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 brings over two decades of experience to Tehama, where he directs the strategy, operations and market growth of the cloud-based platform. Gene has also held executive positions at IBM and Cognos. He 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 of Tehama Business Unit
About Craig
Craig brings 20 years of experience to Tehama, where he leads the global ignition strategy Prior to joining Tehama, he held executive positions with Pythian and Blackbird.io and was Chief Operating Officer for Apica.
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 Commercial Operations
Vice President of Commercial Operations
About Dusko
Dusko is a software development leader with more than 20 years of experience. At Tehama, he leads the engineering team. He previously held various management and leadership positions at IBM and worked as a developer in start-ups (ProMIRA, SS8 Networks) and enterprises (Cognos, IBM).
Dusko has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. He has also written several articles, presented at numerous conferences and holds several patents.
In his free time, Dusko enjoys traveling and basketball.
Senior Director of Engineering
About Lauren
Lauren is a marketing professional and startup addict with over 10 years of experience at companies in San Francisco, Atlanta and Latin America. At Tehama, she’s using her skills storytelling, growth marketing and partnerships to spread the Tehama message and bring the service to those that need it most. Previously, she worked at an ed-tech company called Clever and intelligent marketing platform called Boomtrain. She has also worked with several early stage startups spanning other industries as a marketing consultant.
Lauren has two Bachelor of Arts degrees: one in Journalism and one in Spanish from the University of Georgia.
Outside of the office, you’ll find Lauren running or playing with her rescue pup, Bowie.
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 I focus on business first outcomes for our customers and partners. Helping them achieve their use cases that 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 1 and then Type 2 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
