About Adaptiva

Jim Souders

CEO

Jim Souders is CEO of Adaptiva. A global business executive with more than 20 years’ experience, Jim excels at leading teams in creating differentiated software solutions, penetrating markets, achieving revenue goals, and P/L management.

Prior to Adaptiva, Jim led high-growth organizations from start up to public offering and acquisition in a variety of advanced 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

Founder and President

Dr. Kumar is responsible for the overseeing the company’s ability to execute on its strategic product vision in the endpoint management and security space. 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

Vice President of Marketing and Product Management

Anne leads the marketing, product management, and public relations teams 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.

She loves boating in the San Juan Islands and spends an inordinate amount of her free time at children's sporting events.

Pattie Stibre

Director of Finance & Operations

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 oversees the management of Adaptiva's world-class support team and technical solutions group. Dan has a strong technical background in IT Systems Management across a career spanning numerous industry sectors including construction, design & consulting, software development and IT professional services. Dan and his team augment Adaptiva's engineering by developing shippable and customer-bespoke solutions utilizing Adaptiva's extensive product set and delivering unprecedented customer support.

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.