The Business Value of Patterns

Pattern Insight focuses on delivering powerful solutions for software development, quality assurance, and the customer support teams responsible for combing through prohibitively massive volumes of information to answer questions like:

• Where else does this bug exist in our code?
• How are these two code branches different?
• Why did this system crash?

One of the first applications of Pattern Insight’s data mining technology was an analysis of the Linux kernel. Pattern Insight identified that 26% of the code in the Linux Kernel was replicated. More importantly, the analysis generated a list of bugs that were verified by Linux developers and addressed throughout the Kernel – substantially increasing the stability that Linux is famous for.

Pattern Insight is based on innovation from a research group led by Professor Zhou at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Motivated by various inquiries from companies about their research prototypes, Zhou and three former members of her research group, Zhenmin Li, Spiros Xanthos, Qingbo Zhu, founded the company in Sept 2006, funded in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation. The company was initially named CleanMake and was based in Champaign, Illinois until Jan 2008 when the company moved its headquarter to San Jose and changed its name to Pattern Insight.

Our Management Team

Nick Berens, President and Chief Executive Officer

Nick brings more than 20 years of experience in sales, marketing, and general management to Pattern Insight. Nick was previously CEO of Codefast inc., a successful start up recently sold to Coverity. In 1999, Nick was a founding executive of Catapulse Software, the leader in Internet-based software development solutions, where he ran the field sales department. Catapulse was sold to Rational Software for $612 million in 2001 and Nick rejoined the Rational executive team, where he had served as a senior vice president for corporate development from 1992 until Rational was sold to IBM in 2003. Prior to Rational, Nick held various sales and marketing positions at Ingres Corporation and AT&T. Nick has Bachelors and Masters degrees from Santa Clara University and Pepperdine University respectively.

Yuanyuan Zhou, Chief Technology Officer and Founder

Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Pattern Insight. She is an associate professor in Computer Science at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she has led many years of pioneering research in system data mining, system reliability and system management. In 2000, she was a co-founder of Emphora Inc on storage systems. She has also worked at NEC Research Lab as a scientist, and StorageNetworks as a director of engineering. She was the recipient of National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Alfred Sloan Fellowship Award, IBM Faculty Award, Computer Research Association Anita Borg Career Award, Department of Energy Early Career Award and UIUC Gear Faculty Award. YuanYuan has published more than 70 research papers and holds several patents. She obtained her Ph.D and M.S in computer science from Princeton University.

John Lovitt, Vice President of Sales

John has over 25 years of experience in sales, marketing and general management experience in the software development market. Prior to joining Pattern Insight, John was the SVP of Field Operations for Rational Software, which included responsibility for World Wide Sales, Support and Professional Services. John joined Rational as their first sales rep and grew the organization to over 1800 sales and technical sales professionals, overseeing several key acquisitions and leading the organization to annual sales of over $700 million annually. Before joining Rational, John was a Regional Sales Manager for Hewlett Packard.

Gita Gupta, Vice President of Marketing

Gita Gupta brings 16 years of enterprise software marketing experience to Pattern Insight. Her world class marketing expertise has been built through past senior leadership positions at Agitar, Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP and she brings an understanding of business requirements for technology, product and field marketing. Gita’s broad experience includes product management, solution strategies, go-to-market positioning and execution and enterprise software, giving her a leadership role in many transformational technology developments. From her tenure at SAP, where Gita led the team focused on field marketing for strategic new products as vice president of global field marketing, to her most recent position as vice president of marketing for Agitar Software, Gita now brings her considerable expertise and enthusiasm to Pattern Insight.

Our Board

• Yuanyuan Zhou - CTO and Founder, Pattern Insight
• Nick Berens - President and CEO, Pattern Insight
• John Lovitt - VP of Sales, Pattern Insight
• Kai Li – Founder, Data Domain and Professor of Computer Science, Princeton
• Winslow Sargeant - Managing Director, Venture Investors