Team

Matthew Roche..................................... Chief Executive Officer
Michael Bigby........................................ Chief Technology Officer
Angela Bandlow ................................. Vice President of Marketing
Nicholas Einstein ............................... Vice President of Professional Services
Lisa Haugh ........................................ General Counsel

Board

Jim Barnett............................. Shasta Ventures
Jeffrey M. Crowe ..................... Norwest Venture Partners
Chris Moore ............................ Redpoint Ventures
Evangelos Simoudis ................ Trident Capital
Brad Klaus ............................. Board Member

Team

 

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Matthew Roche
Chief Executive Officer

A seasoned entrepreneur and executive, Matt leads Extole in strategy and direction. Prior to Extole, Matt was the Co-CEO and president of Boltnet. Before that, Matt was the founder and CEO of Offermatica, the highest-volume landing page optimization and testing platform on the Web, and one of the first SaaS marketing platforms.  Acquired by Omniture in 2007, it is now known as Adobe Test and Target and serves billions of optimized experiences every week. In addition to that, Matt was instrumental in the development of Dapper, a leader in Dynamic Creative Optimization, which was subsequently acquired by Yahoo!. In 1996, he co-founded Fort Point Partners, an e-commerce systems integrator. Matt brings more than 15 years of experience in Web and Online Marketing and holds a Bachelor's Degree from Yale University.

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Michael Bigby
Chief Technology Officer

Michael is responsible for Extole's technology group, insuring that the company's ability to develop and scale products matches its business opportunities. Before Extole, Michael was a founder and spent four years as the CTO at BlueKai, the largest online data marketplace with behavioral targeting data on over 300MM users. In addition, Michael has served in roles in the Platform and Advertising groups and was the first software engineer at Broadcast.com. He studied Computer Science and graduated with a B.S. from Texas A&M University.

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Angela Bandlow
Vice President of Marketing

Angela is responsible for Extole's marketing strategy, including brand management, corporate marketing, demand generation, and product marketing. Angela brings more than 20 years of experience in enterprise and SaaS software, driving successful market and product strategies. She has held marketing leadership positions at multiple CRM and e-commerce software companies, including WideOrbit, MarketLive, SAP Software, and Allegis. Most recently, Angela was the Chief Marketing Officer for Lavante, a leading provider of SaaS Supplier Management solutions. Angela holds a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles.

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Nicholas Einstein
Vice President of Professional Services

Nick manages Extole's creative, implementation, customer success, and business development teams, and focuses on building extraordinary social marketing programs for Extole's clients. Before joining Extole, he was VP of Strategic Services & Deliverability for PulsePoint, where he worked with many of America's top brands to develop innovative digital marketing campaigns. He is a MarketingSherpa award winner and frequently speaks at industry events such as ad:tech, DMA, OMMA, MarketingProfs, EEC, EIS, and others. Nick received his BA in Anthropology & Sociology from Kenyon College and his MBA from The University of Washington.

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Lisa Haugh
Vice President of HR and Administration, General Counsel

Lisa oversees all aspects of Extole's legal matters. She comes to Extole from Livescribe where she was the Associate General Counsel. Previously, Lisa served as General Counsel of Intraware, a software-as-a-service company, and Assistant General Counsel at OpenTV, an interactive television company, both of which were publicly traded. Lisa received her law degree from Santa Clara University School of Law and has a B.A. degree in Political Science/International Relations from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Board

Jim Barnett
Shasta Ventures

Jim is a partner at Shasta Ventures. He has been a highly successful serial CEO and entrepreneur. Jim is currently chairman and co-founder of Turn Inc., and chairman of Extole and Sojern, and a board member of RelayRides. From 2004 to 2009, Jim was CEO, chairman and co-founder of Turn, the leading platform for managing data driven digital advertising. Before that, he was president of Overture Search, a division of Overture Services, Inc. Jim joined Overture via its acquisition of AltaVista Company, where he was president and CEO. In this role, he led the company's highly successful turnaround and sale to Overture.

Jim was also president of Ancestry.com (MyFamily.com), and president and CEO of ThirdAge Media, which was acquired by Ancestry.com. Prior to that, Jim was president and CEO of Infogrammes North America, a leading global publisher of video games and entertainment software. He was also chairman, president and CEO of Accolade Inc, Infogrammes' predecessor company, and prior to that was chief operating officer of an "Inc. 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies."

Jim has served on the boards of many private and public companies including SideStep, Inc. where he was chairman and Petco where he was an early investor. Jim received a bachelor's degree, MBA and J.D. from Stanford University.


Jeffrey M. Crowe
Norwest Venture Partners

Jeff joined Norwest Venture Partners in 2004 and focuses on investments in the internet, consumer, and software arenas. He currently serves on the boards of AdChina, All Reach Media, Badgeville, deCarta, Extole, InfoArmy, Lending Club, Nano-Tex, RetailMeNot, Snapfinger, SocialVibe, The Echo Nest and Turn. He is also involved with Lashou. Jeff’s past investments include Admeld (acquired by Google), Jigsaw (acquired bySalesforce.com), Tuvox (acquired by West Interactive), and he was a board observer at Cast Iron Systems (acquired by IBM).

Prior to Norwest, Jeff served as President, COO and board member of DoveBid, Inc., a privately held business auction firm, which expanded during his tenure via internal growth and acquisition from a $10M revenue run rate to a $120M revenue run rate with 400 employees. 

From 1990 to 1999, Jeff was co-founder, President, CEO and Board member of Edify Corporation, a venture backed enterprise software company focused on voice and internet e-commerce platforms and applications. Jeff was responsible for all strategic and operational activities at Edify as the company went from start-up in 1990 to $80M in revenue and 400 employees. Edify held its IPO in 1996 and was sold to S1 Corporation in 1999. 

Previously, Jeff worked at ROLM Corporation, IBM and Siemens in marketing and general management. Jeff led the marketing for the voice messaging division within ROLM, which grew from startup to $50M in revenue. 

Jeff is on the Management Board of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and is on the Executive Committee of the Association of Alumni at Dartmouth. He is also chairman of the board of Hand in Hand Parenting, a non-profit organization focused on strengthening families, and is past chairman of the board of Theatreworks. 

Jeff holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a BA in History, summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College.


Chris Moore
Redpoint Ventures

Chris Moore is a Partner with Redpoint Ventures focusing on consumer Internet, online marketing and business services opportunities. Prior to joining Redpoint, Chris evaluated Internet opportunities for IVP, a firm he joined in 1999. He currently serves on the board of directors of Auditude, Efficient Frontier, BlueKai, eBureau, Inadco and Vuze. Chris also led Redpoint's investment in Right Media (acquired by Yahoo!) and was actively involved with Redpoint's investment in MySpace.

Prior to joining IVP, Chris led business development efforts for wine.com, the online wine retailer, and held various product management positions with Peapod, the pioneering online grocery shopping service provider. Previously, Chris evaluated and executed Internet and media investments for Ameritech. He began his career as a financial analyst in the mergers and acquisitions and leveraged buyout groups of Wasserstein Perella & Co. Chris holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.


Evangelos Simoudis
Trident Capital

Evangelos Simoudis is a Sr. Managing Director of Trident Capital. Evangelos joined Trident in 2005 and focuses on investments in Internet and software businesses.

Prior to Trident, Evangelos spent 5 years as a partner at Apax Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm where he invested and served on the boards of early and mid-stage IT companies. At Apax he also chaired the firm's IT advisory board.

Evangelos' current directorships include Extole, Host Analytics, Infopia and PivotLink Software. Prior directorships include Bristol Technology (acquired by Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ)), Composite Software, Confluent Software (acquired by Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL)), DesiHits, Hip Digital, Princeton Softech (acquired by IBM) and Vidavee (acquired by Vignette (NASDAQ: VIGN)). Evangelos earned a PhD in computer science from Brandeis University and a BS in electrical engineering from Caltech.

 

Brad Klaus
Board Member & Founder

Before founding Extole, Brad was founder and CEO of next-generation direct response leader Syndero. Earlier, Brad was Vice President of Sales at Qualys, Inc., and held management positions at leading SaaS providers, such as DemandTec, Siebel Systems and Raima Corporation. He serves on the Board of Directors of Syndero and the Electronic Retailing Association, and holds B.S. degrees in Integrative Biology and Economics from the University of California at Berkeley