Board of Directors Profiles
Mike Thompson, Chairman, Egenera
With over 25 years in enterprise technology sales and operations, Mike Thompson joined the Company in early 2002 as COO, just as product shipments were getting underway, and later served as President and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Egenera, Thompson was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Stratus Technologies, where he also served on the board of directors. During his Stratus tenure, Thompson managed a 400-person operation generating more than $700 million in annual revenues through direct and indirect channels.
Prior to Stratus, Thompson served as Director of U.S. Sales Operations for the financial line of business at Tandem Computers, directing sales and support to the nation's top 120 finance accounts. Earlier, at Burroughs Corporation, he focused on driving sales to the Fortune 50. Thompson holds a bachelor of science degree in mathematics from Southern Connecticut University.
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Vern Brownell, Founder, Egenera
Vern Brownell founded Egenera in March 2000 based on his experiences as the chief technology officer at Goldman Sachs, where he and his staff of 1,300 were responsible for worldwide technology infrastructure including data centers, data networking, telecommunications and trading-floor operations. During his 11 years with the Wall Street leader, Brownell developed a keen appreciation for how the complexity of legacy server deployments both increased costs and compromised agility
Prior to his tenure at Goldman, Brownell served as manager of engineering at Stratus Computer and Ztel Corporation. He began his career as a principal engineer at Digital Equipment. Brownell's background as both a developer and user of technology gives Egenera the ideal perspective for building the next generation of data center infrastructure. He holds a master of business administration degree from Anna Maria College as well as a bachelor of engineering degree in electrical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.
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Bob Crants, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Pharos Capital Group, LLC
Bob Crants has been directly involved in private equity investments for fifteen years. He was previously with Goldman Sachs, where he was a founding member of the Special Investments Group, and was active in the development and marketing of proprietary equity derivative products, equity private placements, exchange funds and merchant banking funds totaling over $6.0 billion in gross funds raised. As a result of his work, in 1993 he received the Goldman Sachs Investment Banking Division Innovation Award. Mr. Crants is a founder of Pharos Capital Group. He graduated from Princeton University with an A.B., summa cum laude, in Economics.
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Jim Phillips, Partner, Pharos Capital Group, LLC
Jim Phillips is a Partner of Pharos Capital Group, LLC. Prior to joining Pharos and its predecessor entities in 1996, Mr. Phillips was with Goldman Sachs, serving in both its Equities Management Division and in Private Client Services. Mr. Phillips graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Management and from the University of Miami with an M.B.A. He has more than eleven years of private equity experience.
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Miles Arnone, Managing Director and Technology Group Head, American Capital
Miles Arnone joined American Capital in September 2002 and currently serves as Managing Director & Head of the American Capital Technology Group. Previously, Mr. Arnone was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Charterhouse Group International and President of Boston Digital Corporation, a machine tool builder with approximately $30 million in sales. Mr. Arnone serves on the Boards of a host of technology-oriented companies including: Avalon Laboratories, Axygen, Contour Semiconductor, Electro-Component Assembly Company, eLynx, Futurelogic, Global Conference Partners, HALT Medical, MoxyMedia, Narus, PeopleMedia and Value Plastics. Mr. Arnone holds graduate degrees in management and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from MIT as well.
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Louis J. Volpe, Managing General Partner, Kodiak Venture Partners
Prior to joining Kodiak, Lou was President, Chief Operating Officer and Director of ArrowPoint Communications where he was responsible for all of ArrowPoint's functional organizations and focused on managing worldwide operations to achieve company growth objectives. ArrowPoint had a successful IPO in March 2000 and was acquired by Cisco Systems for $5.5 billion in June 2000.
Prior to joining ArrowPoint, Lou was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Marketing and a member of the Board of GeoTel Communications, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in June 1999. He joined GeoTel early in its developmental stage and was a major contributor in building its worldwide sales and marketing presence. He was also instrumental in guiding the company through its IPO and eventual $2 billion acquisition. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Operations for Parametric Technology Corporation from 1989 to 1994. Before Parametric, he was an executive at Prime Computer. Lou has been an active investor and board member of a number of companies including Atria (acquired by Pure) and Softdesk (acquired by Autodesk).
Volpe holds a master of business administration degree from Boston University and a bachelor's degree in economics from Tufts University. He serves as Chairman of the Board of IMlogic and RulesPower and is also on the boards of Azimuth Systems, CXO Systems, Egenera, GTESS, IE-Engine, and sentitO Networks.
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