Joseph Krivickas Email Address

Chief Executive Officer and Investor

Ipswitch was founded in 1991 on a simple premise: to produce IT software that took what was possible and made it practical. Initially, our goal was to bring high quality IT software to small businesses that lacked the time and resources to learn the overly complex enterprise software that was available at that time. After a first generation of TCP/IP gateway and protocol stack products in the early 1990 s that included Catipult (a NetWare to TCP/IP gateway) , Piper/IP (the smallest, fastest and most reliable TCP/IP stack for DOS), Vantage/IP (the fastest and most reliable TCP/IP stack for OS/2) and Acadia/VxD (the smallest, fastest and most reliable TCP/IP stack for Windows), we released WS_FTP Pro in 1994. IMail Server followed in 1995, and WhatsUp Gold in 1996. Through development, partnerships, and acquisitions, including Standard Networks in 2008, Hourglass Technologies and Dorian Software Creations in 2009, and MessageWay in 2010, Ipswitch has extended WS_FTP, WhatsUp Gold and IMail Server into broader product families. Today, these products serve millions of customers around the world. Ipswitch s products have won praise and awards from industry analysts, press, customers and partners. As we began to achieve success with small businesses, enterprise IT departments started to come under the same constraints smaller budgets, less time, fewer resources, higher expectations and an accelerating stream of new technologies to learn and implement. Today, our software retains the same focus of being easy to evaluate, purchase, install, learn, use, support and maintain. Our customers today are individuals, small businesses and enterprises who need solutions to help them accomplish even more in this increasingly complex IT world.

CEO & PRESIDENT: used profitable revenue growth strategies to lead private and publicly traded companies with up to 900 employees and $160M of revenue: Bluestone Software (NASDAQ: BLSW); Segue Software (NASDAQ: SEGU); FAST (Oslo BORS: FAST), SmartBear Software and Ipswitch, Inc. ENGINEERING: Started career as an electronics engineer in GE's Edison Engineering program. 10 ACQUISITIONS, MULTIPLE FOUNDER TRANSITIONS, AND INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP: Transitioned President and/or CEO role from founders on three occasions. Made 10 U.S. and European acquisitions. Led two businesses started in Europe and two businesses where >50% of revenue was generated outside of North America. TECHNOLOGY INNOVATOR: Expertise in Devops, Software Infrastructure and Enterprise Solutions as well as "Consumerization of IT" Free Trial/Download Go-To-Market Business Models. MILITARY SERVICE: served four years as a reconnaissance infantry officer in the U.S. ARMY National Guard. CULTURE DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP RECOGNITION: Glassdoor 2013 Best Place to Work Award (#2 in North America, Medium Sized Businesses); 2016 The Silicon Review Top 50 Best and Brightest National Workplaces; 2016 Atlanta Journal Constitution Top Place to Work Award; and, Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 Finalist