Leadership Team
Stephane Dubois - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Stephane Dubois founded Xignite to pioneer the creation of pure-play packaged financial
web services products. He was among the first entrepreneurs to productize this emerging
technology. Today, Stephane is driving Xignite to become one of the leading players
in the "Web Service Economy".
Prior to Xignite, Stephane was vice president of product marketing at Advent Software,
the leading provider of software solutions to the investment management industry.
During his tenure the company went public, doubled its market share to 45%, and
grew from $20M to $100M in revenue. Stephane was responsible for building a highly
skilled product marketing organization overseeing product and market strategy, market
validation, and positioning for all product lines. His team also developed the industry’s
first institutional account aggregation service for investors and their advisors.
Prior to Advent, Stephane held senior management positions in the product marketing
organizations of Walker Interactive Systems and Oracle Corporation. During the client/server
computing wave, he led teams that developed and marketed financial applications
in areas such as accounting and purchasing over multiple product releases touching
hundreds of corporate customers.
Stephane holds a Master of Science in Management degree from M.I.T. Sloan School
of Management and both M.S. and B.S. degrees in international management from the
MBA Institute in Paris.
Leo Chan - Chief Technology Officer
Leo Chan joined Xignite with over 15 years of experience in delivering enterprise
software to market and 10 years of building scalable internet applications. As an
entrepreneur, Leo had previously founded ConnectedWorld LLC, an enterprise instant
messaging software company, and helped a Silicon Valley venture capital firm build
an internet travel company, Savvio.com, from concept to launch. Prior to building
start-up companies from the ground up, Leo led the database engineering team at
the internet media company Zip2 until the acquisition by AltaVista.
Leo began his career at Oracle where he held engineer and senior management positions
and was part of the team that helped grow UNIX revenue from less than $50 million
to over a billion. He was also instrumental in building the first web-based database
management application and pioneered the award-winning "self-tuning database" concept.
Leo holds a Master of Science in Operations Research degree from M.I.T and a Bachelor's
degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.
Joel York - Chief Marketing Officer
Joel York joined Xignite with 15 years of experience bringing software and software-as-a-service
(SaaS) products to market. Joel has managed global marketing and sales organizations
serving over 50 countries, including local operations in the US, UK, Germany, Israel
and India. His experience ranges from $50 SaaS subscriptions to $5M enterprise deals
and he shares his expertise on SaaS, cloud computing and Web 2.0 business strategy
on his blog at www.chaotic-flow.com.
Prior to Xignite, Joel provided SaaS strategy and marketing consulting services
at Affinitos, where he worked with rapidly growing Web 2.0 clients such as Conduit
and Zendesk. At Conduit, Joel served as interim vice president of marketing and
led the establishment of US operations for the global company. He has held senior
management positions leading the marketing and sales organizations of both startups
and midsize public companies, including Navis, eMind [acquired by Kaplan Financial],
Passlogix and SPSS [NASDAQ:SPSS]. He began his career at Deloitte Consulting.
Joel holds a BS in Physics from Caltech, an MS in Engineering Physics from Cornell
University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Anthony Lee - General Partner, Altos Ventures, and Director
Anthony Lee is a General Partner of Altos Ventures, focusing on investments in the
areas of infrastructure, Internet and enterprise software. Anthony currently serves
as a director of Accelovation,
CrownPeak, Demandbase,
GuardianEdge, and Xignite.
He also serves as a board observer with several other Altos-funded companies.
Before joining Altos Ventures in 2000, Anthony led marketing efforts for three start-up
companies. He served as Vice President of Marketing for Evolve (EVLV, later acquired
by Primavera) where he developed and executed a turnaround strategy that positioned
Evolve as the leading provider of professional service automation (PSA) software
and resulted in a successful IPO. Anthony also served as Vice President of Marketing
for social search pioneer Clip2.com and co-founded Signature Wines, a national distributor
of private-labeled wines. Previously, Anthony was a strategic consultant at McKinsey
& Company, where he worked with clients in the telecommunications and pharmaceuticals
industries.
Anthony serves as a director of the National Association of Investment Companies
(NAIC). He is also a director of Compumentor, the world's largest non-profit distributor
of computer software and hardware and a member of the Board of Trustees of FSC,
a Princeton NJ-based global student organization. He is a founding member of the
Full Circle Fund, a venture philanthropy group, and a charter member of the Pacific
Council of International Policy. Anthony received his MBA from Stanford University
and earned a B.A. in Politics and Economics from Princeton University.
Peter Caswell - CEO, Siperian, and Director
Peter Caswell has been CEO of Siperian since 2006. He brings more than
25 years of experience in the software industry, thirteen of which were with venture-backed,
high-growth enterprise software companies.
Prior to joining Siperian, Mr. Caswell was president and CEO of Advent Software after
serving in a number of executive capacities, including VP Field Operations, SVP
of Sales and Marketing, and chief operating officer. While under his direction,
Advent grew its revenues from $8 million to $200 million while quadrupling its operating
margins. Previously, Mr. Caswell managed sales in the manufacturing and distribution
market segment across Western Europe for MSA before being transferred to the U.S.
to first oversee sales and marketing efforts and then to serve as General Manager
of the West Coast Division. Prior to MSA, Mr. Caswell served at Hogan Systems where
he was responsible for managing Western Europe and the company’s commercial and
wholesale banking business. During his tenure at Hogan Systems, he was credited
for guiding strategic accounts initiatives in domestic banking in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Caswell holds an MBA and an undergraduate degree from Seale Hayne College, Devon,
U.K.
Bob Rees - General Partner, Startup Capital Ventures, and Director
Bob Rees is an experienced venture capitalist with a 20-year track record of forming,
incubating, funding, and growing successful young companies. His background also
includes marketing, sales, and strategic planning positions with two Fortune 500
companies (Mobil and Tenneco).
As a Special Limited Partner of Woodside Fund from 1993 to 1999, Rees built a successful
investment record. Rees and three of his Woodside Fund partners left the firm in
1999 to form Access Venture Partners. As a Managing Director of Access Venture Partners
until 2004, Rees sourced technology deals in Texas, Colorado, and Oklahoma and syndicated
these deals with top-tier venture capitalists in Silicon Valley and elsewhere.
Prior to his venture roles at Woodside Fund and Access Venture Partners, Rees led
the successful diversification of Rees/Source Ventures, Inc., a family-owned oil
and gas business, through creation of a venture capital investment program. In 1987,
he launched the Oklahoma City Innovation Center as Oklahoma's first privately run
business incubator. He also played an active role in helping the state develop its
own entrepreneurial and venture capital initiatives, which culminated in the founding
of the Oklahoma Capital Investment Board (OCIB) and Oklahoma Technology Commercialization
Center (OTCC).
Rees is a board member of QuanTEM Labs and Heartland Homes, two Oklahoma companies
originally incubated by the Oklahoma City Innovation Center.