Pete Thomas
Managing Director
pthomas@ataventures.com

Pete Thomas has been a highly respected venture capitalist for over 20 years, and his track record highlights are well recorded. He is a virtual gold mine of venture capital experience and has amassed a knowledge base of the start-up investment world that very few can claim.

T. Peter Thomas Director Pete Thomas is a Managing Director of ATA Ventures and was previously a Partner with Institutional Venture Partners for 19 years. Mr. Thomas has an engineering and technology background having spent more than 14 years in various operating positions in technology companies including Intel, Fairchild and Sylvania EDL. He is currently a Director of three public companies: Atmel Corp., @Road, and Transmeta. He is also a director of several private companies, including Applied Medical, Cswitch, and NeoPhotonics. He has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Utah State University and an MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Santa Clara.

A New Plan for an Established Vision

Rearden Commerce is fundamentally changing the way businesses, consumers and merchants buy and sell services. Combining a web-based personal assistant with the world’s largest online marketplace for services, Rearden puts the Web to work on the user's behalf, automatically coordinating activities and business relationships and finding, scheduling and booking the services people need to get things done. By centralizing all services purchases in a single Web environment, Rearden gives corporations unprecedented visibility and control over spend areas that have historically gone unmanaged.

Rearden Commerce operated largely in stealth mode for six years while we passionately researched, designed and developed our revolutionary platform. To succeed where others had failed, we had to solve the difficult technology challenges required to create a robust, scalable commerce platform built on a native services-oriented architecture (SOA), and develop a set of composite applications on that platform to solve real-world business problems.

The result is a substantially disruptive solution that is unlike anything offered by incumbents within the business application and e-commerce markets. The Rearden Commerce Network is the industry's first architecture for delivering services on-demand, and is described on the cover of InfoWorld magazine as “SOA's Killer App.” With a six-year head start and a constantly growing technology patent portfolio, our solution is revolutionizing the services economy.

SOA Basics:

What is a Services-Oriented Architecture?

The Rearden Commerce Platform delivers a set of web services that integrate simply and seamlessly and can be accessed anywhere, anytime and from any device. Based on an event-driven, services-oriented architecture (SOA), our platform allows rapid orchestration of standards-based, distributed, flexible, secure services.

In the Rearden Commerce Platform, a service is:

• Coarse grained – A software component that executes unit(s) of work.
• Event driven – Can be invoked either synchronously or asynchronously, using reliable messaging.
• High performing – Executes tasks in a multi-threaded manner on different platforms.
• Loosely coupled – Is functionally independent of other services and can communicate with other services via an asynchronous messaging bus.
• Stateless – Multiple instances of services can be executed at the same time. An instance can be shut down without the loss of transactional integrity and without affecting the other instances.
• Remotely managed – Can be introspected, remotely executed, managed, monitored and instrumented.
• Orchestratable – New business processes can be created by dynamically invoking services.