About Us...

Intelligent Integration Systems, Inc. enables customers to analyze large volumes of data in order to address some of the biggest challenges of our times including:

The founders believe that the way information is managed often determines how the world is managed. Intelligent will use systems that analyze terabytes of data – at rates 50 times or more faster than current technology solutions - in order to improve the quality and cost of health care, streamline management models for businesses, and deliver accurate and compelling information about products, services and public issues to receptive individuals.

IISi was founded in 2005. IISi principals have more than a decade of experience serving Fortune 500 companies and major non-profits – including Intel, IBM, HP, 3M, Motorola, AMD, Comcast, AT&T, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Democratic National Committee. Those systems have served the genomic, health, biotech, consumer intelligence, finance, and semiconductor manufacturing sectors.

Management Team

Marshall R. Peterson
Founder, Chairman

Marshall is internationally recognized as one of the world's leaders in supercomputing and large-scale data management and analysis. He was one of the founders of what was to become one of the world’s most exciting, visible, and dynamic startup companies. Responsible for conceiving, designing, and building an innovative supercomputer that enabled Celera Genomics to accomplish what the majority of the scientific community claimed was impossible -- assembling the Human Genome in the datacenter rather than the laboratory. This event marked the cutting edge of biology forever moving from the laboratory and into the supercomputer.

Rich Zimmerman
Founder, President, Chief Technology Officer

Rich previously served as the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering for Predictive Media (formerly Predictive Networks); a company that supplied navigation, personalization, profiling and analytical tools to the television and Internet industries. Earlier in his career, Rich served as the Director of Controls Engineering and lead software developer for Vanguard Automation, a supplier of automated assembly systems integration solutions for the semiconductor industry. At Vanguard, Rich brought more than a dozen key products to market and supported deployment into multiple Fortune 500 companies. Rich holds a B.S. and a M.Eng. in Robotics/Computer Vision and Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Paul Davis
Founder, Chief Executive Officer

Paul Davis, an entrepreneurial executive and investor, organizes teams that turn technology, capital, industry knowledge, and hard work into successful companies. He is a General Partner at Seed Partners, LLC, an early-stage private investment company where he has served as a director of Seed portfolio companies including Zipcar, Celerity Research, and Predictive Networks, which he co-founded. From 2001 through 2004, he served as founding CEO, and later Executive Chairman, of GeneXP Biosciences (now MetriGenix), also a Seed portfolio company. Davis was the Executive VP of Vanguard Automation, the leading provider of BGA interconnect systems for the semiconductor industry, and the senior company official reporting to a General Electric Capital led board at the time of a $46 million sale to Robotic Vision Systems, Inc.

Joseph Pacatte
Principal Software Consultant

Joseph Pacatte is a technical leader with 15 years of experience designing and developing complex software solutions. He brings top-level expertise in C++, algorithms, object-oriented design, and data warehousing techniques—plus a talent for problem-solving, and solid experience with Windows and Microsoft technologies, Linux and UNIX, internet standards and conventions, Java, and database systems including SQL Server, Oracle – and now Netezza. Joseph served as Principal Software Engineer at Predictive Networks. He holds a B.S in Physics from M.I.T. and an A.L.M. in History from Harvard.

Tim Callaghan
Senior Software Engineer

Tim Callaghan is a System Architect with over 16 years of experience developing and implementing end to end software solutions. Tim has extensive experience in database design, development and administration for both transactional and reporting systems. He also designed the technical infrastructure and systems integrations to support these solutions. His technical portfolio includes Oracle, Windows, Linux and many development languages. Tim served as Chief System Architect at CrunchTime! Information Systems, creating their enterprise-class back office solution for restaurants and cruise lines. Tim also designed CrunchTime!'s internal and hosting infrastructures, servicing clients around the world. For the 7 years prior, Tim was the primary database architect at Investors Bank & Trust, a financial services company in Boston. Tim developed IBT's tax reporting system for complex mutual fund structures (Hub and Spoke) as well as many other Oracle systems to facilitate data distribution, compliance and reporting. Tim has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.

Ron Turiello
Director of Business Development and Legal; President Voter Genome Project affiliate

Ron negotiated the implementation terms of the Netezza distribution contracts. Until mid 2007, he ran the Intellectual Property transactional practice at the Silicon Valley office of Skadden Arps, where he served as outside technology counsel in numerous technology companies, including Yahoo!, Hyperion Solutions (including the $3.3 billion acquisition by Oracle), Sage Software, PassMark Security, Micron Technology, and Nokia. He is a graduate of Boston University and Cornell Law School (magna cum laude, Order of the Coif) where he won the Boardman prize for ranking first in his class at the end of the second year and served as Editor of the Cornell Law Review and the Cornell Journal of Law and Policy.