Pete joined Kindred Partners after more than ten years of operating experience within several successful venture-funded technology companies. Prior to Kindred, Pete spent over four years at salesforce.com, where he held key positions in both sales and business development. While he was at salesforce.com, the company grew from $5 million to over $100 million in revenue and went public. Prior to salesforce.com, Pete was part of the early team that pioneered the software-as-a-service model at Employease, Inc (acquired by ADP). At Kindred, Pete focuses on CEO and VP-level searches for Software and Internet Services companies, and has worked recently with BigFix (acquired by IBM), Centrify, Constant Contact, Coupa, Eucalyptus Systems, Facebook, Homestead Technologies (acquired by Intuit), iControl Networks, InQuira (acquired by Oracle), IronKey, Lithium Technologies, Metacafe, Metaplace (acquired by Playdom), PivotLink, Posit Science, Proofpoint, RecycleBank, Sharpcast, SiSense, Sliderocket (acquired by VMware), The HealthCentral Network (acquired by Remedy Health), VirtuOz and Zuberance. He is a graduate of Middlebury College.