Meet Our Team
Bruce Armstrong
President & Chief Executive Officer
Bruce brings over 25 years of experience developing, marketing, selling, and investing in technology to PivotLink, with an emphasis in data warehousing and analytic applications.
Prior to joining PivotLink, Bruce served as Chairman and CEO of venture-backed Kickfire, a pioneer in next-generation data warehouse appliances focused on the open source MySQL database market (acquired by industry leader Teradata in 2010).
Earlier, Bruce served as President and CEO of publicly-traded KNOVA Software, a leading provider of search and analytic applications for unstructured data. Prior to that, he was EVP of Sales & Marketing at Broadbase Software, where he helped create the analytic application category for CRM, and VP & GM of the Server Products Group at Sybase, where he ran the company's $700M enterprise database management business. Bruce started his career at Teradata Corporation, where - after seeing the company through a successful IPO and acquisition by AT&T/NCR - he was named VP & GM of the $500M Enterprise Solutions Division, President of Teradata, and a company officer of AT&T.
Mr. Armstrong has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Joe Dalton
Chief Marketing Officer
Joe oversees corporate, field and product marketing programs. He brings over 25 years of senior marketing, sales and management experience to PivotLink, most recently as CMO at big data analytics company MarkLogic. Previously, Joe was founder and CEO of Perception Software, a next generation enterprise application for high tech manufacturers and also was founder and CEO of Knowledge Discovery One (KD1), a retail decision support application provider acquired by Net Perceptions. KD1 is widely credited with pioneering the application of advanced analytic concepts that allow business users to solve everyday retail business problems such product affinities, purchase recommendations, and customer clustering. Joe has also held marketing and sales leadership roles at Mentor Graphics, Innoveda (acquired by Mentor Graphics) and Teradata.
Joe holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, and an MBA from the University of Michigan. Dalton is based in San Francisco.
Thomas Muise
Chief Financial Officer
Tom brings more than 27 years of experience in finance and operations at both start-up and public companies to PivotLink, including significant roles in the database, SaaS, and software industries.
Prior to joining PivotLink, Tom served as CFO of Kickfire, a pioneer in next-generation data warehouse appliances (acquired by Teradata). Earlier, Tom served as CFO of Panterra Networks, a provider of SaaS unified communications services, and publicly traded Knova Software, a leading provider of search and analytic applications for unstructured data. Tom started his career at parallel-processing pioneer Tandem Computers where he spent 12 years in various financial roles including Senior Director of Finance for the database and transaction processing software business.
Tom earned his master of business administration with distinction from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.
Richard Nieset
Chief Customer Officer
Rich champions PivotLink customer success and satisfaction by spearheading the company’s Sales and Professional Services organizations. Rich brings more than 25 years of senior-level experience in marketing, sales and development of technology products and solutions spanning business intelligence, data warehousing and analytic applications.
Prior to PivotLink, Rich was CEO and chairman of FusionOps, a SaaS BI company specializing in Supply Chain Analytics for SAP Manufacturing users. Rich previously served as vice president of sales and marketing at Kickfire, a data warehouse appliance company that was acquired by Teradata in 2010. He also held senior sales, services and marketing positions at Helpstream, KNOVA and Agile Software.
Rich holds a degree in Physics from Loyola University of the South and a BA in Business from the University of Phoenix.
Ching Wan
Founder, Chief Technology Officer
Before founding PivotLink, Ching was a senior technical architect at Cambridge Technology Partners, specializing in data warehouse practices. Ching also worked at several startup companies in the Los Angeles area.
He led a number of pioneering software development projects, including an object-oriented database management system, a graphic spreadsheet application and warehouse management systems.
Ching earned a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from China’s Tsinghua University.
Bob Kemper
Senior Vice President, Product Development
Bob is responsible for managing and driving all aspects of the development of PivotLink’s products. He brings more than 20 years of software engineering experience.
Prior to PivotLink, Bob served as Vice President of Engineering at PrecisionPoint Software, a pioneer in metadata-driven automation of full-featured data warehousing solutions for Microsoft Dynamics customers.
Earlier he served as Senior Vice President of Research and Development at SPSS, where he managed its SaaS survey platform and was instrumental in building its market-leading predictive analytics solutions. As Vice President of Application Development at Hyperion, Bob managed a team of 200 developers and helped build Hyperion's market-leading financial planning and consolidation applications.
