Leadership Team

Jeff Dirks — President and Chief Executive Officer
Jeff is a hard-charging leader with over 20 years of success in both early-stage companies and established market leaders. Jeff brings an extensive background in operational execution spanning strategy, enterprise sales and services, distributed enterprise-system software engineering and financial operations.

From 1998 to 2003 Jeff served in various executive capacities at CapitalStream, where he architected the business and technical strategy that sparked company growth and market share leadership. Prior to CapitalStream, Jeff held executive positions at HK Systems, FourGen software and General Electric and at IBM as a software engineer. He served in U.S. Army Military Intelligence in West Berlin and has a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Washington.

Lowell Anderson — Vice President, Marketing
Lowell brings more than 20 years of technology product development and marketing experience to SchemaLogic, most recently as vice president of strategic marketing for Vallent Corporation.

Prior to Vallent, Lowell was a vice president at Metawave Communications Corporation.  Lowell also spent 5 years in design engineering and development in the Aerospace industry. Lowell holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana and an MBA from Seattle University.

Tom Pietryga — Vice President, Worldwide Sales

Tom joins SchemaLogic with over 25 years experience building, managing, and implementing sales teams on a global scale. With over 11 years at Documentum, Tom has experience in leading a worldwide sales team in the enterprise content management market. During his timeframe, Documentum grew from a $9 MM/Year company until it was sold for $1.6 B. Under his leadership, Documentum grew to be one of the world’s leading forces in ECM.

Previously, Tom worked for Cimage, an enterprise document management company and prior to that, CGX Corporation, a CAD/CAM vendor. Tom began his career at General Electric Corporation where he held various sales and marketing positions.

Tom Pacholke — Vice President, Professional Services and Support
Tom comes to SchemaLogic with more than 15 years of software industry experience, leading start-ups and emerging technology companies in a variety of executive and senior management roles. His experience includes key roles at CapitalStream, WorldStream Communications, Troika Interactive, ATG and Epicore Software.

Tom began his career as a consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration and accounting from the University of Washington.

Bill Pieser — Vice President, Business Development

Bill brings more than 25 years of experience in enterprise software, business development, product development and operations to SchemaLogic, most recently as Executive Vice President, Business Development at CapitalStream.

Bill also served in Senior Management roles at Frame Technology (acquired by Adobe) and Epicor/Platinum Software. Prior to enterprise software he held product marketing and system architecture roles in the network management sector. Bill earned a bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from Thomas Edison College.