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Date: November 29, 2009 Company: Eye-Fi Executive: Mark Schuster Position: Vice President, Sales		Eye-Fi, makers of the world's first wireless memory card for digital cameras, has named Mark Schuster as Vice President of Sales. Most recently, Mark was the Vice President of Sales at Pure Digital Technologies, part of the Flip Video group where he helped to successfully drive sales from $10 million to over $140 million. Previously, Mark was Senior Director of Sales and Marketing at Kensington Computer Products Group, a Division of ACCO Brands. He spent 10 years with Kensington Computer and Technology Group. Eye-Fi is backed by LMS Capital, Opus Capital, Shasta Ventures, TransLink Capital.
Date: November 20, 2009 Company: iVillage Executive: Catherine Balsam-Schwaber Position: Senior Vice President, Marketing		iVillage, the leading online destination for women, has named Catherine Balsam-Schwaber as Senior Vice President, Marketing. Catherine joins from MTV Networks, where she was Vice President of Integrated Marketing for MTV. Previously, Catherine was Vice President of Marketing Partnerships and Programming for Rock the Vote, where she helped to register one million new voters. She spent four years with Time Warner, where her last role was Executive Director of Program Development and Ideation for Global Marketing, and was Associate Producer for Tom Brokaw at NBC. iVillage, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NBC Universal, Inc., was established in 1995, had its initial public offer in 1999, and was acquired by NBC Universal in 2006.
Date: November 16, 2009 Company: iVillage Executive: Joe Lagani Position: Senior Vice President, Advertising Sales		iVillage, the leading online destination for women, has named Joe Lagani as Senior Vice President of Advertising Sales. Joe joins iVillage from Glam Media, where he was Vice President of Brand Sales. Prior to this role, Joe was a General Manager responsible for launching multiple channels for Glam, including Glam Living, Health & Wellness, and the Luxury channels. Previously, Joe was with Conde Nast Corporation as Vice President/Publisher of House & Garden. He spent over 10 years with Meredith Corporation, where his last role was Vice President/Publishing Director. iVillage, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NBC Universal, Inc., was established in 1995. The company was acquired by NBC Universal in May 2006.
Date: November 9, 2009 Company: Perimeter eSecurity Executive: Tim Harvey Position: Chief Executive Officer		Perimeter E-Security, the trusted market leader of information security services, has named Tim Harvey as Chief Executive Officer. Most recently, Tim was the Chief Executive Officer and President of XAware where he led the strategy and transitioned the company from proprietary middleware to an open source vendor, resulting in its subsequent sale. He joined XAware from S1 Corporation as Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Product Management. Prior to S1, Tim served as Chief Operating Officer at SynQuest where he helped manage the company's significant growth leading to an IPO in August 2000 and subsequent merger. He also served in other senior roles at Datalogix and Management Science America. Privately held, Perimeter is funded by Bessemer Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs, and Stripes Group.
Date: November 9, 2009 Company: Kosmix Executive: Sabrina Ellis Position: Senior Vice President, Products		Kosmix, the Guide to the web, has named Sabrina Ellis as Senior Vice President of Products. Prior to joining Kosmix, Sabrina was with Yahoo! for 8 years in increasing roles of responsibility. Her last role was as Vice President and General Manger of Yahoo! Messenger which she successfully led to become the #1 instant messaging product in the U.S. Prior to this role, Sabrina was Senior Director of Product Management for Yahoo! Mail. Kosmix has received funding from Accel Partners, Dag Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Time Warner Investments.
Date: October 29, 2009 Company: Intacct Executive: Robert Reid Position: Chief Executive Officer		Intacct, the leader in cloud financial management and accounting applications, has named Robert Reid as Chief Executive Officer and President. Most recently, Robert was President and Chief Executive Officer of LucidEra, a software as a service (SaaS) for Business Intelligence company. Prior to LucidEra, he was Group Vice President of Siebel CRM On Demand, at Oracle Corporation. Robert came to Oracle from Siebel where he was responsible for the small and medium business sector. He joined Siebel via the acquisition of UpShot, the on-demand CRM innovator, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer and grew the company ten-fold in just three years. Robert's extensive background also includes serving as President of Concur Commerce Network, as well as President and Chief Executive Officer of Seeker Software, and as a Vice President at Documentum. Inacct has received funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, Emergence Capital Partners, Sigma Partners, and Sutter Hill Ventures.
Date: October 13, 2009 Company: Zuberance Executive: Matt Elders Position: Vice President, Sales		Zuberance, the leading online Word of Mouth marketing company, has named Matt Elders as Vice President of Sales. Prior to Zuberance, Matt worked for Tippit, an online business media company. Matt has over 20 years of experience leading and building high-performance sales teams in start-up environments. He has a proven track of driving explosive sales growth at leading Internet, social media, and consulting companies including Scient, BuzzLogic, and Gartner Group. Zuberance is backed by Emergence Capital Partners.
Date: October 5, 2009 Company: Bloom Energy Executive: Bill Kurtz Position: Chief Financial Officer		Bloom Energy, a developer of fuel cell systems for on-site power generation, has named Bill Kurtz as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Bloom Energy, Bill was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Novellus Systems, a publicly traded manufacturer of semiconductor production equipment. Prior to Novellus, Bill was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Engenio Information Technologies, a subsidiary of LSI Logic, and Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of 3PARdata. Bill was a key member of the early management team at Scient Corporation, which he helped to take public in 1999 as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Scient, Bill spent a decade with AT&T in various roles including Chief Financial Officer of AT&T's Business Market Division and Vice President of Cost Management for all divisions. Bill began his career at Price Waterhouse, now PricewaterhouseCoopers, and he is a certified public accountant. Bloom Energy is a private company, and has received financing from Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Khosla Ventures, and New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
Date: October 1, 2009 Company: SugarCRM Executive: Larry Augustin Position: Chief Executive Officer		SugarCRM, the world's leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) has named Larry Augustin as Chief Executive Officer. Most recently, Larry has been an angel investor and advisor to early stage technology companies. One of the group who coined the term "Open Source", he has written and spoken extensively on Open Source worldwide. From 2002 to 2004 he was a Venture Partner at Azure Capital Partners. In 1993, he founded VA Linux (now SourceForge, NASDAQ:LNUX) and was CEO until August 2002. While CEO he launched SourceForge.net and led the company through an IPO in December 1999. SurgarCRM has received funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), and Walden International.
Date: September 29, 2009 Company: iVillage Executive: Tammy Hepps Position: Chief Technology Officer		iVillage, the leading online destination for women, has named Tammy Hepps as Chief Technology Officer. Prior to joining iVillage, Tammy was Vice President of Technology for Dow Jones/IAC Online Ventures, where she led technology for the creation and launch of FiLife.com, a personal finance website. Prior Tammy was with The New York Times as Director of Software Development where she managed a team of over 60 responsible for the software underlying NYTimes.com. Before The New York Times, Tammy led technology at SparkNotes.com which was acquired by Barnes & Noble, Inc. She continued to manage the technology team post acquisition and worked closely with their technology team to manage SparkNotes' growth. iVillage, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NBC Universal, Inc., was established in 1995. The company was acquired by NBC Universal in May 2006.
Date: September 23, 2009 Company: Indigo Books & Music Executive: Andrew Sloss Position: Executive Vice President, Online		Indigo Books & Music, the largest book retailer in Canada and publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX:IDG), has named Andrew Sloss as Executive Vice President of Online. Prior to joining Indigo, Andrew spent seven years with eBay, most recently as Managing Director of Kijiji Classifieds Canada, the #1 classifieds site in Canada; previously, he was Country Manager for eBay Canada. Andrew started his career with Bain & Company. Indigo operates bookstores in all provinces of Canada, including over 90 Indigo, Chapters, and the World's Biggest Bookstore superstores, and over 150 small format stores.
Date: September 14, 2009 Company: IronKey Executive: David Tripier Position: Chief Marketing Officer		IronKey, maker of the world's most secure flash drives, has named David Tripier as Chief Marketing Officer. With more than eighteen years of technology marketing experience, David brings a diversified range of experience in leading product management, product marketing and engineering in both early stage start-up companies and Fortune 500 corporations. Prior to joining IronKey, David was Senior Vice President of Marketing at SurfControl, responsible for product strategy and go-to-market direction in email and Web security markets. David was also Vice President of Product Management at McAfee for several years. IronKey has received funding from Crosslink Capital, Leapfrog Ventures and Mohr Davidow Ventures.
Date: September 10, 2009 Company: Become Executive: Aron Bohlig Position: Vice President, Corporate & Business Development		Become, the Web's fastest-growing site for comparison shopping, has named Aron Bohlig as Vice President of Corporate and Business Development. Prior to Become.com, Aron was Vice President of Internet Investment Banking at Credit Suisse where he developed and executed strategic financing plans for clients across a diverse set of products including M&A, private placements, IPOs, LBOs, and public debt. Prior to Credit Suisse, Aron was an Associate, focused on Software and Digital Media, in the Investment Banking group at GCA SAVVIAN. Aron started his career in the software industry with Metropolis Software which was sold to Clarify Software which was ultimately successfully acquired by Nortel Networks in 1999. Become.com has received funding from European Founders Fund, Texas Pacific Group and Transcosmos.
Date: September 8, 2009 Company: Quova Executive: Tim Krozek Position: Chief Revenue Officer		Quova, the leading provider of Internet geolocation data and services, has named Tim Krozek as Chief Revenue Officer. Prior to Quova, Tim was Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Business Development at Efficient Frontier. During his time with the company, he helped Efficient Frontier become the largest search engine-marketing (SEM) firm, managing over $750 million in paid search spend from hundreds of companies including: Bankrate, Expedia, Intuit, Lending Tree, Microsoft, Nordstrom, Orbitz, Quickenloans and Wells Fargo. Previously, Tim was Sales Director at Yahoo!, responsible for strategic sales relationships with companies such as Oracle, HP and Intel. He has also held various sales and marketing positions at AOL and Netscape Communications, in addition to numerous start-ups. Quova has received funding from IDG Ventures SF, Mobius Venture Capital, Nexus Group and Sequel Venture Partners.
Date: August 11, 2009 Company: WeSeed Executive: Lisa Lindberg Position: Vice President, Product Management		WeSeed, which empowers consumers to learn about the stock market and take charge of their financial futures, has named Lisa Lindberg as Vice President of Product Management. Prior to joining WeSeed, Lisa was General Manager of Rhapsody Products, Services and Customers at RealNetworks. Prior to RealNetworks, Lisa spent over five years with Amazon.com, most recently as Senior Product Manager of Amazon.com Associates. WeSeed, a social network that empowers and educates people who have never before engaged with the stock market, is part of Peak6 Investments, a market maker in options and stocks that operates on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
Date: August 6, 2009 Company: Novavax Executive: Fred Driscoll Position: Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer		Novavax (Nasdaq: NVAX), a leading clinical-stage biotechnology company creating novel vaccines to address a broad range of infectious diseases worldwide, has named Fred Driscoll as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Previously, Fred served as Chief Executive Officer of Genelabs Technologies, a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company. He started at Genelabs as the Chief Financial Officer. Prior to his position at Genelabs, he served in a variety of financial and senior management positions at Astraris, OXiGENE and Collagenesis Corporation. He spent the first twenty years of his career with Instrumentation Laboratory as Vice President of Finance for the Americas.
Date: August 6, 2009 Company: Connective Orthopaedics Executive: Emma Wright Position: Vice President, Biomaterials Research & Development		Connective Orthopaedics, an early stage medical device company specializing in soft tissue repair in sports medicine applications, has named Emma Wright as Vice President of Biomaterials Research and Development. Previously, Emma spent over 12 years with Smith & Nephew Endoscopy in various R&D and marketing positions cumulating in Director of Strategic Marketing for Advanced Biomaterials. Prior to this role, she was Director of Research and Development for Biologics and New Technologies responsible for developing biological based technologies to produce the next generation of innovative tissue repair products. Connective Orthopaedics has received funding from Norwich Ventures.
Date: July 21, 2009 Company: PivotLink Executive: David Vonk Position: Senior Vice President, Sales & Business Development		PivotLink, the leading provider of business intelligence solutions delivered via Software as a Service (SaaS), has named David Vonk as Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development. David joins PivotLink from SAP, where he was Group Vice President of North American Business User Sales. He joined SAP in 2007 through the acquisition of OutlookSoft where he was Vice President of Sales. Previously, David was an assistant Vice President of Finance at First Union. PivotLink is venture backed by Emergence Capital Partners, StarVest Partners and Trident Capital.
Date: July 13, 2009 Company: Syndero Executive: Scott Waltz Position: Chief Executive Officer		Syndero, a next generation online, direct response company, has named Scott Waltz as Chief Executive Officer. Scott joins Syndero from Guthy-Renker where he was Chief Marketing Officer. Prior Scott was with Men's Wearhouse Group, a $1.6B retailer of men's tailored clothing in the U.S. and Canada, where he was Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. Prior Scott was a Partner and President of 360 Group, a leading independent database-marketing firm. Previously, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of AllBusiness.com. Scott helped build AllBusiness.com into the leading small business resource helping over 2 million small business owners. Scott started his career with Miller/Huber Direct & Interactive, BBDO Advertising and Anderson & Lembke Advertising. Syndero has recieved funding from Trident Capital.
Date: June 30, 2009 Company: PetFoodDirect.com Executive: Brock Weatherup Position: Chief Executive Officer		PetFoodDirect the #1 source for pet food and pet supplies on the web, has named Brock Weatherup as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining PetFoodDirect, Brock was Chief Executive Officer of Fathead, where he built an industry-changing consumer product marketing and ecommerce organization. Brock successfully launched one of the hottest new brands and an assortment of products in the sports & entertainment industry from inception to over $36m in revenue in less than 3 years. Brock also held numerous leadership positions focused on website commerce and marketing at InteractiveCorp (IAC) working on such brands as TicketMaster.com, Match.com and CitySearch.com. His last role was as Executive Vice President of Entertainment Publications. Brock started his career at American Express. PetFoodDirect has received funding from LLR Partners.
Date: June 29, 2009 Company: Gilt Groupe Executive: Stefan Pepe Position: Vice President & General Manager		Gilt Groupe, an invitation-only luxury web-based retailer, has named Stefan Pepe as Vice President and General Manager. Prior to joining Gilt, Stefan spent almost 10 years with Amazon.com. His last role was as Director of North American Books and Magazines which was Amazon’s largest category with over $2 billion in revenue. Stefan worked in marketing and business development at PlanetAll.com before its acquisition by Amazon in 1998, and prior to that worked at Zip2.com in market development roles. Investors in Gilt include leading venture capital firm Matrix Partners and Kevin Ryan, former CEO of DoubleClick.
Date: June 29, 2009 Company: Gilt Groupe Executive: Nate Richardson Position: Vice President & General Manager		Gilt Groupe, an invitation-only luxury web-based retailer, has named Nate Richardson as Vice President and General Manager. Prior to joining Gilt, Nate was the Chief Executive Officer of paidContent.org. Previously, he was Senior Vice President of Dow Jones Online. At Dow Jones, Nate oversaw a $110 million business unit which included leading brands Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal and Marketwatch. Prior to Dow Jones Online, Nate was the General Manager of Yahoo! Finance where he helped to grow Yahoo! Finance into the largest business news and financial data media outlet in the world. Investors in Gilt include leading venture capital firm Matrix Partners and Kevin Ryan, former CEO of DoubleClick.
Date: June 18, 2009 Company: Playdom Executive: John Pleasants Position: Chief Executive Officer		Playdom, the leading social game developer, has named John Pleasants as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining Playdom, John was the Chief Operating Officer and President of Global Publishing at Electronic Arts (EA). John brings a deep understanding of the gaming industry and significant experience scaling high-growth organizations. At EA, John was responsible for overseeing all consumer-facing businesses, including Pogo, Rupture and Mobile Games, as well as the company’s social gaming initiatives. Prior to joining EA, he was Chief Executive Officer and President of Revolution Heath and Ticketmaster. During John’s tenure at Ticketmaster it became the world’s largest ticketing company with revenues close to $1 billion. John also held senior management roles with Evite, Match.com and CitySearch.
Date: June 17, 2009 Company: Turn Executive: Hugh McGoran Position: Vice President, Sales		Turn, the smart market for online advertising and fastest growing ad network according to comScore, has named Hugh McGoran as Vice President of Sales. He joins Turn from Peer39 where as the Senior Vice President of Advertising Sales. Prior to Peer39, Hugh spent three years at Tacoda where he served as the Vice President of Eastern Advertising Sales and led the Tacoda sales integration into AOL's Platform A when the company was acquired in 2007. Before Tacoda, Hugh spent nine years at Knight Ridder Digital with four years at Real Cities as Vice President of Advertising Sales. Hugh came to Knight Ridder from Lorel Marketing where he served as the Director of Interactive Advertising. Turn is venture backed by Norwest Venture Partners, Shasta Ventures, and Trident Capital.
Date: June 9, 2009 Company: AliphCom Executive: Rob Levine Position: Senior Vice President, Global Sales & Market Operations		Aliph, the leader in mobile audio, has named Rob Levine as Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Market Operations. Prior to joining Aliph, Rob was General Manager of North American Retail and Consumer Channels Business at Dell where he was instrumental in launching Dell into retail. Rob led all aspects of Dell's relationships with major retailers in the Americas, including Walmart, Best Buy and Staples. Prior to Dell, Rob was Vice President and General Manager of Global Companion Products at Motorola Corporation. He started his career with Lucent holding multiple jobs over a 7 year period including experience in product management and sales in Wireless networks, optical networking, and data. Aliph is funded by Khosla Ventures and Sequoia Capital.
Date: May 18, 2009 Company: Metaplace Executive: Heather Samarin Position: Vice President, Product Management		Metaplace, provider of user-generated virtual worlds, has named Heather Samarin as Vice President of Product Management. Prior to joining Metaplace, she was the Chief Marketing Officer at SightSpeed, an online video conferencing company. While at SightSpeed, Heather helped design and launch their expanded consumer and small business product line and new consumer website. Before this, Heather spent over 11 years and held several senior leadership positions at Intuit. Most recently, as Vice President for TurboTax Product Management. She launched their "free" business model and alternative monetization strategy through the design of 2 new online tax products. As Director of QuickBooks Brand Management, she launched several new products targeted at the SMB market. Metaplace has received venture funding from Charles River Ventures and Crescendo Ventures.
Date: May 14, 2009 Company: Xmarks Executive: James Joaquin Position: Chief Executive Officer		Xmarks, the leader in bookmark powered web discovery, has named James Joaquin as Chief Executive Officer. Most recently, James was President and Chief Executive Officer of Xoom Corporation, a global money transfer service. Prior James was President and Chief Executive Officer of Ofoto, the leading online photo sharing and printing service. He led the Ofoto team from the company's early beginnings through the successful sale to The Eastman Kodak Company. James then ran Ofoto as a wholly owned subsidiary of Kodak, expanding the service beyond the United States into Europe, China, and Japan. Previously, James co-founded and headed business development for When.com, an Internet calendar and events service that was successfully acquired by America Online. Xmarks has received venture financing from Redpoint Ventures.
Date: May 12, 2009 Company: Simplex Healthcare Executive: Mark Oldani Position: Chief Operations Officer		Simplex Healthcare, the leading provider of diabetic testing supplies, has named Mark Oldani as is Chief Operations Officer. Mark brings over 20 years of Sales, Marketing and Customer Support experience in the consumer electronics and telecommunications industries with the most recent eleven years working in executive leadership roles in high growth, direct to consumer businesses at Circuit City and Dell. Most recently, Mark was instrumental in helping grow Circuit City's e-commerce business from $750mm annually to over $1.4b annually within a two year period. Simplex has received funding from Lighthouse Capital Partners and New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
Date: May 5, 2009 Company: CardioDx Executive: Jeff Heer Position: Vice President, Operations & Administration		CardioDx, a molecular diagnostics company that serves cardiologists and their patients by offering clinically validated genomic tests to enhance patient care, has named Jeff Heer as Vice President of Operations and Administration. Jeff has 18 years experience in the medical device industry. Most recently he was the Vice President of Operations at Peak Surgical, where helped lead the company through the development phase to commercialization. Previously he was Vice President of Global Supply Chain for Siemens Ultrasound, and spent 12 years at Stryker Endoscopy in Sales, Marketing, Operations and Plant Manager roles. CardioDx is venture backed by Intel Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Mohr Davidow Ventures and Texas Pacific Group.
Date: April 20, 2009 Company: Quattro Wireless Executive: Lynn Tornabene Position: Chief Marketing Officer		Quattro Wireless, mobile's largest premium publisher ad network, has named Lynn Tornabene as Chief Marketing Officer. Prior to Quattro, Lynn served as the Head of DoubleClick Communications for Google Inc., coming to the company through its acquisition of DoubleClick Inc. As the Vice President of Marketing and Communications for DoubleClick, she was an integral part in the company's accelerated growth leading to the acquisition by Google in 2008. Lynn's previous experience includes positions at Stockback (an online affiliate program), Wunderman/Y&R, IBM and PIA Radio Network. Quattro has received funding from Globespan Capital Partners and Highland Capital Partners.
Date: April 8, 2009 Company: Yodle Executive: Bryan Chupp Position: Senior Vice President, Consumer Marketing		Yodle, a leading provider of local online advertising services, has named Bryan Chupp as Senior Vice President of Consumer Marketing. Bryan came to Yodle from FiLife, a personal finance web community backed by IAC and Dow Jones, where he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Product. During his tenure, Bryan oversaw the launch of FiLife.com, built an extensive SEO-oriented directory, and a lead generation matching service. Prior to FiLife, Bryan worked as Vice President of Partnerships and Loyalty Marketing Group for LendingTree.com. Bryan started his career at Homespace.com in various sales roles. Yodle is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and JAFCO Ventures.
Date: March 26, 2009 Company: RedPath Integrated Pathology Executive: Mark Myslinski Position: Chief Executive Officer		RedPath Integrated Pathology, a molecular diagnostic company dedicated to the effective diagnosis and treatment of cancer, has named Mark Myslinski as Chief Executive Officer. Mark came to Redpath from Johnson & Johnson. During his tenure with Johnson & Johnson, Mark built a new, worldwide Evidence Based Medicine function for the Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics unit. He was also the General Manager of Veridex, a division of Johnson & Johnson focused on molecular diagnostics. Prior to Johnson & Johnson, Mark was the Chief Executive Officer and President of Interscope Technologies, which was the leader in high-speed automated digital imaging systems that improved productivity for pathologists. Redpath is venture-backed by CID Capital, Inflexion Partners, NewSpring Capital and Seneca Partners.
Date: March 25, 2009 Company: Zeo Executive: Jeremy Dalnes Position: Vice President, Online Marketing & Social Media		Zeo, developer of a revolutionary consumer device that monitors sleep, and offers sleep education and motivational sleep coaching, has named Jeremy Dalnes as Vice President of Online Marketing and Social Media. Prior to joining Zeo, Jeremy was Vice President of E-commerce for North America at Panasonic. Prior to Panasonic, he was Vice President of Marketing at Home Decor Products a leading online retailer of kitchen and bath products, appliances, and related merchandise. During his four year tenure at Home Décor Products the company grew from around $12 million to over $100 million in revenue and 14 people to over 180 people. Jeremy started his career with Excite@Home. The Company is funded by iD Ventures America and Trident Capital.
Date: March 25, 2009 Company: BaroNova Executive: Mark Maguire Position: Vice President, Research & Development		BAROnova, a clinical-stage medical technology company developing endoscopically delivered devices for the chronic treatment of all stages of obesity, has named Mark Maguire as Vice President of Research and Development. Mark has over 20 years of research and development experience in start-up, medium and large medical device companies. Most recently, Mark was with Hansen Medical, a medical robotics company focused on the most innovative approaches to heart repair. He was responsible for driving the next generation applications for the robotics systems as Vice President of Structural Heart. Formerly, he held roles overseeing new technology development as part of a venture backed incubator for a diverse range of start-up medical device companies and has had extensive operational experience as an engineer for subsidiaries out of Johnson & Johnson, Abbot Vascular, and Guidant Corporation. BAROnova has received funding from Arboretum Ventures, Highland Capital Partners and ONSET Ventures.
Date: March 24, 2009 Company: RecycleBank Executive: John Bax Position: Chief Financial Officer		RecycleBank, a unique rewards program that motivates people to recycle, has named John Bax as Chief Financial Officer. John comes to RecycleBank from Sentient Jet, Inc., where he served as Chief Financial Officer for four years and saw the company through record growth and profitability. Prior to Sentient, John was Vice President of Planning and Analysis for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., where he was responsible for financial & strategic planning and analysis for the world's largest company. Before working at Wal-Mart Stores, John was the Chief Financial Officer of Walmart.com, where he led all finance functions as well as merchandise planning, legal and real estate. John first joined Walmart.com as Controller at its start-up and built the financial team that supported the site's phenomenal growth. John started his career at Ernst & Young. RecycleBank has received funding from Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, RRE Ventures, and Sigma Partners.
Date: March 23, 2009 Company: Modelinia Executive: Eric Pederson Position: Chief Technology Officer		Modelinia, the first video centric entertainment brand dedicated to the life of the Supermodel, has named Eric Pederson as Chief Technology Officer. Eric spent four years at Condé Nast Publications where he provided technology strategy and project leadership for all technology efforts within CondéNet and led the CondéNet technology department to build, support and administer over 20 web sites for CondéNet including Flip.com, Style.com, Epicurious.com, Men.Style.com, Concierge.com, NewYorker.com, VanityFair.com, Wired.com, Self.com, Glamour.com, among others. Prior Eric was Director of Internet Development at Martha Stewart Living OmniMedia. Modelinia is backed by Polaris Venture Partners.
Date: March 6, 2009 Company: Ancestry.com Executive: Jonathan Young Position: Vice President, Development		The Generations Network (TGN), parent company of Ancestry.com, has named Jonathan Young as Vice President of Development for Ancestry.com. Jonathan joins TGN from Earthlink, where he most recently served as Vice President of Development. Prior to his two years at Earthlink, Jonathan spent ten years at Time Warner where he served as the Vice President of Product Development for Turner Internet Technologies, and was responsible for product management and development functions for Turner's internet properties e.g. CNN.com, NASCAR.com, Cartoon Network, and TCM. TGN is backed by Spectrum Equity Investors.
Date: February 24, 2009 Company: Endeavor Executive: Dave Geary Position: Senior Vice President, Global Partnerships		Endeavor, the leading non-profit network supporting high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets, has named Dave Geary as Senior Vice President of Global Partnerships. Prior to Endeavor, Dave was a founding team member of Ofoto where he was the key business development executive for Ofoto responsible for global partnerships, expansion to Europe and entry into Mobile imaging market. Ofoto was successfully acquired by The Eastman Kodak Company in 2001. Prior to Ofoto/Kodak, Dave held executive business development and marketing management positions with When.com (sold to AOL in 1999 ) and CyberCash. To date, Endeavor Entrepreneurs have created over 86,000 new jobs and generated over $2.51 billion in revenues throughout Latin America, South Africa and Turkey.
Date: February 23, 2009 Company: MuleSoft Executive: Greg Schott Position: Chief Executive Officer		MuleSoft, the leading provider of open source service oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure software, has named Greg Schott as Chief Executive Officer. Greg was most recently Senior Vice President of Marketing at SpringSource, an open source Java infrastructure software provider. Prior to his experience at SpringSource, Greg served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Vice President of Corporate Development at Agile Software (acquired by Oracle). He also served as Vice President of Marketing and Vice President of Operations at DG Systems, where he helped lead the company from a startup to a profitable public company. Previously, Greg held management positions at The Boston Consulting Group and Westinghouse. MuleSoft is backed by investors Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Morgenthaler Ventures.
Date: February 12, 2009 Company: Proofpoint Executive: Peter Galvin Position: Chief Marketing Officer		Proofpoint, the leading provider of unified email security, archiving and data loss prevention solutions, has named Peter Galvin as Chief Marketing Officer. Prior to joining Proofpoint, Peter was the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Products at Openwave Corporation. Previously, he served as Vice President of Marketing at Celequest Corporation (acquired by Cognos) and a Vice President and General Manager at Inktomi Corporation (acquired by Yahoo!). Proofpoint has received venture financing from Benchmark Capital, Bridgescale Partners, Inventures Group, JAFCO Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures and RRE Ventures.
Date: February 12, 2009 Company: Coupa Software Executive: Rob Bernshteyn Position: Chief Executive Officer		Coupa Software, the leading provider of on-demand purchasing software to control business spending and costs, has named Rob Bernshteyn as Chief Executive Officer. Ron was most recently Global Vice President of Product Marketing and Management at SuccessFactors. Ron contributed to delivering a 15x increase in revenues and a 20x increase in company valuation in the three years leading up to the company’s IPO. Before SuccessFactors, Ron directed product management at Siebel Systems, where he helped build their Employee Relationship Management (ERM) suite of applications into Siebel’s fastest-growing product two years after launch. Previously, Ron was an Associate at McKinsey & Company and a Global Project Manager at Accenture. Coupa has received funding from BlueRun Ventures and Battery Ventures.
Date: January 27, 2009 Company: mig33 Executive: Steve Boom Position: Chief Executive Officer		Mig33, the first global mobile internet community, has named Steve Boom as Chief Executive. Prior to joining Migg33, Steve spent ten years at Yahoo! in a variety of senior management positions. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President of the Connected Life division, where he had global responsibility for the company's mobile business. Steve joined Yahoo! in London as business development director, where he was responsible for strategic alliances and new business models across Europe. He began his career as an attorney at Venture Law Group in Silicon Valley. The Company is backed by Accel Partners, DCM and Redpoint Ventures.
Date: January 26, 2009 Company: RipCode Executive: Greg Lowitz Position: Executive Vice President, Sales & Business Development		RipCode, an innovator of Internet and mobile video infrastructure solutions, has named Greg Lowitz as Executive Vice President of Sales and Business Development. Greg joins Ripcode from NetApp, where he was Senior Director and Industry Manager of the Converged Media Business. Previously he was with Avid Technology as Managing Director of Global Channels. Greg joined Avid through the successful acquisition of Pinnacle Systems, where he spent over six years in general management, marketing, and sales roles. His last role was Vice President and General Manager of Broadcast Sales Operations for Americas. Greg started his career at Hewlett-Packard Company. Ripcode has received funding from ATA Ventures, El Dorado Ventures, Granite Ventures, Hunt Ventures, and Vesbridge Partners.
Date: January 21, 2009 Company: ProStor Systems Executive: Frank Harbist Position: Chief Executive Officer		ProStor Systems, a maker of removable data storage disks, has named Frank Harbist as its new Chief Executive Officer. Prior to coming to ProStor, Frank spent 21 years at Hewlett-Packard Company. Most recently, he was Vice President of Strategy and Operations for the Server Division. He also was Vice President and General Manager of the Nearline Storage Division. ProStor has reveived venture funding from Boulder Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Sequel Venture Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures.
Date: January 19, 2009 Company: Sharpcast Executive: Laura Yecies Position: Chief Executive Officer		Sharpcast, an innovator in digital media and information synchronization, has named Laura Yecies as Chief Executive Officer. Most recently, Laura was General Manager of the ZoneAlarm consumer and small business division at Check Point Software. Prior to Check Point Software, Laura was General Manager of the Mail division at Yahoo!. Prior to Yahoo!, Laura was Vice President of the Netscape browser division at AOL. Earlier in her career she was charged with developing the market entry strategy for Informix Software in Latin America. The Company has received venture financing from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Selby Venture Partners and Sigma Partners.
Date: January 9, 2009 Company: Lithium Technologies Executive: Sanjay Dholakia Position: Chief Marketing Officer		Lithium Technologies, the leader in on-demand enterprise customer communities, has named Sanjay Dholakia as Chief Marketing Officer. Sanjay joins Lithium from SumTotal Systems, where he was instrumental in advancing the company's market leadership in the learning and talent management sectors. During his tenure, the company grew over 10-fold and became the clear leader in its market. He served most recently as Senior Vice President and General Manager, of SumTotal's Learning and Talent Management Business Unit. Before joining SumTotal, Sanjay served as Director of Business Development and acting COO for a portfolio company within Walker Digital. Sanjay started his career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and Andersen Consulting, advising Global 500 companies from a broad range of industries. Lithium has received funding from Emergence Capital Partners, Shasta Ventures, and Benchmark Capital.
Date: January 5, 2009 Company: Gilt Groupe Executive: Ann Hailey Position: Chief Financial Officer		Gilt Groupe, an invitation-only luxury web-based retailer, has named Ann Hailey as Chief Financial Officer. Ann brings 30 years of finance, retail and operating experience to the company. She was most recently at Limited Brands, where she served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 1997-2006 and Executive Vice President, Corporate Development from 2006-2007. Prior to joining Limited Brands, Ms. Hailey spent her career in consumer businesses including PepsiCo, Pillsbury and RJR Nabisco. Ann sits on the Board of Directors of Avon, Inc., and serves on their Audit Committee. She is also a Director of W.W. Grainger, Inc., Realogy Corporation and the Cleveland Federal Reserve Board where she chairs the Audit Committee. Investors include leading venture capital firm Matrix Partners and Kevin Ryan, former CEO of DoubleClick.
Date: January 5, 2009 Company: TheFind Executive: Ron Levi Position: Vice President, Product Management		TheFind, a vertical search engine for shopping that puts every product, every store, every sale, coupon and discount, right at your fingertips, has named Ron Levi as Vice President of Product Management. Ron joins TheFind from StubHub where he was Director of Product Strategy and User Experience. Ron was the 20th employee at StubHub. During his tenure, the Company grew from $25M in ticket sales to $500M+ in ticket sales and was successfully acquired by eBay. TheFind has received funding from Redpoint Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures.
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