Donny Askin - Chairman and CEO

As Chief Executive Officer, Donny Askin brings over 33 years of executive leadership, operations management, M&A, fundraising, and strategic planning experience to Arigo. Donny has a successful track record in growing best-in-class technology companies in emerging markets and brings a wealth of knowledge and industry know-how. As the founder and CEO of CommercialWare, Inc, the leading provider of cross-channel commerce solutions for retailers, Donny navigated its growth over several decades and orchestrated the successful sale of the company to Micros Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRS). He orchestrated the acquisition of OrderMotion, Inc, a leading provider of e-commerce, on-demand, order and customer management services designed specifically for the small and medium sized merchant. As CEO of OrderMotion, Donny led the financing and growth of this emerging SaaS company.

Matthew Hicks - President

As President, Matt Hicks is responsible for the company's corporate business development and strategic planning initiatives. With over 20 years of strategic development, operations management, investment banking/M&A, and private equity investment experience, Matt helped lead the management buyout of Arigo from its former corporate parent. Prior to joining Arigo, Matt was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and co-founder of Rudder Capital Corporation, Vice President of Business Development for Ambient Corporation, and a founder/seed investor in Amperion, Inc. (a spin-off from Cisco Systems), where he helped raise over $30MM in institutional financing. Earlier in his career, Matt worked for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and for the private equity arm of General Electric (GE Equity), where he was the recipient of the Pinnacle Top Performer Award for professional excellence in the Technology and Telecom Group.

Matt is an active member of many entrepreneurial/venture capital organizations and received his MBA from FW Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College with concentrations in corporate finance and entrepreneurial studies.

Bill Ren - Vice President of Engineering

As Vice President of Engineering, Bill Ren is responsible for the company's product development, delivery, technology, and product strategy. With over 15 years of experience in enterprise software, Bill brings a wide range of product development expertise and engineering execution to his role. Prior to Arigo, Bill led engineering and product development at ClearPoint Metrics, a market leader in enterprise security performance management. Bill co-founded venture-backed software startup mValent (acquired by Oracle), where he established technical direction and built software for managing and monitoring application infrastructures. His diverse career began with BowStreet, a software company specializing in web service applications, as well as IBM and Digital Equipment Corporation.

Bill is the author of multiple US software patents. He holds an MS in Computer Science and an MS in Physics both from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, as well as a BS in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai University.

Nancy Karlson - Vice President of Sales

As Vice President of Sales, Nancy Karlson oversees all Sales at Arigo. For over a decade, Nancy has been working to solve strategic, sourcing, business process issues with leading retailers. Prior to Arigo, Nancy was head of Sales for North America at Eqos, Inc. and led their expansion into the U.S. market, bringing on leading retailers including HE Butt Company and Michael's Stores. Prior to Eqos, Inc., Nancy led the sales effort at start-up, TradeStone Software. Working with leading retailers such as The Children's Place and suppliers to major retailers, such as Pacific Alliance, has enabled her to share leading technology strategies to drive collaborative initiatives within the retail sector. Prior to joining TradeStone, Nancy was with QRS, where she spearheaded the application sales efforts for the company's Sourcing and Event Management products. Nancy joined QRS as part of the RockPort Trade Systems team, a company acquired by QRS in 2000. Nancy's interest in real-time interaction between business parties led her to engage in highly strategic supply chain initiatives taking place at retailers, such as Saks Incorporated, Talbots, Lenox, and American Eagle Outfitters, while at RockPort Trades Systems. Nancy came to the Supply Chain industry after seven successful years selling into major financial institutions at First Call Corporation, a subsidiary of Thomson Financial. She is a graduate of Boston University.

David Burke - Director of Industry Consulting

As Director of Industry Consulting, Dave Burke heads up the Professional Services team. Dave worked in private label and global sourcing for over a decade before putting his experience to use in global sourcing software. Dave's experience in sourcing has become pivotal to implementing built-in, best practice solutions for the Arigo Suite of Sourcing software. Prior to joining Arigo, Dave held positions at Target, Wilsons Leather, and Timberland, where he sourced various categories of apparel, leather goods, and raw materials. He has over seven years experience in working with Arigo STM and has led successful projects for many of Arigo's key customers. Dave's vast experience in enterprise software and sourcing strategy is leveraged by demonstrating to customers and potential customers the value Arigo's software can provide for their global sourcing initiatives. Dave was a founding member of the North American practice for Eqos, Inc., a UK-based global sourcing software company. He is skilled at building professional services teams and defining methodologies for software project implementation. Dave has a B.S. in International Business from Minnesota State University.

Donny Askin - Chairman and CEO

As Chief Executive Officer, Donny Askin brings over 33 years of executive leadership, operations management, M&A, fundraising, and strategic planning experience to Arigo. Donny has a successful track record in growing best-in-class technology companies in emerging markets and brings a wealth of knowledge and industry know-how. As the founder and CEO of CommercialWare, Inc, the leading provider of cross-channel commerce solutions for retailers, Donny navigated its growth over several decades and orchestrated the successful sale of the company to Micros Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRS). He orchestrated the acquisition of OrderMotion, Inc, a leading provider of e-commerce, on-demand, order and customer management services designed specifically for the small and medium sized merchant. As CEO of OrderMotion, Donny led the financing and growth of this emerging SaaS company.

Matthew Hicks - President

As President, Matt Hicks is responsible for the company's corporate business development and strategic planning initiatives. With over 20 years of strategic development, operations management, investment banking/M&A, and private equity investment experience, Matt helped lead the management buyout of Arigo from its former corporate parent. Prior to joining Arigo, Matt was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and co-founder of Rudder Capital Corporation, Vice President of Business Development for Ambient Corporation, and a founder/seed investor in Amperion, Inc. (a spin-off from Cisco Systems), where he helped raise over $30MM in institutional financing. Earlier in his career, Matt worked for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and for the private equity arm of General Electric (GE Equity), where he was the recipient of the Pinnacle Top Performer Award for professional excellence in the Technology and Telecom Group.

Matt is an active member of many entrepreneurial/venture capital organizations and received his MBA from FW Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College with concentrations in corporate finance and entrepreneurial studies.

Edward C. Williams, III - Brook Venture Partners

Ned Williams has spent a total of 20 years in private equity investing and has been responsible for dozens of rounds of financing in both early and expansion companies. Ned joined Brook Venture Partners in 1999 as a General Partner and a member of the fund's Investment Committee. He is an active investor and serves on several of Brook's portfolio company board of directors in both medical and information technology. Ned is a steering committee member of The Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center, which offers inventors and executives of the state's smaller medical device company's easy, affordable, and coordinated access to world-class researchers and resources. Ned is also an active member of the Executive Committee of the Northeast Regional Association of Small Business Investment Companies. Prior to joining Brook, Ned was a Managing Director at Saturn Asset Management, a Boston-based private equity firm. He was involved with all aspects of the firm's investment activities, including leading the financing on both Constant Contact (CTCT) and FreeMarkets Online, which closed on its first day of trading with a market capitalization in excess of 10 Billion Dollars. Earlier in his career he was with Morgan Stanley in New York City, where he was involved with over 25 Initial Public Offerings, including the Netscape IPO as well as the spinout of Lucent Technologies from AT&T.

Jack Kiefer - CEO, Baby Age.Com, Inc.

Prior to co-founding BabyAge.com, Jack Kiefer was responsible for building the first Fixed Income Trading Intranet for Bank of America Securities as the Vice President of Corporate Securities Trading. Preceding his tenure with the Bank, Jack was the CTO for iBaby.com, the first e-commerce initiative for iVillage. Jack designed and managed the development of the entire e-commerce system for iBaby. The most notable segments of the system included advanced merchandising, tools, and complete inventory management. Before becoming involved with the iBaby business Jack managed the development of a sophisticated chat system, which included collaborative filtering, a recommendations system, and iVillages' first member registration system. As Director of Production and Design, Jack was the 5th employee hired to develop the Comcast@Home business. He was responsible for designing and building a local content publishing system, as well as working to hire and develop local regions of the business as it rolled out. Higher Education and Educational Institutions have always been a passion for Jack. He served as Assistant Dean of Students for Drexel University and was actively involved with developing a co-curricular transcript to fully document student involvement in all non-educational aspects of the University. Jack received his undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering and his MBA (entrepreneurial management/small business consulting) from Drexel University.