Management Team
John Lovitt, CEO
John has over 25 years of experience in sales, marketing, and general management in the software development market. Prior to joining Pattern Insight, he was a senior officer in Rational Software from 1990 to 2003, with roles including Senior VP Worldwide Field Operations, VP Americas Field Operation, and VP Worldwide Services. He played a key role in shaping Rational's team-oriented approach to achieving customer results through improved software development capability. John joined Rational in 1986 as their first sales rep and grew the organization to over 1800 sales and technical sales professionals, overseeing several key acquisitions, and leading the organization to annual sales of over $700 million annually. Before joining Rational, John was with Hewlett Packard for 13 years and McDonnell Douglas for five years.
John holds an M.S. in computer science from the University of Missouri-Rolla, and a B.S. in aeronautical engineering from Wichita State University. He is active in Habitat for Humanity, serving on the East Bay Habitat for Humanity board of directors. He is also active on advisory boards at WSU and UMR, and is currently president of the UMR Academy of Computer Science, in addition to serving on several corporate boards.
Yuanyuan Zhou, President, CTO, and Co-founder
Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou co-founded Pattern Insight in 2006. She is an associate professor in Computer Science at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she has led many years of pioneering research in system data mining, system reliability, and system management. In 2000, she was a co-founder of Emphora Inc. on storage systems. She has also worked at NEC Research Lab as a scientist, and StorageNetworks as a director of engineering. She was the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Alfred Sloan Fellowship Award, IBM Faculty Award, Computer Research Association Anita Borg Career Award, Department of Energy Early Career Award. and UIUC Gear Faculty Award. Yuanyuan has published more than 70 research papers and holds several patents. She obtained her PhD and M.S. in computer science from Princeton University.
Spiros Xanthos, Vice President of Engineering and Co-founder
Before co-founding Pattern Insight, Spiros conducted research in systems mining and reliability as a member of the Opera research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that created the technology behind Pattern Insight. He has published several research papers in the areas of systems and software engineering. Spiros holds an M.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois where he has been pursuing a PhD. He has previously worked at Google. Spiros' interests include information mining from systems data, search engines, and large scale software systems development. He believes in agile methodologies and small, high-powered teams as a means of building software.
Qingbo Zhu, Vice President of Product Management and Co-founder
Qingbo Zhu co-founded the company in September 2006. He received his PhD in computer science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and and M.S. and B.S. in computer science from Nanjing University, China. Qingbo has published pioneering research papers on system management in top computer science conferences and journals and holds several patents. He previously worked at the National Laboratory of Novel Software Technology in China and IBM Almaden Research Center.
Gita Gupta, Vice President of Marketing
Gita Gupta has 16 years of experience in database technology, enterprise analytics, CRM and ERP applications, and Java developer tools. Most recently, Gita was responsible for worldwide marketing at Agitar, a Java tools company funded by Sequoia Capital, and acquired by McCabe Software in 2008. At SAP, Gita led the global field marketing team focused on strategic new products including Duet, co-developed with Microsoft. At PeopleSoft and Oracle, Gita held senior leadership positions in product management, product marketing, and go-to-market strategy.
Board of Directors
- Yuanyuan Zhou—President, CTO, and Co-founder, Pattern Insight
- John Lovitt—CEO, Pattern Insight
- Kai Li—Founder, Data Domain, and Professor of Computer Science, Princeton
- Winslow Sargeant—Managing Director, Venture Investors