Ted Cocheu launched Altus in 1998. As Chief Executive Officer in charge of strategic and technical direction, he brings decades of leadership, management and industry insight to the company. His innovative thinking and disciplined execution have been driving forces behind the company's sustained success.

Prior to founding Altus, Cocheu co-founded gForce Systems . The company was later acquired by Docent and then SumTotal. Prior to this, he was principal consultant for Performance Technologies, where he led reengineering projects for Cisco's next generation software release process and Octel's product development lifecycle prior to its acquisition by Lucent.

Cocheu founded the Seagate Institute of Technology and pioneered techniques used in transferring technical knowledge and skills to Far East manufacturing operations. He built his corporate learning capabilities while serving as the director of corporate learning at Conner Peripherals, director of corporate operations training at Unisys, and manager of manufacturing training at Memorex. Cocheu also wrote the popular book, Making Quality Happen: How Training Can Turn Strategy into Real Improvement, published by Jossey-Bass.

Cocheu has authored and published dozens of industry articles and has presented at numerous national and international conferences as a thought leader on workplace learning strategy and technology. He serves on the Board of the eLearning Forum and was past President of the American Society for Training and Development, Silicon Valley chapter. Cocheu has been a guest lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, National University and National Technological University. He earned his BA and MA from the University of California

Sebastian Grady is Chief Operating Officer of Altus where he's responsible for overall business development and customer satisfaction management. Grady brings nearly two decades of management and IT experience to the company, with a successful track record in customer service, enterprise software sales, rapid organizational growth and corporate leadership.

Prior to joining Altus, Grady was President and Chief Operating Officer of Saba Software (NASDAQ: SABA), a leading Human Capital Management software company, where he grew revenue from $18M to $54M during his first year. As Vice President and General Manager of the Customer Sales Division at PeopleSoft, recently acquired by Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL), he grew a $75M business to more than $600M in a four-year period. Grady's leadership, direction and oversight helped produce the company's fastest-growing, largest business unit. As Vice President of Customer Services at PeopleSoft, he achieved the highest customer satisfaction rating in the Enterprise Software Industry.

Grady began his career with Andersen Consulting in 1987, directing large information systems projects for Fortune 500 clients in the fast-paced telecommunications industry. He earned his BS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Mark Pollard is Vice President of Marketing and Business Development where he is responsible for all inbound, outbound and corporate marketing and business development activities. Mark brings more than 20 years of direct and indirect sales and marketing experience with early stage as well as Fortune 500 companies. Mark has a strong track record of successful company exits including multiple company public offerings and acquisitions.

Pollard joined Altus from Silicon Valley Management Partners, a management consulting and M&A advisory firm which he co-founded in 2007. Prior to Silicon Valley Management Partners, Pollard was Vice President of Marketing for Adaptec’s Storage Systems Division, where he was responsible for all storage systems and software products. Prior to Adaptec, Mark co-founded network attached storage startup Snap Appliance which was formed in 2001, quickly became the industry network attached storage (NAS) volume leader and was purchased by Adaptec in 2004 for $105M.

Mark has also held executive sales, marketing and business development positions at Netigy, Maxtor, Connex/Western Digital, Conner Peripherals and Seagate. Pollard holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University.

Prashanth Honnavalli is Vice President of Engineering for Altus responsible for overall product development and software delivery. Prashanth brings over seventeen years of experience in directing successful product rollouts in large software companies like Oracle and startups like Asera, Opsware and Kazeon.

Prior to Altus, Prashanth was a Director at Kazeon Inc, an enterprise search startup where he was responsible for delivering all of the applications using Web 2.0 technologies and revamping the entire user experience. Prior to Kazeon, Prashanth worked at Opsware Inc. and was instrumental in delivering the next generation data center product suite and first localized version of the product. In addition, he was successful in creating a SOA architecture for exposing web services to enable 3rd party integrations.

Prashanth worked at Oracle Corp for over 5 years managing various ERP, Supply Chain and BI product teams. He started his career at Tata Unisys as a software engineer in 1991. He earned his BS in Computer Science from Bangalore University, India.

As the Director of Finance and Administration at Altus, Janet is responsible for all financial reporting, internal processes and procedures. She manages the Human Resources department as well as staffing for administration. She brings over two decades of financial and business management experience to the company, with a successful track record in maintaining a high level of corporate organization and teamwork. Her experience in business building within start-up and rapidly growing organizations is a key element in Altus' plans for the future.

Prior to joining Altus, Janet was Controller at NeoScale Systems, and Speedera Networks, instrumental in financial planning and paving the way for Speedera's acquisition by Akamai in 2005. She has a diverse base of experience running her own financial and business management consulting firm and started her career as Vice President of a Silicon Valley Construction Corporation.

Tim Hughan is Director of Marketing at Altus Learning, responsible for executing Altus' product, services and company vision in all customer and product communications. Tim brings over 15 years experience delivering successful and compelling marketing programs to a variety of audiences.

Prior to joining Altus Learning, Tim worked for a variety of companies including Apple, Hyperion (now Oracle), Schlumberger, Solix and Benjamin/Cumming Publishing in both individual contributor and management roles in marketing communications, advertising, and lead generation roles. Tim is an alumnus of CSU, Chico and holds a degree in Instructional Design.

Thomas J. Jones is Director of Customer Service and Support at Altus, responsible for ensuring our customers (and our customers' customers) have a great experience with the Altus line of products. With over two decades of support (customer, IT, datacenter) experience, Thomas has the experience and knowledge to help customers through issues very quickly with polite, friendly customer service as a high priority.

Before coming to Altus Learning, Thomas worked for a number of companies including Symantec and NaviSite in a variety of support and support management roles from working directly with end users of products to managing multiple support teams of engineers for hosted customer infrastructures within a 25,000 sq ft datacenter. Thomas is an alumnus of UCSC and holds a degree in Physics.

Brian McCartney is Director of Production Services at Altus Learning, responsible for ensuring client content recorded, processed and posted as quickly and efficiently as possible while maintaining a high standard of quality.

Brian's history in visual media goes back as far as his childhood. His father was an early pioneer in broadcast television so the technology of the times surrounded him in his home. Now Brian is taking that same spirit forward in to new media. In the mid 90s he started small production company focusing on medical and educational video with clients like Pioneer Electronics and Tenet Healthcare.

Prior to working at Altus Learning, Brian was production manager at Pixelon, a flashy internet video startup in the early days of streaming media. After Pixelon, Brian was Master Control Supervisor at a iBeam Broadcasting, helping to implement and run a multi-million dollar Master Control Room serving clients like MTV, VH1, NFL Films, and the Golf Channel.

Jon Merripen is Director of IT and SaaS Infrastructure at Altus, responsible for ensuring our IT and SaaS Infrastructure meet the demands of our customer base with a level head and calm demeanor. Jon's extensive knowledge of back-office, security, and IT Operations make him essential to our mission of delivering on demand content via the always on Altus vPortal.

Before coming to Altus Learning, Jon worked at LinkedIn, as Lead Unix Systems administrator, building out a highly scalable infrastructure, and Avici Systems, as IT director, helping to design a network capable of testing core-class switch-routers. Prior to that, Jon worked as director of computer services for UMASS' engineering department for 10 years, designing the college's network and email infrastructure and writing its first spam filtering software. Jon attended the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught several computer science courses.