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Ian serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board for Attensity Group. In a career spanning over 27 years, Ian has built a strong reputation for driving corporate value and operational growth. After founding and ultimately selling many technology companies, Ian led the independent channel infrastructure and organization for IBM. Over the next 11 years, Ian became IBM’s most visible promoter of software partner initiatives in his roles as Vice President and then General Manager of Partner Programs overseeing channel revenue growth from $200 million to over $3 billion. He was also appointed to the IBM Senior Management Group in 1998. Since leaving IBM in 2001, he has been CEO of such high growth companies as Terraspring Software (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Sistina Software(acquired by Redhat Software), Xerox PARC spin-off Inxight Software (which became a wholly owned subsidiary of Business Objects in 2007 and now owned by SAP), and most recently, serving as ColdSpark’s CEO bringing significant industry and management expertise to this provider of enterprise solutions and platforms of email processing and delivery.

Ian holds both a Bachelor of Commerce and a Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management from the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa) and he is a graduate of the IBM Executive Management Program at the Indiana Graduate School of Business.

Ronald F.E. Weissman, Ph.D.,

Ronald Weissman has more than twenty-five years of technology management and high-tech marketing experience. He has worked with more than forty venture backed companies and has served on twenty technology company boards. Most recently a partner at Apax Partners, Weissman is currently managing existing investments in Apax’s venture portfolio as Apax recently changed its focus from venture to global buyouts. He serves on the boards of Attensity, Centerbeam, Chiliad, Composite Software, Nanomix and Solid Information Technology. Weissman is a member of the Band of Angels and is an advisor to a number of early stage companies including Cataphora, Kalat and Modius and has served as advisor or board member to more than twenty-five other technology firms. As an investor, his emphasis is on enterprise and infrastructure software and services with a particular focus on applications of information retrieval and text analytics.

Prior to Apax, he was VP of global marketing and corporate development for Verity, a leader in enterprise information retrieval. Weissman also spent more than five years at NeXT Computer, where he managed European and corporate marketing. A frequent conference speaker, he has published extensively on software trends and has been an advisor to many public and private organizations, including Apple, NeXT, Sun Microsystems, IBM and Microsoft as well as many departments of the U.S. government and was a co-author of the Academy of Public Administration/National Archives’ study of the future of electronic recordkeeping in the federal government.

Weissman received his BA, MA, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and is a former Fulbright Scholar.

David Hartford, Partner, aeris capital AG and Chairman of the Board

David brings over 40 years of experience as a venture capitalist, international management consultant, attorney and software/systems engineer and manager to the Attensity board. Since 2006, David Hartford is one of ten founding partners of Swiss aeris CAPITAL AG, a large global private equity firm. He splits his time between the direct investment team and the private equity fund investment team and serves on the boards of directors of DecisionView, Livescribe, Inc., and Rotani, and is a board observer at Proximetry. David was elected four times to the board of the European Venture Capital Association, served one year on the board’s Executive Committee, and served as Chairman of evca’s Central and Eastern European Advisory Committee from 1995 – 2000.

David Hartford received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and his B.Sc. degree from the University of Pittsburgh. He also completed the Advanced Executive Program “Competing in a Global Environment” at The Anderson School at UCLA. David is an Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship at the Haas Graduate School of Business at the University of California – Berkeley, and previously was an Adjunct Professor of Finance at California State University – East Bay, teaching New Venture Finance in CSU’s Hayward and Moscow programs.

Niall Davis

Partner, aeris capital AG

Niall brings over 20 years of experience as an operational executive and venture capitalist to the Board. Since 2006, Niall is one of ten founding partners of Swiss aeris CAPITAL AG, a large global private equity firm. He splits his time between the direct investment team and the private equity fund investment team. He is also an advisor to Portalium Ventures Fund I (Israel). Prior to aeris, Niall was with First Ventury, one of Germany’s leading Venture Capital firms, where he focused on open source, enterprise software, security, Internet applications, IT in healthcare, IT infrastructure, compilers, operating systems, wireless communication, and home entertainment systems. Niall was previously CTO of Astarte New Media AG. He also has extensive experience as a technical director and software developer.

Niall holds a BA Business Systems from London Metropolitan University, London.. He also completed the EVCA Institute Private Equity Management Training.

Jeff Hinck

Jeff Hinck, a proven technology investor and former start-up company CEO, joined the Attensity Group board in 2010. Jeff is at El Dorado Ventures as a General Partner. Jeff has been a venture capitalist since 1997. Jeff’s notable investments include Algety (acquired by Corvis for $2 billion), BroadSoft, Compellent (IPO:CML), Geronimo Wind Energy (now majority owned by ENEL), iBeam (IPO), IPCell (acquired by Cisco), iTKO, NetCentrex (acquired by Comverse Technologies) and Sistina Software (acquired by RedHat). Jeff also served on the boards of Picolight (acquired by JDSU) and Endwave (IPO:ENVW).

Jeff also served as CEO of Sistina Software, an infrastructure software company acquired by Red Hat, and was an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Co.

He was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law & Economics at Harvard Law School, Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy and taught Statistics at Harvard College. Jeff graduated with a bachelors degree in economics from Northwestern University and received his JD from Harvard Law School.

Management Team with Photos

Ian Bonner, Chief Executive Officer

Ian serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Attensity. In a career spanning over 28 years, Ian has built a strong reputation for driving corporate value and operational growth. After founding and ultimately selling many technology companies, Ian led the independent channel infrastructure and organization for IBM. Over the next 11 years, Ian became IBM’s most visible promoter of software partner initiatives in his roles as Vice President and then General Manager of Partner Programs, overseeing channel revenue growth from $200 million to over $3 billion. He was also appointed to the IBM Senior Management Group in 1998. Since leaving IBM in 2001, he has been CEO of such high-growth companies as Terraspring Software (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Sistina Software(acquired by Redhat Software), Xerox PARC spin-off Inxight Software (which became a wholly owned subsidiary of Business Objects in 2007 and is now owned by SAP), and most recently, ColdSpark, a leading provider of enterprise solutions and platforms of email processing and delivery. Ian holds both a Bachelor of Commerce and a Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management from the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa) and he is a graduate of the IBM Executive Management Program at the Indiana Graduate School of Business

Ian Hersey, Chief Technology Officer

To his role as Attensity CTO Ian brings more than 20 years of experience delivering innovative research technology into the commercial mainstream. Ian is responsible for providing the technical and strategic product vision to complement the company’s business vision, setting the tone and direction for Attensity’s technologies and business applications. Prior to Attensity, Ian was vice president of technology development and strategy at Business Objects, an SAP company. He came to Business Objects through its acquisition of Inxight Software. As co-founder of Inxight, Ian led the definition and development of what became the industry’s broadest text analysis platform; he also held senior product management and engineering management roles at Logos Corporation and Inso Corporation. Ian began his commercial career at IBM as a computational linguist.

Mike Compton, Chief Financial Officer

Mike leads our financial management, planning, administrative, and accounting activities in the Americas. He has more than 30 years of finance and accounting experience across a broad cross-section of industries. Prior to Attensity, Mike was a consultant and served as Interim CFO of BakBone Software in San Diego where he helped lead the financial team through a complex restatement and SEC filing process and worked on installing new systems and processes strengthening internal controls. Previously, Mike was Vice President of Finance and Administration for Inxight Software, Inc. which was acquired by Business Objects. At Inxight, he helped lead the organization through a recapitalization of the business in 2005 and achieving significant cost improvements during a rapid revenue growth period. A respected manager and executive, Mike has held senior finance and management positions with Terraspring (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Cooke Pharma (acquired by United Therapeutics), Siemens Telegyr Systems, CBR, and ITT. Mike has also worked with entrepreneurs that founded two start-up technology companies in homeland and network security and provided consultative services in mergers and acquisitions for three acquisitions completed by Keynote Systems. Mike is a licensed CPA and a graduate of the University of Central Florida, in Orlando. He is a member of the Florida Institute of CPAs, California Society of CPAs and the Institute of Management Accountants.

Herzl Hyton, Senior VP of Operations

Herzl leads product development globally for Attensity. He started as a developer for Sperry Univac and then moved to Canada to head up professional services for Computer Sciences Corporation. He successfully started and managed several software development organizations during his 39 years in the computer industry including Datanetics, DM3 and ISA. In 1989 he founded Optima to develop and maintain the FX technology sold to and used by CCH Computax for tax return processing. After and prior to joining Attensity he was the CEO and Chairman of Interactive Advisory Software, a unified wealth management solution with core modules in CRM, Portfolio Management, Financial Planning, Document Management, Portal Management, Data Aggregation, Practice Management and Workflow. His strong technical background is well complemented with general management skills, as well as an understanding of the market dynamics and user requirements in a solution oriented market place. Herzl received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the Witwatersrand Institute of Technology in conjunction with the University of the Witwatersrand and attended the MBA program at the University of Cape Town.

Jeff Johnson,

Senior VP of Sales, Service and Support

Jeff leads the company’s sales operations and brings to Attensity over 20 years of sales and sales management experience in the software industry. In his role, Jeff is responsible for driving all sales initiatives, presales, channel development and directing Attensity’s growing sales force toward continued sales growth of the company’s expanding enterprise-class product portfolio. Jeff joined Attensity from Business Signatures, acquired by Entrust in 2006, a Silicon Valley start-up which pioneered business solutions that prevent online fraud and provide a reliable online customer experience. Prior, Jeff was VP of Sales at Tealeaf Technology and Luminate Corporation. At Luminate Jeff led worldwide sales and was also responsible for worldwide sales operations, professional services and field marketing. Prior to Luminate, Jeff was Vice President of Sales at Poet Software, and he has led sales teams at Lotus Development, Oracle and Wang Laboratories. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Eastern Michigan University.

Thomas Dreikauss, Managing Director and General Manager DACH Region

Thomas Dreikauss is General Manager of Attensity Europe GmbH and responsible for managing the Business Development of Attensity to meet the company’s growth objectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He brings more than 20 years of sales management and marketing experience with enterprise software solutions at both, start-up and public companies. He has a demonstrated track record of successfully building teams and helping companies grow their business even under the toughest circumstances. Leading the way in his career was his position as EMEA Sales Director and CEO of Inxight Software GmbH, a leading provider of software solutions for finding information in unstructured data. Over five years he was responsible for all sales and marketing activities for the enterprise business units, Federal Government and OEM. The Xerox PARC start-up company in 2007 was a 100% subsidiary of Business Objects and is now part of SAP. Mr. Dreikauss was instrumental in the integration of Inxight / Business Objects into SAP. In addition, Mr. Dreikauss has gained management experience in technology and media companies such as ParcPlace Systems, Object Share, Valtech and nexx.tv.

Russell Prince-Wright, Senior Regional VP, UK & Nordics

Russell Prince-Wright is responsible for managing Attensity’s business in the UK and Nordic region. Russell brings over twenty years of sales, marketing and managerial experience in representing companies offering enterprise software and services solutions to major multinational organisations in Europe. Having successfully established European operations for five international software vendors, Russell has a proven track record of growing businesses from start up to critical mass and generating revenues through developing direct sales organisations as well as channel partners. The combination of Russell’s commercial experience together with a sound technical foundation gives him that rare balance of skills which imparts credibility and inspires confidence in people at all levels within a client organisation. Prior to Attensity Russell led operations in Europe for Inxight Software Inc, where he grew the organisation, over four years, to three offices with twenty four people spread across the UK, Germany, and Benelux. In addition, Russell was a founding partner for UK start-up company (VFC), specialising in Knowledge Management and the early adoption of Object-Oriented development techniques, the company grew from 6 persons to 40 in the space of 2 years. Throughout his career, Russell has achieved many large enterprise software sales exceeding seven figures, through both new business development and efficient account management. Russell’s extensive involvement in building startup organisations has required an entrepreneurial attitude and a broad range of skills. Russell obtained a BSc(Hons) degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from London’s City University and he is also a qualified Chartered Engineer.

Catherine H. van Zuylen, VP of Global Product Management

Catherine brings more than 15 years of experience thriving on the passion and intensity of technology startups and rollups. Prior to Attensity, Catherine was VP of Marketing for the Block Shield family of companies, where she defined and implemented new positioning, product, and branding strategies in support of company restructuring and acquisition of technology assets. Previously, Catherine was Director of Marketing at Business Objects, an SAP company. She came to Business Objects through its acquisition of Inxight Software, where she led product management and assisted in the repositioning of the company as “going beyond Google”. Catherine has also held product management and marketing roles at a variety of technology companies, including Butterfly Security, Kovair (CRM), iSyndicate (internet media), and Metcal (electronics manufacturing). Catherine holds an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and a BA in English from the Johnston Center at the University of Redlands. She is a true California native who enjoys working hard, but also enjoys playing hard in trail, surf, and snow.

Michelle de Haaff, VP of Corporate Development

Michelle leads the corporate development efforts at Attensity working with strategic partners to expand the Attensity business. Michelle came to Attensity from Adspace Networks, where as vice president of marketing and product management she developed programs that helped to more than double the company’s revenue in just six months and ultimately led to the company’s acquisition by Clarity Visual Systems. Michelle oversaw product management, strategic acquisitions, and sales to consumer enterprises at Blue Martini Software where she led the development of Blue Martini’s eCommerce, Campaign Management and Business Intelligence applications. Previously, Michelle led the eCommerce and database marketing teams at Levi Strauss & Company and worked at Ernst & Young as a CRM practice manager serving large enterprise clients. Michelle graduated magna cum laude from New York University with a B.S. degree in management operations and marketing. She holds an M.S. degree in integrated marketing from Northwestern University. Michelle spends her free time with her three very active sons.

Lisa Feher, Senior VP, Human Resources

Lisa runs Human Resources worldwide for Attensity Group. She is a seasoned Human Resources executive with over 12 years of organizational development, management and leadership experience. Lisa comes to Attensity from Inxight Software where she was Vice President of Human Resources. Previously, she led numerous U.S. start-ups through rapid growth by creating strong and nimble organizations, including, most notably, Sistina Software which was acquired by Red Hat in 2003 and Provation Medical, which became a Wolters Kluwer company. Lisa started her career as a consultant with Hertel & Murray, a premier boutique consulting firm delivering Human Resources and Organizational Development consulting to multi-national high-tech and manufacturing companies. Lisa received a B.A. in psychology from St. Norbert College and an MS in Management and Organizational Behavior from Silver Lake College. She is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources.

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