our people
The Enthiosys team comprises some of the world’s leading experts in agile product management – approaches that maximize the success of software or products that have become dependent on software. Our people have published books, written articles in top publications, been quoted in leading newspapers and magazines, and presented at major conferences.
Luke Hohmann, founder and CEO
Scott Gilbert, president
Rich Mironov, chief marketing officer
Dan O’Leary, chief technical officer
Peter Hodgkins, roadmapping practice manager
Luke Hohmann, founder and CEO
Luke is a recognized expert on agile product management of software products and a former senior software product manager at four companies. He is also the author of three books and numerous articles on software product management. He is also a frequent speaker at software and other industry events.
Before founding Enthiosys in 2003, Luke was vice president of business development in the U.S. for Aladdin Knowledge Systems; vice president of engineering and product development at Aurigin Systems Inc.; education technical director at ObjectSpace Inc.; and vice president of systems engineering at EDS Fleet Services.
He loves his job, and is happiest when he’s helping his clients build great products and services. He’s especially enjoys watching clients get excited about creating new products and services as the result of playing Innovation Games® with their customers, integrating these into new product development practices, and creating them through architecturally sustainable Agile methods.
Luke’s counsel is sought far and wide. He is currently a member of the Agile Alliance, having been involved for more than a decade in the Agile community. He has been a featured presenter at numerous conferences including the Software Development Best Practices 2006 and 2007 conferences, The Spring Experience, and The Better Software Conference & Expo. He has also been a guest lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Information. He is a member of the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the IEEE.
Luke graduated magna cum laude with a B.S.E. in computer engineering and an M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. In addition to data structures and artificial intelligence, he studied cognitive psychology and organizational behavior. He is also a former National Junior Pairs Figure Skating Champion, as well as a certified aerobics instructor. In his spare time, Luke likes roughhousing with his four kids and his wife’s cooking. He also enjoys long runs in the Santa Cruz mountains to burn off his wife’s cooking. lhohmann@enthiosys.com.
Scott Gilbert, president
Scott joined Enthiosys in 2006 after nine years in large, multinational organizations, technology startups and his own consulting firm. He is an expert in Agile software product management, business planning, project management and business development.
He has worked in a variety of high-tech sectors including enterprise software, aerospace and defense, satellite communications and interactive media. Before coming to Enthiosys, for three years Scott was an independent consultant to Technology Ventures Corp. On behalf of TVC, he provided consulting services to early-stage technology startups, developed and delivered a highly successful entrepreneurial training program, and managed the firm’s California board of advisors. He helped his clients raise more than $11 million in venture and angel capital.
Before becoming an independent consultant, Scott was a co-founder and director of marketing at Inferscape, a software company specializing in predictive analytics. He was in charge of developing the firm’s strategy, establishing partnerships, securing beta customers, conducting market research and working with engineering to define and prioritize the initial product requirements.
Prior to Inferscape, he was a consultant with BearingPoint’s High Technology Strategy Practice and Digital Media Incubator. He advised clients on how to commercialize technology, develop new markets, and create effective business plans. His clients ranged from Fortune 500 companies to startups, and government agencies from NASA and the Department of Defense to the Department of Energy.
For three years, he was a volunteer and board member of the Northern California chapter of the Product Development and Management Association. Scott holds BBA degrees in marketing management and international management from the University of New Mexico, received his ScrumMaster certification in 2006, and Scrum Product Owner and Scrum Practitioner certifications in 2008.
sgilbert@enthiosys.com
Rich Mironov, chief marketing officer
Rich is a software product strategist and veteran of four high-tech startups. He is considered one of the pre-eminent experts on software product management and marketing. He joined Enthiosys in July 2007 and heads its marketing and business development activities.
Rich started his technology industry career in 1981 as a software engineer at Hewlett-Packard. He managed networking products for six years at Tandem Computers, including launching the firm’s TCP/IP offering. He then joined Sybase to oversee the product team responsible for making the firm’s database software run on more than 40 operating systems. In the mid-1990s, Rich created and managed Sybase’s Internet Products Group, whose web.sql product was the first commercial solution for dynamic linking of Web pages with databases.
After Sybase, he worked at four Silicon Valley companies: Wayfarer Communications (acquired by Vantive in 1998), iPass (where he headed product management and product marketing), Slam Dunk Networks (VP of marketing) and AirMagnet (VP of marketing), the latter of which is the leader in wi-fi security analysis and remote troubleshooting.
Prior to joining Enthiosys, Rich had consulted to more than 20 large and small technology companies on business strategy, product strategy and market analysis. He also has been an interim vice president of marketing and product management at some of these firms.
Author of the popular newsletter on technology product strategy, Product Bytes, Rich is a highly sought after speaker and writer on technology and technology product strategy. He is on the faculty of the Executive Development Center at the University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a peer reviewer for the California Management Review. In addition, he serves as VP Marketing for the Northern California Product Development and Management Association (Norcal PDMA).
Rich has an M.B.A. from Stanford University, where he was named an Arjay Miller Scholar (top 10% of the graduating class), and a B.S. degree in physics from Yale University (with a thesis on dinosaur extinction theories).
rmironov@enthiosys.com
Peter Hodgkins, Roadmapping Practice Manager
Peter brings more than 15 years of technology and program leadership to Enthiosys, where he is responsible for the firm’s strategic Roadmapping practice. He is one of the first industry experts to implement and manage multi-project / multi-location agile program management, including the creation roadmaps-of-roadmaps for complex division-level planning.
Most recently, Peter was a senior manager at VeriSign, where he led that company’s worldwide Engineering Project Management Initiative. This included leadership for cross-functional multinational project teams, and pioneering techniques for coordinating agile software development across many time zones. In this role, he defined and deployed agile methodologies that reduced development time by 30%. Peter was also head of VeriSign’s Agilist Group.
Earlier, he was Director of Client Engagements at Telefónica Data in Miami, a division of the world’s sixth largest telecom carrier, and was Chief Technology Officer for Access International (Cambridge, MA). He started his career in the UK, working on information systems at Sporting Index Holdings plc and Duckhams Oils, a subsidiary of BP Amoco.
Peter’s repeated successes on the front lines of software development and corporate IT have earned him the admiration of his colleagues on both sides of the Atlantic. His advice and experience are frequently sought. As a mentor and instructor, he is helping train the current generation of agile product/program/development managers.
Peter earned a Post-Graduate Diploma (Master’s Degree) in Information Technology from De Montford University (Leicester, UK) and a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nottingham Trent University.
Dan O’Leary, Chief Technical Officer
Dan joins Enthiosys with over 20 years experience in commercial software experience including 10 years focused on mission critical enterprise software products.
At Callidus Software, Dan was a member of the initial engineering team where he focused on building a high performance rule-based enterprise incentive management system (TrueComp) currently in use by over 150 global enterprises. He was a member of the initial engineering team and as individual contributor delivered the architecture and product feature set for 2 major releases then lead a group of up to 50 engineers through 4 major releases supporting customers across manufacturing, telecommunications, life sciences, banking, financial services and insurance verticals.
Prior to Callidus, Dan was a staff engineer at Sun Microsystems where he designed and built development tools supporting Java/C++ development as well as a multi-site configuration management system (TeamWare) used by the Solaris development team in addition to many other external customers. Dan holds four software patents related to his work at Sun. At EDS Research Labs, he worked on an object oriented development language and environment supporting rule-based expert systems development.
Dan has a M.S.E. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and a B.S. in Computer Science with honors (summa cum laude) from Western Michigan University.
Enthiosys Senior Consultants
To provide superior expertise on agile product management to our clients, we have more than a dozen senior consultants and industry veterans engaged with clients on important projects. As a group, Enthiosys senior consultants have more than two centuries of technology and product expertise.