Leadership

Bacula Systems SA is founded and operated by a number of highly skilled professionals with an exceedingly good knowledge of all aspects of IT operations, business development, worldwide sales / marketing and business administration.

Frank Barker
CEO

Frank Barker is CEO at Bacula Systems. He started his IT career with Hewlett-Packard in the UK, rising through Support and Sales and into Management before moving to the EMEA headquarters in Geneva to run their Telco, Financial Services and Global Accounts businesses. He subsequently ran Hewlett Packard’s Consulting and Sytems Integration business across EMEA, then moved to the US to set up a worldwide Division around cloud computing. Prior to Bacula Systems he has been CEO and Managing Director for several technology companies in software and security and has a track record of successfully growing technology companies.

He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and holds an Honours Degree in Electronics from Strathclyde University in Scotland.

Kern Sibbald
CTO and Chairman

Kern Sibbald is the chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Bacula Systems. He designed and wrote most of the Bacula software; he manages the related open source project. Kern is a founder of Autodesk where he was development manager for AutoCAD, a highly successful CAD program. He established and was the Technical Director of Autodesk’s European software development center in Neuchatel, Switzerland.

Kern holds a bachelors degree in physics from the University of California and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland.

Aristide Carracio
Vice President, Sales & Marketing

Aristide Caraccio is Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Bacula Systems. He has worked for the Seattle based Software company WRQ for 10 years: first as General Manager France & Southern Europe, then as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Asia Pacific Region where he was in charge of financial, technical, marketing, and sales organizations. Aristide has garnered more than twenty five years experience working within the IT industry. He co-founded Reseaudis, a company specializing in importation, distribution, and engineering in the network solutions field. He has also worked with other French technology companies such as PC Technologies, Tekelec Airtronic, and Publi 12.

Aristide earned an MBA from the Paris-New York International School of Management.

Eric Bollengier
Director of Engineering

Eric Bollengier is Director of Engineering at Bacula Systems. Since 2003 he has been an active member of the Bacula community. Eric has written significant parts of the Bacula software, and has also developed the B-Web user interface and reporting system for Bacula. Eric has previously worked as a system- and network-administrator.

Eric holds a masters degree in microprocessor electronics from the Université du Maine and a DESS degree from the Université de Versailles Saint Quentin.

Jose L. Graterol
Director, Sales & Marketing, Americas

Jose L. Graterol is the Director of Sales and Marketing for the Americas at Bacula Systems. Jose worked for the Seattle-based software company WRQ for 6 years; where he was the Latin America Region Manager and was in charge of all sales and marketing efforts. He also worked for Content Technologies and Liason Software where he established a sales channel and managed sales in the US Western territory. Jose has over 17 years of sales experience working in the IT industry w/ companies that provide corporate infrastructure software solutions in the content security and content management/aggregation space.

Jose has a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from George Mason University, in Fairfax, Virginia, USA.

Stéphane Schweizer
Director , Sales EMEA

Stéphane worked for seven years at WRQ Inc., a Seattle based Software company, as General Manager France & Southern Europe, where he was in charge of marketing and sales organizations. Stéphane has more than twenty years experience working in sales organizations within the IT industry for companies such as Wang labs, Wick Hill group and Siemens Nixdorf.

Stéphane earned a bachelor degree in Enterprise Management from the I.A.C International School in Paris.

Luc Texier
Head of Marketing

Luc Texier is leading our Marketing efforts at Bacula Systems. He has over 17 years of experience in the computer industry, successfully managing international teams in Services, IT and Engineering. He’s an open source expert and a start-up veteran. Prior to joining Bacula Systems he was managing several high-end engineering projects at Redhat, the world’s open source leader. In the early days of JBoss Inc he built and led the Support organization in EMEA and APAC. During the dotcom boom Luc worked in California for some successfully IT start-ups such as Xippix and Siterra