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Management

Javier Soltero, CEO

Javier Soltero is co-founder and CEO of Hyperic, the leader in multi-platform, open source IT management. Prior to co-founding Hyperic, he was chief architect at Covalent Technologies, where he led the design and implementation of multiple enterprise products, including the configuration management product for Apache and the Covalent Application Manager -- now Hyperic's flagship product Hyperic HQ. Prior to Covalent, Soltero was a senior software engineer at Backflip, where he met Hyperic co-founders Charles Lee and Doug MacEachern. At Backflip, he was actively involved in the design, implementation, and operational aspects of the site. Soltero also held senior engineering positions at Netscape, where he participated in the design development of e-commerce and Internet infrastructure suites. Over the last 10 years, Soltero has been actively involved in various open source communities as both user and contributor to projects like JBoss and Tomcat.

Soltero is originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico and received his BS in Information Systems and Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

Tom Kress, VP, Sales

Tom Kress brings more than twenty years of technology sales experience to Hyperic. Prior to joining Hyperic, Kress held the position of Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Cittio Inc, a network monitoring company based in San Francisco. While at Cittio, Kress was responsible for quadrupling sales and increasing inbound leads by 500% during one year. Prior to Cittio, Kress spent four years at Internap Services where he served in a variety of positions, most recently as Vice President of North American Sales. During Kress’s tenure at Internap, sales revenue grew from $10k per month to $15M per month in a 29 month period. Kress also spent 10 years with MCI Communications Global Accounts Group. At MCI he was responsible for the largest corporate sale in the history of MCI to Bank of America, a sale valued at over $400M.

Kress received his BA in Ancient History with honors from the University of California at Berkeley.

Paul Melmon, SVP, Engineering

Paul Melmon is senior vice president of engineering for Hyperic. Prior to joining Hyperic, Melmon was vice president of corporate and business development at Wily, a provider of application management solutions, where he was responsible for the strategic direction and implementation of all technology partnerships and M&A activity. While at Wily, Melmon also served as vice president of research and development, overseeing all design, development, delivery of products, including a major product release every six to nine months. Prior to Wily, Melmon was CIO at Pets.com, and was instrumental in defining and developing the company's technology and operations infrastructure. Melmon also worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Sutter Hill Ventures and has held engineering and management positions at Wallop Software, Scopus Technology, Sybase and Hewlett-Packard.

Melmon has more than 20 years of experience in strategic technical and business alignment, growing technology partnerships, product development, and developing mission critical operations for web based activities.

Melmon received his BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of California at Davis.

Stacey Schneider, Senior Director, Marketing

Stacey Schneider brings more than a decade of product marketing experience to Hyperic. Prior to Hyperic, Schneider held various positions at Siebel Systems, including most recently, Director of Product Marketing. In this position, she successfully managed the marketing activities for the emerging technology and technology groups, specifically the launch of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiative. Prior to managing the marketing programs of the technology group, she worked as a senior and then senior principal consultant in the professional services division in the U.S. as well as London and Rio de Janeiro, running all new implementation programs in Latin America. Prior to Siebel Systems, Schneider worked at Unisys Corporation as consultant in the commercial consultancy practice, overseeing the implementation of Siebel and Oracle technologies.

Schneider received her BS in Economics with a focus in International Business from Pennsylvania State University.

Doug MacEachern, CTO

Doug MacEachern is co-founder and chief technology officer of Hyperic. Prior to co-founding Hyperic, MacEachern was a senior software engineer at Covalent where, with Hyperic CEO Javier Soltero, he shaped the development of the product that would eventually become Hyperic HQ. He is a recognized leader within the open source community, having designed, implemented and maintained both generations of the mod_perl project and has contributed to other projects including Apache httpd/apr, Perl and PHP. MacEachern has also given several talks at open source conferences and co-authored the book "Writing Apache Modules in Perl and C", published by O'Reilly in 1999.

He has more than 10 years of open source and commercial development experience, and in addition to Covalent, has held senior software engineering positions at Backflip.com, Critical Path and the Open Software Foundation.

MacEachern received his BA in Communications from the University of Maine.

Jeff Santelices, VP, Business Development

Jeff Santelices is vice-president of business development, channels & alliances for Hyperic. Jeff was previously a Vice President at Corio, one of the founding "Software as a Service" providers that originally coined the term "Applications on Demand" and that was acquired by IBM in 2005. Jeff led multiple functions at Corio, including corporate development, business development, channels & alliances, strategy, and marketing. During his tenure, Jeff was instrumental in taking the company public in 2000, closing and integrating two strategic acquisitions, and scaling the business through indirect channel sales. Jeff also played pivotal roles in establishing Corio's brand as the leader in a nascent space, and in accelerating sales through a coordinated suite of tools that included collateral, training, client programs, and lead generation. Following the acquisition of Corio by IBM, Jeff transitioned into IBM's Global Technology Services group where he provided strategic insight to enable the Infrastructure Management Services business to transition to more efficient, higher-margin, on-demand services. Prior to Corio and IBM, Jeff held management positions at Oracle, A.T. Kearney, and Chase Manhattan Bank.

Jeff received his BA in Economics from Northwestern University. He also received his MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

Doug McEachern, CTO

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Charles Lee, VP Engineering

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Board of Directors

Javier Soltero

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Larry Augustin

Larry Augustin is an angel investor and advisor to early stage technology companies. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Compiere, Fonality, Hyperic, Medsphere, Pentaho, SugarCRM, and XenSource. One of the group who coined the term "Open Source", he has written and spoken extensively on Open Source worldwide. Worth Magazine named him to their list of the Top 50 CEOs in 2000. From 2002 to 2004 he was a Venture Partner at Azure Capital Partners. In 1993 he founded VA Linux (now SourceForge, NASDAQ:LNUX), where he served as CEO until August 2002. While CEO he launched SourceForge.net and led the company through an IPO in 1999.

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Kevin Efrusy

Kevin Efrusy came to Accel in 2003 and serves as a General Partner. His background is primarily as an entrepreneur and operating executive. He served two stints as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers where he started Corio, an ASP pioneer which went public on Nasdaq and was acquired by IBM in 2005. Later he served as the first CEO of IronPlanet, an online marketplace for heavy equipment which currently sells in excess of $170M/year of equipment. Prior to KPCB, Kevin served as a product manager at Zip2 and a consultant at Bain & Company.

Efrusy invests broadly in software and internet businesses, but he focuses on consumer internet companies, open source software, and wireless application providers. He co-led Accel’s investment in Facebook, currently serves on the boards of Metacafe, Hyperic, Xensource, Terracotta, and BBN Technologies. He is also actively involved in Riverbed Technology and Transera.

Efrusy has an MSEE, BSEE, and BA in Economics all from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller scholar.

Dick Williams

Doug MacEachern is co-founder and chief technology officer of Hyperic. Prior to co-founding Hyperic, MacEachern was a senior software engineer at Covalent where, with Hyperic CEO Javier Soltero, he shaped the development of the product that would eventually become Hyperic HQ. He is a recognized leader within the open source community, having designed, implemented and maintained both generations of the mod_perl project and has contributed to other projects including Apache httpd/apr, Perl and PHP. MacEachern has also given several talks at open source conferences and co-authored the book "Writing Apache Modules in Perl and C", published by O'Reilly in 1999.

He has more than 10 years of open source and commercial development experience, and in addition to Covalent, has held senior software engineering positions at Backflip.com, Critical Path and the Open Software Foundation.

MacEachern received his BA in Communications from the University of Maine.

Peter Fenton

Peter Fenton joined Benchmark Capital in 2006 after spending seven years as a partner with Accel Partners, where his investment interests included software, digital media, and technology enabled services.

Prior to joining the venture capital community, he spent several years working with Silicon Valley software and high-technology companies as an entrepreneur and strategy consultant. He was an early employee at Virage, a multimedia information retrieval company that went public on the NASDAQ in 2000. Peter also worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company in San Francisco, where he advised high-technology businesses in Silicon Valley on their product and business strategies. His investments include: Aptana, Apexon, Coremetrics, Hyperic, JBoss, Mendocino Software, Oak Pacific Interactive, Reactivity, Terracotta, Wily Technology, Xensource, and Zimbra.

Fenton has MBA from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar; and a BA from Stanford University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

Bob Bickel

Bob Bickel has served as an Advisor to JBoss since October, 2002. During 2003-2005 he served as the VP of Strategy and Corporate Development. Bickel is an active advisor or Board member to several other companies including Arjuna, Apax Partners, Bristol Technology, Funambol, Hyperic and Jaspersoft. Prior to founding Bickel Advisory Services, he was the General Manager of the HP Middleware Division. Before joining HP, Bickel was executive vice president of products for Bluestone Software Inc., acquired by HP in January 2001. Bickel was one of the original creators who brought Bluestone's application server technology to the marketplace with a reputation for product excellence.

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