KAPOW SOFTWARE

KAPOW SOFTWARE
Official Website: http://www.www.kapowsoftware.com
Official about page: http://kapowsoftware.com/company/about/index.php
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Location: HQ: 260 Sheridan Avenue, Suite 420, Palo Alto, CA 94306. United States
Founded: 1998
Business: Surveillance tech integration, filtration, big data collection (datamining), analytics, social media monitoring
Contact
Phone: Toll Free in the US +1 800 805 0828
Fax: +1 650 330 1062

Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President of Operations for the Americas of The Fantastic Corporation, where he built the American operation and was responsible for all sales and marketing strategies as well as operations. Prior to Fantastic Corporation, he served as Vice President of Sales at Logic Works.

He also held senior positions at Parametric Technology. He serves as Director of Paytrust and Kapow Technologies Inc. He also serves as Advisory Board Member and Director of Billtrust.

He is a founding member of the New York Angels Investment Group.

Mr. Yapaola holds a B.S. in business administration from St. Peter's College."

Ebbe Groes, Co-Founder

"Ebbe Groes served as Chief Executive Officer of BetBrain. Mr. Groes Co-Founded Kapow Technologies in 1998 and also served as its Chief Executive Officer. He serves as Chairman and Director of EveryMatrix Ltd. "

Stefan Andreasen, Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Director

"Mr. Stefan Andreasen serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of Kapow Technologies. Mr. Andreasen focuses on business development and product management. He founded Kapow Technologies in 1998.

He has more than 20 years experience in software design and development. He worked for five years in Boston with Advanced Visual Systems working on cutting-edge Java and visual programming projects.

In 1998 he started Kapow as a marketplace for used cars, real-estate and boats for sale. In 2001, Mr. Andreassen sold the marketplace to the largest bank in Denmark and changed Kapow into a pure software company, Kapow Technologies. The software was productized and expanded to a general web integration platform for data collection, portlet clipping, and web service enabling of web functionality. He serves as Director of Kapow Technologies.

Mr. Andreasen has completed his M.Sc. in Engineering."

Mark Finkel, Chief Financial Officer

Age: 58

"Mr. Mark Finkel is the Chief Financial Officer at Kapow Software, Inc. He is the President at Growth Associates.

Mr. Finkel is also the President and Chief Financial Officer at Halo Technology Holdings, Inc. He joined HALO in December 2005 after serving in numerous senior management positions at public and private companies over the past 20 years.

Mr. Finkel also serves as the Venture Partner at Prism Capital Corporation and Prism Opportunity Fund. Prior to this, he served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ISD Corporation.

Mr. Finkel was also the Chief Financial Officer at ServiceWare Technologies, Inc., and BackWeb Technologies, Inc.

He was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at LogicWorks and the Chief Financial Officer at Neuron Data and Consilium. Mr. Finkel took Consilium public with Hambrecht & Quist.

He was the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Chairman of RightAnswers.

Mr. Finkel worked as a Consultant and/or acting Executive Officer for a variety of technology companies, including InterWorld, BackWeb Technologies, and the Molloy Group'. Additionally, he practiced venture law at Ware & Friedenrich, focusing on technology financings. Mr. Finkel currently serves on the Board of ProSight.

He previously served on the Board of Integrated System Development, Inc.

Mr. Finkel holds a holds a J.D. degree from the University of California Davis, an M.B.A. degree from the New York University and a B.A. degree from Oberlin College."

Karl Ederle, Chief Product Officer

"Mr. Karl Ederle has been the Chief Product Officer of Kapow Software, Inc. since December 11, 2012. Mr. Ederle oversees Kapow Software's strategy and products, with a particular focus on introducing an expanded set of big data and other cloud-based offerings to satisfy current enterprise customer needs and address new market opportunities.

He has more than 20 years of executive experience steering product strategy at software market leaders such as Oracle, Taleo, SAP and PeopleSoft.

He served as Vice President of Strategy and Innovation of talent management solutions at Oracle, which acquired Taleo Corporation in April 2012. During his tenure at Oracle and Taleo, Mr. Ederle led the development and implementation of the long-term portfolio strategy across Taleo's big data, analytics, and talent management solutions, managing a SaaS business in excess of $300 million.

Prior to Taleo, he served in SAP's Corporate Strategy Group, within the Office of the CEO, where he oversaw the analysis of numerous strategic initiatives ensuring the alignment with SAP's business priorities. He also served as director of product management at PeopleSoft, overseeing the development and management of a $40 million portfolio of financial and performance management solutions."

Javier Rojas, Kennet Partners Limited

"Mr. Javier Rojas is a Managing Director at Kennet Partners Limited. He is based out of the firm's Silicon Valley office and has led the firm’s United States investment activities since 2000. Mr. Rojas focuses on Software-as-a-Service and Internet Business models , and an experienced coach to young companies as they seek to scale their market reach.

Prior to joining Kennet, he was a Managing Director of Broadview International and led their West Coast software and services practice. He specialized in advising high growth and early stage companies on how to capitalize on emerging technology markets and partnering opportunities and helped founder-led, bootstrapped businesses achieve high exit values.

Mr. Rojas invested and/or advised on a number of successful companies and high value exits and his influence can be seen in the success of companies such as Daptiv, MedeAnalytics, and Medefinance.

He has also been instrumental in a number of successful exits for founder-led businesses including most recently NetPro and Adviva.

Previously he was employed with Morgan Stanley in New York and in London, where he gained international experience in corporate finance and capital markets. Mr. Rojas has also been an entrepreneur, having founded a software firm that targeting the financial services market by developing products for capital markets interest rate and currency swap traders.

He serves as a Director of CascadeWorks, Prolix Technologies Inc., AcademixDirect (fka Go Internet Media, Inc.), MedeFinance, eProject, Prolexic Technologies, IntelePeer, and Revolution Prep, LLC.

Mr. Rojas has been a Director of Kapow Technologies since February 15, 2005, a Director at Adviva Media Ltd. since January 30, 2006; a Director at NetPro Computing Inc., and a Director at VoEx, Inc., since July 12, 2006.

He serves as a Director of Emulex Communications Corp. (formerly Aarohi Communications). Mr. Rojas is an active speaker and lectures regularly on entrepreneurship and bootstrapping. He speaks fluent Spanish.

He holds an M.B.A. from The Harvard Business School, a B.A. and B.S. in Finance and Computer Science from the Georgetown University."

Thomas Knudsen, NorthCap Partner

"He served as the Chief Executive Officer at Kapow Technologies Inc. from 2003 to 2006, Chief Financial Officer from 2002 to 2003 and also served as its Chairman of the Board From 2000 to 2002."

"Mr. Thomas Weilby Knudsen is the Managing Partner and General Partner at NorthCap Partners. He has been in venture capital since 2002.

Prior to 2002, he has an operational background from ERP consulting, information technology, and telecoms and held several senior management positions at Swiat Internet SA and Cybercity A/S.

He has extensive experience in establishing new businesses within Internet and telecom across Europe. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and was a Partner of IVS A/S.

He served as the Chief Financial Officer of Internet Ventures Scandinavia A/S and as a Business Unit Manager at Cybercity. From 1997 to 2000, he served at Swiat Internet SA as an International Business Analyst, Market Manager from 1998 to 2000, and an International Director since 2000.

He served as a Product Manager at Contactel since 1999. From 1994 to 1997, he worked at EDU as an ERP Consultant, IT training.

He serves as a Director of Zapera, Codemate A/S, Falcon Social, and Instadia.

He serves as a Board Member at Visiopharm A/S. He served as a Director of Nangate Inc. since April 5, 2006.

He served as the Chairman of the Board at Octoshape APS. He served as a Director of IVS A/S, Personics ApS, and PremiTech A/S.

He served as a Director at Estructure.net A/S, IntelePeer, Inc., Sheet Music Now A/S, among other IT companies.

Mr. Knudsen received an M.Sc. in Economics, Finance, and Business Administration from Aarhus University in 1997 and a B.A. in Economics from Universitá di Pavia, Italy in 1995."

Beau Laskey, Photobucket Corporation

P.O. Box 13003, Denver, Colorado 80201 United States. Fax: 303-395-1165

"Mr. Beau D. Laskey served as a General Partner and Managing Director of Steamboat Ventures, LLC. Mr. Laskey focused on information technology investments with an emphasis on software and fabless semiconductor companies. Mr. Laskey has spent the last 15 years in technology, finance, and operational leadership roles where he focused on media, entertainment, and consumer infrastructure technologies.

He served as a General Partner of EDF Ventures II, L.P. and EDF Ventures IV, L.P. Mr. Laskey was the General Partner at EDF Ventures having joined in 1997. He served as the Managing Director of EDF Ventures in San Diego.

Prior to joining EDF, he served as a Lieutenant in the Navy SEAL (Sea, Air, Land) Teams and as an Associate with Morgan Stanley. As a SEAL Team Officer, Mr. Laskey served as an Operations Officer and led Special Operations deployments to Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean and completed deployments with SEAL Team One and Eight to Southeast Asia, the Middle East and the Mediterranean.

He serves as the Chairman of Photobucket Corporation.

He serves as a Director of Rhevision Technology Inc. and Woodman Labs, Inc. He serves as a Director of Medcan Health Management Inc., Kapow Software, Inc. (Kapow Technologies), Mobile Intelligence Solutions, Inc., GoPro, Photobucket Corporation, and Ground Truth.

Mr. Laskey serves as a Member of the board of directors of Ontela, Inc. and GameSalad Inc. He served as Director of Sometrics, Inc, Zyray Wireless, Inc., Alfalight, Clarity Technologies, Sircon Corporation, Arbor Networks, Inc., Arxan Technologies, IntelePeer, Inc., RockeTalk, Greenplum, Inc., and Xtera Communications.

Mr. Laskey served as a Director in Clarity Technologies.

He earned an M.B.A., with Distinction, in Entrepreneurship and Corporate Strategy from the University of Michigan Business School and a B.S. in Economics and a minor in General Engineering, with Merit, from the United States Naval Academy."

Yoram Novick, Maxta, Inc.

11190 Santa Teresa Drive, Cupertino, California 95014. United States Phone: 408-476-1316

2011-Present: Director, Kapow Software, Inc.

"Mr. Yoram Novick serves as Chief Executive Officer, Treasurer and Secretary of Maxta, Inc.

Mr. Novick served as Vice President and General Manager of Data Replication Business Unit of NetApp, Inc. (also known as Network Appliance Inc). Mr. Novick was responsible for data replication and recovery solutions for heterogeneous multivendor storage environments across a range of locations, platforms, and storage systems of Network Appliance Inc.

He founded Topio, Inc. and served as its Chief Executive Officer and President which was acquired by Network Appliance in December 2006.

Before joining Topio, Mr. Novick worked 13 years for IBM Research, where he held various technical and senior management positions in the area of Storage. In his most recent role, he directed the development of all advanced software functions for IBM High-End Storage Servers and provided functional guidance for IBM Storage Development and Marketing. He was responsible for establishing and managing all the storage research and development activities for IBM Haifa, managing the design and development of all software functions for IBM storage subsystems, and coordinating the development of software functions with marketing, hardware development, product testing, and product engineering during.

Mr. Novick serves as Director of Topio, Inc. He serves as Director of Maxta, Inc. He has been a Director of Kapow Technologies Inc., since April 2011.

He is the author and co-author of 24 patents (14 issued in the US) and 8 technical articles in the area of Storage.

Mr. Novick holds a B.S. (summa cum laude) and an M.S. (summa cum laude) in Computer Science from Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel."

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