
He spent years helping databases speak to one another. Then Steve Wilkes began asking a more impatient question: why wait for the data to arrive before making it useful?

From five-o'clock support calls at Oracle to Striim's real-time pipelines, Pareek has followed one durable idea: useful information often begins with the change that just happened.

By day, he keeps cloud infrastructure moving at Striim. By night, he is building SensePC around a deceptively difficult question: what if the device in front of you mattered less than the computer waiting behind it?
Ali Kutay is the founder, chairman and CEO of Striim, a Palo Alto streaming data integration company. A serial enterprise-software entrepreneur, he previously led GoldenGate Software (acquired by Oracle) and WebLogic (merged with BEA, acquired by Oracle), and ran Carnegie Mellon spin-out Formtek under Lockheed for seven years.