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Member Board of Directors

Flexera is reimagining the way software is bought, sold, managed and secured. We view the software industry as a supply chain, and make the business of buying and selling software more transparent, secure, and effective. Our Monetization and Security solutions help software sellers transform their business models, grow recurring revenues and minimize open source risk. Our Vulnerability and Software Asset Management (SAM) solutions strip waste and unpredictability out of buying applications, helping companies purchase only the software and cloud services they need, manage what they have, and reduce license compliance and security risk

30+ years experience in the technology consulting and software space. Early career at Accenture and EDS, followed by positions as COO at Intraware and CCO at Flexera. Leading executive in transition of Flexera to PE ownership, completed SaaS/recurring revenue transformation, grew revenues and margins by >4x and increased valuation by 10x in 9 years. Now serve as Board Member and Operating Advisor for several software companies owned by Thoma Bravo in the B2B space. Examples include Imperva and Flexera and industries covered include security, educational software and ERP. Strong focus on executive leadership for the Customer Success lifecycle, customer retention, recurring revenue growth and the transformation to SaaS. Renewals, Services, Support, CSM and sales expert, with strong capabilities in product development, SaaS Ops and IT management.