Dr. Khalid Sebti, Founder and CEO
Before founding CrossTest, Dr. Sebti served as VP of Business Development for WorldChain, a leading provider of software solutions for real-time visibility and control of manufacturing operations where he was instrumental in the company’s consistent growth. Prior to WorldChain, Dr. Sebti spent eight years at Oracle, serving in different management positions in business development and sales and was instrumental in the porting of Oracle's development platform for the Windows NT operating system. Dr. Sebti began his career in software development for Telelogic/Verilog, a market leader in design and test automation solutions for embedded and real-time 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).

John Hartman, Vice President Engineering
At CrossTest, John Hartman is responsible for all technical aspects of the CrossTest product line. He is a former 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.

Prior to Wind River, 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, Vice President Marketing
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 at Bell 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 the Product Management 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 .