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  The Insight Ventures Team: With deep backgrounds as CIO's of Fortune1000 companies and start-up experience, the team at Insight Ventures can help early stage company navigate and understand their ideal customer.
 
Vincent Sosnkowski: Managing Partner
Charles H. Porter: CIO-in-Residence
Nancy Markle: CIO-in-Residence
Eric Dean: CIO-in-Residence
Robert Rubin: CIO-in-Residence
Steve Brilling: CIO-in-Residence
Bradford Sweet: CIO-in-Residence
Vince is a seasoned entrepreneur with several start-ups under his belt. No one knows the challenges facing emerging companies better than he. Vince's background illustrates his leadership abilities that quickly culminate in success. Most recently, Vince was a partner at ProofPoint Ventures where he played a key role in recruiting and managing a board of 70+ Fortune 1000 executives as well as working with the venture community to source the most compelling start-ups. Prior, he served as interim CEO for an early wireless software start-ups. Prior to that, Vince founded a content aggregation and distribution company for the $55 billion sporting goods industry driving partnerships with large manufacturers, internet distribution sources and portals and other large players in the industry.
 
 
Most recently, Porter was the Managing Partner - CTO - Accenture (www.Accenture.com) Technology Infrastructure Services (ATIS). In this Global role, he was responsible for the architecture, technology direction and product definition for Accenture's infrastructure outsourcing practice. Previously, he was the Managing Partner - CIO - Technology Services. In this Global role, he was instrumental to Accenture's embracing low-cost regional (near-shore) and global (off-shore) IT delivery strategies. He was also instrumental in reducing Accenture's internal technology operations cost by over 40% over 3 years - while maintaining employee satisfaction and improving reliability. He was a member of Accenture's Global "Situation Management Committee," "Technology and Outsourcing Executive Committee," and "Outsourcing and Infrastructure Delivery Executive Committee." Porter founded Accenture's network of telecommunications solutions centers (Teleworks®) that provide application development, delivery, and support to Accenture's Communications & High Tech clients. From 1993 to 2000, he led the largest of these centers in San Ramon, California and Madrid, Spain. During his 30 year career with Accenture, he led some of the Firm's largest and most technically complex projects. He often performed the role of Quality Assurance Partner for Accenture's largest, most innovative and complex client engagements. Porter joined Accenture in 1974 , became a partner in 1986, and has lived and worked on six continents serving primarily regulated utilities, communications and high tech clients.

Porter currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Azaleos Corporation and Seattle University's Entrepreneurship Center. Raised in Billings, Montana, Porter graduated from Gonzaga University in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics. In 1974, he received an MBA degree from the University of Michigan. He lives in Seattle with his wife of more than 30 years. Together they have two children employed in recreational equipment and computer games companies. Porter enjoys photography, exotic travel, piloting private aircraft, scuba diving and recreational computing.
Nancy was responsible for Strategy and Change for the Global Technology Organization for Arthur Andersen. She also held the position of Americas Chief Information Officer, with responsibility for meeting the firm's business needs with technology solutions throughout the US, Canada and Latin America. Nancy joined the firm as a Partner in 1998, and is the first person to fulfill the role of Americas CIO, which included technology affecting about 35,000 employees in more than 100 Arthur Andersen offices. With Andersen, Markle has had a measurable impact upon opportunities for the firm's Americas technology leaders and professionals through the implementation of IT strategy and special initiatives such as Growth and Retention of Women (GROW). Nancy's leadership of the GROW initiative in Sarasota was recognized with a national award for work/life integration programs.

Before becoming a member of Andersen's leadership, Ms. Markle held the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for H. F. Ahmanson and its principal subsidiary, Home Savings of America. Reporting to the Chairman, she led the corporation's technology policymaking, planning, strategy, development and implementation. Nancy's prior positions include President of Information Technology Consultants, and Principal with Arthur Young's [now Ernst & Young] consulting practice. From 1976-1985, Ms. Markle held various technology leadership positions, including Chief Information Officer for Georgia Power Company and Fannie Mae. She has also served The Pennsylvania State University as a faculty member, administrator, and researcher.

As founding chairman of the Liberty Alliance (2001 - 2002), Dean fostered the group's understanding that long-term successful identity standards could emerge only at the intersection of near-term consumer, commercial and technical interests. He led the broad, diverse alliance of over 40 companies, including consumer companies, like Sony, GM, Citibank and Vodafone, and technology infrastructure companies, like Sun and HP, to unanimously approve its first round of specifications just nine months after the organization was launched.

Most recently Dean was CIO of United Airlines (2000-2002) where he continued the modernization of one of the largest and oldest legacy systems in the world. In one aspect of that effort, he obtained active support from one of the airline's largest labor unions, and a major investment commitment from a key technology vendor, at a time when the union/management relationship was extremely tense and the airline's financial condition enough to scare off practically any vendor's investment.

Prior to United, Dean spent 20 years with the Andersen organization, where he became CIO of Andersen Worldwide and later Arthur Andersen. His achievements included replacing the legacy environment of 125 Wang systems installed in 80 countries and moving to a more modern infrastructure including Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office and a global intranet that at its peak supported over 150,000 users around the world.

Robert M. Rubin was senior vice president and CIO for Elf Atochem North America, a $2 billion diversified chemical company, where he initiated e-business planning and was responsible for information technology, re-engineering and administrative functions such as payroll and accounts payable.

He has served on information technology advisory boards for the Philadelphia School District, the City of Philadelphia, the American Management Association, the Wharton Business School, CIO magazine, the Philadelphia Police Department and the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania. He was chairman of the latter two boards Mr. Rubin is a past-president of the Society for Information Management (SIM), the 2,700 member international information systems organization. He has served on the IT Advisory Council to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and as a Fellow of the eBusiness Institute at Temple University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of RWD Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: RWDT) and a member of the advisory boards of InformationWeek and ICEX, Inc.

Mr. Rubin has been a frequent speaker at industry conferences and universities, including MIT Sloan, Wharton, and the United States Naval Postgraduate School. He wrote Organizing for Simplicity: The Role of Information Technology, presented at the 1990 Jerusalem Information Technology Conference. In May 1992, CIO magazine published his article on combating complexity. Organizational Simplicity: Reaching Beyond Business Re Engineering was cited as a reference in the summer 1994 Sloan Management Review. In January 2000 Chemicals Specialties published Holding the Lines on IT Talent. His paper The Fourth Generation Offshore Service Provider was published in Effective Executive in December 2001. He is a frequent contributor to both Optimize and InformationWeek.

Steve has over 20 years of executive leadership experience in financial services, holding titles of CEO, COO, CIO, and EVP. Additionally, he has over 10 years of consulting experience, most notably Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Throughout his career, Steve has played significant roles in mergers and acquisitions, alliance formations, new business development, and spokesman for the reinsurance industry. Along with his current consulting practice, Steve has been part of several start-up ventures and is actively involved on six boards, focusing on organizational transformation, market segmentation, and marketing strategies. Additionally, Steve currently serves as Executive in Residence at Seattle University.
Most recently, Bard has been the Senior Partner- Managing Director of Application Services within the Consulting Group of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) with P&L responsibility for application outsourcing services for many clients until he took early retirement in 2002. Brad has been working in Information Technology management for over 35 years and had been with CSC for ten years.

He joined CSC after a dozen years at Wang Laboratories, a $3B computer manufacturer and services provider, where he managed the Worldwide Information Services Organization. Operating in the CIO role he oversaw the growth of the organization from approximately 125 people to over 1200 worldwide. Prior to Wang, Brad worked for the American Optical Corporation(AO), a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Lambert Company(now Pfizer) and departed as the Corporate CIO.


 

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