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The Autonomy Management Team

Autonomy is led by a close-knit and highly experienced management team. They bring together extensive expertise covering every facet of information technology and its constituent sectors and markets.

Dr Mike Lynch OBE FREng
Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Dr Mike Lynch OBE studied Engineering at Cambridge University and obtained a PhD in mathematical computing. He is a technology entrepreneur and is a pioneer of the Meaning Based Computing movement. Mike has founded a number of technology companies, including Autonomy, the UK's largest software company by market capitalization and a member of the FTSE 100. He has held a number of advisory and board roles in the venture capital industry and is currently a non-executive director of the BBC.
He was named the Confederation of British Industry's Entrepreneur of the Year, the European Business Leaders Awards' Innovator of the Year for pioneering new approaches to search and information processing technology, and Management Today's Entrepreneur of the Year 2009. Mike won an IEE Award for Outstanding Achievement and was awarded an OBE for Services to Enterprise.
He is also a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Lady Margaret Beaufort Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and the author of a number of academic papers on the subject of Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing.
Sushovan Hussain
President
Sushovan Hussain was Chief Financial Officer through October 2011 and now serves as Autonomy's President responsible for all sales activities. Prior to joining Autonomy, Mr Hussain worked for LASMO plc, one of the world's largest independent oil and gas exploration companies, where he held a number of senior international financial positions, including three years in the Corporate Development department, charged with acquisitions and divestments. Mr Hussain received his B.A. in Economics from Cambridge University, England, and became a qualified Chartered Accountant while employed at Ernst & Young in London.
Dr. Peter Menell
Chief Research Officer
Dr. Peter Menell, D.Phil. Oxon, joined Autonomy's Engineering and Technology Solutions unit in 1998 and served as Chief Technology Officer between 2004 and 2010. During that time he oversaw a number of significant advances in Autonomy technology, including key new patents filed, and was responsible for the successful deployment of Autonomy software at multi-divisional organizations across the globe. In his current position as Chief Research Officer, Peter has oversight on the technology Autonomy produces. Prior to joining Autonomy, Dr Menell conducted computational and neuro-physiology research in visual and auditory impairment. Dr Menell holds a B.A. (Hons) and M.Sc. from York University and a D.Phil. from Magdalen College Oxford.
Andrew M. Kanter
Chief Operating Officer
Andrew M. Kanter joined Autonomy in August 2000 as Vice President, International Operations and Legal Affairs, and has served as our Chief Operating Officer since 2001. Prior to joining Autonomy, from July 1999 through July 2000, Mr Kanter was an associate attorney with Brobeck Hale and Dorr in London, England, primarily engaged in international mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. From May 1997 through June 1999, Mr Kanter was an associate attorney in the Business & Technology group of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in San Francisco, CA, and prior to that was an associate attorney with Shearman & Sterling, San Francisco, CA. From August 1995 to July 1996 Mr Kanter was Clerk to Hon. Christine Miller of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Washington, DC. Mr Kanter holds a J.D. from the University of Southern California Law Center and a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and also studied at Kansai University of Foreign Studies, Osaka, Japan.
Eloy Avila
Chief Technology Officer
Eloy Avila joined Autonomy in January of 2004 and has been a part of the technology team since, most recently holding the role of US CTO. Prior to joining Autonomy, Mr. Avila did research and worked on building ultra-efficient electric vehicles. Mr. Avila holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, CA.
Stouffer Egan
Chief Executive Officer, Autonomy Inc - U.S.
Stouffer Egan joined Autonomy in March 2001 as Director of Global Accounts. He has served as our Chief Executive Officer, Autonomy Inc, since 2002. Prior to joining Autonomy, from February 2000 through to March 2001, Mr Egan was Vice President of Corporate Development for LeadingSide Inc. From January 1995 through February 2000, Mr Egan held various positions with Dataware Technologies, most recently as Vice President, Corporate Development. Mr Egan holds a B.A. in Economics from Trinity College, CT.
Joel Scott
Chief Operating Officer, Autonomy Inc - U.S.
Joel Scott joined Autonomy in 2005. Mr. Scott is COO-US, with responsibility for operations across the entire North American region. Previously, Mr. Scott served as General Counsel for the Autonomy group's US entities. Prior to joining Autonomy, Mr. Scott served as Director of Legal Affairs at Brocade Communications Systems, a leading provider of data center networking solutions and services, and held senior positions at several Silicon Valley startups. Mr. Scott began his distinguished career at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, one of the world's most prestigious law firms. Mr. Scott has a BA, Joint Honours, in English and Philosophy from McGill University, and holds a Juris Doctorate from Stanford Law School.
Nicole Eagan
Chief Marketing Officer
Nicole Eagan joined Autonomy as Group Chief Marketing Officer in January 2006. Prior to working for Autonomy Ms Eagan served Verity as a Senior Vice President of Marketing and Chief Marketing Officer from June 2005. Before joining Verity, Ms Eagan was Vice President, Global Marketing at Quest Software, an application, database and Windows management company from 2004 to 2005. Prior to Quest, Ms Eagan was the Senior Vice President of Global Marketing at Peregrine from 2001 to 2004. Ms Eagan also held senior marketing, strategy and business development positions at Extricity, a business process management company and Oracle Corporation. Ms Eagan holds a Bachelor's Degree in Science from the Montclair University.
Ian Black
Head of Global Operations, Autonomy Group
Ian Black joined Autonomy in June 2000 as Director of Corporate Communications and has served as Managing Director Aungate since 2003. Prior to joining Autonomy Ian operated a number of his own businesses providing communications consultancy to a distinguished list of multi-nationals and European government agencies. After joining British Aerospace - latterly BAE SYSTEMS - in 1989 and as Head of Corporate Communications, Ian achieved a string of world 'firsts' including deployment of the world's first live business television system which was itself a forerunner of another world first: a global automated Intranet. Throughout the 90's Ian's work earned over a dozen awards as part of BAE's top-120 group driving cultural change throughout the company. He also founded and participated in a number of external I.T networks and organizations such as the DTI's CSSA National E-Commerce Committee. Ian studied Physiology at Henley Management College and Business Administration at Filton College Bristol.
Fernando Lucini
Chief Architect
Fernando Lucini joined Autonomy in 2000. Presently serving as Chief Architect of the Autonomy group and Head of Global Presales. To this role, he brings years of experience in enterprise-level software applications. Prior to joining Autonomy, Mr Lucini was Solutions Manager for LeadingSide Inc, responsible for determining solutions strategy across the enterprise. Mr Lucini holds a BEng Hons in Communications and Electronic Engineering from the University of Kent, and an MBA from IE Business School.
Rafiq Mohammadi
CEO, Promote, Meaning Based Marketing
As CEO of Autonomy Promote, Meaning Based Marketing, Rafiq is transforming Marketing with next-generation solutions that enable businesses to understand and act on all forms of customer information. We call this new unique Autonomy approach, Meaning Based Marketing.
Rafiq has more than 15 years of experience in the content management space and he is highly respected in the industry. Rafiq served as Group CTO of Autonomy, after the completion of Autonomy's acquisition of Interwoven. He co-founded iManage, Inc. in 1995. Rafiq also played the role of CTO at iManage, where he was a key member of the team that successfully built the company from a start-up to a profitable and growing publicly traded software company that went IPO within four years. After the Interwoven's acquisition of iManage in 2004, Rafiq was CTO of Interwoven for four years, where he helped the company to establish its dominant market leadership in both Web Content Management and Document Management. As an entrepreneur, Rafiq has enjoyed contributing to both technology and business.
Rafiq holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Neil Araujo
CEO Protect, Professional Markets
As CEO of Autonomy iManage, Neil Araujo will lead the Autonomy iManage team, as it embarks on an exciting new era of bringing a meaning-based approach to the legal market.
Neil was one of the original founders of iManage, Inc. which started in 1995. At iManage he was a key member of the team that successfully built the company from a start-up to a profitable and growing publicly traded software company that went IPO within four years, before the company was acquired by Interwoven in 2004. At Interwoven, Neil played a key role in driving the strategy and in growing the professional services division's market share in the legal market from 40 percent to 75 percent. In addition, he played an instrumental role in expanding the business into new adjacent verticals markets and geographies, resulting in the division's revenues doubling within three years. Neil has a proven track record of delivering high-impact business results. He is highly respected in the legal market with a passion for helping customers succeed.
Mike Sullivan
CEO Protect, Enterprise Markets
As CEO of Autonomy Protect, Enterprise Markets, Mike manages all aspects of operations including global infrastructure, data centers, customer and technical support, professional services, and electronic discovery operations. Mike is actively engaged with customers and solution development.
Mike founded Steelpoint Technologies in 1993 and served as CEO and President until the company was acquired by ZANTAZ in August of 2004. Under his leadership, Steelpoint achieved outstanding revenue and profit growth and was recognized as one of the fastest growing software companies in the US. Mike was recognized twice by Ernst & Young as an Entrepreneur of the Year and is credited with helping Steelpoint, and later ZANTAZ, establish a dominant market position as a provider of solutions for Electronic Discovery, Litigation Support and Digital Archiving in a hosted model.
Mike began his career as a software developer with Raytheon Company and went on to hold management positions at technology consulting companies focused on content management technologies. Mike is a graduate of Bentley College with degrees in Computer Information Systems and Business Management. He is also an accomplished pianist.
Andrew Joiner
CEO Promote, Multichannel Technology
As CEO of Autonomy Promote, Multichannel Technology, Andrew leads the businesses specializing in advanced technologies for organizations seeking to organize, understand and optimize on multichannel customer interactions across the web, contact center, social media and more. In this role, Andrew is a primary advocate for the Chief Customer Officer and every organization's desire to compile a complete and meaningful picture of their customer interactions.
Prior to joining Autonomy through the ZANTAZ acquisition in 2007, Andrew served as a CEO and President of Singlecast Technologies Inc., an early pioneer of information classification, real-time policy management and compliance & legal technologies, which he founded. From 1996 to 2002 Mr. Joiner served as an investment banker with Citigroup in New York City. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Vanderbilt University and is a graduate of Harvard Business School.
David Humphrey
Managing Director, Virage Security and Surveillance
David Humphrey is a chartered electrical engineer, and after the acquisition of Neurodynamics by Autonomy in 2005, he continues to oversee operations for Virage Security and Surveillance, pioneering intelligent video-analytic technologies for international installations. Mr Humphrey has fifteen years experience in advanced video-analytics, with eleven years on security applications, culminating in the directorship of a leading provider of security and surveillance solutions to defense agencies, governments and major corporations around the globe. Specializing in advanced conceptual analytics for intelligent scene analysis systems, Mr Humphrey has led Virage Security and Surveillance through over 150 major deployments including numerous government classified projects. He has extensive experience in hardware and software algorithm design, including parallel processing super computer and precision instrumentation design.
Bryan Rellinger
Head of Global Professional Services
Bryan Rellinger is the Head of Global Professional Services for Autonomy, responsible for managing and directing all aspects of the professional services team worldwide. Bryan has over 13 years of consulting experience both building and managing professional services teams in various organizational stages.
Previously, Bryan was Vice President of Professional Services at Verity, Inc where he helped set direction and execution strategy before and during the Verity acquisition by Autonomy. Prior to that Bryan was the Director of Professional Services for Cardiff Software where he helped grow and lead Cardiff's Professional Services team worldwide. Bryan began his career spending 5 years as a trusted business advisor with Arthur Andersen as part of the Business Consulting Practice. Bryan graduated with honors while earning both a Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan State University and a Master of Business Administration from Western Michigan University.
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