Executive Team

Djenana Campara, Chief Executive Officer

Djenana Campara founder of KDM Analytics Inc. has 20+ years of experience and leadership in the software engineering field. Currently, Ms. Campara serves as a board member on the Object Management Group (OMG), an international standard body and co-chairs the OMG Architecture-Driven Modernization Task Force and System Assurance Task Force. She also serves on the SAS Technical Advisory Panel of National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) and previously served as a Board Member and now active member of the Canadian Consortium of Software Engineering Research (CSER), an industry directed research program that creates a collaborative environment for industry, researchers, and students to stay competitive in the broader IT marketplace.

Ms. Campara has presented to the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, as well as the Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United Sates at the National Academies in Washington, D.C, Telecom Board of National Academy of Science and DHS/DoD Software Assurance Forums. She also gave educational speeches at the SD Time’s Software Security Summit 2007, SD Times’ Software Security Summit West 2006, Software Security Summit East, 2006, at the Better Software Conference and Expo 2005, OOPSLA 2004 & 2005 & 2008 and 2008 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security.

Previously, Ms. Campara was CTO and chairwoman of Board of Directors of Klocwork, a company that she founded in 2001 through its successful spinning from Nortel Networks as an independent company. She also served as Klocwork's chief executive officer, securing the company's first round of funding, and established its customer base. She has been awarded four US patents for her groundbreaking static analysis and formalization techniques implemented in Klocwork’s products.

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Norm Rajala, President and Chief Operating Officer

Norm Rajala, KDM Analytics' Chief Operations Officer has extensive product development and client services leadership experience in the high technology industry, including managing five of Nortel Network's major product releases, which involved leading development teams of over 100 employees based in Canada, Northern Ireland, and India. The Klocwork inSight concept and development was championed and led by Norm and provided immediate value to the product line and software development teams. As Vice President of Client Services at Klocwork, he directed senior teams in customer care and professional services, providing specialized software integration and architecture services, training and consultation.

Since 2006, in his current role as part of the executive team of KDM Analytics, Norm contributes his business and technical knowledge towards refining and achieving the strategic plan, while providing leadership in operations, services and development.

Norm holds a Bachelor of Applied Science - Honors degree from the University of Waterloo. He received awards for innovation, software quality, and customer relations. Norm has been awarded three US patents for software reverse engineering and static analysis.

Dr. Nikolai Mansourov, Chief Technical Officer

Dr. Mansourov, KDM Analytics’ Chief Technical Officer, is recognized worldwide for his work in the areas of automatic code generation and using formal specifications in both forward and reverse engineering. Prior to joining KDM Analytics, Dr. Mansourov was the Chief Scientist and Chief Architect at Klocwork Inc, where he significantly helped build the company’s credibility.  Dr. Mansourov also was a department head at the Institute for System Programming, Russian Academy of Sciences, where he was responsible for numerous groundbreaking research projects in advanced software development for industry leaders Nortel Networks and Telelogic.

Dr. Mansourov has 10 years experience teaching Computer Science during his tenure as an Associate Professor at the Moscow State University. Currently he is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) of the University of Ottawa.

Dr. Mansourov has published over 50 research papers and is a frequent speaker as well as member of program committees at various international research forums. He is a founding member of the World-Wide Institute of Software Architects WWISA). His impact on the industry continues through his participation on several standards bodies, including the ITU-T and Object Management Group. Dr. Mansourov is one of the first OMG-certified UML Advanced Professionals and a member of the UML2 standardization team. Dr. Mansourov is the Editor of the OMG Knowledge Discovery Metamodel (KDM) specification and the Chair of the OMG Revision Task Force for KDM.