UC4 Management

Jason Liu, Chief Executive Officer, brings extensive management and technology experience to UC4. He was most recently president and CEO of Univa UD, a company he transformed from a grid computing player into a recognized leader for cloud systems management software. Prior to Univa UD, he was CEO of Intrinsic Technologies, a Microsoft infrastructure software and services provider and CEO of Callisto Software, a mobile systems management company acquired by Novell. Liu also previously served as CFO and senior vice president of Corporate Services for Ravisent Technologies, where he led the company through multiple acquisitions and spearheaded an IPO that brought the company to a $1 billion market value.  Liu holds an MBA degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Washington University.

Guenther Flamm, SVP of Global Accounts and Solutions, directs UC4 Software's international business activities. Before joining UC4 in 1999, Flamm spent 12 years as an IT and operations expert. Most recently, he served as Sales and Technical Manager at Platinum Technology GmbH, where he was responsible for activities in Austria and Central and Eastern Europe.

Ken Jackson, President of Americas, is responsible for all UC4’s operations in the Americas, including Sales, Marketing, Finance, R&D, HR, Support, and Operations. Jackson brings more than 20 years of software experience to UC4, most recently serving as Senior Vice President of North American Sales at ASG Software Solutions. Under Jackson's leadership, ASG enjoyed multimillion-dollar sales growth in each of his years at the helm. Before joining ASG, Jackson served in sales and management roles at CA, IBM/Tivoli, and Candle Corporation.

Andreas Seidl, Chief Financial Officer, is responsible for UC4’s corporate planning, financial strategy, and commercial financial analysis. Prior to joining UC4 in 2008, Seidl served as Head of Strategy and Finance at eBay, Austria, where his responsibilities included finance and administration, corporate planning, financial analysis, and strategy. Before that, he was Director of Finance and HRM at I&T, a manufacturer of flat cables and cable harnesses primarily used in the automotive industry, and served as a Senior Consultant at management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company.

Vincent Stueger, Chief Technical Officer and Head of Worldwide Support, is responsible for developing and implementing UC4’s worldwide product strategy. Stueger has extensive industry experience, having held a number of management and consulting positions at leading international companies. Most recently, he was at Infoniqa Informationstechnik GmbH, Austria, where he directed product management and development for the company's core software product.

Fred Kohout, Chief Marketing Officer, has more than two decades of experience in bringing new technology to market and building global brands. As CMO, Kohout is responsible for branding, go-to-market, and product marketing activities at UC4. Most recently, he was CMO of TAGSYS, an early-stage RFID technology company. Kohout also held senior positions in sales and marketing during his 18-year tenure with Sun Microsystems, including Vice President of Marketing for Europe, Middle East, and Africa; Vice President of SPARCserver Product Marketing; and Vice President of Client Software Product Marketing.

Manfred Zeilinger, Senior Vice President Worldwide Channels is responsible to drive UC4’s international expansion through the recruitment, enablement and development of a highly committed and effective reseller channel on a global scale.  Before joining UC4, Zeilinger worked at EMC Computer Systems in Austria, where he managed the company’s strategic and operative marketing activities in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe and in the Middle East. Prior to EMC, he spent several years at Sony, where he held a number of executive sales, marketing, and business development positions.

Stefan Zeitzen, Senior Vice President of Sales and Services for Continental Europe, joined UC4 in 2004. Prior to that, he spent 14 years at software provider Novell, including seven years in management at Novell Germany. There he held numerous executive positions, including VP of Sales for Germany and Business Development Manager for Identity Management and EAI in Germany.

Siddharth (Sidd) Mallannagari, SVP of Strategy and Corporate Development, is responsible for business strategy, mergers & acquisitions and strategic alliances. Prior to UC4 Sidd was VP of Strategy & Product Management in the Software-as-a Service (SaaS) business unit at CA which he founded at the company. He championed the SaaS business strategy including M&A and product management of key solution areas. At CA Sidd was also VP of Corporate Planning where he developed and led CA’s collaborative strategic planning process. As Director of Strategic Finance he was also involved in M&A for one of CA’s business units. Prior to CA Sidd held business planning and product line management roles at Dell. Sidd also held new product strategy, program management and project engineering roles in the Automotive Systems Group of Johnson Controls Inc. Sidd holds a Masters in Engineering and an MBA with distinction both from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India.

Christine Dworschak, Vice President of Human Resources, is responsible for recruiting and staffing, personnel and organizational development, compensation and benefits, employee relations, personnel administration and labor law issues. Prior to joining UC4, Dworschak served as Human Resources Manager for Motorola Austria and worked as a consultant for Management Consulting Jenewein in Vienna.