Board of Directors

Robert Davoli, Managing Director, Sigma Partners

Bob Davoli of Sigma Partners brings valuable experiences as both a venture capitalist and an entrepreneur. In recent years, he has appeared three times on the Forbes’ Midas list, a ranking of top venture capitalists. He also appeared on the cover of Business Week in a features story describing how VCs thrive through good and tough times. Prior to Sigma, Davoli was President & CEO of Epoch Systems, the leading vendor of client-server data management software products. He sold the firm in 1993 to EMC for $141 million. Previously, he was the Founder, President and CEO of SQL Solutions, a leading purveyor of services and tools for the relational database market. Davoli sold SQL Solutions to Sybase for stock eventually worth over $100 million. He also served as an executive officer of Sybase for over two years. 

Christopher Lynch, Executive Advisor

A veteran of both emerging and established technology leaders, Lynch was tapped by Vertica’s board in 2010 to take the company to the next level, extending its market leadership, channel partnerships and international expansion. His successful record of leadership positions across a variety of leading technology companies includes F5 Networks, where he was senior vice president of data solutions; Acopia Networks, where he was CEO; Cisco Systems where he was vice president of worldwide content delivery networking sales; and ArrowPoint Communications where he served as vice president of worldwide sales, marketing and support. Lynch’s impressive accomplishments as an entrepreneur and visionary business leader made him instrumental in ArrowPoint’s initial public offering, leading the organization’s revenue growth from zero to $250 million sales annually over 18 months and establishing 60 sales and support offices worldwide. ArrowPoint was subsequently acquired by Cisco Systems for $5.7 billion in June of 2000. Prior to ArrowPoint, Lynch was vice president of North and South American sales for Lucent Technologies Gigabit Ethernet Products Unit, where he built a sales and channels organization that generated revenue at an annual rate of $40 million over a seven-month period. He joined Lucent from Prominet Corporation after the company was acquired by Lucent for $200 million in January 1998. With 25 years in the technology industry, Lynch has also held sales leadership positions at Bay Networks, Wellfleet Communications, and Digital Equipment Corporation. Lynch earned his master’s in business administration from the McCallum Graduate School of Business at Bentley University in 1991 and his bachelor’s degree in business management from Suffolk University. He serves on the boards of Tervela, Azuki Systems and RayV.

B. Douglas Morriss, Acartha Technology Partners

B. Douglas Morriss is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Acartha Group, LLC (Acartha Group) and is a Manager in the general partner of ATP. He was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kinexus, a financial services technology firm, which was sold to Advent Software in 2001. Morriss is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of several private investment holding companies, as well as several family controlled private equity holding companies. He has served on the Board of Directors of Kinexus, PlusFunds, X.Eye Inc. (Ontario) and Kanbay International (NASDAQ: KBAY) and currently serves on the Boards of Multiplus Finance S.A. (Switzerland) and Cirqit (New Jersey).

Peter Perrone, Vice President, Goldman Sachs

Pete is a member of the Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division, in San Francisco, specializing in Technology. Pete joined Goldman Sachs in 1999, as an investment backing associate, in the High Technology Group, in Menlo Park. He transferred to Merchant Banking in 2001 and was named managing director in 2007.  Pete currently serves on the board of Limelight Networks, Conterra, Panologic, and a number of private technology companies.  He previously served on the boards of Alltel and Vixel. Pete earned a BS in Engineering from Duke University, an MS in Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Eric Schnadig, Chief Executive Officer, Tervela

Eric Schnadig is an accomplished senior executive with extensive experience building and leading public and private companies in high growth markets. Schnadig joined Tervela in 2009 from Unica Corporation, a worldwide provider of enterprise software, where he served as SVP of Worldwide Sales and Business Development and grew annual revenues from $3 million to more than $120 million. At Unica, he was responsible for sales execution, channel and distribution strategy, and business process establishment, all of which helped lead to a successful IPO of the company in 2005. Unica was purchased by IBM in 2010 for over $450M. Schnadig previously was a senior sales and marketing executive at Kenan Systems Corporation, the leading provider of billing software to global communications companies. While at Kenan Schnadig helped grow annual revenues from $10 million to more than $300 million, leading to a $1.5 billion acquisition by Lucent. Schnadig is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore College, is fluent in multiple languages and serves as a board member and advisor to private companies and not-for profit organizations.

J. Barry Thompson, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Tervela

An entrepreneur and innovator, Barry Thompson brings almost 20 years experience to Tervela, a company he founded in 2004 where he currently serves as Chief Technology Officer and board member. A self-taught technologist, he began his career as a consultant, designing solutions ranging from embedded robotics and imaging, to traditional enterprise systems. Some of his clients included MCI, American Mobile Satellite, The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other government and private organizations. In 1995, he moved to Wall Street, leading the adoption of new transformative technologies in the financial services industry while working for firms such as AIG, NatWest and UBS where he was Head of North American Architecture. In 2002, Thompson began to pursue his passion for emerging technologies through incubating research projects in materials manufacturing and carbon nanotube growth, virtual reality and gaming infrastructure. Thompson also joined the X-Prize Foundation where he currently serves on the board of trustees and the executive committee. He is a 2001 graduate of the International Space University SSP.