JDA Software - The Supply Chain Company

JDA Executive Team

Together, our executive and senior management teams are dedicated to further strengthening JDA’s standing as the leading global solution provider for the retail industry. We also appreciate the expertise and counsel of our Board of Directors.

JDA - Executive Team


Hamish Brewer, President and Chief Executive Officer
  • Promoted in August 2003 to current position responsible for overseeing all aspects of JDA and developing company strategy. The Company’s Executive Vice President/CFO, Executive Vice President of Services and Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing report directly to Brewer.
  • Prior positions include President from 2001 to 2003; Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales from 2000 to 2001; Senior Vice President, Enterprise Systems, from 1999 to 2000; Senior Vice President, International, from 1998 to 1999; and Vice President, Europe, Middle East & Africa Operations from 1996 to 1998. Joined JDA’s UK office as an account manager in 1994 with a focus on sales and marketing.
  • Prior to JDA, worked for eight years at IBM as a retail specialist in sales and marketing. Also worked at a retailer in England with responsibilities for operations, information management, and stock control.
  • Education: B.Sc. in Production Engineering and a B.Com. in Economics from the University of Birmingham, UK.
Peter S. Hathaway, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

  • Joined JDA in 2009 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer with more than 30 years of financial management and leadership experience.
  • Prior to JDA, spent 14 years with Allied Waste Industries, Inc. Most recently served as Executive Vice President and CFO at Allied Waste. Held increasingly senior level roles in finance and accounting, including Chief Accounting Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance before promotion to CFO in 2003. During his tenure, played a leadership role in Allied Waste’s growth of revenue from $100 million to over $6 billion with the acquisition of over 300 private and publicly held businesses, including the $4-billion dollar acquisition of Browning-Ferris Industries in 1999 and the merger of Allied Waste with Republic Services in December 2008.
  • Hathaway’s leadership in governance, compliance and reporting helped Allied Waste earn the unsolicited recognition as one of "America’s Most Trustworthy Companies" and Audit Integrity for transparent governance, financial statements and conservative accounting practices, sponsored by Forbes magazine.
  • Other previous positions include Controller and Finance Director for Browning Ferris Industries and Senior Manager at Arthur Andersen LLP.
  • Education: B.B.A. from Northern Arizona University; Certified Public Accountant.
Tom Dziersk, Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing
  • Promoted to Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, in April 2011 with management responsibilities for global software sales for JDA’s three geographic regions and major industry segments, global marketing and alliances, and JDA’s pricing and revenue management business unit.
  • Joined JDA in August 2006 to assume the Senior Vice President, Americas position, bringing with him over 20 years of experience in the retail and supply chain enterprise software market.
  • Prior to JDA, spent five years as President and Chief Executive Officer for ClearOrbit, Inc. Successfully re-branded and re-positioned the company, as well as its product and services offerings.
  • Other previous positions include a variety of senior management as well as sales and marketing positions at several emerging technology companies, including Essentus International, Inc. (formerly Richter Systems) and JBA International, Inc (a major ERP software provider).
  • Education: B.A. in Economics with a minor in Computer Science, University of Michigan.
David Gai, Executive Vice President, Services
  • Joined JDA in July 2011 as Executive Vice President, Services and is responsible for JDA’s global services organization, including professional services, managed services and support.
  • Prior to JDA, spent two years at EMC where he was Vice President, Worldwide Services for the company’s content management and archival division.
  • Prior to EMC he worked at BEA Systems as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Services (2004-2008) and as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Customer Support (2003-2004).
  • Served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Equitant (2001-2003) and has also held senior management positions at Hewlett-Packard Services and Myers-Holum.
  • Education: B.A. in Computer Science Software Engineering, California State University of Sacramento; 2005 graduate of the Stanford Executive Institute.
David King, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Product Development and Management
  • Promoted in December 2010 to Executive Vice President of Product Development and Management.
  • Joined JDA in January 2004 as Senior Vice President of Product Development to drive product delivery and the overall product development organization, and assumed additional responsibility for Product Management in August 2009.
  • Previously served in numerous executive positions in product development including Vice President of Product Planning at Geac (Comshare), a business performance management solutions provider, and Senior Vice President of Product Development and Chief Technology Officer for Comshare, the original developer of Arthur™ planning applications that JDA acquired in 1998.
  • Serves on industrial advisory boards for MIS at the University of Georgia and the International Academy of Advanced Decision Support at the Peter Kiewit Institute of Technology. Authored over fifty articles and books and co-authored Electronic Commerce 2004 (Prentice Hall) and The Strategy Gap (Wiley, 2003).
  • Education: Ph.D. in Sociology with minor in Mathematical Statistics, University of North Carolina.

Senior Management Team


Andy Archer, Regional Vice President, Pricing and Revenue Management Group
  • Promoted in August 2009 to Regional Vice President, Pricing and Revenue Management Group, responsible for leading the global business unit. In this role, Archer leads the unit’s sales and services activities and software development for JDA’s cutting-edge Revenue Management solutions.
  • Joined JDA as part of the Manugistics acquisition in 2006, where he served as Head of the EMEA region and formerly Vice President, Travel, Transport and Hospitality.
  • Prior to Manugistics, Archer served as Director of Consulting Services for Talus Solutions, a leading provider of Revenue Management and Price Optimization technology. Talus Solutions was previously acquired by Manugistics.
  • Former positions include various consulting and management roles at companies such as SSA Global and Emerson Electric Corporation.
  • Education: BSc (Honors) in Materials Science, University of Nottingham.
Brian Boylan, Senior Vice President, Human Resources
  • Promoted in March, 2007 to Senior Vice President, Human Resources, responsible for leading JDA’s global human resources organization.
  • Joined JDA in 2005, bringing more than 20 years of leadership experience in human resources.
  • Prior to joining JDA, was a principal in Alliance HR Advisors, a human resources consulting firm. Served as Senior Vice President of Legal Affairs and Human Resources for Asarco Incorporated, where he spent 16 years in various executive and management roles. Former Assistant General Counsel for New York City Labor Relations Office.
  • Education: Juris Doctor degree, Brooklyn Law School; BBA, Pace University in New York.
G. Michael Bridge, Senior Vice President, General Counsel
  • Promoted in August 2004 to Senior Vice President and in March 2008 added Corporate Secretary responsibilities to those of worldwide legal affairs. As Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary responsibilities include: software licensing, corporate governance, securities compliance and strategic alliances.
  • Coordinates legal aspects of JDA’s successful growth through acquisition strategy. Completed nine acquisitions since joining the company as Vice President and General Counsel in 1999.
  • Prior to JDA, spent eight years as primary corporate counsel for three technology companies. Successfully completed $130 million in acquisitions. Other previous experience includes corporate and securities associate attorney with Piper Rudnick, LLP in Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Education: Juris Doctor degree, Cornell University; B.A. degree, University of Southern California.
Razat Gaurav, Senior Vice President, Europe, Middle East and Africa
  • Joined JDA as part of the i2 acquisition in 2010, and serves as Senior Vice President, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Gaurav brings vast international experience to JDA along with demonstrated deep domain expertise in both retail and manufacturing supply chains. 
  • At i2 Gaurav served in various leadership roles with responsibility for revenue and market share growth, including leading all sales, presales and business development activities across the Americas and EMEA regions. In this role, he also managed partner and alliance relationships and guided solution and industry roadmap development. Gaurav previously led i2’s Global Logistics Business Unit responsible for overall go-to-market and transportation solution strategy.  He also served in various roles across product management, solutions marketing and strategic consulting services functions.
  • Prior to i2, Gaurav worked as a management consultant at Ernst & Young’s supply chain and logistics practice. In this role, he worked with several manufacturing, retail, third-party logistics and telecommunications companies on process improvement and strategy engagements to help drive cost reduction, service level improvement and revenue growth.
  • Education: B.S. in Engineering and Transportation Policy, Illinois Institute of Technology.
David Johnston, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain
  • Promoted in April 2007 to current position responsible for strengthening executive level relationships with JDA’s manufacturing, wholesale, and distribution customers and key prospects.
  • Previously served as Vice President of Forecasting and Replenishment Solutions responsible for the strategic direction and business development of JDA’s forecasting and replenishment solution offerings.
  • Prior to JDA, held a number of positions at E3 Associates, including Vice President of Industry Marketing and Partner Relationships and Vice President of Product Development.
  • Prior to E3, worked for six years at IBM in the development organization responsible for IBM’s mainframe forecasting and replenishment solutions. Also worked at a department store retailer responsible for merchandising and replenishment systems.
  • Education: Louisiana State University and University of New Orleans, Computer Science.
Salil Joshi, Senior Vice President, Center of Excellence
  • Promoted in December 2010 to Senior Vice President, Center of Excellence (CoE), responsible for leading and overseeing the development and growth of all departments.
  • Previously served as Regional Vice President and Managing Director, CoE, from 2008 to 2010, and as Group Vice President, Product Development from 2006 to 2008, where he led the development of JDA’s Replenishment and Transportation solutions.
  • Joined JDA as part of the Manugistics acquisition in 2006 where he served as Vice President and Managing Director, established the India Development Center in 2004 and was responsible for all aspects of the operation including recruitment, training, delivery and quality of supply chain products. Held several positions of growing responsibility in product development since joining Manugistics in 1997.
  • Prior to Manugistics, Joshi held various consulting and management roles at ACNielsen and Marlborough Sterling Group.
  • Education: M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland.
Raghav Keshav, Chief Product Officer
  • Appointed to position in October 2010 with responsibilities for strategy and management of JDA’s extensive product portfolio.
  • Prior to JDA he spent four years at Sterling Commerce (which was acquired by IBM in 2010), leading the company’s product management and portfolio strategy in positions as Vice President of Global Product Management and Vice President of Portfolio Strategy.
  • As Project Director in the Office of the CEO, he drove strategy and user-centered design projects for the board of directors at SAP Labs.
  • Held multiple management positions during a nine-year tenure at Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for product strategy, product management and marketing for multiple solutions in the company’s supply chain applications division.
  • Education: B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, Bangalore University; M.S. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison; M.B.A., Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
Duane Kotsen, Senior Vice President, Implementation Services
  • Joined JDA in 2009 as Senior Vice President, Implementation Services with more than 20 years in information technology, software consulting and executive management experience.
  • Prior to joining JDA, Kotsen served as Senior Vice President of Global Services for QAD, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise applications for global manufacturing companies, in which he oversaw the activities of the company’s Worldwide Professional Services organization.
  • Previously served as Regional Vice President, Northeast Professional Services for PeopleSoft. Held increasingly senior level roles, including Vice President of Global Operations and Vice President of Education, Government and HealthCare, before his promotion to Regional Vice President in 2004.
  • Other previous positions include Senior Vice President, Internet Solutions Group of Extraprise Group, as well as Director, Worldwide Operations and various Practice leadership roles at Oracle Corporation.
  • Education: M.B.A, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and B.A. in Computer and Information Sciences from Lehigh University.
Stephen McNulty, Regional Vice President, Asia Pacific
  • Promoted in June 2008 responsible for overall JDA Asia Pacific operations.
  • Joined JDA Software in 2008 as JDA Group Vice President to drive growth in Asia.
  • Prior to JDA, he spent 9 years with Oracle Corporation in various roles and countries including General Manager, Asia Pacific where he was responsible for the growth of their application business in Asia. Prior to his leadership role in Asia, he was responsible for Oracle’s North American application growth in the Mid-Atlantic and North Central areas, and Eastern Canada. Prior to moving to North America he worked for Oracle in Australia, and prior to that, with Baan as Sales Manager for Australia and New Zealand.
  • Education: M.B.A Edinburgh Business School, Scotland.
Aditya Srivastava, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
  • Joined JDA as part of the i2 acquisition in 2010, where he serves as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Research and Development. Srivastava brings to JDA more than 25 years of experience in the software industry.
  • During his tenure at i2, Srivastava initiated new strategic areas of product development, managed the company’s global support organization and designed the base technology of the i2 Agile Business Process Platform. He also worked on several aspects of i2’s planning, collaboration and demand-fulfillment engines, and promoted the use of XML and SOA for enterprise applications.
  • Prior to i2, Srivastava worked on artificial intelligence at the Texas Instruments Computer Science Research Laboratory, where he contributed to expert systems and the development of the first micro-coded implementation of the Prolog language. He has also written optimizing compilers for C, C and Prolog programming languages. Srivastava’s previous experience also includes founding of two start-up companies.
  • Education: M.S. in Computer Science, University of Kentucky; B.S. in Electrical Engineering, IIT-Kanpur, India.
Wayne Usie, Senior Vice President, Retail
  • Transitioned into the Senior Vice President, Retail position in July 2006 to assume responsibility for strengthening executive level relationships with JDA’s retail customers and key prospects.
  • Assumed Senior Vice President, Americas position in January 2003 to bring his in-depth understanding of JDA Portfolio and demand chain requirements to lead the development of customers in JDA’s largest region. All associates in sales and services in the Americas report to Usie.
  • Joined JDA in January 2001. During his tenure, led the research and product development organization through a great deal of change and growth, including the launch of JDA Portfolio 2003.
  • Previously served as Vice President of IT at multi-billion dollar Family Dollar Stores, Inc., a publicly traded mass merchant discount retailer. Led the implementation and management of a number of large packaged systems, including Oracle and Retek, and internally developed applications, to support over 4,000 retail locations and six distribution centers. Also worked in executive positions for a regional retailer and a consulting firm.
  • Education: B.S. in Business Administration, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.
Kenneth Williams, Senior Vice President, Support
  • Joined JDA in 2010 as Senior Vice President, Support with more than 30 years of leadership experience, customer service and software support.
  • Prior to JDA, Williams served as Vice President, Global Software Technical Support with Sun Microsystems where he was responsible for the global support of all products in the Identity, SOA/BI, MySQL, and Java space.
  • Other previous positions include Vice President, Worldwide Support and Services at Seebeyond Technology Corporation; Chief Operating Officer at IQ Destination; Chief Operating Officer at BizBlast; Vice President, Customer Services and Support at Level 3 Communications, Inc.; and Vice President, Customer Service at Qwest, Inc.
  • Williams also served as Senior Director, Global Support for Sybase; Executive Vice President, Customer Service and Support at Radius Corporation; Senior Vice President, Customer Service and Support at Ingres/ASK; as well as responsible for services and support at Intel and IBM.