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Board of DirectorsThe team at Active Endpoints is dedicated to achieving the company's very expansive mission: to drive mass adoption of process-based applications. You can read biographical information about the board of directors below.
Mark TaberChief Executive Officer
Mark brings to Active Endpoints more than 25 years of experience driving sales and operations results for businesses that provide cutting-edge middleware, security, networking, and storage technology.
Before joining Active Endpoints, Mark served as IBM's Worldwide Business Unit Executive for their SOA Appliance Division, a part of IBM's Application Infrastructure Middleware Group. He joined IBM through its 2005 acquisition of DataPower, where he was Vice President of Sales. While at IBM/DataPower (before and after the acquisition), Mark provided mission-critical web services infrastructure to more than 300 large enterprise and government customers around the world, helping them to simplify, manage and secure scalable web services communications in heterogeneous environments.
Before DataPower, Mark served as Vice President of Sales at AEP Systems, where he focused on increasing security in financial and government networks and enabling secure remote access for small and medium-sized businesses. Prior to AEP, Mark was Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Chrysalis-ITS, where he worked with computing and networking OEMs to remove security-related performance bottlenecks. Mark also served as Regional Vice President at Toshiba America Information Systems-Storage Division.
Mark holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Michael J. SkokPartner, North Bridge Venture Partners
Michael Skok joined North Bridge Venture Partners as a Partner in 2002. Prior to becoming a VC, Michael was an entrepreneur and CEO in the software business for 21 years. Michael recruited teams that attracted over $100m in private equity for investments in software companies ranging from CAD/CAM, Document Management, Workflow, Imaging and Collaboration to Security and spanning the Mini, Workstation, PC, Client Server and Internet eras.
In his last CEO role he co-founded AlphaBlox whose team defined the market for Analytical Applications, now a multi billion dollar market. After building a trusted brand with a loyal customer base among leading global 1000 companies, AlphaBlox was acquired by IBM.
Earlier, Michael co-founded European Software Publishing (ESP) which pioneered the off balance sheet model for building software companies in Europe. Thanks to a strong management team, 4 of these publishers were acquired by Siebel, Platinum, Filenet and Banyan and two went Public. This included the team that built Symantec UK into one of Symantec's most profitable international businesses while managing many acquisitions through to Symantec's IPO and enduring industry status.
Michael has served on numerous boards and supported various industry groups like the Software Publishers association where he was Chairman for a number of years in Europe. He is active on the boards of all recent investments including Acquia (Drupal Open Source and Cloud Services), Active Endpoints (BPMS and SaaS/Cloud Integration), Actifio (Unified data management through virtualization), Akiban (newSQL scale out database for Saas / Cloud), Apperian (Mobile Applications / Management from the Cloud), Demandware (eCommerce, Marketing & Merchandising on Demand), rPath (DevOps platform for Physical, Virtual and Cloud Application Lifecycle) , REvolution Analytics ('R' Open Source Predictive Analytics), and Unidesk (Desktop Virtualization Management).
Robert J. Potter
Bob has spent 27 years in the enterprise software industry in leadership roles ranging from venture backed start-ups to large public companies. He is currently CEO of expressor software, a leading data integration software company. Formerly as CEO of Kalido, Bob took this data warehousing and master data management software company from $5M to $20M in two and half years. As EVP of software integration company IONA, he took the company to $181M in sales and a $2B market cap over a multi-year period. In his role as SVP worldwide operations, Bob was critical in Object Design, the leading object database company, going public in 1995. Object Design was the fastest growing company on the Inc 500 in 1994. He serves on the boards of Tailwind Strategies, Hamilton Thorne Biosciences, expressor software and Active Endpoints.
Bob has a BS, Marketing from Providence College and a MBA, International Marketing from the University of Rhode Island.
Eugene Kuznetsov
Eugene was most recently an executive at IBM, with responsibility for product management and marketing of SOA appliances. In addition to his P&L management duties, Eugene was also a member of IBM Software Group Architecture Board and IBM AIM (WebSphere) Strategy Council.
Eugene joined IBM through the acquisition of DataPower in October 2005, with substantial returns for all shareholders. Eugene founded DataPower in 1999 based on his idea of combining dynamic compilation and network hardware technology to simplify the process of connecting disparate applications. The company developed the first "XML-aware networking" hardware, then unique in delivering message-level processing functions within a secure network device. Eugene served as President, VP of Marketing, CTO and Chairman at various points in the company's six year history as it grew from one to 75 employees, raising over $20M from investors and building a customer list of household names.
Prior to DataPower, Eugene worked or consulted for a number of companies, including Analogic and Microsoft. Both Eugene's business and technical leadership has received recognition, including the prestigious InfoWorld Top 25 CTOs of 2005 and the regional Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 award. Eugene's articles have appeared in ZDNet, EETimes, XML Journal, Network World, Java Report, eBizQ and SC Magazine. He is a well regarded speaker at numerous conferences and events including NetSec, JavaOne, Networld+Interop, NATO C3 Agency, HPWorld, CIO Council XML.gov Working Group, Web Services DevCon, MITRE XML Day, NECINA, Web Services Edge, Gartner's Application Integration and Web Services Summit, the IT Security & Privacy Conference and ITTC 2004.
Eugene holds a Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering from MIT.
Henry Ancona
Henry has broad-based experience as a board member, advisor, and business leader. In addition to being a board member at CommonAngels, an investment group, he currently serves as Executive Advisor to technology companies and CEOs, with a focus on business development and leadership development. His clients include companies in on-line media, e-commerce, mobile gaming, supply chain, biosystems, middleware, compliance, health care, security, and other businesses.
Henry has served on the Board of Directors of both private and public companies, helping several to successful M&A transactions. He brings his international and operational experience building global businesses, and strategic and leadership development skills to his Board service. He currently serves on the Boards of CommonAngels, Active Endpoints and EZPrints. Private company boards have included Visible Measures, Kubi (acquired), Sentillion (acquired), Evidian and Inframetrics (acquired). Publicly traded company boards include Pegasystems, Computervision (acquired), and OneSource Information Services (acquired).
Henry has over 30 years of operational experience both large global technology enterprises and small companies in both Europe and North America. He was most recently President at Pegasystems (NASDAQ: PEGA), a rules-based business process management software company and Chairman and CEO of Evidian, a security and telecom management software company which he founded through an equity carve-out.
Henry holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and BS and MS degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
René Bonvanie
René Bonvanie has more than 25 years of executive management and marketing experience in enterprise technology. René is currently the head of worldwide marketing at Palo Alto Networks, a fast-growing network security company. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing, SaaS, and IT at Serena Software and was Senior Vice President of Global Marketing at SAP. Earlier, as CMO at Business Objects, René was responsible for all marketing activity, including corporate communications, field marketing and product marketing. Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at VERITAS Software Corporation. In his 10 years as Vice President of Product Marketing at Oracle Corporation, he managed the Oracle database product line, had editorial responsibility for Oracle Magazine and Profit Magazine and co-founded Oracle's developer program, Oracle Technology Network. |
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