Management

Sam Cece

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Sam Cece's executive management expertise is the result of over 18 years in enterprise software and systems sales, marketing and operations. Before StrongMail Systems, Mr. Cece joined BEA Systems pre-IPO and held a number of key, world-wide, senior management positions during his tenure including President of the Global Services Division (BEA's largest single P&L); Vice President and General Manager of BEA's WebXpress Division; and Vice President of Worldwide Marketing. Prior to joining BEA, Cece held marketing management positions at Avid Technology, DigiDesign, Pyramid Technology Corporation and Racal-Vadic. Cece holds a B.S. degree from Woodbury University.

Tim McQuillen

Chief Information Officer and Founder

Tim McQuillen most recently managed all technical operations for L90, Inc. Mr. McQuillen successfully directed L90's technical operations and engineering teams for this top-tier advertising network with over $40 million in annual revenue. McQuillen was also responsible for all of the systems and network operations that supported adMonitor™, an email and online marketing application service provider that reached over 65% of all Internet users.

Prior to L90, Mr. McQuillen was Director of Business Development and Marketing for TigerEye Consulting, LLC, an online-based executive technical recruiting firm and Associate Partner of Quest Worldwide, an executive technology staffing company. McQuillen holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin.

Bill Griffin

Chief Financial Officer

As chief financial officer, Bill Griffin manages all finance, administration and human resource activities for StrongMail Systems. Griffin is a respected industry veteran with more than 20 years of senior management experience in public and private accounting. Most recently, Griffin served as CFO of InsWeb Corporation (Nasdaq:INSW), where he was responsible for the executive oversight of accounting, finance, investor relations and treasury. During his 6-year tenure with InsWeb, Griffin helped manage the restructuring of the company to become a profitable and successful online insurance marketplace. Prior to InsWeb, Griffin was executive vice president and co-founder of ZipSend, Inc., an Internet infrastructure company. Previously, as CFO of Inference Corporation (Nasdaq: INFR), Griffin orchestrated private placements and launched the company's initial public offering, which helped transform the small, privately held CRM software company into an international, publicly held organization.

Griffin began his career as a certified public accountant with Ernst & Young, where he developed the firm's Los Angeles-area software industry practice. Griffin holds a BA degree in business economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Bill Wagner

Executive Vice President of Business Operations

As EVP of Business Operations, Bill has overarching responsibility for StrongMail's Marketing, Client Services, Strategy and Product functions. Bill brings 15 years of management, marketing, product and operations experience with enterprise software companies to StrongMail Systems. Prior to joining StrongMail, Bill spent 10 years at BEA Systems in senior management positions where he helped take the company from startup to $1B in revenue. Most recently, Bill was Vice President of Sales Operations at BEA with global responsibility for sales enablement and related projects. Prior to BEA Systems, Bill held management positions with other companies in the technology and aerospace sectors, including Novell, Unix Systems Laboratories and Smiths Industries where he had global product responsibility. Bill earned a BS Degree in Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Matthew W. McLaughlin

Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Matthew McLaughlin is a seasoned sales executive who has consistently outperformed growth targets during a remarkable 15-year career spanning pre-revenue companies and multi-billion organizations. As vice president of worldwide sales, McLaughlin is responsible for StrongMail's global sales strategy and actively manages its distributed sales force.

Prior to StrongMail, McLaughlin served as vice president of worldwide field operations at Azul Systems, where he a built a global sales force and accelerated customer acquisition of numerous marquee brands, including Citi, Credit Suisse, and Goldman Sachs. Previously, McLaughlin served in a number of executive sales positions at BEA Systems, including vice president of global accounts. During his seven-year tenure, he managed and grew the sales and marketing efforts of BEA's largest and most strategic customers. McLaughin was responsible for setting several sales milestones, including 144% year over year license revenue growth. Additionally, as BEA's vice president of Asia Pacific, McLaughlin transformed the region into BEA's most profitable with growth in excess of 300%.

Previously, McLaughlin held senior sales management positions at BackWeb Technologies and Insignia Solutions. McLaughlin holds a BS in economics and finance from Lock Haven University.

Shirish Puranik

Executive Vice President of Engineering and Product

Shirish Puranik has over 16 years experience in the software industry. Most recently, he was with @Road, Inc. where he was a member of the management team that successfully grew the company from a startup to a profitable public company with annual revenues of over $60 million. As Vice President of Software Development, he built the software team in US and India , delivered reliable, scalable web-based software that handled over 3 million transactions per day and delivered key features including web-based mobile location services and real-time wireless messaging capabilities. As Vice President of Pocket Applications, he successfully spearheaded the initiative to expand @Road's applications into the new GPS phone market.

Prior to @Road, Mr. Puranik served for 7 years at Oracle Corporation. As Director of PL/SQL and interMedia Text, he managed development, release engineering, product management and technical marketing, and delivered major customer features and performance improvements. Before joining Oracle, he was a senior software engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation. He holds 2 patents with 2 more in the application process.

Puranik has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay , an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida and an M.S. in Engineering Management from Stanford University.

Paul Conley

Vice President of Client Services

As Vice President of Client Services, Paul Conley leads the customer support, professional services, and education services teams at StrongMail Systems.  Paul is a 20 year veteran of the software industry, with extensive worldwide experience in customer support and software application development.  Most recently, Paul served as Sr. Director of Worldwide Backline Operations at BEA Systems, where he ran an organization responsible for global backline support of BEA's entire product portfolio - an organization consisting of more than 100 engineers in 14 support centers around the world.  During his 7 year tenure with the company, Paul held a series of management positions, through which he transformed the company's ability to proactively support over 15,000 customers worldwide including the majority of the Fortune Global 500.  Prior to BEA, Paul held technical development and management roles at Bell-Northern Research and at TCSI, a consulting firm serving the global telecommunications industry.  Paul holds an Honors degree in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa, Canada.

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