing, data management, enterprise middleware, and data integration software businesses. The executives and product team have developed, managed, marketed, sold, and delivered software and services solutions to many global 2000 companies in a wide range of industries.

• Bob Potter, Chief Executive Officer
• John Russell, Chief Scientist
• Frank Fallon, Vice President of Sales and Business Development
• Michael Waclawiczek, Ph.D., Vice President of Marketing
• Steve Frechette, Vice President of Engineering
• Melinda Smith, Chief Financial Officer

Bob Potter

Chief Executive Officer
Bob Potter is responsible for expressor software’s business strategy and operating results. He has spent 29 years in the enterprise software industry serving in senior leadership roles at organizations ranging from venture-backed startups to large public companies. Formerly, as CEO of Kalido, Bob established Kalido as the dominant player in adaptive data warehousing and master data management, growing it from $5M to $20M in less than three years. As EVP of Field Operations of enterprise integration company IONA, he led IONA’s growth to more than $180M in sales and a $2B market cap over a multi-year period.

Earlier in his career, as SVP of Sales and Services at Object Design, he played a pivotal role in taking the company public in 1996. Bob also held senior management positions at ICAD and EDS Unigraphics. In addition to his role as CEO of expressor software, he also serves on the boards for Tailwind Strategies, Hamilton Thorne Biosciences, Thorne Diagnostics, and Active Endpoints. He holds a BS degree in Marketing from Providence College and an MBA from the University of Rhode Island.

John Russell

Chief Scientist
John Russell is responsible for product vision and architecture as well as the design and implementation of the expressor semantic data integration system^tm. With more than 19 years of systems development experience, John is an expert in designing and implementing high-speed search techniques and data integration processes. His broad experience in search and data integration ranges from performance tuning, data modeling and analysis and star schema database design to architectural design, systems design, and implementation.

Before co-founding expressor software, John was architect and senior implementation consultant for a number of large-scale, complex data warehousing and data integration projects for Ameritrade, British Telecom, Mutual of Omaha, Cabelas, Union Pacific, United Airlines, Alltel, and Verizon. Earlier in his career, he was a principal consultant for Knightsbridge Solutions, specializing in Telecoms and Consumer-Handling ETL. His experience also includes several years at InfoUSA, where he managed the development of the company’s proprietary database and ETL products. John attended the University of Nebraska, where he majored in Mathematics and Computer Science.

Frank Fallon

Vice President of Sales and Business Development
Frank Fallon is responsible for expressor's worldwide sales and business development efforts, including building a direct field and inside sales organization and establishing global alliances with complementary technology vendors, value added resellers, systems integrators and solution providers. With more than 20 years of sales and management experience, he joins expressor software from BEA, where as SVP Americas he managed a team of 400 sales professionals and was directly responsible for all North and South American license business of $230MM.

Prior to joining BEA in 2002, Frank created and managed fast growing worldwide Financial Vertical teams at SeeBeyond and Tivoli Systems and established the Financial Vertical as the largest market segment for these firms. Earlier in his career, he spent several years in sales management at Sybase. Frank has a BA degree from Lafayette College of Easton, PA and an MBA in Finance from the Fordham Graduate School of Business of New York.

Michael Waclawiczek, Ph.D.

Vice President of Marketing
As Vice President of Marketing, Michael Waclawiczek oversees expressor's marketing and product management operations. He is also founder and associate of JumpStart Associates™, a management advisory and consulting company he founded in 2002. Michael is well respected in the software industry for bringing enterprise software products to market by successfully directing company product and marketing efforts to achieve market leadership positions.

Over 24 years, he has launched more than 20 major software products generating over $1B in total license revenue. During his career, Michael has held several executive and senior management positions at private and public companies including StreamBase Systems, Kalido, IONA Technologies, Riverton Software, Object Design, ICAD, and EDS Unigraphics. Prior to his corporate experience, Michael was Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, where he also received his Master's and Doctorate degrees in Mechanical Engineering.

Steve Frechette

Steve Frechette leads all product development efforts for expressor. Within his first nine months, he established the company’s engineering organization and processes and led expressor’s effort to develop and deliver the first release of the expressor semantic data integration system. Frechette has led all subsequent releases of the expressor product and plays a lead role in the product requirements process. With more than 19 years of engineering management, technical architecture, and software development experience, Frechette has a strong track record in engineering operations, product development from inception to deployment, engineering organization, and leadership.

Prior to joining expressor software, Steve was a senior engineering manager at startup Blue Agave Software, maker of a BI platform and applications for supply chain exception management, which was acquired by i2 Technologies in 2007. Steve held a similar management role at Oberon Software where he led the development of a complete EAI platform, subsequently acquired by Vignette. Early in his career, Steve was a senior software engineer at Lotus Software. He has a BS in Computer Science from Northeastern University in Boston, MA.

Melinda Smith

Chief Financial Officer
Melinda Smith is responsible for leading expressor’s financial and administrative operations including financial reporting and control, investor relations, human resources and legal affairs.  Melinda has spent 19 years in financial management and administration which have contributed significantly to the growth of public and private companies.

Previously she served as director of finance at Aspen Technology (Nasdaq: AZPN), the leading provider of software and services to the processing industries.  Melinda held several positions at AspenTech, most recently directing the company’s financial and billing operations and was responsible for the Sarbanes-Oxley program.

Prior to AspenTech, she was chief financial officer at edocs, a leading provider of self- service, online billing and payment solutions.  edocs was named the fastest growing software company in New England with five-year revenue growth of 977% and was sold to Siebel Systems, now part of Oracle, in 2005.  Earlier in her career, she was VP of Finance at Gradient Technologies and earned her CPA while in public accounting at Price Waterhouse. Ms. Smith holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Michigan.