Executive Management
Douglas Winter
Chief Executive Officer
Douglas is a founder and the CEO of Objectiva Software Solutions, a role he has held since 2001. Prior to founding Objectiva, he served as the General Manager for ONEWORLD Software Solutions’ California Client Service Centers. While at ONEWORLD, he served on the Global Executive Steering committee and helped oversee the company’s growth including establishing their center in Beijing, one of the Industry’s first.
Douglas served as the COO and a member of the Board of Directors of Document Sciences Company, (NASDAQ:DOCX) which he helped grow and sell to EMC As the COO, Douglas oversaw all aspects of operations including Product Development, Support, QA and Professional Services. At EMC, he served as the VP and GM of the Document Sciences Division for 2 years. Previously, he held operational and engineering positions at QUALCOMM, United Technologies and as an Instructor in the US Navy’s nuclear training program.
Douglas holds a MSEE and a MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BSEE from Virginia Tech.
Robert Corace
President
Robert is the President of Objectiva Software Solutions and is responsible for overseeing the company’s rapid growth, global sales, marketing, and operations. His duties also include Chief Client Officer for Objectiva’s strategic accounts. A proven industry sales, delivery, and outsourcing leader in the software, technology, e-commerce and financial services industries, Robert joined Objectiva from the international technology services company Symphony Services. Over four years there he led strategic consulting and the financial services, E-commerce and Information Services business units. Corace joined the company in 2006 as part of its acquisition of VMOplus, a consultancy specializing in globalization, SaaS and SOA, where he was founder and CEO. Prior, he held operational, sales and technical management positions at Thomson Reuters, PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM, W.R. Grace and Co., and Office Depot.
Robert has a Bachelor of Arts degree from DeVry University and continues his education at MIT and Babson College. He is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt, and is certified in PMI, Agile (Scrum Master) and Amazon Cloud.
Nasser Barghouti, PhD.
Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Barghouti is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Objectiva Software Solutions. He is responsible for Objectiva’s technology services vision, strategic account technical oversight (Client Trusted Advisor), Chief Architect for Objectiva’s strategic accounts, and setting the technology direction of the company. He was previously VP and CTO of EMC Document Sciences. Prior to founding Objectiva, he was Global Technology Director at Oneworld Software Solutions, a global software outsourcing provider. Prior to that, he was associate director of Information Technology at Bear Stearns & Co in New York City, one of the world’s leading investment banks and brokerage clearing houses. Previously, Dr. Barghouti was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Research Labs in Florham Park, NJ and Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ.
Dr. Barghouti received his BS, MS and PhD all in Computer Science from Columbia University in the City of New York in 1985, 1987 and 1992, respectively. His PhD thesis was titled “Concurrency Control in Rule-Based Software Environments”. Dr. Barghouti’s research interests are in the areas of software for the wireless Internet, enterprise middleware, large-scale software architecture, software process automation and improvement, concurrency control in database systems, and rule-based software systems. He has published dozens of papers in refereed journals and international conferences, and has given numerous presentations at leading research labs and scientific forums.
Yiping Tan, PhD.
Chief Operating Officer, General Manager China
Dr. Tan is Chief Operating Officer and General Manager for China operations at Objectiva Software Solutions. A co-founder, he is responsible for directing the company’s overall solution delivery strategy throughout its integrated network of global client services and software development centers in the US and China.
His areas of expertise include software development processes, principles, and framework (CMM, SPS); project leadership, mentorship, and management; object-oriented analysis, enterprise systems design, and programming (UML, Rational Rose, C++, WebLogic, WebSphere); and pattern recognition, statistical analysis of experimental data; and simulation of random processes (Monte Carlo).
Dr. Tan earned an Executive MBA in 2008 from Peking University. Earlier, he completed his studies at the Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, in Beijing, where he earned his Master’s and Doctoral degrees in 1991 and 1995, respectively. During that period, he also attended classes at Stanford University while completing his doctorate. The results of Dr. Tan’s research and thesis on Purely and Semi-Leptonic Decay of D_s Messon were published in many prestigious international Physics journals. He received his Bachelor’s degree in 1988 in Physics at Fudan University, Shanghai. He is also an Agile evangelist and initially championed Scrum within Objectiva Software Solutions.
Cecilia Young
Vice President, Human Resources and Administration
Cecilia is the Vice President of Human Resources and Administration for Objectiva Software Solutions. In this role, Cecilia is responsible for all aspects of HR, policy, strategy, and management. Her role is key to the development and future growth of Objectiva and our clients. In addition, she plays a key role in various company restructuring, professional certifications and business development initiatives. Under her leadership, Objectiva has achieved distinctive and sustainable track records of scalability and employee retention. This, she attributes to not only the effective Human Resources programs, but also the company culture which nurtures autonomy, team work, communication, creativity and innovation.
Prior to joining Objectiva, Cecilia held senior management and executive positions as VP of Human Resources & Administration of Chinacast Technology, a Sino-US joint venture in satellite systems; Regional Director of URC Consulting, a headhunting firm specializing in the high tech and IT industries; as well as Head of Human Resources & Administration of the Emperor Group, a business conglomerate of public companies. Cecilia joined Objectiva in 2005.
Cecilia was awarded a Bachelor’s degree of Arts (hons) and a Post-graduate Diploma in Business Management by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has also studied Business Administration at the University of Toronto and Telecommunications Management at the Centennial College of Toronto.