Tidu Maini, Imperial College's pro rector of corporate affairs and development, and John O'Connell, the founder and former chairman and CEO of Staffware, have joined InforSense's board of directors
As pro rector of Imperial College London, Tidu Maini is a member of the college management board and heads an organisation of five departments within the college, including Imperial College Innovations, Imperial College Consultants, and Business Development Services.
He is responsible for the commercialisation of the college's most promising intellectual assets and key development projects.
Prior to joining Imperial College, Maini was senior vice president of Schlumberger, and before that was the board member in charge of corporate development for Sema, where he was responsible for overseeing the sale of Sema to Schlumberger in 2001.
John O'Connell was founder, chairman and CEO of Staffware, involved in business process management (BPM) and workflow technology.
He led the company from inception to going public on the London Stock Exchange in 2000.
Staffware operated profitably in 22 countries and was the leading company in its sector until it was sold to Tibco in June 2004 for approximately $230 million.
Since that time, he has been appointed to the board of four companies in the technology sector including being chairman of Clarity Commerce Solutions and of Portrait Software, both listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM market.
"We welcome Tidu and John to our supervisory board and recognise the depth of commercial and strategic management experience they bring," said Frank Jones, chairman of InforSense board of directors.
"Their expertise will be valuable to InforSense as the company meets its goals across the life sciences, healthcare, and business analytics markets".
InforSense says it enables organisations to orchestrate and optimise their business-critical decision-making processes.
Leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, financial services companies, and research institutes are using the company's flagship product, InforSense KDE, to enhance productivity across life science R and D, healthcare and business analytics.
The company is privately held, with European headquarters in London, UK and North American headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Using InforSense KDE, enterprises rapidly integrate and deliver virtually any data source, analytic software tool, service or application within a single informatics framework.
Users link these components via visual workflows to dynamically answer any question using their data, however complex or transient.
Organisations can also mine their analytical processes to discover and deploy expertise and best practises.
InforSense KDE provides an open, extensible service-oriented architecture, built using industry standards including J2EE, XML, and WSDL.
The InforSense Oracle Edition is a state-of-the-art solution for enterprise wide integrative analytics using Oracle's advanced information management and processing capabilities.
