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Management Team
John Van Siclen, CEO
With over twenty-five years of leadership in the computer system and software business, John Van Siclen brings a wealth of experience to dynaTrace. Over his career, Mr. Van Siclen has held senior executive positions at a number of highly successful growth companies such as Interwoven, Informix and NetFRAME Systems. In addition, he has served as CEO at publicly-traded and venture-backed companies, including Interwoven (NASDAQ:IWOV), Adesso Systems, and Perspecta (acquired by Excite@Home). As CEO, Mr. Van Siclen is responsible for driving dynaTrace’s leadership in Continuous Application Performance Management, and advancing customer success in applying dynaTrace’s solution to make application performance an integral part of the application development lifecycle. Mr. Van Siclen holds an AB from Princeton, and is a Founding Fellow in New England’s Clean Energy executive program.
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Bernd Greifeneder, CTO and Founder
As CTO, Bernd Greifeneder leads dynaTrace’s vision for Continuous APM, and has guided dynaTrace R&D from its founding in 2005, earning numerous awards for software innovation. He also served as CEO from 2005 to 2008, leading dynaTrace to consecutive quarters of record growth. As Co-Founder of ARC, Bernd developed SQL.Bench.Web which, through subsequent mergers with Segue and Borland, has become the core technology behind products such as Borland’s SilkPerformer® and SilkCentral TestManager™. In addition, Bernd’s work on production monitoring became BMC TMART, a core offering of BMC Software. Bernd has nine technology patents pending in the United States, and holds an MS from Johannes Kepler University.
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Mo Garad, CFO
Mo Garad brings over a decade of financial experience to dynaTrace. Prior to joining dynaTrace management, Mr. Garad was at Bain Capital Ventures focused on early stage software investments. Before Bain, he was responsible for strategic planning for the Americas sales organization at VERITAS Software, with $1 Billion in annual revenue. Prior to VERITAS, he served as VP Strategic Planning/M&A and VP Finance for Precise Software Solutions, a pioneer in the APM space. Prior to Precise, Mr. Garad was an investment officer at Allied Capital, a $3.5 B public investment firm.
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Toffer Winslow, CMO
As CMO, Toffer Winslow is responsible for all aspects of marketing to increase company visibility, shape product strategy, and generate demand worldwide. Toffer previously served as Executive VP of Sales and Marketing for Choicestream, where he rebuilt the company's sales organization and initiated a comprehensive redefinition of corporate strategy. Before Choicestream, he was VP of Product Management and Marketing for RSA, the security division of EMC, responsible for all facets of product management, product and solutions marketing, and partner development. Prior to RSA, he held senior executive positions at Empirix, Zefer and Sanga International. Toffer received his M.B.A from Harvard, and his B.A. from the University of British Columbia.
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Eric Fischer, VP NA Field Operations
As VP of Field Operations for North America, Eric Fischer is responsible for building and managing long term customer and partner relationships in the North American markets. Eric has more than 20 years of sales experience and a track record of driving early stage companies to high growth. Prior to dynaTrace, Eric was VP of Worldwide Sales for Akorri Networks, OATSystems, Inc. and eRoom Technology where he grew the business from $0 to $60+ M - triggering the the largest private software transaction in 2002 (Documetum acquisition) with a deal value in excess of $200 M. Eric also held sales and business development roles at Powersoft Corporation (acquired by Sybase) and Cortex Corporation.
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Hubert Gerstmayr, VP Finance and Legal
Serving as VP Finance/Legal at dynaTrace, Hubert Gerstmayr brings substantial experience in sales and finance. Before his work with dynaTrace, Hubert managed subsidiaries of FactorBank AG and was responsible for developing new financial products. His career began in the financial department at LKW Walter International AG and continued with the sales organization at Prisma Kreditversicherungs AG. Hubert holds an M.B.A. from Johannes Kepler University.
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Board of Directors
Ben Nye, Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures
Salil Deshpande, General Partner, Bay Partners
Shimon Alon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Attunity
Cosmo Santullo, Former Sr. VP, Worldwide Sales and Service, BMC Software
John Van Siclen, President and CEO
Bernd Greifeneder, CTO and Founder
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Ben Nye
Ben Nye is a Managing Director at Bain Capital Ventures. Prior to joining Bain Capital Ventures, Ben was a Senior Vice President at Veritas Software. Previously, he was COO and CFO of Precise Software Solutions, and helped build Precise from a $10 M revenue private company to a $100 M revenue public company prior to its sale to Veritas. Earlier in his career Ben was a Principal at Allied Capital, a $3.5 B public investment firm. He also worked in the U.S. Treasury Department for Treasury Secretaries Lloyd Bentsen and Robert Rubin, and as a consultant for Mercer Management Consulting.
Ben graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Business School, where he graduated with honors.
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Salil Deshpande
Salil Deshpande is a General Partner at Bay, and focuses on areas in which he has operating experience and thus some intuition. Salil was founder and CEO of Customware, a CORBA services company (acquired by Visigenic, now part of Borland), co-founder and CEO of The Middleware Company (acquired by Precise, now part of Symantec), and of TheServerSide.com network of social media sites (acquired by TechTarget). Salil has held technical leadership positions at several technology companies including Sun Microsystems, taught summer courses at Stanford University, and has been an advisor to several internet community businesses. He received his B.S. from Cornell University, and M.S. from Stanford University.
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Shimon Alon
Shimon Alon serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Attunity. Previously Mr Alon was CEO of Precise Software Solutions, a leading provider of application performance management. Following the acquisition of Precise by VERITAS Software Corporation in June 2003, Mr. Alon served as an executive advisor to VERITAS. Prior to Precise Software, Mr. Alon held a number of positions at Scitex and its subsidiaries including President and Chief Executive Officer of Scitex America and Managing Director of Scitex Europe. Mr. Alon holds a degree from the Executive Management Program at the Harvard Business School.
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Cosmo Santullo
Mr. Santullo brings more than thirty years of executive experience in building and leading successful technology companies to dynaTrace. He recently spent four years as senior vice president of worldwide sales and services with BMC Software, a leader in systems management. He began his career at IBM, building and scaling large organizations for 20 years in a variety of sales and marketing roles, culminating as general manager of IBM’s $8Bn North American personal systems division. Mr. Santullo subsequently served as EMC’s senior vice president of global marketing. Prior to his role at BMC, Mr. Santullo spent several years as a CEO, Board member, and advisor to a variety of early stage and public technology companies.
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Investors
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Bain Capital Ventures
Bain Capital Ventures is the Boston-based venture capital arm of Bain Capital, whose affiliates manage over $50 billion of assets. Founded in 1984, Bain Capital and its affiliates have invested in over 250 companies with such notable successes as Doubleclick, Gartner Group and Staples. Bain’s history of investing in early stage companies also dates back to 1984, having made over 121 venture-stage investments since inception. In 2001, Bain Capital Ventures was formed as a separate arm of Bain Capital to focus exclusively on growth investments.
Bain Capital Ventures currently has close to $1 billion under management.
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Bay Partners
Bay Partners, a Silicon Valley-based early stage venture capital firm focusing on software, consumer Internet, semiconductor and wireless investments, has been building successful technology companies since 1976, funding more than 350 startups. Bay leverages the operating backgrounds of its partners and its extensive network of executives and advisors to help outstanding entrepreneurs create the leaders in new, high-growth market segments. Notable successes from Bay´s portfolio include Brocade, Concord Communications, Exodus, Sonicwall, Placeware, Informatica, Web Logic, Digital Island and NetScaler. Bay is currently investing its eleventh venture fund and has over $1 billion under management.
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