Job Losses at Euclid Discoveries?
Posted by Mark Nelson on 7th December 2009 | Permanent Link
We know that the great recession of 2009 has caused slashes in staffing at companies large and small, and it appears that Euclid Discoveries (discussed in great detail here) has had to cut back as well.
Euclid has a list of key bios on their web site, and as of today, December 7, 2009, that includes just three people:
- Richard Y. Wingard, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
- J. Robert Werner, Co-Founder & President
- Charles P. Pace, Chief Technologist
What’s strange is that this list of key bios used to be a lot longer. Using the beloved Internet Archive, we can take a look at the same list from just two years earlier, and wonder what happened to:
- Steve N. Hutchinson, Executive Strategist
- Anne Marsden, Chief Marketing Officer
- John Weiss, PhD, Chief Algorithmic Mathematician
- Igor Najfeld, PhD, Algorithmic Mathematician
- Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury, PhD, Chief Consulting Scientist
- Jeffrey V. Roberts, Director of Engineering
- Anne Watelet, Technical Process Manager
- Renato Pizzorni, Lead Software Engineer
- Darin DeForest, PhD (ABD), Lead Algorithmic Engineer
- Richard Gyger, Technical Lead
- Elizabeth Marmion, Director of Operations
- Bentley Pace, Knowledge Manager
I don’t know whether any of these people were cut loose, or whether ED just decided to clean up a rather long web page. And a check of LinkedIn shows that there are at least a few people who still list themselves as employed at ED:
- Bill Wilmoth, Information Technology Analyst
- Nigel Lee, Chief Algorithmic Engineer
- Anne Watelet, Technical Process Manager
- Jeffrey Roberts, Director of Engineering
- Bentley Pace, Knowledge Manager
I would be very surprised if all twelve of these people were full time employees at Euclid. Carrying that many big salaries would have created a pretty rapid burn rate, and I don’t think the company could have sustained it for this long.
The big question is whether what we are seeing now is the death rattle of a company cutting expenses to the bone, or whether there is just a lot of smoke and no real fire. Whichever it is, Euclid Discoveries is, as always, not saying.