Our Company
We deliver innovative social software for people and business.
Alfred A. Jay
President & Chief Executive Officer
Alfred founded Ramius in January 1998 after recognizing the market potential for social software. As President and CEO, Alfred leads the strategic direction for Ramius, mapping out new opportunities and positioning the company for continued growth and innovation.
Prior to founding Ramius Corporation, Alfred was President of Jayson Corporation, an investment company focused on early-stage financing of private software companies. Alfred began his career in technology as a software developer with Jayson Data Systems Inc., a developer of accounting, administration and evaluation systems for various federal government departments and healthcare institutions.
Alfred sits on the Board of Directors for iLOOKAbout Corp., a public imaging technology company, and is a member of the Board of Advisors for Progeny Group, a Toronto-based investment-banking boutique. An active member of his community, Alfred is a past President of the Hong Kong-Canada Business Association (Ottawa Section) and has also served as Chair of the organization's National IT Committee. One of the co-founders of the Ottawa Dragon Boat Race Festival, Alfred has helped shape one of the region's largest annual charitable events.
A graduate of the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, the Ottawa Business Journal named Alfred as one of Ottawa's Top Forty Under 40 in 2000.
Philippe Dame
Chief Operating Officer
As Chief Operating Officer for Ramius, Philippe steers the technology direction for the company and is responsible for developing and managing Ramius' technology partnerships.
Philippe joined Ramius in 1999 as Vice President and Director of Marketing overseeing key operational activities and leading the company's marketing strategy and business development initiatives. A vital contributor to Ramius' growth, Philippe played an integral role in the design and development of the first prototype of Ramius' flagship product, CommunityZero.
In his current role, Philippe leads the company's technology division responsible for product planning and architectural design, including the most recently launched Sixent platform. He also manages the quality assurance and the customer support teams to lead the successful implementation of Sixent and CommunityZero worldwide.
Prior to joining Ramius, Phil was the design director for Magma Communications where he managed the company's Web development department. Under his guidance, Philippe's team built database-driven Web sites for e-commerce and Web applications and opened new revenue opportunities for the company.
Philippe is a graduate of the University of Ottawa's School of Management.
Dwain Ehler
Chief Technology Officer
As Chief Technology Officer for Ramius, Dwain is the lead engineer responsible for architecture development of the company's Sixent and CommunityZero platforms.
Dwain joined Ramius in 2000 as a Senior Software Engineer and has led the company's engineering team through three generations of the company's Java-based CommunityZero software. With Sixent, Dwain and his team focus on the platform's interface functionality, usability and scalability.
Prior to joining the Ramius team, Dwain was a programmer and analyst at MD Management and a network administrator at Nortel.
Steve Thompson
Vice President
As Vice President of Ramius, Steve leads the customer facing functions of the company and is responsible for developing and managing Ramius' business relationships.
Steve joined Ramius in 2006 to build the company's Professional Services business line. He led the implementation of CommunityZero for numerous large clients including SAP and Sun Microsystems before extending the scope of his responsibilities to include the company's customer support, marketing and business development functions.
He works closely with the design and engineering teams to ensure Ramius' software meets the needs of enterprise customers and has published white papers and led several webinars on the subjects of online community and the business use of social software.
Prior to joining Ramius, Steve was a Human Performance executive at Accenture for nine years, specializing in the planning and implementation of large scale business change and transformation. He managed many high priority projects for UK government and enterprise clients, including critical aspects of the program to modernize UK tax and pension systems.
Steve is a graduate of the University of Sheffield where he gained a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering with first class honors and was named the Institute of Mechanical Engineers Best Student. He is also a graduate of the University of Cambridge where he completed post graduate studies in Advanced Manufacturing, Design and Management.