Thomas N. Erickson
CEO, Acquia, Inc.

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.

Dries Buytaert
CTO and Co-founder

Dries is the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform. He serves as president of the Drupal Association, a non-profit organization formed to help Drupal flourish. A native of Belgium, Dries holds a PhD in computer science and engineering from Ghent University.

Drupal.org ID: Dries blog: http://buytaert.net

Michael J. Skok
General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners

Michael Skok joined North Bridge Venture Partners in 2002 to seek out great entrepreneurs and lead innovative software investments. Prior to this, Michael had himself been an entrepreneur and CEO in the software business for 21 years. He 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 and Analytics and spanning the Mini Computer, Workstation, PC, Client Server and Internet eras.

As a Venture Capitalist, Michael has backed many great entrepreneurs supporting them to focus on large market changing technologies and disruptive business models such as SaaS, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source and new application areas, such as Social Marketing Automation. As a result, he is currently active on the boards of all his recent investments including Acquia (Professional Drupal Open Source), Active Endpoints (Business Process Management System-BPMS), Akiban (Stealth - Virtual Database for Scale Out/Cloud), Awareness (Social Marketing Automation), Demandware (eCommerce, Marketing and Merchandising on Demand), Lumigent (Applications Governance Risk and Compliance), MyPerfectGig (Automated Contingency Search as a Service), rPath (Datacenter Automation through Automated Release Management) and Unidesk (Desktop Virtualization Management), as well as Actifio (Stealth - Cloud Storage) and REvolution Computing (Commercial Open Source "R").

Previously, Michael has served on many private and public company boards, as well as supported various software industry groups such as Software Publishers Association where he was Chairman for a number of years in Europe. He can be contacted at michael@northbridge.com.

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).