Company – Board of Directors
Hugh McCartney
Chief Executive Officer
Hugh McCartney is a seasoned executive with nearly 30 years experience in the computer software industry. Formerly an independent director of Cloudmark's board, Hugh joined Cloudmark as Chief Executive Officer in 2005 to drive Cloudmark's global expansion and leadership in messaging infrastructure security solutions.
Hugh has served as chairman of UK-based Scapa Technologies, an innovator in security testing solutions; as executive and chairman of Neverfail, a global provider of fail-safe technologies; and as chairman of Centennial Software, a developer of network discovery tools. In addition, Hugh has held board positions within several European software companies, both venture funded and publicly traded. Hugh has also lobbied on Capitol Hill for the fight against messaging abuse. He remains an active voice and presenter at some of the industry's largest fixed line and wireless events.
Eric S. Byunn
FTV Capital
Eric joined FTV Capital in 2002 and is currently a Partner leading the firm's software team. Eric has 14 years of experience in venture capital, technology and management consulting. Prior to joining FTV Capital, Eric was Director of Online Services at myCFO, a start-up wealth management firm. He joined myCFO from America Online, where he held several roles including management of Netscape's Personal Finance Channel. Prior to the acquisition of Netscape by AOL, Eric led product management for the Netscape Navigator browser. He has also worked at Microsoft and at McKinsey & Company, where he primarily worked with telecommunications clients. Eric received an AB summa cum laude from Harvard University, where he focused on economics and computer science, and an MBA from Stanford University, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
Bob Huret
FTV Capital
Bob Huret is a founding partner of FTV Capital, a private equity firm investing in innovative, high growth companies in business services, financial services, payments/transaction processing, and technology. Bob has 43 years of commercial banking and investment banking experience, and has participated in more than 100 bank and bank-related mergers, public offerings and joint ventures throughout his career.
Prior to founding FTV Capital in 1998, Bob was a senior consultant with Montgomery Securities, an investment bank specializing in technology and financial services. He has previously worked for The Bank of California as senior vice president, finance, and also for First Chicago Corporation where he served as vice president of planning. He was a founder of Newell Associates, a money management firm, and Third Age Media, an internet portal.
Bob received a BS from Cornell University and an MBA with distinction from Harvard University. Bob also serves as a board member for the Bank of Hawaii Corporation (NYSE: BOH), Financial Engines (NASDAQ: FNGN) and Caplin Systems, Ltd. and is a former trustee of Cornell University.
Greg S. Goldfarb
Summit Partners
Greg S. Goldfarb joined Summit Partners in 2002. Prior to Summit, he worked for Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide where he was Director of E-Commerce and Director of Starwood's Innovation Lab.
Based in Summit's Palo Alto office, Greg is active in the firm's investment activities in North America, Europe and Asia. His board directorships and investments include Cloudmark, IntelliChem (acquired by Symyx Technologies), LiveOffice, ProClarity Corporation (acquired by Microsoft), The Mutual Fund Store, Tiny Prints and Web Reservations International (acquired by Hellman & Friedman). Greg holds an AB, magna cum laude, in government from Harvard University.
Cameron Myhrvold
Ignition Partners
Cameron is a founding partner of Ignition. He invests in software and infrastructure companies. Cameron represents Ignition as director on the boards of Azaleos, Cloudmark, Likewise (formerly Centeris), Seven, Teranode, and Zenprise. He also acts as Ignition observer on the board of Splunk. He previously served on the boards of Consera (acquired by Hewlett Packard), Rendition Networks (acquired by Opsware) and RLX Technologies (acquired by Hewlett Packard). Cameron also serves on the board of Wild Tangent. Prior to Ignition, Cameron spent thirteen years with Microsoft Corporation, most recently as Vice President of the Internet Customer Unit, where he was responsible for building business relationships with network operators and a broad range of telecommunications providers. Cameron received his Bachelors degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
Ian Perry
Ian Perry combines 25 years sales, operations and general management experience in the IT industry with domain experience in the communications industry spanning wireline, wireless and IP service provider markets. After successfully building and managing communication verticals for database and infrastructure software vendors Ingres and Sybase, Ian went on to join Portal Software as Vice President, EMEA in 1998. During his four year tenure at Portal Software the company achieved a dominant market position in convergent billing and customer care solutions, supporting a very successful NASDAQ IPO, and the acquisition and integration of a major billing software engineering capability in Germany.
Since leaving Portal in 2001, Ian set up an independent consulting business active in supporting early stage organizations backed by venture capital companies, and holds non-executive board positions at Empower Interactive Group and Cloudmark.
Michael Tanne
Endeavor Group
Michael has been creating and leading software ventures for over 15 years. He is currently Principal of Endeavor Group, which launches and invests in new technology ventures. Previously, Michael was Founder and CEO of XDegrees, a leader in distributed access to enterprise file systems (acquired by Microsoft, 2002). Earlier, he was Founder and VP, Bus Dev of AdForce, a highly successful Internet ad serving provider which went public in 1999. In 1992, soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Michael helped entrepreneurs create technology companies as Assistant Director of the Center for Emerging Technology Enterprises in Warsaw, Poland. Michael is a Founder and Board Member of Full Circle Fund, a Bay Area non-profit that engages emerging business leaders in philanthropy through grants and hands-on assistance to promising organizations. Michael holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta and an MBA from Stanford University.
Martin Tobias
Ignition Partners
Martin Tobias is a venture partner at Ignition Partners. Martin is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, and is a recognized leader in the software and technology industries. From his beginnings as a programmer, Martin has focused on applying technology to solve real world business problems.
Martin has 30 years combined experience in the venture capital and technology industries, working in various managerial and executive roles with Tippr (founder), Kashless (founder), Imperium Renewables, Ignition Partners, Loudeye Technologies, Inc., Microsoft and Accenture. After founding Loudeye in 1997, he led the company to its public offering in March 2000.
Martin and his companies have been featured in prestigious media outlets from National Public Radio to Newsweek. He is a marketing and computer science graduate of Oregon State University. Martin sits on several boards, and is involved in numerous charities through the Martin Tobias Foundation.