Ted Cocheu launched Altus365 in 1998. As Chief Executive Officer in charge of strategic and technical direction, he brings decades of leadership, management and industry insight to the company. His innovative thinking and disciplined execution have been driving forces behind the company's sustained success.

Prior to founding Altus365, Cocheu co-founded gForce Systems . The company was later acquired by Docent and then SumTotal. Prior to this, he was principal consultant for Performance Technologies, where he led reengineering projects for Cisco's next generation software release process and Octel's product development life cycle prior to its acquisition by Lucent.

Cocheu founded the Seagate Institute of Technology and pioneered techniques used in transferring technical knowledge and skills to Far East manufacturing operations. He built his corporate learning capabilities while serving as the director of corporate learning at Conner Peripherals, director of corporate operations training at Unisys, and manager of manufacturing training at Memorex. Cocheu also wrote the popular book, Making Quality Happen: How Training Can Turn Strategy into Real Improvement, published by Jossey-Bass.

Cocheu has authored and published dozens of industry articles and has presented at numerous national and international conferences as a thought leader on workplace learning strategy and technology. He serves on the Board of the eLearning Forum and was past President of the American Society for Training and Development, Silicon Valley chapter. Cocheu has been a guest lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, National University and National Technological University. He earned his BA and MA from the University of California

Mark Pollard is Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing where he is responsible for all inbound, outbound and corporate marketing and sales development activities. Mark brings more than 20 years of direct and indirect sales and marketing experience with early stage as well as Fortune 500 companies. Mark has a strong track record of successful company exits including multiple company public offerings and acquisitions.

Pollard joined Altus365 from Silicon Valley Management Partners, a management consulting and M&A advisory firm which he co-founded in 2007. Prior to Silicon Valley Management Partners, Pollard was Vice President of Marketing for Adaptec’s Storage Systems Division, where he was responsible for all storage systems and software products. Prior to Adaptec, Mark co-founded network attached storage start-up Snap Appliance which was formed in 2001, quickly became the industry network attached storage (NAS) volume leader and was purchased by Adaptec in 2004 for $105M.

Mark has also held executive sales, marketing, and business development positions at Netigy, Maxtor, Connex/Western Digital, Conner Peripherals, and Seagate. Pollard holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University.

Krishna Menon comes to Altus365 with 20+ years of experience in Product Development most of which have been in the development of video related technologies. Most recently he was VP of Product Development at Syabas where he was responsible for developing mass consumer media players. Prior to that he was SVP of Product Development at Mesoft where he was responsible for developing enterprise based video workflow solutions. Before that, Krishna was Director of Applications Development for IPTV at Microsoft, where he was responsible for the development of the tools and applications to differentiate the IPTV Edition platform. Krishna’s experience also includes several years leading Engineering organizations responsible for developing collaborative video workflow solutions for Broadcast TV and Sports Organizations. Krishna was at Pinnacle Systems (which was acquired by Avid Technology) where he was Director of Engineering responsible for developing workflow solutions for 24x7 Broadcast News operations. These systems are installed at CNN, TWC, and several other Broadcast organizations worldwide. Prior to Pinnacle Systems, he was part of the founding team of Avid Sports Inc. which developed video analysis technologies for Professional and Collegiate sports organizations. At Avid Sports, Krishna was responsible for all aspects of Engineering. Prior to Avid Sports, Krishna served in a variety of software development positions at Avid Technology and Cadence Systems. Krishna holds a Master's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin.

As the Director of Finance and Administration at Altus365, Janet is responsible for all financial reporting, internal processes and procedures. She manages the Human Resources department as well as staffing for administration. She brings over two decades of financial and business management experience to the company, with a successful track record in maintaining a high level of corporate organization and teamwork. Her experience in business building within start-up and rapidly growing organizations is a key element in Altus365' plans for the future.

Prior to joining Altus365, Janet was Controller at NeoScale Systems, and Speedera Networks, instrumental in financial planning and paving the way for Speedera's acquisition by Akamai in 2005. She has a diverse base of experience running her own financial and business management consulting firm and started her career as Vice President of a Silicon Valley Construction Corporation.