Art is a successful Chief Executive Officer who drives performance, profitability and change to keep organizations current and vital. He has extensive hands-on leadership experience in building and directing customer-facing global engineering, marketing, sales, and services delivery teams. At Cognomotiv start-up he served as COO and prior to that he held CEO roles at both Sencha and Cordys. Art was also President of MontaVista Software where he was key to the telecoms, mobile and automotive industries adopting embedded Linux systems. Prior to MontaVista Art had regional leadership roles in the Asia-Pacific-Japan territory for Documentum, Cadence and General DataComm. Art spent 5 years on Active Duty with the USAF and 22 years in the Air Force Reserves, retiring as a Lt Col. Art holds a SB in Business Administration from the University of Connecticut and is a Distinguished Graduate of the USAF’s Squadron Officer School.