REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 11, 2008 – Sentilla, a leading provider of pervasive computing solutions, today announced that Robert Davis has joined the company’s executive team as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Davis was previously at CA (NYSE: CA), where he was head of CA's Storage and Midmarket Business Unit.
“The next generation of computing – pervasive computing on tiny computers – will be as foundational and fundamental as the mainframe and the personal computer eras,” said Robert Davis, President and CEO. “Sentilla’s software platform, built on Java-based technology will be the engine that drives this next generation where the world becomes the computer. I am very excited to be part of the team that is enabling this industry transformation that will change the way that business is done.”
“Bob is an ideal executive to drive and manage Sentilla’s rapid growth,” said investor Terry Opdendyk from ONSET Ventures. “Sentilla is at the center of an enormous market opportunity and Bob brings a proven track record of building and scaling high-growth companies which are targeting broad markets with breakthrough technology. His experience, market insight and strategic approach complement the Sentilla team and will accelerate the company’s market leadership to the next level of growth and maturity.”
Sentilla’s software platform powers tiny computers (about the size of a dime) specifically engineered for very low power consumption and with miniature wireless networking to be integrated into a broad variety of industry applications. Applications benefit by using Sentilla’s software platform and these tiny computers to collect, process and communicate virtually any type of physical data to back to an industry application. The result is that the Sentilla software on tiny computers can become the ears, eyes and sensing for everything around us.
Mr. Davis brings nearly 30 years of experience to Sentilla with a demonstrated track record of successful business results – particularly with companies that redefined their markets by introducing new platform technologies. Bob comes to Sentilla from CA Inc. (formerly Computer Associates) where he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of CA's Storage Business Unit. Prior to CA, he was President and CEO of Netreon, later purchased by CA. In addition, Bob co-founded and led Kaseya, a pioneer in the managed services business. Bob also spent over 8 years at Novell in various roles including Division General Manager and Senior Vice President of Corporate Marketing. Prior to Novell, Bob spent time in engineering and marketing roles at Intel.
ABOUT SENTILLA CORPORATION
Founded in 2003, Sentilla Corporation provides a full life cycle software platform for developing, deploying, integrating and managing pervasive computing applications – with the ease of Java technology. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Sentilla’s software accelerates time to market and reduces the cost of pervasive computing applications across a broad set of industries such as logistics, transportation, security and safety, manufacturing, health care, agriculture, and green technology. Sentilla’s mission is to enable the billions of very small computers deployed throughout the physical world to work together to solve really big business problems. Sentilla Corporation is backed by ONSET Ventures and Claremont Creek Ventures. For more information please visit the Sentilla web site at www.sentilla.com.
