Company – Board of Directors
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Hugh McCartney
Chief Executive Officer
Hugh McCartney is a seasoned executive with nearly 30 years experience in the computer software industry. Formerly an independent director of Cloudmark's board, Hugh joined Cloudmark as Chief Executive Officer in 2005 to drive Cloudmark's global expansion and leadership in messaging infrastructure security solutions.
Hugh has served as chairman of UK-based Scapa Technologies, an innovator in security testing solutions; as executive and chairman of Neverfail, a global provider of fail-safe technologies; and as chairman of Centennial Software, a developer of network discovery tools. In addition, Hugh has held board positions within several European software companies, both venture funded and publicly traded. Hugh has also lobbied on Capitol Hill for the fight against messaging abuse. He remains an active voice and presenter at some of the industry's largest fixed line and wireless events.
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Eric S. Byunn
FTV Capital
Eric has 14 years of experience in venture capital, technology and management consulting. Prior to joining FTV Capital, Eric was Director of Online Services at myCFO, a start-up wealth management firm. He joined myCFO from America Online, where he held several roles including management of Netscape's Personal Finance Channel. Prior to the acquisition of Netscape by AOL, Eric led product management for the Netscape Navigator browser. He has also worked at Microsoft and at McKinsey & Company, where he primarily worked with telecommunications clients. Eric received an AB summa cum laude from Harvard University, where he focused on economics and computer science, and an MBA from Stanford University, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
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Robert A. Huret
FTV Capital
Bob Huret is a founder and Managing Member of FTV Capital, a global private equity firm that invests in software and business services companies focused on the financial services industry. FTV Capital is a $1.1 billion fund whose limited partners are many of the world’s largest financial institutions. He has been listed in Institutional Investor’s Top 40 list of influential leaders in the financial technology field since its inception in 1999. He serves on the boards of Bank of Hawaii Corp., Financial Engines Inc., Caplin Systems Ltd. (London), and Cloudmark and he is a past trustee of Cornell University.
Prior to forming FTV Capital in 1998, he was an independent consultant to Montgomery Securities where he did over 100 mergers and acquisitions and public offerings for commercial banks. Concurrently, he was Chairman of Huret, Rothenberg and Co., a merchant bank in San Francisco. He was a founder and Vice Chairman of Newell Associates, a money management firm from 1986-2003. From 1996 to 2001, he was a founder and director of Third Age Media, Inc.
From 1976 to 1984, Bob was Senior Vice President-Finance and Trust Executive Office of BanCal Tri-State Corporation until it was acquired by Mitsubishi Bank. He joined First Chicago Corporation (now JPMorgan Chase) in 1968 and served there in a variety of roles, including Vice President, Strategic Planning until 1976.
Bob has an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and a BS from Cornell University in Industrial and Labor Relations.
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Greg S. Goldfarb
Summit Partners
Greg Goldfarb is a managing director of Summit Partners. He is active in the firm's investment activities in North America, Europe and Asia, and focuses primarily on the technology and internet sectors. His board directorships and investments include Clearwater Analytics, Cloudmark, IntelliChem (acquired by Symyx Technologies), LiveOffice (acquired by Symantec Corporation), ProClarity Corporation (acquired by Microsoft), The Mutual Fund Store (acquired by Warburg Pincus), Tiny Prints (acquired by Shutterfly), Web Reservations International (acquired by Hellman & Friedman), Winshuttle Holdings, and Wowza Media Systems.
Prior to joining Summit in 2002, Greg was Director of E-Commerce and Director of the Innovation Lab at Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide. In those roles, he was responsible for driving the adoption of internet, software, and communications technologies throughout Starwood's business.
Greg holds an AB, magna cum laude, in government from Harvard University.
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Cameron Myhrvold
Ignition Partners
Cameron is a founding partner of Ignition. He invests in software and infrastructure companies. Cameron represents Ignition as director on the boards of Azaleos, Cloudmark, Likewise (formerly Centeris), Seven, Teranode, and Zenprise. He also acts as Ignition observer on the board of Splunk. He previously served on the boards of Consera (acquired by Hewlett Packard), Rendition Networks (acquired by Opsware) and RLX Technologies (acquired by Hewlett Packard). Cameron also serves on the board of Wild Tangent. Prior to Ignition, Cameron spent thirteen years with Microsoft Corporation, most recently as Vice President of the Internet Customer Unit, where he was responsible for building business relationships with network operators and a broad range of telecommunications providers. Cameron received his Bachelors degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Ian Perry
Ian combines over 25 years sales, operations and general management experience in the IT industry with domain experience in the communications industry spanning wireline, wireless and IP service provider markets. Following consistent success in sales and sales management positions at Information Technology Ltd, Ingres and Sybase, Ian went on to join Portal Software as Vice President, EMEA in 1998. Building the EMEA organization from scratch his four year tenure at Portal Software saw the company rapidly achieve a dominant market position in convergent billing and customer care solutions securing the majority of Tier 1 operators across EMEA, and supported a highly successful NASDAQ IPO.
Since leaving Portal in 2002, Ian operates an independent consulting business active in supporting and investing in early stage organizations spanning Saas, direct / enterprise, channel and consumer business models. Ian currently holds non-executive board positions at Cloudmark Inc, Eseye Ltd, Central Europe On-Demand Zrt and Ontology Ltd.
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Michael Tanne
Endeavor Group
Michael has been creating and leading software ventures for over 15 years. He is currently Principal of Endeavor Group, which launches and invests in new technology ventures. Previously, Michael was Founder and CEO of XDegrees, a leader in distributed access to enterprise file systems (acquired by Microsoft, 2002). Earlier, he was Founder and VP, Bus Dev of AdForce, a highly successful Internet ad serving provider which went public in 1999. In 1992, soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Michael helped entrepreneurs create technology companies as Assistant Director of the Center for Emerging Technology Enterprises in Warsaw, Poland. Michael is a Founder and Board Member of Full Circle Fund, a Bay Area non-profit that engages emerging business leaders in philanthropy through grants and hands-on assistance to promising organizations. Michael holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta and an MBA from Stanford University.
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Martin Tobias
Ignition Partners
Martin Tobias is a venture partner at Ignition Partners. Martin is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, and is a recognized leader in the software and technology industries. From his beginnings as a programmer, Martin has focused on applying technology to solve real world business problems.
Martin has 30 years combined experience in the venture capital and technology industries, working in various managerial and executive roles with Tippr (founder), Kashless (founder), Imperium Renewables, Ignition Partners, Loudeye Technologies, Inc., Microsoft and Accenture. After founding Loudeye in 1997, he led the company to its public offering in March 2000.
Martin and his companies have been featured in prestigious media outlets from National Public Radio to Newsweek. He is a marketing and computer science graduate of Oregon State University. Martin sits on several boards, and is involved in numerous charities through the Martin Tobias Foundation.