About Us

Quorum Technologies is the leading provider of management systems for companies seeking to optimize production applications on virtualized infrastructures. Quorum's award winning technology is the result of over 40 man years of development to date, with the 4.5 release being the latest version of its Virtual Optimization System (VOS). Quorum Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in Fremont, California and offers worldwide support in conjunction with its global partner network.

Management Team

Mike Backlund, Chief Executive Officer

Mike Backlund is the Chief Executive Officer of Quorum Technologies, Inc. Prior to joining Quorum, Mike served as Senior Vice President, Global Sales for SpikeSource, an open source software company. Mike is also the former CEO of Emagia, a financial software company. In addition, Mr. Backlund was Sr. Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations at Interwoven, a content management software provider. During his 20 plus year career in technology, Mike has also held senior management positions at Computer Associates and Pacific Telesis Group.
Mike has a BA and MA in Economics from University of Southern CA, USC.

Marc Goroff, Chief Technical Officer

Dr. Marc H. Goroff has over 20 years of experience in technology and academia. Prior to cofounding Quorum Technology Inc, Marc was the head of Software Development at Sandpiper Networks where he led the team that created the internet's first Content Delivery Network. Thru mergers and acquisitions, Marc continued to lead software development at Digital Island, Exodus, and Cable & Wireless.
Prior to Sandpiper, Marc cofounded several sucessful software startups. His diverse experience has ranged from developing embedded code for real time micro controllers to operating system development on the world's fastest supercomputers to products for distributed computing.
Marc earned a Ph.D. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology where he was also a Research Fellow before moving into industry.

Joe Viscuglia, Vice President of Sales

Joe Viscuglia is Quorum's Vice President of Sales, focused on delivering client value and business growth. Prior to Quorum, Viscuglia served as Director, Western Regional Sales for Scalent Systems a pioneer in the Virtualization Management market. From 2001- 2004 Viscuglia was Western Regional Sales Manager for Egenera where he captured the regions first fortune 100 customers. From 1998-2001 Viscuglia held several management positions at Inktomi, including Director of OEM Systems Engineering where he was a key member of the management team and helped close strategic OEM relationships with HP, IBM, Dell and others.