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• Tyrone F. Pike (CEO)
• Jesper Stroe (CFO)
• Jeff Blair (VP, Engineering)
• L. D. Weller (Vice President, Product Management)
  

Tyrone F. Pike

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Founder, Chairman, President, and CEO

With over 30 years experience in the high-tech sector, Tyrone has held numerous top executive positions in software, software systems integration, and networking infrastructure companies. As founder, CEO and President, Tyrone has led Cemaphore Systems from a traditional enterprise software company to an innovative cloud services vendor. His Web 2.0 experience includes serving as Chairman of the Board for HotOrNot Inc., one of the first social networking companies, which reached 2 million page views per day. As Board Member and Director, he helped to relaunch and take Citrix Systems public, now a member of the NASDAQ 100 and S&P 500 Index. Tyrone's track record includes leading successful startup companies, such as VPNX.com Inc., which was later acquired by InterNAP. As founder and Chairman of LAN Systems, he guided the company's successful product line, then negotiated the sale of LAN Systems' software division to Intel Corporation and its systems integration division to RR Donnelly & Sons. Tyrone's expertise spans across a wide range of domain areas: messaging, archiving, disaster recovery, networking and Web 2.0 services.

 

Jesper Stroe

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Chief Financial Officer

Jesper Stroe has more than 20 years of Financial and Operational management experience in Technology companies, Venture Capital and Investment Banking. Prior to joining Cemaphore Jesper was a co-founder and CFO of Adomo, Inc., a leading Unified Messaging provider, from 1999 to 2007. Prior to that he co-founded TouchWave, Inc. one of the first IP Telephony companies. He was instrumental in brokering and executing the acquisition of TouchWave by Ericsson in 1999. Before he co-founded TouchWave in 1996 he was a partner with Bridge Ventures in Copenhagen, Denmark. He held various management positions in Investment Banking and was also the co-founder of one of Denmark's first independent Asset Management companies.

Jesper Stroe holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration and Finance from Copenhagen Business School.

 

Jeff Blair

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Vice President of Engineering

Jeff has significant engineering experience in enterprise software from productivity applications to application servers, such as email cache and continuity servers. His extensive career experience includes well-known companies such as Novell, Corel, and Citrix Systems. At Citrix Systems, Jeff was the leader of the team which developed the Independent Management Architecture (IMA) for Metaframe XP. Jeff has a proven track record in leading critical technology projects from initial conception to final release, as well as ongoing maintenance and product upgrades.

 

L. D. Weller

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Vice President, Product Management

L.D. has over 25 years experience in companies such as Symantec, Intel, EMC/Legato, PowerQuest, AirSwitch, LANSystems, and Clyde Digital. He has been responsible for defining & launching products in the messaging, storage management, and desktop management marketplaces. L.D. has been involved in standards bodies and industry initiatives, including Wired for Management and WBEM adoption by the Distributed Management Task Force where he was Chairman of the Board. He was part of the product management team that created the LANDesk family of products and contributed to the success of Symantec's hot imaging storage technologies.