About // Board Members

Global Board of Directors

Jill Scola
Jill Scola - EMC
Jill Scola manages both the operational and service delivery components of EMC's Cooperative Support Program. Under her direction, this program has grown to over 500 vendors.

As an 18 year employee of EMC, Jill has helped transition EMC's collaborative support program to ensure EMC is prepared to meet customers demands for seamless support in multi-vendor environments.

Jill has served as the EMC Business Manager supporting TSANet for the 10 years and was instrumental in helping to develop some of the early TSANet communities: Mission Critical, SNIA.

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Denise Harms-Campbell
Denise Harms-Campbell - Oracle
Denise Harms-Campbell is the Global Customer Services Director for Global Partner Support Operations at Oracle. In this role, she leads a team responsible for creating a unified support infrastructure within Oracle’s Support Delivery system for Oracle’s 21,000 partners.

Denise is also responsible for assuring the health and value of the partner network through the adoption of automated tools and services including the enablement of partners through proactive services, improving the partner and customer experience through partner enablement support training courses, project management of all Inbound OEM Agreements, M & A partner activities, proactive support collaboration initiatives, and the overall company support strategy of driving multi-vendor collaborative through key strategic programs like TSANet.

Denise has over 30 years of extensive high tech software and hardware industry experience. For the past 20 years, she has held various roles at Oracle/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards where she successfully built, launched, and maintained strategic global support partner programs. She was required to integrate these programs through two large acquisitions both at Oracle and Peoplesoft Denise held roles as the Director of the Worldwide Partner Support Program at Peoplesoft where her responsibilities included increased partner support revenue opportunities, creation of partner pricing and margin sharing, partner KPIs and metrics, overall partner marketing/communication responsibilities, and the creation of end-to-end partner system functionality in the support delivery systems including driving repeatable, scalable global standard business process creating industry best practices.

Denise managed and directed the JD Edwards Worldwide Pricing Team and Pricing Advisory Help Desk for 9 years working directly with the Executives to launch industry leading pricing models working in the Marketing, Sales Ops, Finance, and License Sales. Denise also worked in the Legal Organizations, both at JD Edwards and Honeywell Bull Information Systems as an International/Large Account Contract Specialist negotiating multi-million dollar software and hardware deals.

Denise has been involved with TSANet since being acquired by Oracle in 2004. Her team is responsible for managing all collaborative interoperability issues within Oracle’s Multi-Vendor Support Program. Denise has been actively involved in evangelizing the TSANet benefits and validating the ROI when vendors use this global vendor neutral infrastructure for collaboration. She is excited to see how TSANet will take collaboration and seamless support to the next level of industry best practices.

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Pamela Fowler
Pamela Fowler - Ingres Corporation
Pamela Fowler is currently Vice President, Worldwide Technical Support managing the Global Enterprise Support Services delivery team at Ingres Corporation. In this role, Pamela has been responsible for building the entire supporting infrastructure, strategic direction and tactical execution of the global support organization.

She has directly controlled all aspects of the global support delivery model, policies, procedures and infrastructure. She provides strategic leadership by representing the 'voice of the customer' to management across all functional areas within Ingres. As well, built out and utilizes core industry benchmarks to measure and continually improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the global operations. In addition, she is responsible for the security vulnerability management within Ingres Corporation ensuring industry best practices are utilized in addressing, and delivering, to market. Pamela has been at Ingres Corporation, Inc. since it was incorporated in November of 2005 when it was divested as a new entity from CA (formerly known as Computer Associates, Inc.). Prior to the divestiture of Ingres Corporation Pamela held several leadership roles within CA heading various areas within technical support and was instrumental in driving on CA's supporting operations. Prior to CA Pamela was the Vice President of Technical Support for the enterprise and database management software at Platinum Technology, Inc. During all of these roles she has been heavily involved in the operational management, build out, and development of multiple global 24X7 support call centers.

Pamela has 25 years of extensive industry experience as an IT professional focused heavily around database, application, and enterprise technology across all platforms and multi-vendor solutions. Prior to holding higher level management roles in support she gained solid industry experience in consulting, education, and software development.

Her roles have provided her with extensive experience in aligning technical support teams with business strategies, operational processes, and global strategies. Many of her responsibilities have included; P&L management, project management, business process improvement, analytical reporting, operational efficiency, high-level projects, quality of service, and customer satisfaction.

Pamela holds both a bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems from DeVry Institute of Technology and a masters in business administration from Dominican University.

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Robert Poston
Robert Poston - Microsoft
Robert has been involved in the IT industry for over 20 years. For the last 15 years he has worked for Microsoft, holding diverse positions within the company that include direct customer support of server technologies, manager of enterprise server platforms teams, technical account manager for a number Department of Defense customers, and senior crisis manager for Microsoft’s Commercial Technical Support Services.

For the last 3 years Robert has held the position of WW Services Readiness manager for the enterprise customer segment. His primary responsibility is to work with marketing, research, legal and support business units to coordinate the design, development and launch of new worldwide support offerings for the enterprise space. Concurrent with this most recent assignment Robert assumed the role of TSANet Business manager, directly overseeing Microsoft’s global participation in TSANet. During this time he has partnered with several of Microsoft’s OEM partner programs to integrate TSANet into these programs. This has fostered a positive synergy between Microsoft, TSANet and its partners and has led to a significant growth in TSANet membership. Robert is passionate about the value of TSANet and believes strongly that collaborative initiatives between TSANet members are critical to maximizing the value of and customer satisfaction with their support experience.

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Ted Williams
Ted Williams - Red Hat (JBoss)
Ted is Collaborative Programs Manager for Red Hat Global Support Services and is responsible for the strategic and operational success of Red Hat's multi-vendor support program. Ted's passion and mission is enabling the support team to exemplify collaboration when working with other vendors.

Upon joining Red Hat in June 2009, Ted became immediately involved in TSANet, recognizing it as a foundational component to partnering with other vendors to resolve mutual customer issues. He has been actively involved in the TSANet community - joining regional calls, working directly with other members to improve TSANet processes and participating in the Automation sub-committee. Further, he champions TSANet both internally and externally, taking every opportunity to speak with Red Hat partners regarding the benefits of TSANet membership. Ted is excited to work with the membership in changing the collaborative support experience for mutual customers.

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Andreas Gast
Jason Veit - Symantec
Jason is currently the Senior Manager over a geographically diverse delivery business unit in the Enterprise Support Services organization. In this role, he has been responsible for the transformation of the Global Enterprise Vault organization’s performance into an award winning, industry recognized leader. Jason and his team received the TSIA (formerly SSPA) STAR award for Outstanding Improvement in 2007, and continue to achieve a consistent track record of operational excellence.

During his 11 year tenure with Symantec, Jason has held various technical positions and has excelled as a global leader. He has launched teams across the United States, and in key global support centers such as Buenos Aires, Pune and ensuring consistency in execution across the UK, Sydney and Asia. Jason has extensive knowledge and experience in business analytics, building strong strategic alliances and leveraging collaborative multi-vendor relationships. Many of his additional responsibilities include project management, process improvements, change management, customer satisfaction, product quality improvements, acquisition transitions, team efficiencies, operational analysis and cross organizational alignment.

Jason leads a support organization of over 90 employees and has worked directly with many of Symantec’s largest customers. His passion for business excellence along with employee satisfaction has resulted in numerous recognitions and awards throughout his customer service career.

Prior to working at Symantec, Jason has served in numerous roles focused on customer service, sales, and mentoring and coaching. He has several technical and professional certifications (including SSPA’s certified Support Manager).

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Rainer Zielonka
Rainer Zielonka - IBM
Rainer is the IBM executive for world-wide XIV Technical Support and Client Care. He is the leader of a global IBM support function responsible to provide technical support for the most recent Storage Platform from IBM.

This support includes a new client centric support concept for technical Support which IBM introduced globally. Before that he was for ten years the Director of the European Storage Competence Center responsible for Level 3 Pre- and Post Sales technical Support of IBM Storage Solutions in Europe.

During his 34 years with IBM Rainer has held several Engineering and Management positions that allowed him to develop and utilize his technical, intercultural and Leadership skills. He has spend over 5 years in the US holding key positions in Manufacturing, Development and Technical Support. The above mentioned "European Storage Competence Center" was formed and enhanced under his leadership to client centric, efficient End-to-End Service- and Support Center . Rainer is representing IBM on customer boards and government committees.

Since he has been appointed to member of "Board of Directors" at TSANet Europe six years ago Rainer has dedicated a sizable amount of time and effort to further develop TSANet to a global operating multi- vendor support organization. He is an Advocate for multi- vendor collaboration ensuring that technical support strategies are tied to drive customer success. In the extremely challenging world economy, his intend is to position TSANet as the multi -vendor support organization for many businesses and for the benefit of TSANet members.

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Rainer Zielonka
Olivier Biscaldi - Citrix Systems
As the Director of Software Frontline Support teams for Citrix Systems Inc., Olivier Biscaldi is responsible for department budget, and he is in charge of expanding the Americas existing call center support capabilities.

Olivier leads a team of over 60 employees supporting Americas channel partners and enterprise customers. His teams are involved in many cross product environments, necessitating collaboration and coordination between many product companies. Mr. Biscaldi interacts regularly with internal and external senior management as well as regional and corporate management on matters between functional areas or customers and the company. He is in charge of Quality Control for the Americas Support department, and he is responsible for worldwide Citrix Technical Support social media support. Olivier represents Support at external events as well as Internal Sales events, and he is responsible for Americas frontline Citrix Support customer satisfaction.

Olivier has extensive knowledge of the technical support business including direct experience managing support teams in EMEA, India and Americas geographies. Olivier is very familiar with TSANet with his initial involvement starting in 2003, when he presented Citrix technical contents at a TSANet event in EMEA. He has broad exposure working in Multinational companies, and he speaks French (native language), English and Spanish.

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