Who we are
The company was founded in 1999 by a group of PhD-level software architects and engineers from IBM's research labs and universities in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Sixth Sense Media's customer lifecycle engagement marketing solutions delivers measurable revenue increases with the fastest time-to-market and lowest total cost of ownership in the industry. Real-time Lifecycle Ma
rketing (RLM) empowers marketing department to create and deploy highly personalized, location and contextually relevant, interactive customer engagement campaigns and loyalty with points and partner programs based on real time location, context and consumer action triggers over any mobile messaging channel. A growing library of campaign templates embodies the collective experience of the teams from deployments around the world that are made available to all customers. Sixth Sense Media has its corporate headquarters in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA with offices in Bucharest (EMEA) Kolkata (India) and Kuala Lumpur (S.E.Asia). For more information about Sixth Sense Media, please email [email protected]. The Sixth Sense Media senior management team has extensive experience in the telecommunications, media, and entertainment industries including executive positions with many leading companies in North America, Asia and Europe. Executives
Thomas Thekkethala, CEO and President
Mr. Thekkethala has over twenty-five years of experience in financing and building enterprise software companies. He is a founding investor and board member at Sixth Sense Media where he oversees the company's strategy and global operations. Prior to Sixth Sense Media, he was Founder and Managing General Partner at JT Ventures, an early stage technology venture fund where he led investments in Allegro (acquired by Cisco), Fidelia (acquired by NetScout) and Ibrix (acquired by HP). Thekkethala also co-founded telecom software companies SRG and CCSS, where he developed the product vision and market strategy, and led the companies to their successfully acquisitions. During his career, he has led teams that have developed software for leading telecom carriers around the world. He holds a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Information Management from Washington University, St. Lars Cavi, Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Lars Cavi has over twenty years of experience in the telecom industry having lived and worked in Scandinavia, UK, Germany, Hong Kong and USA. Cavi served as Vice President and Managing Director for EMEA with Zeugma Systems, Procera Networks and Turin Networks and has previously held senior sales, business development, PLM and project management positions at Flexion, Advanced Fibre Communications (now Tellabs), New World Telephone - Hong Kong, Marconi (i.e. now Ericsson) and Siemens AG in Germany. Cavi has had extensive sales management experience overseeing diverse sales teams and driving large sales into large Tier 1, 2 and 3 accounts directly and through channel partners and large OEMs in EMEA. Cavi holds a Master's degree in engineering from the Technical University of Denmark and a Bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Copenhagen. Donald Stone, PhD, Chief Technology Officer
Donald Stone is the chief architect of Sixth Sense Media and has led development since company inception. Stone has over 18 years of experience in the design and implementation of large-scale and mission-critical software systems. His background includes real time systems, e-commerce systems, transaction processing systems and networking systems. Prior to joining Sixth Sense Media, Mr. Stone spent five years at IBM, most recently as the lead architect of the IBM WebSphere Payment Manager. Stone holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina. Dallas Wrege, PhD, Vice President of Engineering
Dallas Wrege is a world-class system developer specializing in high-performance, large-scale, real-time software systems. Prior to joining Sixth Sense Media in 2000, Mr. Wrege spent several years at IBM where he was most recently the chief programmer and development lead for two releases of the WebSphere Payment Manager. His research area is multimedia networking, and his implementation expertise lies in e-commerce, transaction-processing and real-time systems. Wrege has a BA in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.
