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Andrew Davis
CEO
Gage Networks
Andrew`s passion for innovation and technological ambition sets the tone for Gage Networks which he set up in 2002 after building his career at multi-national companies including HP and Cable&Wireless.
After co-founding Inverse Network Technology, which specialized in measuring the service quality of the Internet, Andrew was appointed UK Managing Director at Digital Island, a leader in development of web content delivery networks, geographical recognition technology and online media management.
Recognised for innovative IP telephony, contact center and video conferencing solutions, Gage Networks has developed long term strategic partnerships with Polycom, Cable&Wireless Worldwide, Cisco, BT and Hewlett Packard to deliver cloud-based communications services across a private cloud for global and geographically dispersed companies.
Roger Krakoff
Managing Partner
Cloud Capital Partners
Roger is the founder and Managing Partner of Cloud Capital Partners. He currently on the Board at the Flow and SeeWhy?. He is also a member of the advisory boards at Iron.IO, PowerInbox, newBrandAnalytics and Krush. Formerly, he served on the boards of Aprimo Software (sold to Teradata), Intraspect Software (sold to Vignette) and was a Board observer at Interactions Software, Acquia, Blue Agave (sold to I2 Technologies), Tervala Software and CiRBA.
Prior to forming Cloud Capital Partners, Roger was a Venture Partner for over five years at Sigma Partners focusing on the enterprise software, IT, and business services industries. During that time he sourced and made investments in eight investments which also included DocuSign, vLingo (Definitive Agreement with Nuance Communications), WordStream, Virtera (sold to Glasshouse Technologies) in addition to providing broad portfolio support in the areas of strategy, new customer acquisition and financing.
Before Sigma, Roger was a partner with JEGI Capital, focusing on the intersection of technology with the media, marketing and information industries. He has also served as a Managing Director in Veronis Suhler Stevenson`s Business & Professional Information Group and directed the private equity fund`s investing efforts in the healthcare information market (Solucient LLC– acquired by Thomas Corporation), in addition to its efforts in venture investing. Roger has held senior executive positions in corporate development, marketing, and product management at WebLine Communications (acquired by Cisco Systems), Stream International (acquired by Solectron), the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, where he founded D&B Services; D&B Small Business Solutions, and opened business credit joint venture operations across Eastern Europe. He began his career at IBM. Roger is a frequent speaker and a writer on venture capital industry.
eaq Roger earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a Bachelor of Arts with High Honors in International Relations and Economics from Tufts University.
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Chris Greendale
CEO
Cloud Technology Partners
After a successful high tech sales and marketing career culminating in VP Marketing, Oracle USA in 1990, Chris became one of the three founders of Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP) in 1991. As a systems integrator, CTP designed and developed custom client server software applications for enterprises. CTP also pioneered a fixed-time, fixed-fee development methodology. Chris ran Sales and Marketing as CTP grew explosively from start-up to over $850m in revenue in 1997. The company had one of the most successful IPO’s of the 90’s and had a market cap of over $5b. In late 1997 Chris left CTP and founded Breakaway Solutions, a similar integrator focused on the next technology wave, internet driven enterprise solutions. Breakaway also had a successful IPO and had a market cap of over $7b. Chris also made numerous personal investments in companies such as Siebel Systems and sat on a number of high-profile boards including Clarify and Glasshouse.
In 2002 Chris joined the dark side as a venture capitalist with Kodiak Venture Partners. In 2007, he made many investments including Astadia, a cloud integrator. Chris recently realized the folly of his ways and rejoined the light founding Cloud Technology Partners.
From strategic transformational consulting to application implementation, Cloud Technology Partners (cloudTP™) provides enterprises with solutions to plan and execute migration of business processes, applications and customer data to private, public or hybrid clouds.
Chris grew up in New Zealand, came to the US on an NCAA tennis scholarship, degreed in Math and Business, and played professional tennis before starting his business career.
David Roth
CEO and Founder
AppFirst
David brings more than 20 years of experience leading organizations and leveraging partnerships for building successful companies. He sets the AppFirst strategic direction and guides the day-to-day business execution. Prior to AppFirst, was CEO at Trigence (now AppZero), an application virtualization company, where he established the company’s success with quarter over quarter revenue growth through enterprise adoption and closed two rounds of venture capital.
In 2003, David took on the role of Vice President, Services and Business Development at Consera, an IT automation company which was acquired by HP in 2004. As the Founder and CEO of Stratis Group, David built teams that drove the growth of this eBusiness B2B solutions company throughout the late 1990s.
David began his career as a National Accounts Manager in the late 1980s at NYNEX and early 1990s at Microsoft. David received his Bachelor`s degree from the University of Southern California and also attended the University of Arizona.
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