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Chief Financial Officer

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I'm CFO of TIBCO Software, an infrastructure software company owned by Vista Equity Partners. During my 10 years in private equity I have been CEO or CFO of a number of different software companies including TIBCO, Saba, Corel, and Actian. I also served as an Operating Partner at Vector Capital, a San Francisco based Private Equity firm. The common thread for me over my career has been software. I started as a software developer building applications for Western Life Insurance Company (now Fortis) and Norwest Bank (now Wells Fargo). After business school I joined Deloitte Consulting as a management consultant, first doing custom development projects for large clients and then installing software from Oracle, Manugistics, Business Objects, and others at large Fortune 500 companies such as Honeywell and Boston Scientific. When packaged software started exploding in popularity in the mid 1990's, I joined Piper Jaffray as a software research analyst covering the small cap software space and then migrated from Minneapolis to San Francisco to work for Goldman Sachs covering infrastructure software. My Wall Street career concluded at Citigroup where I ran the software research franchise and covered all the major software companies including Microsoft, Oracle, Symantec, Intuit, Adobe, Autodesk, and many others. Specialties: Finance, Corporate and Product Strategy, M&A, Raising Capital, Investment Strategy