About us
About us
Meet the team
At the helm of Mechanical Orchard is a roster of disciplined, driven and curious individuals. We’re a mix of former founding members of Pivotal Labs, Dev-Ops specialists, Software pioneers, visionary Directors and industry shaping innovators.
A software engineer by trade, I began my career writing natural language translation systems in Lisp at an artificial intelligence laboratory in Tokyo. I later launched Pivotal Labs, which was acquired in 2019, and has been credited for shaping the software development cultures of some of Silicon Valley’s most influential and valuable companies. Today, I’m tackling what I envision as the last major problem of software; modernizing and future-proofing the critical systems that support the corporations that run our global economies.
I love helping companies improve their business by becoming great at software development. After my experience with startups, I was drawn to consulting, helping to grow Pivotal Labs from a handful of like-minded engineers into a respected business. As Pivotal formed and grew its developer platform product, I oversaw the rapid expansion of the Customer Success organization to thousands of technical staff globally while pioneering techniques with the subscription business model. I oversaw the integration and four subsequent years of operation as VMware Tanzu, following Pivotal’s IPO and acquisition.
I’m responsible for all things marketing—brand, positioning, product, content, demand gen— at Mechanical Orchard. I began programming on a Commodore 64 and have held product management and senior marketing positions at Cisco Systems and Cognizant Technology Solutions, where I was on the Executive Leadership Team. After nearly two decades in the corporate world building high-performing teams, I’ve returned to startups: Mechanical Orchard is my seventh.
I am driven by curiosity and a passion for creation. For two decades, I have focused on developing scalable and fault-tolerant software architectures, drawing from a diverse background spanning engineering, finance, and the arts. I’m fond of agile practices focused on test-driven development, pair programming, short development cycles and continuous verification and integration of code (essentially, Extreme Programming). Mechanical Orchard is my sixth startup.
I’m the Chief People Officer at Mechanical Orchard, where I lead the global People organization. I’ve been the Chief People Officer for two publicly traded companies—PagerDuty and Pivotal—helping scale organizations, build high-performing teams, and achieve major milestones, including Pivotal’s IPO. Earlier, I was a VP at EMC and served as a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. I’m passionate about building mission-drive organizations that deliver real value to customers while fostering a culture where employees are excited about their work.
I've always been drawn to the challenge of turning complex technology into easy-to-use, yet powerful products that make a real impact. Most recently at Samara, I built and grew the Video-Based Safety business into the company's largest product line and industry leader, guiding it through Samsara's IPO. Before that, I was an Associate Partner at McKinsey, where I worked with industrial clients to prove how great technology can change how companies operate at their core.
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Meet the team
At the helm of Mechanical Orchard is a roster of disciplined, driven and curious individuals. Our ranks include multi-exit startup founders, former McKinsey partners, operators who have scaled companies through growth and IPOs, and senior executives from F500 technology companies.
A software engineer by trade, I began my career writing natural language translation systems in Lisp at an artificial intelligence laboratory in Tokyo. I later launched Pivotal Labs which was acquired in 2019, and has been credited for shaping the software development cultures of some of Silicon Valley’s most influential and valuable companies. Today, I’m tackling what I envision as the last major problem of software; modernizing and future-proofing the critical systems that support the corporations that run our global economies.
I love helping companies improve their business by becoming great at software development. After my experience with startups, I was drawn to consulting, helping to grow Pivotal Labs from a handful of like-minded engineers into a respected business. As Pivotal formed and grew its developer platform product, I oversaw the rapid expansion of the Customer Success organization to thousands of technical staff globally while pioneering techniques with the subscription business model. I oversaw the integration and four subsequent years of operation as VMware Tanzu, following Pivotal’s IPO and acquisition.
I’m responsible for all things marketing—brand, positioning, product, content, demand gen— at Mechanical Orchard. I began programming on a Commodore 64 and have held product management and senior marketing positions at Cisco Systems and Cognizant Technology Solutions, where I was on the Executive Leadership Team. After nearly two decades in the corporate world building high-performing teams, I’ve returned to startups: Mechanical Orchard is my seventh.
I am driven by curiosity and a passion for creation. For two decades, I have focused on developing scalable and fault-tolerant software architectures, drawing from a diverse background spanning engineering, finance, and the arts. I’m fond of agile practices focused on test-driven development, pair programming, short development cycles and continuous verification and integration of code (essentially, Extreme Programming). Mechanical Orchard is my sixth startup.
I’m the Chief People Officer at Mechanical Orchard, where I lead the global People organization. I’ve been the Chief People Officer for two publicly traded companies—PagerDuty and Pivotal—helping scale organizations, build high-performing teams, and achieve major milestones, including Pivotal’s IPO. Earlier, I was a VP at EMC and served as a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. I’m passionate about building mission-drive organizations that deliver real value to customers while fostering a culture where employees are excited about their work.
I've always been drawn to the challenge of turning complex technology into easy-to-use, yet powerful products that make a real impact. Most recently at Samara, I built and grew the Video-Based Safety business into the company's largest product line and industry leader, guiding it through Samsara's IPO. Before that, I was an Associate Partner at McKinsey, where I worked with industrial clients to prove how great technology can change how companies operate at their core.
A software engineer by trade, I began my career writing natural language translation systems in Lisp at an artificial intelligence laboratory in Tokyo. I later launched Pivotal Labs, which was acquired in 2019, and has been credited for shaping the software development cultures of some of Silicon Valley’s most influential and valuable companies. Today, I’m tackling what I envision as the last major problem of software; modernizing and future-proofing the critical systems that support the corporations that run our global economies.
I love helping companies improve their business by becoming great at software development. After my experience with startups, I was drawn to consulting, helping to grow Pivotal Labs from a handful of like-minded engineers into a respected business. As Pivotal formed and grew its developer platform product, I oversaw the rapid expansion of the Customer Success organization to thousands of technical staff globally while pioneering techniques with the subscription business model. I oversaw the integration and four subsequent years of operation as VMware Tanzu, following Pivotal’s IPO and acquisition.
I’m responsible for all things marketing—brand, positioning, product, content, demand gen— at Mechanical Orchard. I began programming on a Commodore 64 and have held product management and senior marketing positions at Cisco Systems and Cognizant Technology Solutions, where I was on the Executive Leadership Team. After nearly two decades in the corporate world building high-performing teams, I’ve returned to startups: Mechanical Orchard is my seventh.
I am driven by curiosity and a passion for creation. For two decades, I have focused on developing scalable and fault-tolerant software architectures, drawing from a diverse background spanning engineering, finance, and the arts. I’m fond of agile practices focused on test-driven development, pair programming, short development cycles and continuous verification and integration of code (essentially, Extreme Programming). Mechanical Orchard is my sixth startup.
I’m the Chief People Officer at Mechanical Orchard, where I lead the global People organization. I’ve been the Chief People Officer for two publicly traded companies—PagerDuty and Pivotal—helping scale organizations, build high-performing teams, and achieve major milestones, including Pivotal’s IPO. Earlier, I was a VP at EMC and served as a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. I’m passionate about building organizations that deliver real value to customers while fostering a culture where employees are excited about their work.
I've always been drawn to the challenge of turning complex technology into easy-to-use, yet powerful products that make a real impact. Most recently at Samara, I built and grew the Video-Based Safety business into the company's largest product line and industry leader, guiding it through Samsara's IPO. Before that, I was an Associate Partner at McKinsey, where I worked with industrial clients to prove how great technology can change how companies operate at their core.
I'm a passionate organizer with a keen eye for identifying problems and solving them pragmatically and creatively. I’ve rolled three decades of experience in marketing, operations, and administration into fostering a positive community culture that’s inclusive and supportive of doing what’s right, what works, and what makes good change happen. My superpower? An ability to win any thumb war challenge. My current obsession is growing sugar cane so I can make my own rum.
I have worked across a variety of roles: software engineer, co-founder of a successful SaaS product, management consultant, product manager and sales leader. I’ve also contributed to the industry as a speaker and an advisor to venture leaders at a F150 accelerator. But mostly, I find creative joy in turning ideas into new ventures and scaling them into high-functioning organizations that customers and employees love.
Mechanical Orchard is my fifth startup, where I lead sales. I began my career as a paratrooper for the U.S. Army, shifting to tech when I joined Accenture as a consultant developing software for clients. Over the past 25 years, I’ve introduced technologies like e-commerce, SaaS, e-signatures, APIs, and now, AI, to enterprises. For fun, I adventure travel.
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Recognitions
Gartner® names Mechanical Orchard a Cool Vendor™
In the report, Gartner noted: “Software engineering leaders and their teams must modernize legacy systems and can do so by utilizing the behavior-first approach to ensure seamless transitions and operational continuity.”
We recently launched our Imogen mainframe modernization platform, which takes a behavior-first approach.
Recognitions
Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace designates us “Awardable” for Department of Defense contracts
Mechanical Orchard was recognized among a competitive field of applicants whose solutions demonstrate innovation, scalability, and potential impact on DoD missions.
Recognitions
Imogen platform now available on Google Cloud Marketplace
The Google Cloud Marketplace acts as a centralized hub for customers to discover, try, buy, and deploy solutions that are pre-validated to run seamlessly on Google Cloud.
“Our mission is to reinvent the software that runs the world, and realizing such a bold ambition requires strong partners. Google’s Cloud capabilities will help our customers move from critical applications as a cost center, to an engine of continuous modernization.”
Recognitions
Imogen now available
in AWS Marketplace
The AWS Marketplace is an online store that makes it easy for customers to find, compare, and start using the software and services that run on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
“As a highly trusted and credible resource for IT buyers looking for novel solutions to complex problems, AWS Marketplace is a natural fit for Imogen. We’re proud of the collaboration we’ve built with AWS, which is further propelling our mission to reinvent the software that runs the world.”
Our investors
Mechanical Orchard is backed by top-tier investors who have a sharp eye for where AI and enterprise software are heading. They’ve supported some of the most transformative companies in these spaces and bring substantial industry know-how to the table. They see what we see—that modernizing legacy systems is one of the biggest challenges — and opportunities —organizations face today.
Recreate and Deliver
Based on our learnings, we build a perfect replica of this component in a secure cloud environment where it’s subject to rigorous performance and functional criteria before it goes live. Now this component is modern, tested, instrumented and well understood. Most importantly, it’s ready for innovation—while running smoothly with the rest of the legacy system.
Repeat and Innovate
The process iterates with the next component until the entire system has deployed into the cloud environment. Each subsequent component could take progressively less time through applying our AI tools and organizational learnings.
Because we only work with a single component at a time, each one has a proven fallback method. This profoundly limits the risk to your living, breathing system at any given time.
Our partners
Mechanical Orchard partners with companies that share our vision for modernizing legacy systems in a way that lowers the cost of change in perpetuity. Together, these partnerships strengthen our ability to tackle some of the toughest technology challenges organizations face today.
Recreate and Deliver
Based on our learnings, we build a perfect replica of this component in a secure cloud environment where it’s subject to rigorous performance and functional criteria before it goes live. Now this component is modern, tested, instrumented and well understood. Most importantly, it’s ready for innovation—while running smoothly with the rest of the legacy system.
Repeat and Innovate
The process iterates with the next component until the entire system has deployed into the cloud environment. Each subsequent component could take progressively less time through applying our AI tools and organizational learnings.
Because we only work with a single component at a time, each one has a proven fallback method. This profoundly limits the risk to your living, breathing system at any given time.
Your new legacy
starts here.
We believe that every company deserves to realize their vision, free of constraints from the past. Our team's technology, and experience can help them move into this evolving version safely, reliably, fearlessly.