Experienced Management Team

Fred Allman brings over 20+ years experience in the computer industry as an executive leader and manager of sales organizations. He has a demonstrated ability to build and motivate high performance sales teams, deliver results, and foster strong customer relationships.

Fred began his career at IBM. Over a 13-year period, he held numerous sales and sales management positions including Manufacturing team leader, Risc/6000 sales leader, and Business Unit Executive of a client/server solutions business.

Prior to joining SiCortex Fred worked for 12 years at SGI in a variety of sales leadership positions, including Branch Manager, Director of Strategic Sales, Director of U.S Industry business and Vice President, Americas West. As VP Americas West, Fred was responsible for all commercial and federal business operations in the western United States, Canada, and Latin America.

Fred has a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Political Science from Southern Methodist University, and an M.B.A. from the University of Texas-Austin.

Brian Day brings 20+ years of experience in financial and operational functions with special strengths in customer, partner and investor relations, contract negotiating and manager activities.

Brian joined SiCortex after serving as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Viseon, a telecommunications equipment manufacturer. During his tenure at Viseon, he ran finance, legal and operations, and managed the transition of production from the U.S. to China. Prior to Viseon, Brian was involved as CFO of several venture backed Companies in the Boston area including Gomez and Octave Communications. He was also CFO of LifeHarbor, Inc. from May 2003 until December, 2003 and President from December, 2003 until he engineered the successful sale of that Company in July 2004. Brian began his career with Fleet Financial Group where he was a Vice President in the Fleet’s structured finance group.

Brian has a B.A. in Economics from the University of New Hampshire, and a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School.

John Goodhue brings more than 25 years of technical and managerial experience to SiCortex. His career has been characterized by a range of technology and business ventures that anticipate and meet the needs of an ever-changing marketplace.

John began his career at BBN, where he worked on numerous computing and communications projects. Within a twelve-year period, John served as a hardware and software engineer, Engineering Manager, Vice President of Engineering for BBN's parallel processing business, and Vice President of Engineering for the Communication Division. Also during this period, John was co-founder and President of Dash, Straus, and Goodhue, which became one of the largest compliance consulting firms in New England. Following his tenure at BBN, John was Vice President of Engineering on the founding team at Lightstream Inc, a spin-off of BBN and UB Networks that was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1995. At Cisco, John served as Director of Engineering in the ATM and Core Router business units, Vice President of Engineering for Cisco's entry into the DSL business, and General Manager of Cisco's broadband aggregation business unit.

John has a B.S. in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Jud Leonard brings 40 years of significant experience in applications development, operating systems, and processor design to SiCortex. His career has been characterized by a penetrating grasp of technical detail consistently applied and transmitted via his articulate leadership.

Jud began his computing career while at Oberlin College, first on an IBM 1620, then a 360/44. He graduated to Digital Equipment Corporation where he contributed to the PDP-12, PDP-11, and PDP-10 software groups, wrote the microcode for the KL-10 and DecSystem-20 processors, led the microcode effort for the original VAX-11/780, and became an early advocate of RISC technology within the company. At Symbolics, he provided technical leadership for Sapphire, a RISC-like LISP machine. Jud's entrepreneurial aptitude led him to co-found three companies: Agile Systems (multiprocessor Lisp systems), TLW (where he provided contract VLSI design services to various semiconductor companies) and, most recently, SiCortex.

Jud holds four U.S. patents in computer technology.

Bob Millstein brings 40 years of technical, organizational, and entrepreneurial expertise to SiCortex. Bob's work has consistently shaped the outcome of a wide-ranging series of projects within the computer industry.

Bob's initial work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and at Massachusetts Computer Associates (MCA) honed his research and development skills. While at MCA, Bob served as an ARPA PI and as company President. He held the positions of Division Manager, then Vice President at ADR/Cadre, Inc.; Vice President of R&D at ZTEL, Inc.; Director of Software Development at Thinking Machines Corporation; and President/CEO at NEC Laboratories America. Bob founded two startup companies -- TopicalNet, Inc. (formerly Continuum Software, Inc.) and ADR/Cadre, Inc.

Bob has a B.S. in Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

John Mucci brings more than 30 years of technical, executive, and entrepreneurial expertise to SiCortex. His extensive work in the computer industry has consistently demonstrated innovative thinking and leadership. From supporting computer art to playing an important role in the wildly successful VAX computer penetration into the scientific arena, John has demonstrated a knack for recognizing and leading innovation while anticipating and understanding what drives the technological market.

Prior to co-founding SiCortex, John held several key executive roles at Thinking Machines Corporation, whose Connection Machine family paved the way for applying MPPs to important commercial and scientific challenges. Prior to Thinking Machines, John held a number of senior executive positions at Digital Equipment Corporation. Following his tenure at Thinking Machines – and with the goal of promoting a broader use of scalable parallel computing – John co-founded two startup companies – TopicalNet, Inc. (formerly Continuum Software, Inc.) and, most recently, SiCortex.

John has a B.S. from Pennsylvania State University, an M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University, and completed the Stanford Business School's SEP program.

Matt Reilly, Ph.D., brings 20+ years of noteworthy design experience to SiCortex. Throughout his career in the computer industry, Matt has been a leader in design technology and has worked successfully with others to bring architectural innovations to the marketplace.

Matt's design contributions range from multiprocessor systems to microprocessors. Prior to joining SiCortex, Matt held key leadership positions in circuit design, micro-architecture development, system design, performance modeling, and software development at Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq, and Intel.

Matt has a B.S.E.E. from Virginia Tech and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University. He holds several U.S. patents relating to processor circuitry and circuit design.

Kem Stewart has 25 years of hardware development and manufacturing experience at five Boston-area startups: Alliant Computer, Stellar Computer, Thinking Machines, Virtual Machine Works, and Netezza.

He has implemented or managed processor architecture, ASIC architecture and implementation, board and system architecture, design, and manufacturing. At Netezza, Kem was the hardware architect and at Virtual Machine Works, he was the Vice President of Hardware Engineering and Manufacturing. Prior to becoming Vice President of Hardware Engineering at SiCortex, he directed systems architecture, engineering, and manufacturing.

Kem has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and holds a dozen architecture and circuit-design patents.