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Appirio has assembled a leadership team of "reformed" enterprise software executives with experience at Borland, SAP, webMethods, CollabNet, NetSuite, Oracle, Siebel and salesforce.com, among others:

CEO - Chris Barbin

Chris Barbin Chris has been CEO of Appirio since its inception, guiding it to become one of the leaders in cloud computing. In 2008, InformationWeek hailed Appirio as "One of the Top 20 Cloud Computing Startups You Should Know" and in 2010 AlwaysOn named Appirio “OnDemand Company of the Year.” Chris brings extensive operations, consulting, professional and technical experience to Appirio, helping grow revenue in the triple digits year over year.

Previously Chris served as CIO and SVP of business operations at Borland Software, where he pioneered the company’s move to an on-demand IT applications architecture. It was in this role that Chris realized the early benefits and game changing potential of cloud computing. This experience led him and three other co-founders to create Appirio, a company dedicated to accelerating the adoption of cloud solutions in the enterprise.

Before becoming Borland’s CIO, Chris also served as the company’s SVP of worldwide services, managing and growing the company’s global consulting, education, and technical support organizations (organic and acquisition growth) by 45 percent between 2004 and 2006.

Prior to this, Chris was SVP of global customer services at webMethods, where he managed a team delivering services to over 1,000 customers running mission-critical integration applications. Chris also served as managing director of W.W. Grainger's Consulting Services division, an early pioneer in e-commerce. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and also studied at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England.

CMO and Products - Narinder Singh

Narinder SinghAs Chief Marketing Officer and head of products at Appirio, Narinder is responsible for overseeing the company's marketing, communication and product strategy. A co-founder of Appirio, Narinder brings more than 15 years of software and business innovation experience and plays a key role in keeping Appirio at the forefront of cloud computing.

Prior to Appirio, Narinder worked at SAP in the Office of the CEO as a part of the Corporate Strategy Group. Working with the management board and other executives, Narinder led initiatives on sales, maintenance and competitive strategies, as well as potential business and technology disruptions, including software on demand.

Prior to SAP, Narinder managed R&D, sales and marketing activity as vice president and general manager of webMethods (WEBM) workflow business unit. Narinder previously led R&D for the company's business process management (BPM), workflow, B2B and industry products. He joined webMethods in 1998 as one of its first forty employees, and subsequently founded webMethods' Trading Networks product, the most successful add-on product in the company's history.

Narinder began his career with Accenture at its Center for Strategic Technology working on leading edge initiatives for Fortune 500 companies. He pioneered early efforts to internet-enable business applications (SAP and Peoplesoft) at companies such as Motorola, Bell Atlantic and Autodesk.

He holds a Bachelor of Science from Northwestern University and an MBA from the Wharton School. Narinder also has worked with several non-profits on their development and supports a number of causes including Room to Read, Worldvision, and Ensaaf. He also works closely through Appirio's Silver Lining program with Architecture for Humanity and has served on the board of the Sikh Coalition since its inception in 2001.

Worldwide Sales - Jim McLoughlin

Jim McLoughlinJim McLoughlin is responsible for worldwide sales and customer development at Appirio. In this role he leads the company's sales efforts and helps customers drive broader adoption of the cloud as a key enabler across all business processes. He brings more than 25 years experience in selling and implementing technology based solutions, and has held European, Americas and global sales leadership roles.

Following a successful sales career at IBM UK, Jim transitioned to one of the earliest UK CRM vendors and subsequently joined JD Edwards. There he spent nearly 14 years in sales leadership—helping the company grow from a $100M in revenue to over $1.1B. After the Oracle acquisition of PeopleSoft/JD Edwards, Jim transitioned to Borland Software where he ran the Americas and EMEA sales teams and oversaw the global rollout of salesforce.com for sales and customer support. Subsequently he advised several large scale salesforce.com SFA rollouts including BMC Software.

Jim McLoughlin has a BS (Hons) in chemistry from the University of Leicester (UK) and a PGCE from University College, Cardiff (UK).

CTO - Glenn Weinstein

Glenn WeinsteinGlenn Weinstein is responsible for driving the technology vision for Appirio and its customers. In his role as CTO, Glenn evaluates new technologies that may play a significant role in the future of cloud computing. He also oversees Appirio's own server-less IT infrastructure. As an Appirio co-founder, Glenn built the consulting services practice from inception, and was responsible for establishing The Appirio Way delivery methodology, as well as the Centers of Excellence (CoE) program.

Prior to Appirio, Glenn ran large consulting and technical support functions at enterprise software companies, most recently as vice president for worldwide technical support and services at Borland Software Corporation, and previously as vice president for global customer support for webMethods. Glenn's other past roles include technical consulting and project management positions at Artesia Technologies and Lockheed Martin, where he was a certified object oriented analysis & design (OOAD) course instructor.

Glenn's professional career began with 8 years of service as a naval flight officer in the U.S. Navy, qualifying as a mission commander in the P-3C Orion anti-submarine and surveillance aircraft. Glenn holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the U.S. Naval Academy, and a Master of Science degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Financial Operations - Jim Emerich

Jim EmerichAs Appirio's Chief Financial Officer, Jim is responsible for overseeing all financial operations for the company. He brings to Appirio more than 18 years of finance and accounting experience from various high growth companies, including salesforce.com where he played a key role in helping it become the first enterprise cloud computing company to reach one billion dollars in revenue.

Jim joined Appirio from MuleSource, a leading provider of open source service-oriented (SOA) infrastructure software, where he was Chief Financial Officer. Prior to MuleSource, he spent six years at salesforce.com where he held multiple roles including Senior Vice President of Internal Audit, Chief Accounting Officer, Interim Chief Financial Officer and head of the company's Tax and Treasury departments. Prior to salesforce.com, Jim held leadership roles in finance and accounting for various high tech and manufacturing companies.

Jim is a graduate of Principia College where he earned a B.A. degree in Business Administration, Chemistry and Economics. He is also a graduate of the General Electric's Financial Management Program.

Legal Operations - Dan Lascell

Dan LascellDan Lascell is responsible for Appirio's worldwide legal operations. He brings to Appirio more than 15 years of experience in software and technology, intellectual property, open source, licensing, M&A and the other legal aspects of running a successful technology company. Prior to Appirio, Dan was GC of AmberPoint, Inc., where he managed all legal functions for the SOA software company—from its venture capital investments as the company was growing through and including its sale to Oracle in early 2010. Before joining AmberPoint, he served as in-house counsel at Corning, Inc., and was VP of legal services at webMethods, Inc. Prior to moving in-house, he practiced at several law firms, including Gray, Cary (now DLA Piper) and Hunton & Williams.

Dan holds a bachelor's degree in Music from Hamilton College, for which he currently serves as class President and a member of its Alumni Council, and a Juris Doctor from Cornell Law School. Dan is involved in number of activities related to animal rights, including the the North Carolina Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Google Cloud Services - Michael O'Brien

Michael O'Brien Mike O'Brien manages Appirio's growing Google Enterprise business. He is responsible for sales and delivery of Appirio's Google customers with a focus on large global enterprise implementations. A co-founder of Appirio, Mike brings over 15 years of experience leading large enterprise software deployments that involve complex business requirements for global businesses.

Before joining Appirio, Mike served as Borland Software's vice president of professional services for the Americas, where he led the global deployment of a 20,000 seat implementation at EDS. Prior to that, he was vice president for professional services at webMethods, where he oversaw a team of 50 consultants working on global implementations at government agencies and commercial enterprises such as Bank of America, Eastman Chemical and Dell. Previously, Mike was a senior consultant and project manager at WaveFront Consulting.

Mike started his career with 5 years of service as a U.S. Nuclear Submarine Officer, certified as a naval nuclear engineer, and supervised all ship-wide and nuclear power plant operations. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the U.S. Naval Academy.

Team Building and Retention - Jennifer Taylor

Jennifer TaylorAs head of human resources at Appirio, Jennifer is responsible for the processes and systems that ensure Appirio attracts, develops and retains world-class talent. She leads the company's recruiting, internal development, and compensation and benefits programs and has played an integral part in growing Appirio's team both domestically and internationally.

Prior to joining Appirio, Jennifer was director of human resources at Borland Software where she directly supported worldwide field operations and marketing - a 600 person organization that spanned North America, South America, Europe and Asia Pacific. In this role, she took the lead for rolling out Borland's company-wide on-demand performance management system from Success Factors where she quickly gained an appreciation for the cost and user benefits of SaaS and cloud computing. Prior to this, she held human resources positions at BMC Software, where she was business partner to the worldwide services team, and GMAC Global Relocation Services.

Jennifer is a graduate from the University of Phoenix, where she earned a B. S. degree in Business Administration.

Product Management and Marketing - Ryan Nichols

Ryan NicholsRyan Nichols runs product management and marketing for Appirio, and has driven the growth of Appirio's products that connect and extend cloud platforms, now used by over 5,000 companies.

Ryan has nearly 15 years of experience bringing together business strategy and technology in the enterprise. He joined Appirio from SAP's corporate strategy group, in the office of the CEO, where he led projects to define and execute SAP's product, platform, and M&A strategy. Previously, Ryan's background spans consulting and business software. He was a management consultant for McKinsey & Company, serving over a dozen leading financial services and technology clients. He led professional services for an analytics software startup, delivering inventory and pricing analytics software and services to retail and CPG clients. He was trained in product management at Intuit, where he focused on new user acquisition for QuickBooks.

Ryan holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from Williams College, and an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. In addition to his work at Appirio, Ryan supports several non-profits, including Experience Corps Bay Area, as they move to the cloud..

Human Resources - Shannon Daly

As head of human resources at Appirio, Shannon is responsible for developing the strategy that ensures Appirio attracts, develops and retains world-class talent, and for managing the implementation of the processes and systems to support that direction. She oversees the company's recruiting, internal development, and compensation and benefits programs and has played an integral part in implementing Workday HCM and other SaaS systems to run HR in the cloud.

Prior to joining Appirio, Shannon provided strategic advice and counsel to the organization around M&A integrations, executive and employee compensation programs, and HR operations. She successfully ran these organizations as director of compensation & benefits at Borland Software, senior director of worldwide compensation & benefits at Business Objects and senior director of compensation & HR systems at Cadence Design Systems.

Shannon is a graduate from California State University, Fresno, where she earned a B. S. degree in Business Administration.

Services Delivery - Mike Epner

Mike EpnerMike is responsible for driving delivery to serve all aspects of our customers' move to the cloud. Prior to this role, Mike led Appirio's sales organization and built a team that has assisted with some of Google and salesforce.com's largest implementations. Mike has more than 20 years of leadership experience in application development, IT and executive management and brings extensive management consulting experience to Appirio's global client base.

Before joining Appirio, Mike was vice president of worldwide services at CollabNet, a provider of on-demand services to distributed application development organizations, helping them operate collaboratively to deliver systems and software. Prior to this he was vice president of worldwide services for Borland Software Corporation, a provider of application lifecycle management solutions. Mike managed Borland’s $120M consulting services, education services and technical support business, roughly 48% of Borland’s total revenues. In this role, Mike helped double Borland’s consulting services revenues providing executive sales support to close multiple seven figure engagements.

Mike joined Borland as part of its acquisition of TeraQuest Metrics, Inc., where he was CEO. He led TeraQuest’s 4-year alliance with Gartner, Inc., helping CIOs and VPs benchmark their performance against peer groups and implement strategic improvement initiatives. He has also worked in leadership roles, both as an employee and senior consultant, at Eastman Kodak, NEC, General Motors and EDS.

Chief Architect - Jason Ouellette

Jason OuelletteJason has been inventing cutting-edge commercial software for large enterprises for the past 12 years. He recently served as a director of R&D for application products at Composite Software. There he led the development of data services for Siebel, SAP and salesforce.com, resulting in OEM relationships with Cognos and Informatica.

Prior to Composite, Jason held senior engineering and architecture positions with Informance, a manufacturing intelligence solution provider, and webMethods, a leader in integration and service-oriented architecture software. At webMethods, Jason was the third employee and invented numerous technologies that made the company the leading provider of B2B infrastructure. He helped architect the industry's first XML-based B2B server, then invented and led the development of the first B2B application for securely managing the exchange and processing of most common business document formats, such as XML and EDI, among trading partners over the Internet. In total, Jason has led the development of over a dozen major enterprise products that are currently deployed in mission-critical production applications at thousands of enterprise accounts.

He holds a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon in Information and Decision Systems and Computer Science. Jason is the first author to write a book about Force.com development outside of salesforce.com.

 

Board of Directors

Chris Barbin, Appirio

Narinder Singh, Appirio

Jim Goetz, Sequoia Capital
Jim Goetz is a Partner at Sequoia Capital focusing on enterprise systems, mobile software and enterprise and consumer technology enabled services investments. Jim currently serves on the board of Admob, ClearwellSystems, Dash Navigation, Data Connection, Jive Software, Palo Alto Networks and Widgetbox. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2004, Jim served as a General Partner at Accel Partner where he led the investments in Entrisphere (ERIC), Peribit (JNPR), RGB, and Rhapsody (BRCD) and was part of the team responsible for BroadJump (MOTV), Timetra (ALA) and Topspin (CSCO). Earlier, Jim was a Founder of VitalSigns (LU) where he went on to serve as VP/GM of the VitalSoft division of Lucent. Prior to VitalSigns, Jim was the Vice President of Network Management for Bay Networks. Prior to Bay and Synoptics, he held various product and marketing positions at AT&T, AT&T Bell Labs, and Digital Equipment. Jim has a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Jeff Richards, GGV Capital
Jeff Richards is a partner at GGV Capital, where his primary focus areas are on Internet, Applications Software, Mobile and Enterprise Infrastructure technologies. In addition to leading GGV’s investment in Appirio, Jeff sits on the Board of BlueKai and is involved with GGV's investments in HiSoft, Qunar, 21ViaNet and Focus.com. Prior to GGV, Jeff was the Vice President of Digital Content Services at VeriSign, where he oversaw the company's efforts in the Broadband Content space. Prior to VeriSign, Jeff was a co-founder and CEO of R4GS, a software and services provider acquired by VeriSign. Earlier in his career, Jeff was a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he led technology, banking and consumer products engagements in the US and Asia. Jeff graduated from Dartmouth College, sits on the Board of the First Tee Tri Valley, and is active with several other Bay Area nonprofits.

Matt Thompson, Adobe
As senior vice president of worldwide field operations, Matt Thompson leads Adobe's efforts to capitalize on long-term growth opportunities and align the company's sales and support organizations with key customer segments. In this role he is responsible for the strategy and direction of Adobe's sales operations across the company's diverse product lines.

Thompson oversees Adobe' global sales organization and all customer-facing functions, including field marketing, go-to-market partners, e-commerce, customer care and Adobe Consulting.

Previously, Thompson spent three years at Borland, where he served as senior vice president of worldwide field operations and oversaw a global team across 23 countries.

Prior to Borland, Thompson was senior vice president of worldwide sales at Marimba, Inc. and Cadence Design Systems, Inc. He has also held senior executive sales positions at Calico Commerce (acquired by PeopleSoft) and Electronic Data Systems.

Thompson serves on the board of Appirio and the Special Olympics Northern California. He holds a bachelor's degree in marketing and management from Northern Illinois University.

 

Investors

Appirio is privately held, with funding from Sequoia Capital, GGV Capital, salesforce.com, and a select group of angel investors.

 

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