Our Mission
Tehama was created by industry experts who know first hand that enterprises, service providers, and individuals could all work more productively when they have the opportunity to choose any device, and to work from anywhere in the world — but key security and process challenges stood in the way of making the future of work a reality.
We eliminate roadblocks for our customers by making it efficient and secure to access a global workforce, automating the management of vendors, and ensuring all access—and work done— is secure, monitored and audited. We give IT providers secure and efficient onboarding of talent, help ease the burden of regulatory compliance, and get developers back to true productivity.
Our Story
When Pythian, a global IT Services provider, needed to improve on their agility and security when connecting to global customers in an expanding global market, Tehama was created to deliver “better IT outcomes, faster, and more securely”.
Eager for the same benefits of agility and security, Pythian’s customers and partners began requesting access to Tehama, to securely onboard other service providers and apply continuous auditing and compliance across their services supply chain.
Tehama operates as a business unit of Pythian and has the goal of bringing these values to the industry and to revolutionize how services are delivered across the entire IT services ecosystem.
Leadership Team
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About Gene
Gene Villeneuve is a seasoned IT leader with more than two decades of experience. He is passionate about helping customers and partners adopt technology for better business outcomes. At Pythian, he directs the strategy, operations and market growth of the Tehama cloud-based platform. Gene also sits on the board for the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA) Cyber Council. Before Pythian, Gene held several executive positions at IBM, most recently as Worldwide Director of Lab Services for Financial Crimes Insight Solutions in the Watson Financial Services Solutions division. He has also held European and Global executive roles at IBM, Cognos, SAP (Business Objects) and OLAP@Work. Gene is recognized as a visionary thought leader and is a sought-after speaker for both client and industry events.
Gene has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Ottawa.
When not working, Gene is an athlete dad who rides his bike or runs while waiting for his daughters during multiple ballet classes per week.
Senior Vice President
Tehama Business Unit
About Craig
Craig brings 20 years of business, technical and leadership experience to Tehama, where he leads the relationships with strategic accounts and drives innovation through Tehama’s global alliances. Prior to joining Tehama, he held executive positions with Pythian and Blackbird.io and was Chief Operating Officer for Apica. Craig also brings unique insights from his tenure as both an information security practitioner and vendor.
Craig has a Bachelor of Science from the University of North Carolina and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional.
When he isn’t working, Craig enjoys adventuring across the globe with his sidekick angels and a nice glass of vino.
Vice President of Strategic
Accounts and Global Alliances
About Jeremy
Jeremy has been growing, building and scaling technology go-to-market teams for over 10-years. At Tehama, Jeremy leads the global sales strategy and team. He has worked with teams of all sizes, across different functions, serving sectors from the SMB all the way to the Fortune 500. Prior to joining Tehama, Jeremy worked at Shopify, leading their sales teams from a pre-revenue stage to 100-Million+ in ARR.
His client centric approach enables customers to be successful, leading to long lasting business relationship. He is heavily focused on delivering creative solutions, designed to solve the business challenges and needs of his customers.
Jeremy holds a College Diploma in Business Sales from Loyalist College. He regularly consults on topics such as: recruiting, building and leading modern sales teams. In his free time, Jeremy is an avid runner and triathlete, he also enjoys spending summer weekends on the Ottawa River with his family.
Vice President of
Global Sales
About Lesley
Lesley is a seasoned B2B and B2C marketing and communications professional with two decades of experience. She joined Tehama after several years with Pythian’s Services Business and leads the marketing and communications strategy to boost brand awareness and drive lead generation.
Early in her career, Lesley recognized the power of digital marketing, first at TVOntario, where she led the communications strategy for the launch of TVO’s Digital Public Archives, and later at Global Knowledge where she managed high impact digital marketing campaigns. Lesley also spent many years in the publishing industry and held management roles at Penguin and Random House Canada.
In her spare time, Lesley is an avid reader who is determined to crush the goal of reading 50 books a year in the annual Goodreads Reading Challenge.
Director of Marketing
About Chris
Chris is a seasoned product management leader and has spent the past 15 years bringing new virtualization technology to market. Prior to joining Tehama, he worked in software engineering, engineering management, product management, and technical sales at a variety of companies including QNX, Ciena, and Nortel.
Chris holds degrees in Electronics, Computer Science, and Economics, and is an accomplished speaker at industry events as well as a published author of technical and marketing reference content.
When not at work, Chris can be found with his head under the hood of his car, competing in slalom water ski competitions, building houses, or performing with his band.
Director of Product
Management
About Jaymes
With nearly two decades of experience in the IT services industry, Jaymes has implemented more than 1,000 virtualization, end-user computing and access delivery projects for clients ranging from global enterprises to local and regional small and medium businesses. At Tehama he focuses on business first outcomes for customers and partners, helping them leverage Tehama to get real time to value benefits for projects and IT workflow efficiencies in place around the contingent workforce that focus on security and compliance.
Jaymes designed and developed the Virtualization Oriented Architecture™ (VOA), a methodology that closely aligns business strategies with IT infrastructure solutions. His white papers and articles have been endorsed by the industry’s top virtualization experts and innovators. He has also been a speaker at numerous high-profile industry events, including VMworld, Citrix Synergy Best Practices for Xendesktop and Autodesk University. Jaymes is recognized by CRN for the top virtualization practice in North America in 2012 and by Tech Elite 250 #1 Virtualization Practice for 2011 to 2015.
Jaymes is studying Advanced Computer Security at Stanford University. He also enjoys spending time deep inside a virtual reality holodeck battling monsters.
Senior Technical Sales and
Customer Success Architect
About Manisha
Manisha is a tenured program manager with over 10 years of program and project management. At Tehama, she developed and delivers the Tehama Compliance Program, which led the service through its first SOC 2 Type I and then Type II audit successfully. Previously, she was part of Pythian’s Services business unit, helping lead client and internal projects. She has also worked for various large corporations and as a technical consultant for enterprise software.
Manisha has a Bachelor of Science from York University, a Masters Certificate in Project Management, and is a certified Project Management Professional.
Manisha spends her downtime baking for her family and friends.
Director of Compliance & Programs
About Julia
Julia is an HR leader with over a decade of experience. Since 2016, she has worked with Tehama’s Executive Team to lay the foundations for talent attraction and workforce planning. Since 2011, Julia has been a HR Leader at Pythian partnering to support the business growth from 90 employees to over 450 today.
Julia has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University. She holds numerous professional HR certifications, is a keynote speaker on talent management trends, and in 2014 won the Vision Award for Innovation in Talent Acquisition.
Outside of work, Julia enjoys volunteering, travelling and spending time with her family & friends at the cottage and by the pool.
Director of Talent Strategy
About Dennis
Dennis is an accomplished architect, versatile engineer and canny product owner who leads teams while directly contributing to the design and development of massively scalable and resilient web platforms. For 17 years and across dozens of web platform launches, he has held a variety of senior roles ranging from product management and sales to software development and technical operations using almost every enterprise technology platform in widespread use today. The cumulative results of those efforts have served billions in U.S. dollars from hundreds of millions of customers.
Dennis is an alumnus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the University of Florida, and has numerous technology certifications, including from Google, Microsoft and Amazon. He has also taught engineers at notable enterprises such as NASA and Amazon.
In his spare time, Dennis loves reading, music theory and weight-lifting.
Director of Product
Development
About Alex
Alex brings over 20 years of mathematical modeling experience in academia and industry to Tehama. He is building a machine learning platform that understands deep context around user actions. At the intersection of strong digital identity, context aware AI, machine vision and security, Alex is helping transform the future of work.
After leaving academia, Alex pursued the fields of machine learning, data science and AI. He has helped build successful companies such as Quid.com, Beats Music (acquired by Apple) and Idle Games (acquired by GSN), and he advises several companies in tech, fintech and blockchain. He is also the founder of TensorML, a predecessor to the wildly successful TensorFlow, which was acquired by Pythian in 2014.
With a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, Alex held positions at Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley and USC in Santiago, Spain.
Away from work, Alex is father to a remarkable daughter, a husband and chef.
Chief Data Scientist and
Machine Learning Architect
About Jerome
Lead Architect
About Jerome
