Board of Directors
Dave Hersh, Chief Executive Officer
As CEO of Jive Software, Dave Hersh is responsible for overseeing the company's strategic direction, planning and implementation. In seven short years, Dave has led Jive Software from a small open source project to an Inc. 500 company with 100 percent annual growth rates.
Previously, Dave held the roles of CFO and product strategist at 4charity. Prior to that, he was a management consultant to Hewlett Packard, focused on HP's Worldwide Information Management Strategy. Dave began his career as a strategy and change management consultant at VIA International in Chicago and London.
Dave has gained a reputation for his deep industry knowledge of collaboration, knowledge management and open source, and he is frequently tapped to present at industry events and serve as a media reference. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from DePauw University.
Matt Tucker, Chief Technology Officer, co-founder
Matt Tucker, co-founder and CTO, is responsible for the long-term technical and strategic direction of Jive's products. Along with Bill Lynch, Matt founded Jive Software in 2001 and has helped build the company from two people to over a hundred. Matt is an active member in open standards communities including having served on the board of the XMPP Standards Foundation.
Prior to Jive, Matt worked as a software engineer at an internet startup in San Francisco called 4charity.
Matt holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Iowa.
Bill Lynch, Vice President Product Management, co-founder
As the head of Product Management, Bill is responsible for the product roadmap and helps drive product strategy. Along with Matt Tucker, Bill founded Jive Software in 2001 and has helped build the company from two people to over a hundred.
Prior to Jive, Bill worked as a software engineer at an internet startup in San Francisco called 4charity.
Bill holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Iowa.
Jim Goetz, Sequoia Capital
Jim Goetz focuses on systems and software investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2004, Jim served as a General Partner at Accel Partners where he led the investments in Entrisphere (ERIC), Peribit (JNPR), RGB, and Rhapsody (BRCD) and was part of the team responsible for BroadJump (MOTV), Timetra (ALA) and Topspin (CSCO). Earlier, Jim was a Founder of VitalSigns (LU) where he went on to serve as VP/GM of the VitalSoft division of Lucent. Prior to VitalSigns, Jim was the Vice President of Network Management for Bay Networks. Prior to Bay and Synoptics, he held various product and marketing positions at AT&T, AT&T Bell Labs, and Digital Equipment. Jim has a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Tony Zingale
Mr. Zingale has close to thirty years of experience building profitable, high growth information technology companies. He currently sits on the Boards of Coverity, a privately held software quality automation company, and Jive Software, a privately held enterprise collaboration company.
He most recently served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mercury Interactive, the worldwide leader of Business Technology Optimization (BTO) solutions. Mr. Zingale successfully grew Mercury to over $1B in annual sales and then engineered the $5B merger with Hewlett Packard which was completed at the end of 2006.
Prior to Mercury, he was President and Chief Executive officer of Clarify, a publicly traded enterprise technology company that was a leader in the customer relationship management (CRM) market from 1997 until it was acquired by Nortel Networks in 2000. During his tenure, Clarify’s revenue grew more than three hundred percent to more than $300 million. Following the acquisition, he served as president of Nortel’s billion-dollar eBusiness Solutions Group until 2001.
Previously, Mr. Zingale spent more than 10 years at Cadence Design Systems, the world's leading supplier of electronic design automation (EDA) products and services, in a succession of executive management positions leading to his role as senior vice president of worldwide marketing. He served on the executive team that grew Cadence from approximately $40 million in revenue to more than $1.2 billion while also completing more that 15 mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Zingale began his career in product marketing at Intel Corporation in 1980.
Mr. Zingale holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical and computer engineering and a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration from the University of Cincinnati. He is a member of the University of Cincinnati Foundation’s Board of Trustees. Mr. Zingale is married, has three children and resides in Cupertino, California.
Advisors
Tom Kilroy, Intel
Tom Kilroy is vice president and general manager of Intel Corporation's Digital Enterprise Group. This group is Intel’s largest business group accounting for more than half of the corporation’s revenue. As co-general manager, Kilroy is focused on delivering leading platforms and products to businesses worldwide. These platforms span the full gamut of business needs including servers, business clients, storage, communications and embedded applications. In addition to delivering platforms, DEG designs and develops many of the platform ingredients such as microprocessors, chipsets, motherboards, networking components and software.
Previously, Kilroy was vice president of the Sales and Marketing Group (SMG) and co-president of Intel Americas, Inc., where he was responsible for all Sales and Marketing activities in North America and South America. Before that, he was SMG vice president and general manager of the Communications Sales Organization, where he led global sales of Intel's communications products. He also spent five years leading the Reseller Channel Organization, responsible for worldwide sales and channel marketing.
Kilroy joined Intel in 1990 as central region sales manager for the Personal Computer Enhancements Operation, where he was responsible for creating Intel's branded sales operation in the central United States. In 1993, he was promoted to oversee sales across the United States and Canada as North America sales manager for Intel's Reseller Channel Operation. He was promoted to general manager for RCO in 1997 and was appointed vice president in 2000.
Prior to joining Intel, Kilroy held sales and channel management positions with Burroughs Corporation and Wang Laboratories. He received his bachelor's degree in business administration from Western Illinois University in 1979.
Bill Lanfri
Bill Lanfri brings over 25 years of background in enterprise networking and telecommunications to his role as advisor to Jive Software. Some of his more recent experience includes Operating Partner at Accel Partners from 2000 – 2003, during which time he served as CEO of the Accel / Sequoia investment Big Bear Networks from 2000 to 2001. Before joining Accel, he served in 1998 and 1999 as CEO of Avanex Corporation (NASDAQ: AVNX). Prior to Avanex, he was a founding investor and key advisor to RedBack Networks (NASDAQ: RBAK). He has served on numerous boards in both advisory and initial funding capacities, including network security company Network Alchemy, acquired by Nokia Corporation in early 2000.
Lanfri was a member of the senior management team of intelligent hub pioneer SynOptics Communications (now a part of Nortel Networks), seeing the company through a period of growth from $2M to $700M in sales in positions leading both product management and marketing organizations. Prior to that, he held technology marketing positions at Xerox Corporation’s Office Systems Division and, in the early 80s, at LAN pioneer Corvus Systems. He is a graduate of the University of California at Davis and the MBA program at Santa Clara University.
