T. M. Ravi has had a long career with broad experience in enterprise management and storage. He is co-founder and chief executive officer of Mimosa Systems, Inc., a provider of e-mail data management solutions. Previously, Ravi was founder and chief executive officer of Peakstone Corporation, a venture financed startup and source of performance management solutions for Fortune 500 companies. In the past, Ravi was vice president of marketing at Computer Associates (CA). At Computer Associates, Ravi was responsible for the core line of CA enterprise management products including CA Unicenter; and in the areas of application, systems and network management, software distribution, help desk, security and storage management. He joined CA through the $1.2 billion acquisition of Cheyenne Software, the market leader in storage management and antivirus solutions.
At Cheyenne Software, Ravi was the vice president responsible for managing the company's successful Windows NT business with products such as ARCserve backup and InocuLAN anti-virus. Prior to Cheyenne, Ravi founded and was chief executive officer of Media Blitz, a provider of Windows NT storage solutions that was acquired by Cheyenne Software. Earlier in his career, Ravi worked at Hewlett-Packard's Information Architecture Group where he did product planning for client/server and storage solutions.
