Management and Board of Directors
The team at Active Endpoints is dedicated to achieving the company's very expansive mission: to drive mass adoption of services-based applications. You can read biographical information about the management team and board of directors below.
Management Team
Mark Taber, CEO
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.
Chris Keller, Founder and Vice President - Product Development
In his career spanning over 25 years, Chris
has led the development of award-winning software products. His expertise
spans a broad spectrum of infrastructure technologies including integration
brokers, transaction/messaging systems, and services-oriented computing
models.
Prior to Active Endpoints, Chris was Vice President,
Product Development of Novell, Inc.'s eBusiness Integration Products division. Chris
was the co-founder of two prior software ventures - GemLogic, Inc. (acquired
by Novell/SilverStream), and LexiBridge Corporation (acquired by Level3
Communications). Chris has also held senior level R&D positions at
DataEase International, Reuters North America and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
He
is a graduate of Long Island University with Bachelor of Science degrees
in physics and mathematics.
Eric Egertson, Vice President - Sales
Eric
joined Active Endpoints from DataDirect Technologies, an operating company
of Progress Software Corporation. In his seven-year tenure
as Vice President, Sales with DataDirect, Eric led the company's OEM partnerships
with IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun and other leading independent software
vendors, with over 200 new OEM relationships with ISVs formed during the
last three years. Eric also led DataDirect’s move into new corporate
and government markets with products ranging from XML query processors
to mainframe integration. Eric was a member of the management team
that spun off DataDirect from MERANT in the fall of 2001, during which
time DataDirect sharpened its focus on its most profitable markets, positioning
DataDirect for acquisition by Progress Software in December 2003.
Prior
to Eric's Vice President responsibilities with DataDirect, Eric held OEM
field sales and sales management positions at MERANT and INTERSOLV, was
Director of Marketing and Business Development at TechGnosis, and held
product marketing positions at Trinzic Corporation.
Eric received a Bachelor
of Arts in Physics from Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT.
Michael T. Rowley, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer
Michael Rowley is a leading technologist in SOA and BPM software. He was a contributor on the BPMN 2.0 specification and is an editor of the BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask specifications that are being finalized within OASIS. He is a key contributor and an editor on OASIS specifications for Service Component Architecture (SCA) and is also co-author of the book Understanding SCA, which was published in July of 2009.
At Active Endpoints, Michael is actively engaged in the design and development of ActiveVOS and is responsible for accelerating the company’s technological leadership in the BPM market. Before joining Active Endpoints, he worked at BEA Systems, where he was an architect on three products before moving to the office of the CTO, where he worked on innovative technology and standards. Michael received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 1994.
Luc Clement, Senior Director - Product Management
Luc has more than 20 years of experience driving product
direction, with proven ability to develop and execute product plans, and
releasing marking-leading products. Prior to Active Endpoints, Luc held
the position of Director Product Management where he defined HP’s SOA Governance
product roadmap and steered product release iterations. At Systinet, acquired
by Mercury Interactive and subsequently acquired by HP, Luc was a key
contributor to the company’s vision and success with its SOA Governance
and Registry market-leading products, establishing SOA Governance as
a newly defined market
segment.
Before Systinet, Luc held a senior program management
position in Microsoft’s Windows Server group responsible for the Windows
Server 2003 registry offering, driving cross-group product integration
and representing Microsoft on UDDI standardization activities. During
this period, Luc also held a number of external positions including Co-chair
of the OASIS UDDI Spec Technical Committee, General Program Manager for
UDDI.org, and Managing Director of the UDDI Business Registry. Prior to
this, Luc directed the product development activities at Zoomit, producing
the first and market-leading meta-directory product resulting in Microsoft’s
decision to acquire the company. Prior to joining the software industry,
Luc was an officer of the Canadian Forces.
Luc holds a Bachelor’s degree
in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s in Computer Engineering from Royal
Military College of Canada.
David Collard, Vice President - Finance & Administration
David provides
a wealth of leadership experience in all aspects of Active Endpoints' financial
management and administrative operations. His financial management experience
spans thirty years and multiple public and private companies, including
extensive senior level experience at a Fortune 150 NYSE-listed company,
as VP Finance & Administration at
Revit Technology, Oberon Software Inc., and World Wide Direct, and in senior-level
financial management positions at Zymark Corporation, Interleaf, Inc.
and Prime Computer. David has been involved in numerous financings
and is very active in the Boston financial and VC community.
David
holds an MBA from State University of New York (Buffalo) and a BA - Accounting
from Syracuse University.
Board of Directors
Mark Taber, CEO
Please see Mark's bio above.
Michael J. Skok, General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners
Michael Skok joined North Bridge Venture Partners in 2002 to seek out great entrepreneurs and lead innovative software investments. Prior to this, Michael had himself been an entrepreneur and CEO in the software business for 21 years. He founded, led and attracted over $100M in private equity to his investments in several successful software companies ranging from CAD/CAM, Document Management, Workflow, Imaging and Collaboration, Security and Analytics and spanning the Mini Computer, Workstation, PC, Client Server and Internet eras.
As a Venture Capitalist, Michael has backed many great entrepreneurs supporting them to focus on large market changing technologies and disruptive business models such as SaaS, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source and new application areas, such as Social Marketing Automation. As a result, he is currently active on the boards of all his recent investments including Acquia (Professional Drupal Open Source), Active Endpoints (Business Process Management System-BPMS), Akiban (Stealth - Virtual Database for Scale Out/Cloud), Awareness (Social Marketing Automation), Demandware (eCommerce, Marketing and Merchandising on Demand), Lumigent (Applications Governance Risk and Compliance), MyPerfectGig (Automated Contingency Search as a Service), rPath (Datacenter Automation through Automated Release Management) and Unidesk (Desktop Virtualization Management), as well as Actifio (Stealth - Cloud Storage) and REvolution Computing (Commercial Open Source "R").
Previously, Michael has served on many private and public company boards, as well as supported various software industry groups such as Software Publishers Association where he was Chairman for a number of years in Europe. He can be contacted at michael@northbridge.com
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.
René Bonvanie
René Bonvanie has more than 25 years of executive management and marketing experience in enterprise technology. Most recently, 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.
