Executive Profiles

Biographies

Sohaib Abbasi

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

A 24-year enterprise software industry veteran, Sohaib Abbasi joined Informatica as president and CEO of Informatica in July 2004.  Prior to Informatica, Mr. Abbasi spent 20 years at Oracle Corporation where he was most recently a member of the Oracle's executive committee and was senior vice president of two major divisions, Oracle Tools and Oracle Education.  Mr. Abbasi joined Oracle Corporation in 1982 when it was a 30-person startup and was instrumental in growing the business from $4 million in annual revenues to over $9 billion in revenues and over 42,000 employees worldwide.  As part of his contribution, Mr. Abbasi envisioned and launched the Oracle Tools business, which he grew from zero to $3.75 billion in cumulative license revenues.  Mr. Abbasi graduated with honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1980, where he earned both a B.S. and an M.S. in computer science.
 

Earl E. Fry

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

A financial management veteran who has led the financial growth of successful public and private technology companies, Mr. Fry joined Informatica in January 2000 and reports directly to Informatica CEO Sohaib Abbasi.  Prior to joining Informatica, Mr. Fry served for four years as vice president and chief financial officer at Omnicell.com, a provider of supply chain management solutions to the healthcare industry. He previously held the position of vice president, CFO, and treasurer at C-ATS Software, a provider of risk-management products for global financial institutions, and CFO at Weitek Corporation, a semiconductor company. Mr. Fry began his career in public accounting with Ernst & Young. He received an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.B.A. in accounting from the University of Hawaii.
 

Girish Pancha

Executive Vice President and General Manager, Data Integration

Girish Pancha is General Manager for Informatica's Data Integration Business Unit. An early employee of Informatica, Mr. Pancha was vice president of engineering between 1996 and 1998.  In 2000, Mr. Pancha rejoined the company to oversee the direction of Informatica's award-winning enterprise data integration platform. Throughout his 20-year career, Mr. Pancha has focused on developing innovative products that address the challenge of providing integrated information as a mission-critical, enterprise-wide solution. Prior to assuming his role at Informatica, he co-founded and served as CEO of Zimba, a developer of mobile applications that provided integrated real-time access to corporate, personal, and business partner information. Earlier in his career, during an 8-year tenure at Oracle, Mr. Pancha held individual contributor and management positions in the development of Oracle's award-winning business intelligence tools, Oracle Browser and Oracle Discoverer. Mr. Pancha holds degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania.
 

Ivan Chong

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Data Quality

Ivan Chong is currently General Manager for Informatica's Data Quality Business Unit. He has also headed up Informatica's Product Marketing as well as worked in the Corporate Strategy group doing business development. For much of his career at Informatica, Ivan served as Vice President of Product Management. Mr. Chong is also a 6-year veteran of Oracle Corporation, where he held various product management positions for the Oracle Tools division and was awarded a patent in the area of database visualization. His experience also includes two years with internet advertising startup, NetGravity, a company that developed mission critical server products for high traffic commercial web sites. Mr. Chong has spoken at numerous user conferences both in the US and internationally. He graduated with undergraduate and graduate degrees from MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
 

Chris Boorman

Chief Marketing Officer

Mr. Boorman is responsible for Informatica's global voice to the market which includes corporate, partner, and field marketing. He joined Informatica with over 20 years of international marketing leadership experience at enterprise software category leaders including SDL, salesforce.com, VERITAS and Oracle. Most recently, Boorman was Chief Marketing Officer at SDL, a leading Global Information Management enterprise software vendor offering language translation technology and services. Prior to joining SDL, Boorman was vice president for EMEA marketing at salesforce.com, the worldwide leader in on-demand Customer Relationship Management services. Before salesforce.com, Boorman led EMEA marketing for nearly a decade at the leading enterprise software vendor, VERITAS. He also held various positions in Consulting, Pre-Sales Support and Product Marketing during his 10-year tenure at Oracle. Additionally, Boorman was a founding board member of the European Storage Networking Industry Association as well as a board member of the Fibre Channel Industry. Boorman attended Southampton University in the UK earning a Doctorate in Magnetism and Engineering, a Masters Degree in Cryogenics and Applications and a First Class Honors Bachelors degree in Physics.
 

Paul J. Hoffman

Executive Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations

Reporting to Informatica president and CEO Sohaib Abbasi, Mr. Hoffman leads Informatica's sales, alliances, professional services and education services organization across the Americas, EMEA, Asia-Pacific and Japan. With a 30-year track record of leading high-growth sales organizations, Mr. Hoffman joined Informatica from Cassatt Corporation, an infrastructure software company, where he served as the executive vice president of worldwide sales. Prior to Cassatt, Mr. Hoffman was president of the Americas sales and field operations organization at SeeBeyond Technology Corporation. He previously served as vice president of worldwide sales at Documentum, the global leader in document and content management solutions, helping grow the company's revenues by nearly 300 percent. Mr. Hoffman also spent 10 years at Oracle Corporation in senior sales management and executive-level positions, including the vice president of worldwide operations. Mr. Hoffman holds a B.S. in finance from Fairfield University.
 

James Markarian

Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Markarian serves as senior vice president and chief technology officer of Informatica with responsibility for the strategic direction of Informatica's products. Mr. Markarian joined Informatica in 1998 from Oracle where he served for ten years in a number of roles. Prior to joining Informatica, Mr. Markarian was architect of the Oracle Tools Division, where he held responsibility for cross-product architectural planning and integration decisions. He also served on Oracle's Architecture Review Board. Mr. Markarian earned a B.A. in computer science and economics and an M.A. in economics from Boston University.