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  To redefine quality and economics for device software application testing by automating the tedious and error-prone steps – test design, test generation, test execution, regression testing, and results analysis  
  To empower the software teams to build quality in, instead of testing bugs out - resulting in improved quality, faster time-to-market and lower software lifecycle costs.
 
 
 

Leadership Team

 
   
Dr. Khalid Sebti
Founder and CEO

Dr. Sebti leads product strategy and customer engagements at CrossTest. He brings more than 20 years of experience in infrastructure software, middleware, development tools and business applications. His roles have included engineering, sales and business development.
Prior to founding CrossTest, Dr. Sebti served as VP of Business Development for WorldChain (acquired by Sterling Commerce), a SaaS provider of supply chain software where he was responsible for
securing large orders from OEM customers.
Prior to WorldChain, Dr. Sebti spent eight years at Oracle, serving in different management positions in business development and sales. He was instrumental in the success of Oracle in the Windows NT market and in the CRM space. Dr. Sebti began his career in software development for Verilog (acquired by IBM), a market leader in design and test automation solutions for embedded systems.

Dr. Sebti holds a PhD and M.S. in Computer Science from the French Aeronautical and Space Engineering School and an MBA from the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD).

Peter Osborne
Board Member

Peter Osborne has served as a Director of CrossTest since its inception.  Mr. Osborne was previously the Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Finance and Administration, and Treasurer of VNUS (NASDAQ: VNUS) which was recently sold to a large public multinational company. Prior to joining VNUS in October 2007, Mr. Osborne served many international public companies in senior financial executive roles which included the participation in the sale of Mercury Interactive to HP in 2007.  Mr. Osborne began his professional career with Deloitte & Touche LLP and was a Partner through September 2000.

Mr. Osborne is a Certified Public Accountant and holds both a B.S. in Operations Research and a Bachelor of Commerce in finance and statistics from the University of Cape Town in Cape Town South Africa, as well as having completed the Stanford University Executive Institute Program sponsored by the American Electronics Association.

John Hartman
Product Engineering Advisor

John currently serves as advisor to CrossTest on engineering matters. Earlier in his career, John was Senior Director at Wind River Systems where he spent eight years in product development. As co-creator and strategist for the successful Tornado product line that revolutionized embedded systems development and fueled Wind River's 40% annual compound growth, Mr. Hartman built and led the organizations responsible for the Tornado IDE, Compilers, Runtime Visualization, SDKs, Strategic Partner Integrations and University Programs.
John also spent time as VP of Engineering at CrossTest where he was is responsible for all technical aspects of the CrossTest product line.
Prior to CrossTest, Mr. Hartman spent over a decade in real-time embedded software development with Varian where he was the system architect for Varian's family of chromatography instruments.

Mr. Hartman has a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and has completed the Executive Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.


Ram Melkote
Product Marketing Advisor

Ram has over 20 years of cross functional experience in the IT industry across IT applications, service management, SOA , BPM, Middleware, Databases, and Systems Management. His experience has spanned Product Management, Marketing, Product Development, Architecture, and Consulting. He has served as the VP of Marketing at CrossTest where his duties included Product Management, and Business Developement. 
Ram's experience includes product management at CA where he has managed the product strategy for the CMDB and allied service management and operational tools. Ram spent six years at Oracle, where he was the Director of Product Management for the Application Server product. At IBM, Ram was an architect for its premier object oriented package and atBell for an advanced Intelligent Networking product. Prior to CrossTest, Ram co-founded Phulaxis, a company that monitors business and technology controls across enterprise application systems, where he headed Product Management/Marketing and Business Development.

Ram has an MS in Engineering from Cornell, an MS in Computer Science from Columbia , a B. Tech in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), and an MBA from University of Chicago
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