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 grew 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.

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 two Oklahoma companies originally incubated by the Oklahoma City Innovation Center.