ExaGrid has a premier group of investors that have invested in many of the most successful storage products in the industry, such as DELL EqualLogic, EMC Isilon, Hitachi BlueArc and many other storage products.
Board of Directors
Bill Andrews
President and CEO
Bill has over 20 years of experience in high-tech marketing and has led numerous teams in high-growth companies. Most recently, Bill was the vice president of marketing for Pedestal Software. Pedestal quickly became a leader in the security auditing space. Pedestal was acquired by Altiris, a public company.
Before joining Pedestal Software, Bill was the senior vice president of marketing and sales for eDial, a developer of Voice over IP (VoIP) software. Prior to eDial, Bill was general manager of Adero’s streaming media business unit. Bill came to Adero via Adero’s acquisition of StarBurst. At StarBurst, Bill served as vice president of marketing and sales. Bill repositioned the company and guided StarBurst into an industry leadership position with 100 percent annual growth. Bill also held vice president of marketing and vice president of sales positions at Live Vault, Microcom and Bitstream. Earlier in his career, Bill held a series of marketing and sales roles at Data General and Compugraphic. He is a graduate of Fitchburg State College and holds a BS in Industrial Technology.
Bob Davoli
Managing Director, Sigma Partners
Bob joined Sigma in 1995. He has over 20 years of experience in the high technology industry. Most recently he was President and 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. He sold SQL Solutions to Sybase for stock eventually worth over $100 million. Today the SQL Solutions consulting and system administration tools division of Sybase has over $300 million in annual revenues. He served as an executive officer of Sybase for over two years. Bob has a B.A. in History from Ricker College and studied computer science at Northeastern University. He has been responsible for Sigma’s investments in Aprimo, CapitalEngine, Cerulean Technology, Context Integration, Dazel Corporation, eDocs, eRunway, Excara, Excelergy, Global Food Exchange, Idiom Technologies, Internet Business Advantages, Internet Security Systems, Octane Software, Riverton Software Corporation, ServiceSoft Corporation, StorageNetworks, Tradex Technologies, Versata, Vignette Corporation, Vettro, Viveca Software and Visual Mining.
Tim Bemer
Partner, Lead Edge Capital
Tim is a Partner at Lead Edge Capital. Previously, Tim worked as an investment banker at Sandler O’Neill and prior to that in commercial real estate at CBRE.
Mr. Bemer received his B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Notre Dame.
Jose Suarez
Managing Director, Investor Growth Capital
Jose Suarez is a managing director of Investor Growth Capital and joined Investor AB’s Asian operations in 1997, and is now based in IGC’s Menlo Park, California office. Mr. Suarez focuses on the semiconductor and hardware infrastructure sectors. He currently serves as a director on the boards of Atrenta Inc., Chelsio Communications, eSilicon Corporation, Innovative Micro Technology, Magnum Semiconductor, and Millennium Microtech.
Mr. Suarez has a B.A. in Asian Studies from Dartmouth College.
Dave Therrien
Chief Technical Officer and Founder
Dave has over 35 years of experience in the development of data storage and data management products. Prior to ExaGrid, Dave was a key contributor to the success of a number of startup companies, including Storage Networks, HighGround Systems and Epoch Systems. Dave has a BSEE from Northeastern University and is an active member of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM and Usenix professional organizations. Dave’s passions include guitar, photography and kayaking.