Leadership

Dean Rockwell, is the Executive Vice President, joining Vecima in January 2014 after serving on the company’s Board of Directors for two years.

With three decades of experience leading successful technology-intensive businesses around the world, Dean was most recently CEO of In Motion Technology. During his career he has worked extensively internationally and held roles including c-level, general management, business and strategy development, direct sales & sales management, product management, product development and operations.

Dean spent over twenty years as a senior executive with Scientific-Atlanta and Cisco as Vice President and General Manager of the Headend Systems and Digital Media Networks businesses.

Clay McCreery is the Chief Operating Officer, joining Vecima when they acquired Concurrent Technology Inc. in December 2017.

Prior to the acquisition, Clay served as the Chief Revenue Officer at Concurrent Technology since April 2015. Clay previously served at ARRIS Group (NASDAQ: ARRS), where he held the position of Senior Vice President of North American Regional Cable and managed revenue nearing $1 billion annually.Prior to ARRIS, Clay held leadership positions at C-COR (acquired by ARRS) and Highspeed Communications.

Kyle Goodwin comes from a financial technology background, with 15 years of experience leading the development and productization of mission critical applications in banking, insurance, and finance.

Kyle joined Concurrent Technology, which Vecima acquired in December 2017, in March 2016 to lead research and development of the company’s content delivery portfolio of products through a time of transition in the cable industry. He has led the creation of products for the IP video streaming space and continues to guide Vecima’s investments in the future of video in his current position as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Content Delivery & Storage. Kyle continues to lead new product creation as well as product line management for all the Vecima products.

Ryan Nicometo, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Video Broadband Solutions, joined Vecima when the company acquired Concurrent Technology Inc. in December 2017.

Ryan joined Concurrent in July 2015 as Vice President of North American sales and held the position of SVP of Product for Concurrent prior to the organization being acquired by Vecima Networks. Prior to joining Concurrent, Ryan held leadership roles at ARRIS Group, CCI Systems, and Motorola. While at ARRIS, Ryan managed $800M of revenue annually as Regional Vice President of Sales, a continuation of sales and technical sales roles he held at the time ARRIS acquired the Motorola Home asset from Google.

Ryan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering for Michigan Technological University and a second Bachelor of Science degree in Scientific & Technical Communications from the same university.

Osamu “Sammy” Nakamura has held numerous leadership positions including his current position as Representative Director, President, Concurrent Content Solutions Corporation, the newly established company for Concurrent CDN and Storage product for the Japan and Asia Pacific market. Previous to this Mr. Nakamura served as Representative Director, President of Concurrent Nippon Corporation beginning in May 1997. Osamu has over 53 years of experience working in the IT industry, having worked at Nihon Unisys (Ex Nippon Univac) in sales, marketing, product planning, development and system integration for PC to Mainframe and hardware and software. Mr. Nakamura also has considerable experience in the Video on Demand business and Real-Time business at Concurrent Nippon Corporation in Japan, a former wholly-owned subsidiary of Concurrent Computer Corporation.

Osamu has a Bachelor of Commerce from Keio University in Tokyo, Japan.

Jim Denenny has held a number of technology leadership positions since joining Concurrent in May 2010, including his current position as Senior Vice President of Content Delivery.

Jim has over 25 years of experience working for digital media technology companies providing solutions for Internet, Mobile, and Pay TV video services. He has extensive experience and expertise in end-to-end video distribution service delivery.

In his time with Concurrent, he has led the company’s development of new content transformation and protection software, content delivery product and solutions architecture and now Media Storage and Distribution Product Engineering.

In previous senior management positions, he served as General Manager of Real’s Video Services Business Unit, providing a SaaS platform to Tier-1 Mobile Operators and Broadband Service Providers. While based in Europe, he played an instrumental role in making Real the de facto standard for mobile media service delivery in the EMEA and APAC regions, at the time.

Jim is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Stephen Blinick is Vice President, Research & Development of Content Delivery & Storage, joining Vecima when the company acquired Concurrent Technology in December 2017.

Stephen joined Concurrent in January 2017 with 17 years of experience in storage research and development, and having filed 32 patents. In his role at Vecima, he has lead the development of Vecima’s latest generation MediaScaleX//Storage solution.

Prior to working at Vecima, he spent 11 years as an enterprise storage architect at IBM, leading the architecture and development of enterprise storage systems for Fortune-50 companies. His career experience includes working at Intel, leading performance enhancements for COTS-based open source storage. He has been credited with some of the first multi-million IOPS open source storage systems presented in the industry, and has presented periodically at conferences on the latest open source storage innovations including the leverage of Flash, NVMe, and Optane technology.

Brian Brown joined Concurrent Technology, which Vecima acquired in December 2017, in February 2015 to transform the company’s Sales Enablement processes to promote Business Agility.

Brian is responsible for Customer Program Management, Technical Content & Training, and Information Systems & Technologies. Before joining Vecima, Brian dedicated his career to leading process improvement projects across a variety of disciplines including Agile Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and obtaining a Six Sigma Black Belt certification through Motorola University. Brian is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University’s MBA program and Virginia Polytechnic University where he concentrated in organizational psychology.

Gerry Vreeswijk is the Director, Human Resources, joining Vecima in February of 2018.

With more than 15 years experience building and leading the talent management capability for high growth, fast paced international technology companies, Gerry has developed high performance talent in support of the organization’s strategic business vision to drive business growth.

Gerry is responsible for guiding all elements of human resource management as the company grows its business globally with an exceptional workforce, developing Vecima as a top choice employer.