About Us
QIKR is a pure-play AI-powered query performance optimization software company and the creator of HyperQuery™.
Ever since we started, we’ve strived to make query performance optimization friction-free, fast, and cost-effective, delivering root cause problem elimination, unparalleled results, and impactful business value.
We’re a team of experienced business executives, company builders, and technologists with decades-long subject matter expertise in SQL, database internals, tuning & performance optimization, and automation.
We’ve been DBAs, responsible for large database infrastructure. We’ve been architects and developers, helping build leading database management tools.
We know databases and we know SQL. We’ve walked in your shoes. We’ve felt and dealt with the pain of poor query performance. Fed up, we decided to fix the problem.
Our Mission
Our mission is to help businesses achieve unparalleled cost-optimized query execution efficiency and performance for blazing speed to the insights that drive business.
Our Team
Steve Topper | Chairman & CEO
Steve is a 6-time CEO of venture-funded technology companies across a diverse range of technologies, markets, business models, solutions, and channels successfully driving innovation and ushering in $multi-billion markets.
Steve was CEO of XPrime (analytics query processor for SQL Server); CEO of Perscala (autonomic database failover & recovery) and, most recently, CEO of Omni Ai, an AI/Machine Learning innovator with extensive patent portfolio in the areas of Unsupervised Learning, Behavior Recognition, and Anomaly Detection.
Bert Scalzo, Ph.D | CTO & Chief Architect
Bert is a 30-year subject matter expert on all things databases, an Oracle ACE, a keynoter and blogger, and author/tech editor of 18 books on database technologies.
Previously, at Quest Software, Bert was the Chief Architect & Co-developer of TOAD. A prolific developer, Bert has been on the design/dev team for many successful products including SQL Optimizer, Spotlight, Benchmark Factory, DBArtisan, DB Optimizer, Rapid SQL, Aqua Data Studio, ERwin, ER Studio, and DB Change Manager.
