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John D. Markley, Jr.
Chairman
John D. Markley, Jr. has served as one of our directors since January 2002. Mr. Markley has served as Managing Member of Bear Creek Capital Management, an investment company in the communications media and technology industries, since February 2011. Show more
Prior to Bear Creek, Mr. Markley served in a number of capacities at Columbia Capital Corporation, including as a partner, venture partner and portfolio company executive. Prior to Columbia Capital, Mr. Markley served at the Federal Communications Commission. Mr. Markley has been a director of Charter Communications, Inc. since 2009 and of Millennial Media, Inc. since 2006. Show more
John J. Gavin Jr.
John J. Gavin Jr. has served as one of our directors since March 2010. From January 2007 to June 2008, Mr. Gavin served as Chief Financial Officer of BladeLogic, Inc., a provider of data center automation software, which was acquired by BMC Software, Inc. Show more
Prior to joining BladeLogic, Mr. Gavin served as the Chief Financial Officer for NaviSite, Inc., a provider of information technology hosting, outsourcing and professional services, from April 2004 through January 2007. Mr. Gavin has served on the board of directors of Vistaprint, Inc. since 2006 and Qlik Technologies, Inc. since February 2010. Mr. Gavin is also currently a director of Varonis Systems, Inc., a private software company. Show more
David Bernardi
David Bernardi joined the board of directors in January 2011. Mr. Bernardi has been employed as the Chief Technology Officer of Telesystem Ltd., a Canadian private capital corporation since 2000. Since February 2006, Mr. Bernardi has also been a Managing Partner in two funds managed by ID Capital Management, a company controlled by Telesystem. Show more
In February 2006, Mr. Bernardi became a Venture Partner - Technology in Propulsion Ventures III Fund, a fund managed by Propulsion Ventures which is also controlled by Telesystem and, in September 2010, he became a Managing Partner of Propulsion Ventures. Additionally, Mr. Bernardi currently serves on the board of directors or is an advisor to each of the following private companies: CVT Corp Transmission Inc., The Fox Group, Inc., Metafoam Technologies Inc., Microsigns Technologies Inc., NCI Technologies Inc. and X2O Media Inc. Show more
Douglas L. Maine
Douglas L. Maine has served as one of our directors since May 2007. Mr. Maine served as General Manager of the Consumer Products Industry Division for International Business Machines Corporation, or IBM, from 2003 until his retirement in May 2005 and served as Chief Financial Officer of IBM from 1998 to 1999. Show more
Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Maine spent 20 years with MCI, Inc. (now part of Verizon), where he was Chief Financial Officer from 1992 to 1998. Mr. Maine serves on the board of directors of two public companies, Rockwood Holdings, Inc. since 2005 and Alliant Techsystems Inc. since 2006. Additionally, he is a Limited Partner and Senior Advisor to Brown Brothers Harriman and serves on the boards of directors of three of BBH Capital Partners' private portfolio companies. Show more
Michael Tessler
President and Chief Executive Officer
Michael Tessler brings over 20 years of business strategy and technology experience to his role as co-founder. Since 1998, he has served as our Chief Executive Officer and President of BroadSoft.Show more
Prior to co-founding BroadSoft, Mr. Tessler was Vice President of Engineering of Celcore, Inc., or Celcore, a wireless equipment company, and the Celcore organization of DSC Communications Corporation, which acquired Celcore in 1997 and which was then acquired by Alcatel USA, Inc. Before joining Celcore, Mr. Tessler held a number of senior management positions at Nortel Networks Corporation and founded and led a services development business unit that helped local exchange carriers build and deploy advanced services on their digital networks. Michael has two patents in the area of local switching, AIN, and advanced call management services and was a recent winner of Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year.Show more
Charles L. Ill
Charles L. Ill, III joined the board of directors in January 2011. Mr. Ill was employed as the Senior Vice President of Sales, Services and Marketing of Fair Isaac Corporation, a provider of predictive analytics solutions, from February 2010 until his retirement in February 2013. Show more
From June 2008 to January 2010, Mr. Ill was engaged in personal investment activities. From July 2006 to May 2008, Mr. Ill was Senior Vice President, Global Sales at Avaya Inc., a provider of enterprise communications systems, and from January 2003 to December 2004, Mr. Ill was Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales at BEA Systems, Inc., where he was accountable for all direct sales, business partner sales, sales operations and strategic alliances. From 1978 until January 2003, Mr. Ill held various sales and marketing positions with International Business Machines Corporation, most recently as vice president, worldwide software geographic sales, marketing and technical team. Show more
Paul Magelli
Paul Magelli joined the board of directors in January 2013. Mr. Magelli has been Chief Executive Officer of Pervasive Health, Inc., a private healthcare information technology corporation, since January 2012. Prior to joining Pervasive Health, Mr. Magelli was head of Customer Insight & Experience at Nokia Siemens Networks from February 2008 until September 2011. Show more
Mr. Magelli was CEO of Apertio, Ltd., a global mobile telecommunications infrastructure company based in Bristol, England from its founding in 2002 through its acquisition by Nokia Siemens Networks in February 2008. Prior to Apertio, Mr. Magelli held various senior management roles in Europe and the United States with Lucent Technologies and AT&T. Additionally, Mr. Magelli serves on the board of directors of two private companies: Velocent Systems, Inc. and Vasona Networks, Inc. Show more