Acquia Board of Directors
Jay Batson
CEO, Acquia, Inc
Acquia is the second technology company Jay has (co-)founded, and is also his second commercial open-source effort (the previous having been Pingtel, which was acquired by Bluesocket in 2007.) Jay’s work passion is to build great companies that build things that users are passionately happy with. When not obsessing about products, he builds miles on his custom Serotta, is a rabid pro cycling fan (getting his news at VeloNews - a Drupal site!), and spends time under the headphones listening to and spinning all styles of house and trance music.
Michael J. Skok
General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners
Michael Skok joined North Bridge Venture Partners in 2002. Prior to this Michael had been an entrepreneur and CEO in the software business for over 20 years. Michael founded, led and attracted over $100m in private equity to his investments in several successful software companies ranging from CAD/CAM, Document Management, Workflow, Imaging and Collaboration, Security to Analytics and spanning the Mini Computer, Workstation, PC, Client Server and Internet eras.
Six of these companies were successfully acquired by Siebel, Platinum, Filenet, Banyan and IBM and two went Public, including Symantec for whom he built Symantec UK into their most profitable international business.
Michael has served on many private and public company boards as well as supported various software industry groups such as the Software Publishers association where he was Chairman for a number of years in Europe. He is currently active on the boards of all his recent investments including Acquia, Active Endpoints, Demandware, Lumigent, MyPerfectGig, rPath, Unidesk and wis.dm.
John Mandile
Managing Director, Sigma Partners
John joined Sigma in 1996. With over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur, a business unit manager, and an investor, John uses motivation, enthusiasm, and his own technology and operational expertise to support Sigma’s portfolio companies. Throughout his career, he has held executive management positions, created new business units and departments, and sponsored new projects at some of the industry’s most successful technology companies.
Prior to Sigma, John was the President & CEO of Vermeer Technologies, Inc., the developers of FrontPage, the leading Web authoring tool. Vermeer was acquired by Microsoft, providing Sigma and the other venture investors a very successful return. Previously, he was an early principal at SQL Solutions, where he created and led an engineering organization chartered to build heterogeneous database tools. Following an acquisition of SQL Solutions by Sybase, he took responsibility for the new Systems Management Product unit, which he grew to $55 million in sales in 30 months. Early in his career, John was recruited to Honeywell, where he worked on a variety of engineering projects in the areas of communications, operating systems, and unix co-processor design.
John is a graduate of Tufts (BSE in Engineering Science and Mathematics) and Worcester Polytechnic University (MS in Computer Science).
Thomas N. Erickson
Thomas Erickson has over 25 years of experience in software products and services. Most recently, he was the CEO of Systinet Corporation, a privately held software company recognized globally as a leader in providing a foundation for service oriented architectures (SOA) in Global 2000 companies. Systinet was sold to Mercury Interactive in 2006, which itself was acquired by Hewlett Packard (HP).
Prior to Systinet, Thomas was the executive vice-president, international for webMethods, a Nasdaq listed company recognized as the fastest growing software company in the USA from 1998 to 2003. During the time that Thomas was at webMethods, their international business averaged 90% annual growth.
Before webMethods, Thomas was President, Asia Pacific for the Baan Company, also based in Sydney. Thomas joined Baan in 1997 and before his posting to Sydney was President, MSO Division, based at the corporate head office in Reston, Virginia. In that role, he had worldwide responsibility for all maintenance management and field service business.
Prior to Baan, he held a variety of worldwide executive positions in enterprise application software companies, including Watermark Software / FileNet, Delrina, Thomson Software and MRO Software. Thomas is a board director of New York and Sydney based Quickcomm Software, a leader in telecom expense management (TEM) software.
Thomas Erickson earned his honors degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
