Team

Guardian Analytics Board of Directors

Guardian Analytics has assembled a team of industry leaders with diverse backgrounds in Internet and enterprise technologies.

Terry Austin

President and CEO, Guardian Analytics

Prior to joining Guardian Analytics, Terry Austin served as CEO and president of MarketLive, a leading provider of eCommerce platform solutions, where he created a scalable business strategy, assembled a world-class executive team and led successful fundraising efforts. He was previously president of worldwide marketing and sales at Good Technology, a provider of mobile computing solutions, where he spearheaded the company's rapid growth from 10,000 to over 500,000 subscribers and facilitated its acquisition by Motorola in January 2007. Austin has also served as president of EMEA and executive vice president for Manugistics, a market leading provider of enterprise software. He started his career at Accenture, where he ultimately led an $80 million consulting practice as a lead partner.

Warren Weiss

General Partner, Foundation Capital

Warren is a General Partner at Foundation Capital, where he focuses primarily on investments in emerging software companies-both licensed and software as a service-as well as the Cleantech industry.

Warren joined Foundation Capital with more than 25 years experience in the software industry, including time as president and CEO of four public and private software companies. Most recently, he was president and CEO of Asera, a real-time software solutions provider.

Previously, Warren served as president and CEO of Prism Solutions during the company's transition from data warehousing tools provider to business intelligence application deliverer. Prior to that, Warren was also president of SQRIBE Technologies (now Hyperion) and earlier, president and CEO of SMI. Warren has held numerous other senior executive positions at Next Software (Apple), Continuum (Computer Sciences Corporation) and Dun & Bradstreet Software. Warren holds a BS from Western Illinois University.

Irfan Salim

President and CEO, MarkMonitor

Irfan brings to MarkMonitor more than 20 years of experience growing and leading world-class Internet security, fraud prevention, and domain registrar companies. Prior to MarkMonitor, he was president and chief operating officer of Internet security company Zone Labs, which was acquired by Check Point Technologies. Earlier, Irfan was president and CEO of NameSecure.com, an Internet domain name registrar and services company. Irfan has also held positions including president of US and European operations at TrendMicro; president and CEO at desktop publishing and presentation software company Software Publishing Corporation; and vice president and general manager of the Spreadsheet Division at Lotus Development. Prior to Lotus, Irfan spent 7 years with Texas Instruments. He holds an undergraduate degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College London, and an M.B.A. from Manchester Business School, England.

Greg Sands

Managing Director, Sutter Hill Ventures

Greg Sands joined Sutter Hill Ventures in 1998 from Netscape Communications. As the company's original product manager, he co-authored the company's original business plan and launched and shipped its initial products, working closely with both engineering and sales. He then created and led the SuiteSpot business unit, growing it from $0 to $150M. He also worked previously at Cisco Systems and at Corporate Decisions (now Mercer Management Consulting).

Greg serves as a director for Consorte Media, ChoiceStream, Intacct, Merced Systems, Nexxo Financial, QuinStreet, Return Path, Valista and Volo Media. Greg is also a board observer at MyNewPlace and SeeSaw Networks. Previous investments include FeedBurner(GOOG), Closedloop (LWSN) and AllBusiness (DNB).

Greg is a trustee of the Stanford Business School Trust, the Stanford University DAPER Investment Fund and the Western Association of Venture Capitalists. He also co-founded the non-profit Start Up, a microenterprise program for entrepreneurs and small business owners in underprivileged communities.

He earned an AB in government from Harvard College in 1989 and received an MBA at Stanford in 1994.

Greg Owens

Chairman and CEO, IronPlanet

Greg is responsible for IronPlanet's development, refinement and execution of the company's overall business strategy and tactics. Prior to joining IronPlanet, Greg served as Managing Director at Red Zone Capital, a Washington, D.C. private equity firm focused on strong revenue growth opportunities. Prior to that time, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Manugistics Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:MANU), where he doubled annual revenues to $300 million for the supply chain management software company. Before that, he served as Global Managing Partner Supply Chain Management at Accenture (NYSE:ACN) where he was a founding member of their supply chain group. Greg also serves, or has served, on several outside boards including Serena Software, Inc., S1 Corporation and SecureWorks, Inc. Greg brings to IronPlanet many years of experience and proven results in revenue growth and supply chain business management.

Greg holds a B.S. in Industrial Management from Georgia Institute of Technology and serves on the President's Advisory Board as well as the College of Management Board.

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