Cache-A Corporate Management

Phil Ritti – President & CEO

Phil has more than 25 years of general management and marketing experience in the audio, video and computer storage industry.  He has deep expertise in cross functional management tying together sales, marketing, engineering, operations, finance and HR into cohesive, high performance teams. Phil has consistently delivered market share leadership, profitability and over $1 Billion of positive cash flow to his respective organizations.

Prior to co-founding Cache-A Phil was Vice President and General Manager of Quantum’s Storage Media Solutions business unit.  He joined Quantum in 1997 and held various positions in media and drive marketing.  Prior to joining Quantum, Phil was Vice President of Marketing for Ampex Corporation focused on professional audio and video recording media solutions.  In addition, Phil worked for FMC Corporation earlier in his career in marketing and finance positions. 

Phil holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

Mark Ostlund – Vice President of Sales and Marketing

With a background in software engineering and marketing, Mark has over 20 years experience tailoring computer technology to the needs of the Broadcast and Entertainment Industries.  As R&D Manager for Philips BTS, he managed the development of the worlds first HDTV disk recorder for the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.  He also oversaw the development of the Venus Routing Switcher and the Saturn Master Control Switcher.  He then took over marketing responsibility for the Media Pool Video Server product line.

He joined Hewlett Packard in 1996 responsible for strategic planning for their Video Communications Division and the Mediastream Video Server. While at HP, he was a founder of the Pro-MPEG Forum where he started the MXF Working Group and chaired it for the first two years.

In recent years Mark launched a consulting company focused on professional video storage and MXF workflows. One of his major projects was to help Quantum launch the A-Series product line at which time he joined them as Director of Rich Media Products.

Tom Goldberg – Vice President of Product Development

Tom has been a professional in the television industry since the late 1970s working in engineerimg, product management, and marketing roles for a wide variety of notable manufacturers in this field. Prior to participating in the founding of Cache-A, he was owner of TGCS, a consultancy to television equipment manufacturers and has worked in the industry since the 1970’s. 

Tom began working in the video industry as an engineer and later, marketing at Ampex Corporation and contributed to the development of 3 generations of production switchers.  Upon leaving Ampex he started TGCS and landed a major contract as a consultant to Philips BTS where he participated in the design and marketing of their Saturn Master Control switcher and the Media Pool video server. 

Tom was one of the founders of Pluto Technologies and helped create the VideoSpace and AirSpace video server lines and the transition of Pluto’s products after successful acquisition by Avid to become their play-to-air solution.  Since then he operated TGCS and contributed significantly to the A-Series program while consulting at Quantum and is leveraging that experience in helping to guide Cache-A's product development.