VISIBLE

VISIBLE TECHNOLOGIES
Official Website: http://www.visibletechnologies.com/
Official about page: http://www.visibletechnologies.com/about/
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Location: 3535 Factoria Boulevard Southeast, Suite 400, Bellevue, WA 98006 USA 1185 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 1750, New York, NY 10036 USA 121-141 Westbourne Terrace, London W2 6JR, United Kingdom.
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Business: "Social Intelligence" - Monitoring and Analysis
Contact
Phone: (888) 852-0320 / (888) 852-0320 / +44 (0) 20 7447 4480
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Background

"America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon. In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ”open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available..." Wired

Products

• Visible IntelligencePlatform with the V-IQ Dashboard can be set to Monitor and Analyze not just for marketing purposes on Social Networks. The Dashboard can be customized to topics or issues that people are discussing on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ others. For example, government agencies could possibly use this technology to target and monitor dissidents and activists.

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Tech & Business Partners

• Partners List

"Visible Technologies® is a Gold Level member in the Oracle® Partner Network (OPN) and has recently integrated its social media monitoring, analytics and engagement platform, Visible Intelligence®, with Oracle’s Siebel CRM Application 8.1. Visible

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Board Members

• Board

• Joe Grano - Chairman

Mr. Grano is Chairman and CEO of Centurion Holdings LLC, a company that advises private and public companies.

2001-2004: Mr. Grano was Chairman of UBS Financial Services Inc. (formerly UBS PaineWebber).

2002: Mr. Grano was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as the Chairman of the Homeland Security Advisory Council. He relinquished his position in August 2005.

Prior to joining PaineWebber, Mr. Grano was with Merrill Lynch for 16 years, holding various senior management positions including Director of National Sales.

Mr. Grano was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the NASD and a member of the NASD’s Executive Committee.

Before joining Merrill Lynch, Mr. Grano served in the U.S. Special Forces (Green Berets). He became one of the Army’s youngest officers, achieving the rank of Captain.

Mr. Grano holds Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Pepperdine University and Babson College as well as Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from Queens College, City University of New York and Central Connecticut State University. In addition he holds an Honorary Doctor of Business Administration degree from the University of New Haven. Mr. Grano served as Vice Chairman of the Queens College Foundation Board of Trustees, and was on the Board of Directors of the YMCA of Greater New York and on the Board of Lenox Hill Hospital. He is a member of the Council for the United States and Italy, a member of the City University of New York’s Business Leadership Council and a former member of the National Board of D.A.R.E.

• Kelly A. Pennock - Chief Executive Officer

Kelly Pennock is Chief Executive Officer for Visible Technologies. In his prior role as Visible’s CTO, Kelly was responsible for authoring the technology roadmap and driving the engineering vision behind the Visible Intelligence™ software platform.

Before joining Visible Technologies, Kelly served as President at First Data Corporation, a Fortune 200 company headquartered in Denver Colorado. At First Data, he led the Analytics Business Unit that was responsible for the sale of analytics products across their customer base. Prior to First Data, he was CEO and President of Intelligent Results, an Enterprise software company that delivered analytics and business intelligence software and services to global financial services institutions. Kelly also held senior positions at Amazon.com, the world’s leading online retailer, where he launched two of Amazon’s early stores and also led multiple enterprise-wide initiatives related to personalization and cross-sell. Before Amazon, he was Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of an internet startup, Cartia Inc., and a Chief Scientist in Information Sciences at Battelle’s Pacific Northwest Laboratory.

Kelly has authored multiple patents and won national awards for technology innovation. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in business and economics as well as a Master’s degree in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University.

• Philip R. Dur - Managing Director, Investor Growth Capital

Phil has been involved in venture capital and private equity since 1995 and joined Investor Growth Capital’s technology investment team in 2004. Phil works out of IGC’s Menlo Park office and focuses on investments in software and technology-enabled services businesses. Prior to joining IGC, Phil spent four and a half years with Morgan Stanley Venture Partners where he was responsible for sourcing and executing investments in later stage software and services companies. Phil also spent two years before joining MSVP with Morgan Stanley Capital Partners focusing on investments in software, data communications, and media businesses. Phil earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA from Princeton University.

Phil serves as a director on the boards of ClairMail, Healthline, ID Analytics, InQuira, Novariant, Rocketlawyer, and Venda and as a board observer with ePAC, ForeSee Results, and Mindjet. Phil also worked with IGC’s investments in Siperian (acquired by Informatica), Visiprise (acquired by SAP), and Vallent (acquired by IBM).

• Michelle Goldberg - Partner, Ignition Partners

Michelle Goldberg is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and emerging and future leaders in consumer and digital media software. Michelle cultivates CEOs, entrepreneurs and engineers to foster their talents and help bring their vision to life. She currently sits on 7 for profit and not for profit boards, including Visible Technologies, SEOmoz, TrackSimple and Mpire. In addition to her work as a community mentor and VC, she is an active fundraiser and advisor in education. Prior to joining Ignition, Michelle consulted to Microsoft’s Developer Division, worked as an investment banker in mergers and acquisitions at Olympic Capital Partners, and as a management consultant with A.T. Kearney and the China External Trade Development Council (CETRA) in Taiwan. She was named one of the Top 100 Most Influential Women in Technology by the Puget Sound Business Journal, and was a 2008 “40 under 40″ Honoree. Michelle was awarded a Masters degree from Harvard University, and holds an undergraduate degree from Columbia University in the City of New York.

• Matt Krna - Vice President, Investor Growth Capital

Matt Krna is a Vice President at Investor Growth Capital. Matt has worked in the venture capital and private equity industry since 1999, and joined IGC’s New York office in 2005. Matt focuses principally on investments in the internet and digital media sectors.

Prior to joining Investor Growth Capital, Matt spent three years with Canaan Partners, a multi-billion dollar venture capital firm, where he was responsible for early-stage investment activity across a broad spectrum of technology industries. Before Canaan, Matt worked in the technology investment banking group at Credit Suisse First Boston, where he completed numerous M&A, equity and debt capital-raising transactions in the semiconductor, communications, software and internet sectors. Matt began his career as a corporate finance analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Matt earned a BA in History, with honors, from Harvard College after three years of study.

Matt currently represents IGC as a director on the boards of Visible Technologies and Dotomi, and is a board observer at ContextWeb, Exagrid Systems, Greenway Medical Technologies, Healthline Networks, ID Analytics and Rocket Lawyer.

• David J. Moore - Chairman, Founder and CEO of 24/7 Real Media

David Moore is Chairman, Founder and CEO of 24/7 Real Media, Inc., a leading global digital marketing company that offers award winning ad serving, targeting, tracking, and analytics platforms, along with powerful search marketing capabilities and a global alliance network of Web sites. As Chairman of 24/7 Real Media, Mr. Moore focuses on strengthening the company’s industry position, strategic relationships, recruitment and business development. Mr. Moore also works closely with WPP Digital to support the development and implementation of WPP’s digital initiatives.

Mr. Moore has led 24/7 Real Media’s growth from start-up to its current position as a leader in digital marketing. He is a respected industry veteran with over 30 years experience in new media property development. He currently serves as Vice Chair for the Interactive Advertising Bureau and has been a member on the board since 2002. Throughout his career, Mr. Moore has held positions at companies such as Turner Broadcasting and Viacom. He co-founded Petry Interactive, which eventually became 24/7 Real Media.

Mr. Moore has served as a director of Local Matters, Inc., a provider of internet, voice and wireless technology solutions, since March 2004 and as Chairman since March 2006. He also serves on the board of Our Stage and Auditudes, both early stage internet companies, is the Chairman of the IAB, and on the board of directors of the Advertising Education Foundation (AEF) since May 2007.

• • Board Observers

• Lance Maerov - SVP Corporate Development, WPP

Lance currently manages WPP’s Corporate Development team in North America. His primary focus is to identify, negotiate and execute acquisitions, investments and joint ventures. He began his work for the Corporate Development Group in March 2005 in New York after WPP’s acquisition of Grey Global Group. In this role, Lance reports directly into Martin Sorrell.

Before joining WPP, Lance worked at Grey Global Group as its head of corporate development and made over 20 venture investments on behalf of Grey through its Grey Ventures Subsidiary. Prior to joining Grey, Lance handled acquisitions and investments for Reed Business Information, a wholly owned subsidiary of Reed Elsevier. Lance was a founder of iFusion, an early push-technology start-up, and raised $20 million of venture capital on its behalf over 1995-1997 before joining Reed Elsevier.

Lance earned a Bachelors Degree in Political Science from the University of Vermont and was four year letter winner in the school’s Division I Men’s Lacrosse Team. He also holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School.

• Bill Weiss - VP Finance, WPP

Bill has worked with the Board of Visible Technologies since 2006. Bill has extensive experience in the advertising industry and has served in an executive role at WPP Group for 16 years. Using his combination of both corporate and operating experience, Bill works with numerous WPP companies around the world, on a day-to-day basis, and sits on the boards of many minority investments.

Previously, he held a finance position at McCann-Erickson’s flagship New York office, serving in the dual capacities of budget director and client revenue controller. Bill is a CPA who worked at Arthur Andersen & Co., with clients in the advertising, consumer product, financial service, and nonprofit industries. He has a BA in computer science from Columbia, and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

• Mark Breier - Partner, IQT

Mark Breier is a Partner at IQT and is an observer on the Visible board. Mark’s prior experience includes as technology executive at Amazon.com, Plantronics, and Beyond.com. Mark has a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is a popular author and public speaker, based on his best-selling book “The 10-Second Internet Manager.”

• Christina M. Van Tassell - Partner, Joe Grano Holdings

Christina is a Partner with Joe Grano Holdings LLC', a firm that advises public and private clients on all facets of business strategy, planning, development as well as obtaining access to capital markets. Christina’s responsibilities include counseling her clients on the financial aspects and overall impact to their business with respect to the different strategies they undertake. Christina also serves as the Joe Grano’s Chief Financial Officer.

Prior to joining Joe Grano, Christina was a Director with PricewaterhouseCoopers. She worked within Transaction Services developing and leading the European footprint of its Strategic Structuring Services based in London, which was used as a framework for global expansion. Her responsibilities focused on bringing new cutting-edge products to the market while maintaining protocol within the shifting accounting, regulatory, and legal environment in order to help clients better deal with market changes. Christina received her dual Masters of Business Administration from Columbia Business School and London Business School. Christina is a Certified Public Accountant and a dual citizen of America and Sweden.

Management Team

Kelly Pennock is Chief Executive Officer for Visible Technologies®. He brings over two decades experience in executive management and technology vision to the company. In his prior role as Visible’s CTO, Kelly was responsible for authoring the technology roadmap and driving the engineering vision behind the Visible Intelligence® software platform.

Before joining Visible Technologies, Kelly served as President at First Data Corporation, a Fortune 200 company headquartered in Denver Colorado. At First Data, he led the Analytics Business Unit that was responsible for the sale of analytics products across their customer base. Prior to First Data, he was CEO and President of Intelligent Results, an Enterprise software company that delivered analytics and business intelligence software and services to global financial services institutions. Kelly also held senior positions at Amazon.com, the world’s leading online retailer, where he launched two of Amazon’s early stores and also led multiple enterprise-wide initiatives related to personalization and cross-sell. Before Amazon, he was Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of an internet startup, Cartia Inc., and a Chief Scientist in Information Sciences at Battelle’s Pacific Northwest Laboratory.

Kelly has authored multiple patents and won national awards for technology innovation. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in business and economics as well as a Master’s degree in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University.

• Doug Durst - Chief Financial Officer

Doug Durst is Chief Financial Officer at Visible Technologies. Before joining Visible, Doug was a partner at Tatum, served as COO and CFO at Africa Ten Enterprise, as President/CFO and Delivery Services at Chase Innovations in Redmond, and Director of Business Performance at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, Doug was COO and Partner at EnTech Solutions (a Moss Adams Division) where he implemented strategy, processes, systems and business management functions. Doug has an MBA in Finance, summa cum laude from Nova Southeastern University and is a licensed CPA... Doug serves on the Board of Elders at Overlake Christian Church, is a Member of the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of CPAs and is Treasurer of the Africa Ten Foundation.

• Geoff Farris - Executive Vice President of Sales and Sales Operations

Geoff Farris is the Executive Vice President of Sales for Visible Technologies. His responsibilities include both direct and indirect sales, partner management, sales strategy and planning, as well as sales operations. Geoff has over 15 years of experience in technology services and private investment. Over his career, he has held various executive management roles in sales, strategy, operations and general management. He brings extensive experience in sales and operations for new business segments, as well as a strong background in expanding business development in new and emerging markets.

Before joining Visible Technologies, Geoff was President and CEO of Bueller’s, a private investment firm focused on assisting healthy and distressed companies maximize the value of under-performing assets. Prior to that, Geoff was the Regional Vice President for Enterpulse, a national technology services firm focused on process improvement solutions leveraging portal, content management and BPM technologies within a SOA environment. In addition, Geoff held the position of Regional Vice president with Groundswell, a national services firm where he played an integral part in the merger between Groundswell and Enterpulse. Geoff has also held leadership positions in interactive marketing services firms, Syllogy Partners and e-Media.

• Eric Forst - Vice President of Strategic Agency Partnerships

Eric Forst is a sales and marketing executive who helps companies listen to their customers and leverage the learning to drive business growth and excellence. Since 2007, Eric has worked on social media campaigns for more than 40 Fortune 1000 companies in automotive, CPG, pharmaceutical, entertainment and technology. Social media empowers consumers to be publishers engaged in dialogue with their favorite brands. Now brands have a unique opportunity to build relationships with their customers that help drive revenue.

Currently, Eric heads global agency partnerships and strategy for Visible Technologies, a social media solutions company. Previously he headed corporate marketing for Traffic Marketplace, one of the Internet’s largest display advertising networks, and for Agile-1, a hosted software solution for the staffing industry. Eric received his MFA in English/Creative Writing from UMASS, Amherst and his BA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.

• Craig Gordon - Managing Director of EMEA

Craig has responsibilities for Visible Technologies operations outside of the United States and is based in our European headquarters in Berkley Square, London. Craig brings 18 years of international IT experience gained at executive management level. Most recently, Craig was Managing Director for UK, Nordics and Southern Europe for Redwood Software, the leading business process automation software provider. Prior to Redwood, he held the position of European Managing Director for Talisma Corporation where he oversaw year on year growth in sales across Europe and the Middle East of Talisma’s multichannel Customer Interaction Management suite.

Before joining Talisma, Craig was Vice President of Global Sales for document management company McLaren Software and during his first step into IT management as European General Manager set up Captura Software’s European operations and delivered year on year revenues for its market leading Expenses Management Software. Craig’s early career saw him hold European sales positions for BTI Hogg Robinson and Meridian VAT Consultancy Services.

• Elizabeth Morgan - Senior Vice President of Business Development

Elizabeth Morgan is the Senior Vice President of Business Development. In this role she is responsible for building a strong partner eco-system which includes developing strategic alliances to add complementary product and service offerings and extending Visible’s social intelligence platform through technology integration partnerships. Elizabeth served as Visible’s SVP of Client Services from November 2009 to February 2011 where she assembled high performance teams passionately committed to customer and partner success. Elizabeth brings over 20 years of technology sales, consulting, and industry strategy experience to her role at Visible. Most recently, Elizabeth served as the Vice President of Service and Support at Attenex Corporation (acquired by FTI Consulting), the leading provider of electronic discovery and analytics software for legal service providers and corporations. While there she spearheaded the company’s services and support programs for customers and partners. Additionally, Elizabeth served as a Principal at Voyager Capital LLC for five years and was responsible for developing and executing on the company’s enterprise software investment strategy. Earlier in her career, Elizabeth held management roles with PeopleSoft, Marcam and McCormack and Dodge. She began her career in the software consulting practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Elizabeth holds an M.B.A. from the University of Washington and a B.B.A in finance from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She currently serves on the board of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Washington Foster School of Business.

• Cliff Mosley - Vice President of Engineering

Cliff is the VP of Engineering for Visible Technologies. As Vice President of Engineering, Cliff brings nearly two decades of engineering experience in system architecture and development to his role at the company. From his prior positions at Microsoft, MyFamily.com, and digiMine, Cliff has a highly honed and broad set of engineering skills in data warehousing, business intelligence, enterprise application integration and web-based service delivery. Cliff’s technical experience spans numerous technologies, including Hadoop, Lucene, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Analysis Server, and the Microsoft.NET Framework. Before assuming the role of VP of Engineering, Cliff managed the successful delivery of Visible Intelligence, Visible’s new social media monitoring and analytics platform. The success of the platform has led to record sales in the first half of 2011 and substantial reductions in operating expenses, while concurrently increasing data center capacity 8 fold. Cliff holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, as well as an MBA from the University of Texas.

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