About Adaptiva

Jim Souders

CEO

Jim is responsible for scaling operations at Adaptiva to support the continued success and rapid customer adoption of our market-leading solutions. Jim joins Adaptiva with more than 20 years experience in multi-stage company evolution and development. Prior to Adaptiva, Jim was General Manager and Vice President at Dorado Software.

He has led high growth organizations delivering a variety of leading edge technologies, including IT infrastructure management, cross-platform mobile application development, WAN/LAN optimization, and wireless supply chain automation systems.

Jim is a dedicated Seattle sports fan, and an expert fisherman and boater. His smoked salmon is outstanding.

Dr. Deepak Kumar

CTO & Founder

Dr. Kumar is responsible for strategic product direction and leads the development organization. He was the lead program manager with Microsoft’s Systems Management Server 2003 team and program manager with the Windows NT Networking team. Prior to Microsoft, he was a group manager for IP Telephony products at Nortel.

Dr. Kumar has received five patents related to his work on SMS 2003 at Microsoft and has written more than 50 publications, including a book on Windows programming. While at Microsoft, Dr. Kumar also authored the Thinkweek paper for Bill Gates that became Project Greenwich, now known as Microsoft Office Communications Server / Lync.

Deepak is an avid outdoorsman and hiker.

Anne Baker

VP of Marketing

Anne leads the marketing and public relations program at Adaptiva. She brings to the company a unique combination of over 15 years of high-tech marketing experience with a technical engineering background. During her career, Anne has created global campaigns for leading technology companies, such as Microsoft and SAP, and led the launch strategies for emerging start-up companies, such as Zmags and L4 Digital.

Prior to joining Adaptiva, Anne was founder and president of Blue Creek Marketing and held positions at Action Engine, Marconi, and Accenture. Her work has earned her recognition as one of the “100 Top Women in Seattle Technology” by the Puget Sound Business Journal and one of the “Top 50 Women in Mobile Content” by Mobile Entertainment Magazine. Anne holds a mechanical engineering degree from Cornell University and an MBA from Seattle University.

Anne is an enthusiast of all things related to marketing, media, and mashed potatoes (not necessarily in that order). She spends an inordinate amount of her time in hockey rinks.

Pattie Stibre

Director of Finance & HR

Patricia Stibre runs the finance and human resources department at Adaptiva where she has helped to manage the company’s unprecedented revenue growth and long-term profitability. She has an extensive background in finance and operations management and has over two decades of experience working with firms in the technology, legal, and non-profit sectors. Pattie is known for her dedicated service both within corporations and outside of the office, earning awards at the Washington State level for exemplary volunteerism.

Pattie has also planned and hosted some of Adaptiva’s most memorable and well run corporate events earning her the office nickname of "Party Pattie."

Dan Richings

VP of Solutions & Support

Based in the UK, Dan drives Adaptiva’s outstanding engineering and exceptional customer experience throughout EMEA. Dan has an extensive technical skill set, and has been working with SCCM since it was still “SMS.” He has been performing operating system deployment since 2001. His diverse background includes technical and leadership roles in the retail automotive, multinational engineering, and international project development and construction industries. Dan holds a computer science degree, BSc (Hons) Computing, from Swansea University.

In his free time, Dan enjoys racquetball, airsoft, and karting.

Gary Walker

Technical Director of Strategic Accounts

Gary is responsible for all aspects of delivering the outstanding product support that has become the hallmark of doing business with Adaptiva. Gary specializes in very large scale enterprise systems management infrastructures. He has helped design, model, and implement SCCM 2012 architectures for some of the most respected Fortune 500 companies in the world.

Gary’s involvement with Microsoft’s systems management platforms goes back more than two decades, to the SMS 1.0 beta days. Before that, he was involved with a broad range of hard core networking and IT functional areas in medium and large enterprises.

In his spare time, Gary enjoys zipping around the mid-west in an RV with his family, and spending time outdoors at his farm.

Maxime Albi

Sr. Director of Business Development

Maxime runs the business & channel development program at Adaptiva to broaden and deepen the company’s partnerships and increase channel revenue participation. Maxime brings an extensive background in building and developing strategic partnerships at companies both large and small. Prior to Adaptiva, Maxime led business development and alliances at multiple silicon valley high growth firms, such as Tintri, Riverbed and Citrix. He built foundations for developing strategic partnerships and increasing revenue generation with channel partners in various technology areas such as storage, networking, virtualization, and high performance computing. He has a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Mechanical Engineering (Columbia and Michigan).

When Maxime isn’t in the office you can usually find him on a racquetball or beach volleyball court somewhere in Seattle.