Meet Our Team

Helen Gu is a leading expert in the field of distributed systems and predictive analytics. She is also Professor at North Carolina State University and leads a research group supported by over $4.2 million research grants from NSF, NSA, ARO, Google, IBM and Credit Suisse. She published more than 70 research papers and has filed 10 patents (9 of them have been issued).

Helen was on sabbatical at Google as a Visiting Scientist in 2015. She also worked at IBM T. J. Watson research center as a Research Staff Member in 2004-2007 working on the IBM stream processing system.

Helen Gu received her PhD in CS from UIUC in 2004 and BS in CS from Peking University in 1999. Her work has been widely reported by presses including NSF research highlights, Communications of ACM, and The Register, and won several best paper awards from prestigious International conferences.

Rami Essaid is the Chief Operating Officer of InsightFinder, a pioneer in AIOPS. With over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure management, Rami has a unique blend of technical expertise and entrepreneurial drive.  Rami was the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Distil Networks, the global leader in bot detection and mitigation. With hundreds of enterprise customers and 5 global offices, Forrester named Distil Networks as a leader in the Forrester New Wave: Bot Management in 2018. Distil was acquired in 2019 by Imperva, a leader in the application security segment. An alumnus of TechStars, Rami now serves as a mentor for current participants, advising the next generation of entrepreneurs and coaching them on how to scale their businesses while continuing to provide innovative  and boundary-pushing products and services.

Jeremy Neuberger is an innovative leader with a passion for continually pushing the limits of modern technology. He brings vast experience in building software products and engineering teams from the ground up, ensuring the longevity and sustainability required for continued success.

In previous roles, Jeremy has led the creation and implementation of event-driven architectures in distributed systems, development standards and principals, as well as dozens of assorted software products.

Outside of the Technology field, Jeremy also founded a Taekwondo school in Aurora, CO, in 2011 where he had the privilege of teaching young children, teens and adults the history, values, and physical aspects of taekwondo.

Greg Lissy is the Senior Vice President of Product at InsightFinder where he is responsible for defining and driving the company’s overall product vision and strategy. Greg brings 20 years of enterprise software experience to InsightFinder including leadership roles at Microsoft, Red Hat, Citrix, and SolarWinds. With expertise in both product management and partner ecosystems, he has led eight-figure SaaS product lines through sustained periods of double-digit growth, and has forged strategic partnerships resulting in successful expansion into new market segments.  As a product executive at Citrix, Greg helped land Citrix ShareFile as a leader in the Gartner MQ for content collaboration software for two consecutive years. He was named a 2018 CRN Channel Chief while leading product management for SolarWinds managed service provider business.

Zhiheng brings nearly 20 years of large-scale enterprise software sales experience in China to the team. The customers he engaged with spans over large financial institutions, national telecommunication corporations, and government agencies. He has successfully helped several startup companies to achieve market share leaders in specific fields in China. He graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2000.