Turning Cloud Chaos Into Cloud Clarity

Role:
Chief Executive Officer

Education:
Wesleyan University

Experience:
25 year track record in transforming, strengthening, and growing companies from early stage to $100M+ annual revenue, resulting in four exits, a $550M outcome, and an $11B market cap.

Greatest professional accomplishment:
Helping Pentaho completely pivot from a highly commoditized reporting vendor to an emerging Big Data integration and analytics offering, from $6M to $140M ARR. From $17K average ACV to $160K ACV. From 70 customers to 1,500.

Favorite motto:
“Nothing worth achieving comes easy.”

Superpower:
Listening

Role:
Chief Financial Officer

Education:
BBA IONA University; MBA Columbia University 

Experience:

• Chief Financial Officer; CloudCheckr (acquired by NetApp) 
• Chief Financial Officer; Viventium 
• President, PerTrac Financial Solutions (acquired by eVestment/NASDAQ) 
• Chief Financial Officer, CapitalIQ (acquired by Standard &Poor’s/McGraw Hill) 

Greatest professional accomplishment:
I have led multiple technology companies through their growth stages to successful exits.

Favorite motto:
“Strive for greatness, lead with integrity.” 

Superpower:
Operational optimization – Optimizing business operations to enhance efficiency and effectiveness

Role:
Chief customer officer

Education:
Colorado State University

Experience:

• Offering Owner, IBM 
• Senior SAN Architect (Disaster Recovery), Raytheon 
• Senior Storage Engineer, Harris Corp 

Greatest professional accomplishment:
US Navy Veteran (VFW – Desert Storm and Desert Shield)

Favorite motto:
“Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Superpower:
Gift of gab

Role:
Chief Marketing Officer

Education:
BA Marketing – University of St. Thomas

Experience:

• CMO, SecureAuth 
• Principal/Founder, Parasol Consulting 
• VP, Global Marketing & Communications, Acxiom 
• Co-founder, Mindspace Advertising 

Greatest professional accomplishment:
Instrumental in the marketing and positioning of six companies that enjoyed successful exits (agency and/or client-side involvement)

Favorite motto:
“Argue for your limitations and they are yours.”

Superpower:
Building high-performing teams that punch well above their weight class.

Role:

Chief Revenue Officer

Experience:

• HP Software – VP of Global Accounts,
• Duetto –  Chief Revenue Officer
• Platform 9 – Chief Revenue Officer
• Espressive – Chief Revenue Officer

Greatest professional accomplishment:

Running a $750M P&L with 140 Sales Professionals serving HP’s 500 Largest Global Accounts.

Favorite motto:

• “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, either way you’re right.” –  Henry Ford
• “The Sale begins at No.” – Keno Helmi

Superpower:

Helping individuals see that the only limitations they truly face are almost always self-imposed. Why? Because I truly believe the fight begins in the mind and not in the physical world.

Role:

Chief Operating Officer

Education:

Babson College

Experience:

COO at StormForge, Sr. Director of Product at Puppet, Engineering Manager at Staples

Greatest professional accomplishment: 

Navigated the company through financial instability, launching a new product, positioning the company for recovery and future growth.

Favorite motto: 

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar

Superpower:

Relentlessness