Board of Directors
Corefino's Board of Directors acts as a valuable partner in our oversight, controls, business planning, and management. Board members' experience and wide-ranging expertise play a vital role in Corefino's success and in the success of our customers.
Michael Clair
Mr. Clair is a technology investor and consultant to Silicon Valley companies, and he was appointed to the Corefino board in March 2007. Mr. Clair served as Chairman of the Board of Intellisync Corporation from 1998 until the company was sold to Nokia in 2006. He has held senior and executive management positions at Tymshare Inc., ROLM Corporation, and SynOptics Communications, which he co-founded. He currently serves on several boards of privately held technology companies, including Cranite Systems, NDS Surgical Imaging, and Phoenix Technologies, which trades on the NASDAQ(PTEC.)
Neal Dempsey
Mr. Dempsey is managing partner at Bay Partners, a venture investment firm with interests in information technology and healthcare. He joined Bay Partners in 1989 after serving in a range of roles, including five years as chief executive officer of Qubix Graphics Systems, one year as chief executive of Envision Technology, and several senior management positions with Zentec and Harris Corporation. Mr. Dempsey looks for entrepreneurs with domain expertise and the ability to listen to their customers. He has been instrumental in the success of category-creating companies such as Brocade, Informatica, and Shiva.
Stan Meresman
Mr. Meresman currently serves on the boards of Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ-RVBD), Force10 Networks, and VMark. He has more than 25 years of experience serving in executive positions. He was a general partner and chief operating officer, and later, a venture partner at Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) from November 2001 through December 2004. From 1989 until May 1997, he served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI). During that time, SGI revenue grew from $250 million to $3.8 billion, and the company completed four acquisitions and established more than 12 strategic alliances. Prior to SGI, Mr. Meresman served as vice president for finance and administration and chief financial officer of Cypress Semiconductor (CY-NYSE).
Karen Northup
Ms. Northup is founder and CEO of Corefino. She founded Corefino after serving as chief financial officer (CFO) at successful, venture-backed technology companies. These include Scout Media, where she served as CFO through the company's successful acquisition by Fox Interactive; Rivals.com, where she recruited and trained a 35-member accounting staff and successfully directed the company through its initial public offering; and Telocity (now DirecTV), where she was instrumental in raising a US$134 million mezzanine round of financing. Ms. Northup also held management positions with GlobalCenter, including a key role in its acquisition by Global Crossing, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
Carl Showalter
Mr. Showalter is a founding general partner of Opus Capital. Previously, he was a general partner with Lightspeed Venture Partners. Mr. Showalter brings more than 12 years of operating experience to venture capital investing. He served as vice president of marketing at Juniper Networks, and before that was vice president of Dial and Broadband Services for UUNET. He also held various sales and management positions at ANS, an AOL company. Mr. Showalter began his career as an engineer at Bellcore. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and a Master of Science degree in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University.
Strategic Advisory Board
Kenneth L. (Ken) Coleman
Mr. Coleman is chairman of Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACCL). He is the founder and former chairman and chief executive officer of ITM Software, an enterprise IT software company. Previously he served as executive vice president of global sales, service, and marketing for SGI, where he managed 4000 employees in 37 countries. Prior to joining SGI, Mr. Coleman served as vice president of product development at Activision, Inc. Prior to Activision he spent 10 years at Hewlett-Packard, where he held several management positions. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of City National Bank, MIPS Technologies, and United Online.
Jim Cook
Mr. Cook founded and is managing partner of BenchBoard Financial Services, which provides a comprehensive suite of financial and management services that span interim executive leadership to investment banking. Prior to BenchBoard, he built the financial and operational functions for both Intuit and NetFlix. While at NetFlix, Mr. Cook built and managed all financial and operational functions from the company's founding in 1997 until 1999. At Intuit, he served in key financial leadership roles as the company grew from a small, two-product private company with 150 employees to a public entity with more than 3000 employees.
Joel Freidman
Joel was president of Accenture's Business Process Outsourcing organization until his retirement in August 2005. There, he was responsible for overseeing Accenture's portfolio of BPO businesses, as well as driving their innovation and growth. He was also a member of Accenture's Board of Directors until February 2005, and he served on the company's executive committee and global leadership council. Over the course of his 34-year career with Accenture, Mr. Friedman held numerous senior leadership roles, including partner in Accenture's corporate development organization, and managing general partner of the company's former venture capital business, Accenture Technology Ventures.
George Northup (Unrelated)
Mr. Northup is president and chief executive officer of AuctionDrop, Inc. He has more than 25 years of in-depth operating experience in building Internet and software companies into durable and profitable entities. He participated in successful exits for LiveCapital, a financial software analytics company that was sold to D&B, and for Online Resources, an online banking company (NASDAQ: ORCC, a Russell 2000 company) that he took public in 1999. He has raised more than $400 million through initial public offerings and venture financing.
