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Date: December 19, 2011 Company: Altius Education Executive: Brenda Robertson Position: Vice President, Enrollment Operations		Altius Education, developing a new model for US higher education focused on student success, has named Brenda Robertson as Vice President of Enrollment Operations. Brenda was the Vice President of Customer Care for FTD.com before entering the higher education market in 2007. She was VP, Admissions Operations for Career Education which is one of the largest for-profit higher education companies in the country. After Career Education, Brenda joined Academic Partnerships, a $50m higher education service company that partners with state universities to convert traditional degree programs to online. Altius has received venture funding from Charles River Ventures, Maveron, and Spark Capital.
Date: November 7, 2011 Company: EMN8 Executive: Hope Neiman Position: Chief Marketing Officer		EMN8, a leading developer of customer-facing self-service platforms for the restaurant industry, has named Hope Neiman as Chief Marketing Officer. Hope was formerly the Vice President of Online and eCommerce for Product Partners, a leading $400 million direct response TV and internet company. Product Partners is most knows for its work with a leading fitness product, p90x. Prior to Product Partners, Hope was the Chief Operating Officer and SVP of Marketing & Strategy at Right Start. EMN8 has received funding from Allegis Capital and Sid R. Bass Associates.
Date: October 26, 2011 Company: Kobo Executive: Matthew Welch Position: General Manager		Kobo, a leading global eBook retailer, has named Matthew Welch as General Manager. Matt will be responsible for leading all marketing, content sales, the website and storefront, customer care and global market expansion. Previously, Matt was the CEO of Cecure Gaming, a venture-backed company offering real money poker and casino games online. Prior he was the Chief Marketing Officer of International for Match.com. Kobo is an Internet retailer selling both content and their own branded eReaders. The company is backed by Indigo Books & Music, REDgroup Retail, Cheung Kong Holdings, and other leaders in technology and retail.
Date: October 25, 2011 Company: Lithium Technologies Executive: Justin Schuster Position: Vice President, Product Marketing		Lithium Technologies, the leader in social customer solutions, has named Justin Schuster as Vice President of Product Marketing. Justin joins Lithium from MarketTools where he was VP of Enterprise Products and responsible for product management and product marketing of the enterprise offering. Prior Justin was with Symantec where is ran product marketing for the SaaS group. He started his career with Documentum. Lithium is funded by Benchmark Capital, Emergence Capital Partners and Shasta Ventures
Date: October 24, 2011 Company: Bazaarvoice, Inc. Executive: Kumar Srinivasan Position: Chief Technology Officer		Bazaarvoice, the leading provider of social commerce software and solutions, has named Kumar Srinivasan as Chief Technology Officer. Prior to joining Bazaarvoice, Kumar was the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Lockerz.com and led aspects of overall product and technology vision, commercial software product development and delivery. Prior Kumar served as Vice President and General Manager at Amazon.com where he directed, managed and coordinated the business development, execution and global operations of Amazon Payments Merchant Solutions. Kumar has also held leadership technology positions with Travelocity.com, Drugstore.com, Blockbuster and Wal-Mart. Bazaarvoice is venture-backed by Austin Ventures and Battery Ventures.
Date: October 5, 2011 Company: ReShape Medical Executive: Richard Thompson Position: Chief Executive Officer		ReShape Medical, developer of a non-surgical weight loss device, has named Richard Thompson as Chief Executive Officer. Previously, Richard served as the founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of Luminous Medical, a glucose monitoring company. He has also served as the President & Chief Executive Officer of the drug-delivery company Aradigm and as co-founder and President of LifeScan. ReShape has received funding from New Leaf Venture Partners, SV Life Sciences and U.S. Venture Partners.
Date: September 19, 2011 Company: ShoeDazzle.com Executive: Bill Strauss Position: Chief Executive Officer		ShoeDazzle, the leading subscription-based online destination for personalized shoes, handbags and jewelry selected for each user every month has named Bill Strauss as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining ShoeDazzle, Bill was the Chief Executive Officer of Provide Commerce whose brands include Proflowers, ProPlants, RedEnvelope, PersonalCreations.com, CherryMoonFarms & SharisBerries. Prior to Provide Commerce, Bill was part of the senior management team at ChipSoft, the makers of TurboTax, which was acquired by Intuit in 1993. In the early 1990s, Bill was Vice President of Operations for Hanover Direct, a large catalog company. ShoeDazzle is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Polaris Venture Partners.
Date: September 19, 2011 Company: Proofpoint Executive: Tara Ryan Position: Vice President, Corporate Marketing		Proofpoint, the leading provider of unified email security, archiving, encryption and data loss prevention solutions, has Tara Ryan as Vice President of Corporate Marketing. Prior to Proofpoint, Tara served as Vice President of Marketing for Zebra Technologies. At Navis, SmartTurn, Ketera and NetSuite, where Tara spent the previous 5 years, she oversaw all aspects of marketing for start-up, venture backed companies through accelerated growth and expansion phases. She joined NetSuite from Deloitte Consulting, where she was a Director of Worldwide Marketing. Earlier, she held executive marketing roles with Commerce One, Network Associates and security vendor McAfee, where she lead marketing for that company’s initial public offering. Tara also led the coordination of international advertising efforts at Oracle Corporation. Proofpoint has received venture financing from Benchmark Capital, Bridgescale Partners, Inventures Group, JAFCO Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures and RRE Ventures.
Date: September 19, 2011 Company: ZocDoc Executive: Alan Katz Position: Vice President, Local Sales		ZocDoc, the leading website designed to help people find and book doctor and dentist appointments online, has named Alan Katz as Vice President of Local Sales. Alan joins ZocDoc from Capital IQ where he was Managing Director of Client Development. Alan spent 10 years with Capital IQ starting as the first product manager and advancing to running all sales and support for the Company. Prior to Capital IQ, Alan was and analyst with Bear, Stearns & Co. ZocDoc is backed by Bezos Expeditions, Marc Benioff, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, DST, and SV Angel (Ron Conway).
Date: August 22, 2011 Company: SiSense Executive: Crispin Read Position: Executive Chairman		SiSense, a provider of leading-edge business intelligence (BI) solutions, has named Crispin Read as Executive Chairman. Crispin Read joins Opus Capital from Microsoft where he served as General Manager of Microsoft’s ERP business, leading product management and marketing for Microsoft’s portfolio of enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications. In this role, he was responsible for ERP strategy and execution worldwide. Prior to Microsoft, Crispin was Chief Marketing Officer at Cartesis SA, a venture-backed financial performance management company that was acquired by Business Objects in 2007. From 1995 to 2004, Crispin served in various roles at Business Objects, including Vice President of Product Management and Vice President of Product Marketing. During this period, Business Objects grew revenues from $30 million to $930 million. SiSense is venture backed by Genesis Partners and Opus Capital.
Date: August 22, 2011 Company: Bleacher Report Executive: Drew Atherton Position: Chief Financial Officer		Bleacher Report, the Web’s fourth largest sports media destination with more than 20 million monthly unique users, has named Drew Atherton as Chief Financial Officer. Drew most recently served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the registrar services division of Demand Media. Prior to his time at Demand Media, Drew served in a number of finance roles at United Online/NetZero, a company he helped take public in 1999. Drew began his professional career as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley. Bleacher Report is venture backed by Crosslink Capital and HillsVen Capital.
Date: August 22, 2011 Company: Strava Executive: Rachael Parsons Position: Vice President, Marketing		Strava, a cutting edge solution for social fitness in the cycling vertical, has named Rachael Parsons as Vice President of Marketing. Prior Rachael was Vice President of Product Marketing at Citizen Sports which was acquired by Yahoo!. Before joining Citizen Sports, she was Director of Consumer and Online Marketing for Zagat. Rachael started her career with ICPlanet. Strava is backed by Madrone Capital, Sigma Partners and Angel Investors.
Date: July 26, 2011 Company: xAD Executive: Chi-Chao Chang Position: Chief Technology Officer		xAD, a leading local-mobile advertising network, has named Chi-Chao Chang as President of Products and Technology. Chi-Chao comes to xAD from Yahoo!, where he was General Manager and Vice President of Global Search Operations. Most recently Chi-Chao was responsible for Yahoo!’s global-search marketplace operations and managed the relationship with Microsoft. He held various leadership roles throughout his 12-year tenure at Yahoo!, including overseeing the search-advertising-products division where he led the development of ad platforms. Even earlier in his career, he was a pioneer and innovator of search technology at Yahoo!, as evidenced in the construction of the first high-volume, peer-reviewed search engine. xAD has received funding from Emergence Capital, Palisades Ventures and SoftBank Capital.
Date: July 26, 2011 Company: Infinian Mobile Commerce & Analytic Solutions Executive: Sanjeev Gautam Position: Chief Technology Officer		Infinian, a mobile loyalty and coupon redemption platform, has named Sanjeev Gautam as Chief Technology Officer. Sanjeev was the Senior Director of the Health Sciences Global Business Unit at Oracle. Prior to Oracle, Sanjeev was Senior Director of Software Development at Conformia Software where he architected and led the development of 3 generations of Product and Process Life Cycle Management (PPLM) product for Life Sciences. Sanjeev started his career with Aspect Development and i2 Technologies. Infinian is venture backed by Polaris Venture Partners.
Date: July 20, 2011 Company: iPass Executive: Christophe Culine Position: Senior Vice President, Sales		iPass, a leading provider of mobility services for enterprises and service providers, has named Christophe Culine as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Before joining iPass, Christophe was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Iron Mountain, an information management services company. At Iron Mountain he led the sales force for Iron Mountain Digital, the company’s Storage-as-a-Service solutions division. Prior to Iron Mountain, he was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Mimosa, which was acquired by Iron Mountain in 2010. Christophe also held sales leadership positions at Mirapoint, Fortinet, Qualys and Network Computing Devices (NCD) in Europe and North America. iPass is publicly-traded on the NASDAQ: IPAS.
Date: July 14, 2011 Company: Tagged Executive: Andrew Pedersen Position: Vice President & General Manager, Social Gaming		Tagged, the leading social network for meeting new people, has named Andrew Pedersen as Vice President and General Manager of Social Games. Most recently, Andrew was Senior Vice President of Creative for BlueNoodle. Previously he was the creative and design lead as Vice President and General Manager for EA’s Pogo. In this role, Andrew developed more than 100 games for the platform and introduced the Club Pogo subscription service, Pogo Badges and Pogo Minis (avatar system) to deepen player engagement and increase monetization. Andrew’s experience also includes Executive Producer with Mattel, The Learning Company, Berkeley Systems and Broderbund Software where he was a responsible for well-known franchises such as Prince of Persia, Carmen Sandiego and After Dark. Tagged is venture backed by Mayfield Fund.
Date: June 17, 2011 Company: MarketLive Executive: Barry Coleman Position: Chief Technology Officer		MarketLive, the leader in eCommerce Platform-as-a-Service solutions, has named Barry Coleman as Chief Technology Officer. Prior to joining MarketLive, Barry spent twelve-years with ATG and Oracle. While serving as the Vice President of Software Development at ATG (recently acquired by Oracle), Barry focused on the growth and technology evolution of the SaaS business line. During his tenure, he led development for the business unit that achieved over 500% revenue growth during the period from 2008 to 2010. Prior to ATG, Barry was Field Technical Manager for Integrated Computer Solutions where he was responsible for all of the company’s field support operations. MarketLive is venture-backed by Sequoia Capital and Sigma Partners.
Date: June 10, 2011 Company: DotNetNuke Executive: Mitch Bishop Position: Chief Marketing Officer		DotNetNuke (DNN), the company behind the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platform for Microsoft .NET, has named Mitch Bishop as Chief Marketing Officer. Prior to DNN, Mitch spent 7 years as the Chief Marketing Officer for iRise, the world’s leading software visualization company, where he helped grow revenue and the customer base more than tenfold. Mitch has many years of marketing and sales experience building successful software businesses at Scopus, Sybase, Wind River Systems and Ingres. DNN has received venture funding from August Capital, Ignition Partners, Pelion Venture Partners and Sierra Ventures.
Date: June 8, 2011 Company: Adara Media Executive: Kit Simon Position: Senior Vice President, Sales		Adara Media, developer of an audience targeting platform that enables loyalty programs and other customer-centric organizations to monetize their customers online, has named Kit Simon as Senior Vice President of Sales. Prior to joining Adara Media, Kit served as Vice President of Global Partner Marketing at Orbitz Worldwide where she more than tripled revenue during her 5 year tenure with the Company. She also has a track record of success from digital corporate icons including online advertising network Blue Lithium (acquired by Yahoo!) and Internet portal Excite@Home. Adara Media has received funding from Morgenthaler Ventures and ONSET Ventures.
Date: June 1, 2011 Company: Alverix Executive: Cris McReynolds Position: Vice President, Business Development		Alverix, a leader in developing next generation instrument and connectivity platforms for diagnostic testing, has named Cris McReynolds as Vice President of Business Development. He served most recently as Chief Executive Officer of Satoris. Previously, Cris held senior business and corporate development roles for Affymetrix, Cepheid, GeneLabs Technologies, Triton Biosciences, and Syva/Syntex. Alverix has received funding from New Venture Partners and Safeguard Scientifics.
Date: May 18, 2011 Company: Verinata Health Executive: Caren Mason Position: Chief Executive Officer		Verinata, developer of non-invasive tests for early identification of fetal chromosomal abnormalities, has named Caren Mason as Chief Executive Officer. Previously, Caren was Chief Executive Officer for Quidel, a point-of-care, rapid immunoassay diagnostics test company. Caren was recognized by Ernst and Young for her work at Quidel as a 2007 Finalist for San Diego Life Sciences Entrepreneur of the Year and earned Quidel the distinction of being one of the 200 Best Small Companies by Forbes in 2007 and 2008. Prior to joining Quidel, she served as Chief Executive Officer for MiraMedica, a computer-aided detection mammography systems company, until its sale to Kodak Health Imaging. Prior to MiraMedica, she served as Chief Executive Officer of eMed Technologies, a digital technology, diagnostic imaging company. From 1996 to 2000, Caren was General Manager of the Women’s Healthcare business of GE Healthcare. Additional healthcare experience includes her tenure with Bayer AG/AGFA from 1989 to 1996 where she last served as a Senior Vice President. Caren began her career in healthcare with American Hospital Supply/Baxter Healthcare. Verinata is backed by Alloy Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, and Mohr Davidow Ventures.
Date: May 9, 2011 Company: OpenSky Executive: John Roberts Position: Chief Financial Officer		OpenSky, the leading social shopping platform, has named John Roberts a Chief Financial Officer. John joins OpenSky from Mformation where he was the Chief Financial Officer. Prior he was the Chief Financial Officer of Right Media, the largest emerging online advertising exchange, which was acquired in July 2007 by Yahoo! for $850 million. Prior to Right Media, John was Chief Financial Officer of Arbinet (NASDAQ: ARBX), the world’s largest electronic marketplace for communications trading, leading the company’s successful IPO in 2004. Prior to Arbinet, he was Chief Financial Officer of Razorfish, a publicly traded IT consulting and Web design firm with peak annual revenues of over $300 million, now an operating unit of Microsoft. John started his career as an audit partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. OpenSky has received funding from Canaan Partners, Highland Capital Partners and Ron Conway.
Date: May 5, 2011 Company: Electric Cloud Executive: Kalyan Ramanathan Position: Vice President, Marketing		Electric Cloud, the private development cloud company, has named Kalyan Ramanathan as Vice President of Marketing. Most recently Kalyan served as Senior Director of Product Marketing for HP, where he oversaw marketing efforts for the HP data center management/automation solutions and the HP cloud management suite. Previously, as Director of Marketing for Opsware (acquired by HP in 2007), Kalyan was instrumental in achieving significant revenue growth for Opsware's automation solution. Prior to Opsware, Kalyan led product marketing and product management functions at Collation (acquired by IBM) and Portal Software. Electric Cloud has received venture funding from Crosslink Capital, Mayfield Fund, Rembrandt Venture Partners, and US Venture Partners (USVP).
Date: April 29, 2011 Company: Marketwire Executive: Garret Bucceri Position: Vice President, Eastern Sales		Marketwire, the leading newswire service in the world, has named Garret Bucceri as Vice President of Eastern Region Sales. Prior to joining Marketwire, Garret spent 10 years at SumTotal Systems, the leading SaaS based human capital management software business, where he was responsible for running sales for the eastern region. During Garret’s tenure at Sumtotal he helped grown the business from $10 million to over $130 million in revenue. Serving more than 12,000 clients worldwide through 20 offices on four continents, Marketwire is a dominant distributor of company news releases and other communications, electronically delivering global news and information to traditional and new media outlets including newspapers, magazines, databases, analyst terminals, online portals, blogs, and more. Marketwire is majority-owned by OMERS Private Equity, which manages the private equity activities of OMERS Administration Corporation and today has $4 billion of investments under management.
Date: April 25, 2011 Company: ServiceMagic Executive: Chris Terrill Position: Chief Executive Officer		ServiceMagic, the leading website connecting consumers with screened and approved local service professionals, has named Chris Terrill as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining ServiceMagic, Chris was with Nutrisystem.com, where he was led all aspects of marketing and ecommerce for this publicly-traded, $500M+ revenue company and leader in the direct to consumer weight management space. Before joining Nutrisystem.com, Chris ran the marketing and product teams for Blockbuster’s online unit. Prior to this, he served as a Vice President at Match.com where he developed and launched new online brands, including Chemistry.com. ServiceMagic, an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI), reaches over 5 million consumers per year and has built a network of over 85,000 local service businesses.
Date: April 20, 2011 Company: Constant Contact Executive: Rick Jensen Position: Senior Vice President, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer		Constant Contact, the trusted marketing advisor to more than 400,000 small businesses and nonprofits worldwide, has named Rick Jensen as Senior Vice President, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer. Rick joins Constant Contact from Intuit where he served in a series of executive roles that helped advance the company's positioning from a portfolio of brands including TurboTax and QuickBooks to a unified, consolidated brand. He served as Vice President and General Manager of the Global Business Division, where he oversaw global market expansion. As General Manager for the Small Business Group, he oversaw and managed the acquisition of Homestead. Rick also served as Vice President of Product Management and Director of Marketing for the Consumer Tax Group. Prior to Intuit, he was Vice President of Marketing and e-business for vendor marketing services at GE Capital and Vice President of Marketing at U.S. Bancorp. Constant Contact is a publicly-traded company (NASDAQ: CTCT).
Date: April 6, 2011 Company: Wanova Executive: Barry Phillips Position: Chief Marketing Officer		Wanova, the pioneer of hybrid desktop virtualization, has named Barry Phillips as Chief Marketing Officer. Prior to joining Wanova, Barry spent 6 years with Citrix, most recently as General Manager of the Platform Product Group and before that as General Manager of Advanced Solutions. Barry joined Citrix through the acquisition of Net6 where he ran Product Management and Product Marketing, and he spent the decade before that in increasing roles of responsibility in the United States Navy, Nortel, and various venture-backed startups. Wanova is backed by Carmel Ventures, Greylock Partners and Opus Capital.
Date: March 22, 2011 Company: Jawbone Executive: Jeremiah Robinson Position: Vice President, Software Engineering		Jawbone, a leading innovator of products and services for the mobile lifestyle, has named Jeremiah Robinson as Vice President of Software Engineering. Prior to joining Jawbone, Jeremiah was Chief Technology Officer and founding member of Slide where he led technology strategy and development for the company's network of more than 134 million monthly unique viewers. Previously, he spent over 6 years at Openwave Systems where he was an early pioneer in mobile web technologies. At Openwave, Jeremiah architected and built the first HTML browser for mobile phones. Under his leadership, the browser development team shipped more than a billion handsets worldwide and established Openwave Mobile Browser as the industry standard. Jawbone is funded by Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures and Sequoia Capital.
Date: February 16, 2011 Company: Eucalyptus Systems Executive: David Butler Position: Vice President, Marketing		Eucalyptus Systems, creators of the leading independent cloud platform, has named David Butler as Vice President of Marketing. David was most recently the Vice President of Marketing for Digital Reef, where he was responsible for establishing on-premise and cloud-hosted eDiscovery and information governance solutions. Prior to that, he led HP Software’s market and product strategy initiatives, where he was responsible for private cloud computing and storage automation software. David also served as chief evangelist for the HP Business Service Automation Suite as well as HP’s worldwide SOA director and Chief Evangelist. Prior to HP, David was the Vice President of Marketing and Chief SOA evangelist for Systinet, where he defined and established the product and marketing vision for Systinet’s SOA governance products, which led to an acquisition by Mercury Interactive. Eucalyptus is venture backed by Benchmark Capital, BV Capital and NEA.
Date: February 14, 2011 Company: HCPlexus Executive: Peter Giallorenzo Position: Chief Financial Officer		HCPlexus, a multi-platform (print, online and mobile) provider of efficiency solutions for physicians, has named Peter Giallorenzo as Chief Financial Officer. Peter joins HCPlexus from Interpharm a $75 million publicly held generic pharmaceutical company. Previously, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Nice-Pak Products a $400 million global consumer products company. Prior, Peter helped build Taro Pharmaceutical from $2 million to over $100 million in revenue. HCPlexus has received funding from Galen Partners.
Date: February 7, 2011 Company: Connance Executive: Chuck Eberl Position: Executive Vice President, Marketing		Connance, a leading provider of healthcare revenue management solutions focused on patient-responsible revenue, has named Chuck Eberl as Executive Vice President of Marketing. Chuck joins Connance from Silverlink Communications where he was Vice President of Marketing and helped build the company from startup. Previously Chuck was with TechTarget a business-to-business media company. Chuck spent 4 years with StorageNetworks where he was a Director of Marketing. He started his career at GTE Internetworking and AT&T. Connance has received funding from North Bridge Venture Partners.
Date: February 7, 2011 Company: BabyCenter Executive: Scott Kinzie Position: Chief Marketing Officer		BabyCenter, the leading online and mobile resource for new and expectant parents, has named Scott Kinzie as Chief Marketing Officer. Scott will play a key role in helping BabyCenter as it expands an already substantial global footprint. BabyCenter is in a unique position to be the dominant force supporting and educating millions of mothers and parents around the globe. Prior to joining BabyCeter, Scott was Senior Vice President of Marketing and Product for Public Engines which runs the crimereports.com service. Scott joined Public Engines from Gaia Interactive, a social website focused on teenagers, where he was Vice President of Creative and User Experience. Previously, Scott was at The Generations Network (Ancestry.com). BabyCenter is a member of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies.
Date: January 31, 2011 Company: IronKey Executive: Art Wong Position: Chief Executive Officer		IronKey, the leader in secure and managed portable computing solutions, has named Art Wong as Chief Executive Officer. He brings more than 15 years of both entrepreneurial and large company experience in the technology and security space. Previously Art held senior executive roles at Symantec including interim Group President of the Enterprise Security and Data Management business unit; Senior Vice President of Security Response, Managed Services and SaaS; and Vice President of Services and Support. At Symantec, Art led several business units with P&L responsibility of up to $2B in revenue. Prior to joining Symantec in August 2002, Art served as Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at SecurityFocus, a threat management and early warning company, which Symantec acquired. He previously served as Director of Channel Development at McAfee, and CEO and Co-Founder of Secure Networks, an internet security software assessment company, which was acquired by McAfee. IronKey has received funding from Bridgescale Partners, Crosslink Capital, Leapfrog Ventures, and Mohr Davidow Ventures.
Date: January 20, 2011 Company: PURE Storage Executive: Scott Dietzen Position: Chief Executive Officer		PURE Storage, a revolutionary new enterprise storage software company, has named Scott Dietzen as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining PURE Storage, Scott was Vice President of Engineering at Yahoo! Prior to Yahoo!, he was President and CTO of Zimbra which was successfully sold to VMWare. Previously he was Chief Technology Officer of BEA where he lead the company's technology strategy, product innovation and standards initiatives. He came to BEA through the acquisition of WebLogic in 1998. Before joining the WebLogic management team, he was the principal technologist of Transarc, a developer of distributed transaction processing and information sharing systems that was acquired by IBM in 1995. PURE Storage was founded by John Colgrove, a veteran of storage industry and founding engineer at Veritas and is venture backed by Greylock Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures.
Date: January 17, 2011 Company: Ning Executive: Matt Halprin Position: Executive Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development		Ning, the world's largest platform for creating social websites, has named Matt Halprin Executive Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development. Prior to joining Ning, Matt was a Partner at Omidyar Network where he led the firm's investments in organizations with peer-to-peer technology platforms. Matt was also Vice President of Global Trust and Safety at eBay, where he led the department chartered with maximizing trust on all eBay's sites globally. Prior to eBay, Matt was a Partner at The Boston Consulting Group, where he advised technology clients on strategy and corporate development. Ning's investors include leading venture capital firms Allen & Company, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Legg Mason as well as individual investors Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman.
Date: January 17, 2011 Company: Ning Executive: Jonathan Shambroom Position: Chief Product Officer		Ning, the world's largest platform for creating social websites, has named Jonathan Shambroom as Chief Product Officer. Jonathan spent the last 17 years leading product teams at five startups that built their brand and success on product excellence. His expertise spans video sharing, social networking, invitations, calendaring, and video games. Before joining Ning, Jonathan served as SVP of Products and Marketing before taking over as General Manager of Crackle.com, which was acquired by Sony Pictures in 2006. Prior companies include Jumpstart Technologies, Evite.com (acquired by CitiSearch/Ticketmaster), When.com (acquired by AOL), and PF.Magic (acquired by Mindscape). Ning's investors include leading venture capital firms Allen & Company, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Legg Mason as well as individual investors Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman.
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