I've recently retired as CFO of Cloud Software Group, an infrastructure software company owned by Vista Equity Partners and Elliott Management. Cloud Software Group was created by the merger of TIBCO and Citrix in September of 2022. During my more than 18 years in private equity I have been CEO or CFO of a number of different software companies including Cloud Software Group, TIBCO, Saba, Corel, and Actian. I also served as an Operating Partner at Vector Capital, a San Francisco based Private Equity firm. I am on the board of directors of Qualys (NASDAQ: QLYS) and I chair the Audit Committee. I have previously served on the boards of Corel, Saba, Serus, and Laszlo Systems. The common thread for me over my career has been software. I started as a software developer building applications for Western Life Insurance Company (now Fortis) and Norwest Bank (now Wells Fargo). After business school I joined Deloitte Consulting as a management consultant, first doing custom development projects for large clients and then installing software from Oracle, Manugistics, Business Objects, and others at large Fortune 500 companies such as Honeywell and Boston Scientific. When packaged software started exploding in popularity in the mid 1990's, I joined Piper Jaffray as a software research analyst covering the small cap software space and then migrated from Minneapolis to San Francisco to work for Goldman Sachs covering infrastructure software. My Wall Street career concluded at Citigroup where I ran the software research franchise and covered all the major software companies including Microsoft, Oracle, Symantec, Intuit, Adobe, Autodesk, and many others. Specialties: Finance, Corporate and Product Strategy, M&A, Raising Capital, Investment Strategy