Jeff Kissling has nearly 30 years of experience in leading engineering and technology teams in various automation and enterprise-class technology businesses. Jeff has held positions of Senior VP Engineering at Interwoven and Senior VP Technology at JDA Software Group, Inc. Kissling joined JDA as a result of the company's 2006 acquisition of Manugistics Group, Inc., where he served as Chief Technology Officer and was responsible for the entire lifecycle of Manugistics' products and services.

Prior to Manugistics, Jeff was the Chief Technology Officer at both BAAN (now a unit of SSA Global Technologies, Inc.) and Invensys Manufacturing and Process Systems. He has also held a range of executive management positions, including Chief Executive Officer of Soft Systems Engineering and Senior VP of Research and Development at Wonderware Corp.

Jeff holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and served in the United States Navy.