Management Team

J. Kim Fennell, President and Chief Executive Officer. Kim Fennell joined deCarta as President and Chief Executive Officer in May, 2004, bringing 25 years of experience in high technology. Prior to deCarta, he was President and CEO of Pinnacle Systems (NASDAQ: PCLE) where he led the company through record growth to $330 million in revenue and expanded its market reach through several strategic acquisitions. He previously served as CEO of StorageWay, a VC-financed data storage service provider.

Earlier, Fennell was a corporate vice president at Lucent Technologies with responsibility for the Communications Applications Group, a $2 billion Business Unit focused on CRM, and Messaging. He then helped spin-off Avaya from Lucent in 2000 as part of the Avaya executive team.

Fennell was an early executive at Octel Communications in 1986, which was later acquired by Lucent in 1997. At Octel, he established and ran several key divisions in succession including Canada, Europe/Middle East/Africa and then all International Operations. Prior to Octel he held sales and marketing management positions at ROLM and Burroughs (now Unisys). Fennell is a graduate of Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada and the Stanford Executive Program.