Jonathan Ring

Mr. Ring has over 22 years of professional experience managing both small and large organizations. Most recently he was Vice President of Engineering at Siebel Systems with responsibility for over 500 people. Mr. Ring has a reputation for being an excellent leader with strong communication and presentation skills. His exceptional strategic and analytical skills helped Siebel Systems become the leader in the client relationship management sector today.

Mr. Ring has a broad technology background that includes operating system development, database applications, communication protocol and technology and hardware and software interfaces. He has managed multi-national and multi-site organizations at companies including IBM, TechGnosis and Siebel Systems.

Since 1996, Mr. Ring has held various engineering management roles at Siebel Systems. He has built and run quality engineering, engineering services, automation tools and technology development. He also established the engineering training organization. Mr. Ring was responsible for approving on every release of software from Siebel Systems. He was also a member of Founders Circle, an internal board that sets/plans direction of the company's major programs.

Prior to Siebel, Mr. Ring worked at Comdisco as Chief Architect and Vice President of Network and System Management. He also built a new consulting division focusing on communications, network and system management.

At TechGnosis, a Belgian based client server connectivity software company, Mr. Ring served as Vice President of R&D. He managed the organization in multiple sites across North America and Europe. Mr. Ring helped turn the company from a consulting organization with one platform technology to a world class commercial software company supporting a wide variety of platforms and an expanded product set. Early in his career, Mr. Ring worked at IBM as a hardware and software interlock lead across ESD. This position included strategy for exploitation and support of hardware on Windows, OS/2 and AIX. Jonathan was the primary interface to Microsoft on the above matters. He also represented IBM at standard committees and presented at IBM Share conferences globally.

Mr. Ring also held positions at American Communication Sciences, Booz Allen & Hamilton, where he architected and designed ULANA (Unified Local Area Network Architecture and Interactive Data Corporation (Now owned by D&B).

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