Operating Partner
Operating Partner
Erik Akopiantz is an Operating Partner at Thoma Bravo. He brings a combination of entrepreneurial, operational, strategic and transaction expertise across a variety of industries spanning start-ups to Fortune 500 organizations. Erik's prior experience includes serving as a Board member for Bomgar, Operating Advisor for GHX, SailPoint and DigiCert, Chief Financial Officer for Roadnet Technologies, Inc., Chief Operating Officer for Paranet Solutions, LLC, CEO for Digital Reach, and various finance positions for The SABRE Group. He earned an MBA from Rice University and a BS degree in Finance from the University of Vermont.
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Senior Operating Partner
Senior Operating Partner
Marcel Bernard is a Senior Operating Partner at Thoma Bravo. He has more than 40 years of business operating experience, primarily with companies in the technology industry. Most recently, he was Corporate Vice President, Operations of Geac Computer Corporation, a performance management software company, where he was responsible for the management and overall performance of several business units located in North America, Europe and the United Kingdom, representing $250 million in revenues. Previously, Marcel was Senior Vice President, Ontario Division, of St. Lawrence Cement, where he was responsible for the management of all Ontario business units, representing over $400 million in revenues. Marcel was also President and CEO of SaskTel, Saskatchewan’s largest phone company with $600 million in revenues and over 4,200 employees. He also held various positions with Motorola Corporation, most notably as President of Motorola Canada. He has been on the board of directors, in some cases serving as Chairman, of many of Thoma Bravo’s Software portfolio companies.
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Operating Partner
Operating Partner
Tom Clark is an Operating Partner at Thoma Bravo. He has more than 20 years of experience as a financial and operating executive across a variety of industries. Tom is recognized consistently by all levels of the organization as a goal-oriented leader with a proven ability to influence corporate results by instilling accountability and providing strategic, operational and financial insight. Before becoming an Operating Partner at Thoma Bravo, he was CFO of IDaptive, LLC (a Thoma Bravo portfolio company), Ayla Networks Inc., Openwave Messaging, Inc. and CollabNet, Inc. Additionally, Tom was an Operating Director for Marlin Equity Partners, where he provided financial diligence expertise for enterprise software acquisitions and provided financial and operational guidance to Marlin owned companies. Tom has extensive experience with buy-side, sell-side, carve-outs, and distressed situations. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of California and earned his BS degree from Saint Mary's College of California.
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Operating Advisor
Operating Advisor
Steve Cochran is an Operating Advisor at Thoma Bravo. Steve has more than 30 years of experience leading technology transformation and operational excellence at companies such as Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), OpenText/GXS, Inovis, Adaptec, Real3D, Lockheed Martin and General Electric. Steve most recently was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at GHX, a former Thoma Bravo portfolio company subsequently sold to Temasek. During his tenure at GHX, he created the strategy, architected, led development and migrated the company's core asset and customers to the AWS public cloud profoundly transforming the company. At OpenText/GXS, Steve was the VP of Product Management leading the transformation of their global B2B exchange for retail and automotive markets. As CTO at Inovis, he led the transformation of their B2B exchange. Steve also led the development of the initial generations of 3D graphic controllers at Real3D and led development of products for the RAID storage industry as a division vice president at Adaptec. Steve started his career with GE/Lockheed Martin designing submarine and shipboard systems. Steve has an MBA from Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College and a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kentucky.
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Operating Advisor
Operating Advisor
Cindy Crane is an Operating Advisor for Thoma Bravo, where she provides financial management, reporting and operations support to the firm's portfolio companies. She has 25 years of finance experience focused on optimizing performance, profitability and operational effectiveness in private and public technology companies. She most recently served as the business unit controller for Security Products at Dell for three years. For the prior eight years, Cindy was the vice president of FP&A for SonicWALL, a network security company. SonicWALL was a Thoma Bravo portfolio company from 2010-2012 and subsequently sold to Dell. Cindy earned her MBA from Santa Clara University and BA degree in Quantitative Economics and Decision Sciences from UC San Diego.
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Operating Advisor
Operating Advisor
Tom Davis brings more than 25 years of experience in technology and enterprise software. During his career, he has served in a variety of positions including quality assurance, software development, engineering management, product management, architecture, CTO and CEO. Notably he orchestrated several engineering turn-arounds and managed both large strategic acquisitions as well as small tech tuck-ins, with a focus on creating enterprise value growth. Tom served as CTO of Ivanti, CEO of mobile startup Celio, Chief Platform Architect at Avocent, EVP of Research and Development at LANDESK, and CTO of the software and services division at Intel. Tom has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University and continued his education at Westminster College and Cal Berkley. He served in the United States Air Force and graduated with honors in the top 10% of his class.
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Operating Partner
Operating Partner
Vito Giuliani is an Operating Partner at Thoma Bravo. He has a wide range of experience with both INC and Fortune 250 companies.
Vito’s negotiation creativity and operational experiences contributed to past successes in data center consolidation, headquarters office complex construction, multi-national procurement organizations, delivering annual cost reductions, and consistently meeting deadlines and exceeding budget targets. Vito most recently served as Chief Procurement Officer at ADP, where he managed the worldwide Purchasing, Real Estate and Facilities Organizations. Vito also served as a Trustee of the ADP Foundation and sat on the Supplier Diversity Council, the ADP Social Responsibility Council, and Risk Committee. Before ADP, he held similar positions at GE Capital Corporation and PaineWebber, Inc.
Vito holds a BS degree in Accounting from Iona College and has attended Wharton’s School of Business for executive education.
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Operating Partner
Operating Partner
Charles Goodman is an Operating Partner at Thoma Bravo. Charles has more than 30 years of experience building profitable businesses. Most recently he served as CEO of PowerPlan, a Thoma Bravo portfolio company that sold to Roper Technologies in 2018. Prior to joining PowerPlan in 2015, Charles was CEO of P2 Energy Solutions. As CEO, he executed multiple market strategies and led three acquisitions to expand the solution portfolio from the back office into operations, while steadily growing P2’s presence across the globe. At Ventyx, he served as COO and was instrumental in developing new global markets across six continents. In addition to helping companies expand, Charles has a passion for transforming organizations by focusing on employee culture and the customer experience. During his tenure at Atmos Energy, where he was EVP, Corporate Operations, he experienced first-hand how these factors influenced the company’s success. Charles graduated from Texas Tech University with a BS degree in Engineering.
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Operating Partner
Operating Partner
James (Jim) Hagan is an Operating Partner at Thoma Bravo. Jim brings more than 20 years of experience in helping public and private equity-backed software companies grow and scale. He currently is the CFO at MedeAnalytics, a Thoma Bravo portfolio company where he has served since 2016. Jim's prior experience includes various management roles, including COO, CFO and interim-CEO at Forcepoint, a global cybersecurity company where he oversaw revenue growth from $365 million to $580 million. Before Forcepoint, he served in various finance roles at Websense and Fair Isaac (FICO), and he worked in both the Industrial and Global Financial Sponsors groups at Lehman Brothers. Jim earned his MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and his BA degree in Economics from UC San Diego.
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Operating Partner
Operating Partner
Operating Advisor
Operating Advisor
John Kim is an Operating Advisor at Thoma Bravo, where he provides financial planning, analysis and reporting support to the portfolio companies and financial due diligence guidance to the companies’ board of directors. He is a seasoned finance and treasury professional, with more than 25 years of experience in various financial and engineering leadership capacities. John spent the first six years of his career as an engineer at Honeywell, where he transitioned into finance. He worked at global technology companies such as Autodesk, UTStarcom, Keynote Systems and Embarcadero Technologies in a finance capacity and most recently as vice president of finance and treasurer for Digital Insight Corporation, which was acquired from Intuit and subsequently sold to NCR by Thoma Bravo. John has an MBA degree from the University of Southern California and BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Senior Operating Partner
Senior Operating Partner
James (Jim) K. Lines is a Senior Operating Partner at Thoma Bravo. Jim is Chief Executive Officer of Lines Consulting Group and has provided advisory services to Thoma Bravo and its predecessor firms for more than 10 years. He previously was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of United Surgical Partners International, Inc., a private equity sponsored operator of surgery centers and hospitals, and Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ITI Marketing Services, a tele-services firm backed by GTCR. Jim’s background also includes 12 years in various financial management capacities at affiliates of AMR Corporation (American Airlines), during which he served as Director-Corporate Finance, Managing Director-Corporate Development, and Chief Financial Officer of The SABRE Group, a global electronic travel distributor with $1.5 billion in revenue. Jim has served as a director and/or acting CFO of a number of Thoma Bravo portfolio companies.
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Operating Advisor
Operating Advisor
Steve Man is an Operating Advisor at Thoma Bravo. Prior to assuming this role in 2019, Steve held leadership positions in two Thoma Bravo portfolio companies and was responsible for implementing best practices and value creation activities guided by the Board of Directors. His roles included Vice President of Finance at MedeAnalytics and Director of Finance at Roadnet Technologies. Outside of his Thoma Bravo tenure, Steve was a technology investment banker at Jefferies and a graduate of Capital One’s Finance Rotation Program. Steve earned his MBA from Rice University and BA degree in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Operating Partner
Operating Partner
G. William (Bill) McKinzie is an Operating Partner at Thoma Bravo. Bill is the former President & CEO of Manatron Inc., which was a Thoma Bravo portfolio company during his tenure in that position and subsequently was sold to Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI), a global information services company. He joined Manatron Inc. in 2002 and focused on improvements in product management, including marketing, support, pricing and strategy, which played an important role in Manatron becoming a leading provider of integrated, enterprise-level property tax solutions for state and local governments. Prior to joining Manatron, Bill was Vice President of Information Services for Kellogg Company's International operations, based in Battle Creek, Michigan, and, before that, Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Kellogg's European operations based in the United Kingdom and its Latin American operations based in Mexico. Bill has a MBA degree in Finance from Loyola University of Chicago and a BS degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Bowling Green State University.
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Senior Operating Partner
Senior Operating Partner
David Murphy is a Senior Operating Partner at Thoma Bravo. Dave has more than 30 years of experience in driving market expansion, revenue growth and operational excellence at companies such as Blue Coat, IBM Tivoli, HP and Mercury Interactive. He is the former President and COO of Blue Coat, which was a Thoma Bravo portfolio company during his tenure in that position and subsequently was sold to Bain Capital. During his time at Blue Coat, Dave was instrumental in developing the company’s focused security and acquisition strategy. Prior to Blue Coat, he was senior vice president for HP’s LaserJet and Enterprise Solutions business unit within the company’s Imaging and Printing Group (IPG). He joined HP through its acquisition of Mercury Interactive, where he was chief financial officer. Prior to that, Dave was president and general manager of IBM Tivoli. He also served as CEO at Asera and as partner at McKinsey & Company. Dave has a MSEE degree from Florida Atlantic University, an MBA degree from Stanford University, and a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Louisville.
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Operating Partner
Operating Partner
Kristin Nimsger is an Operating Partner at Thoma Bravo. She has more than 20 years of experience driving outsized growth in software and technology companies. Kristin was President of Kroll Ontrack, where she ran the business from start-up to more than $200M in seven years. Kroll Ontrack operated in 23 countries with 1500+ employees, and the company was sold to Providence Equity Partners in 2010. Additionally, she was General Manager of the litigation software division of Thomson Reuters. Kristin also served as CEO of two Vista Equity Partners portfolio companies: MicroEdge, which was sold to publicly traded Blackbaud (Nasdaq: BLKB in 2014), and Social Solutions Global. During her time with Social Solutions, Kristin led the negotiation of and partnership with Ballmer Group, which included a $59M investment from former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who joined the company's Board of Directors. Before joining Thoma Bravo, she most recently served as a Senior Advisor, Private Equity to Vista Equity Partners. Kristin has a BA from the University of Minnesota, a Juris Doctorate from William Mitchell College of Law, and a Certificate in Management and Leadership from MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Operating Advisor
Operating Advisor
Richard Northing is an Operating Advisor at Thoma Bravo. He has more than 21 years of experience in the technology industry, with a focus on the delivery of software and services to Fortune 1000 companies. Previously he served as SVP of Products & Services for Flexera Software, where he had worldwide responsibility for all product development, professional services delivery, and technical account management. He previously led Global Services at Macrovision. Before joining Macrovision, he spent eight years at Intraware where he established a world-class customer engagement model in a SaaS environment while serving as VP of Technology Operations and Chief Operating Officer. Richard spent the first 10 years of his career in various engineering, engineering management, and consulting positions at EDS and Accenture. Richard has a Bachelor of Sciences (First Class, with honors) degree from the University of Liverpool and a PhD from the University of Oxford in the UK.
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Operating Partner
Operating Partner
Robert D. Selvi is an Operating Partner at Thoma Bravo. Rob is a veteran Silicon Valley operating executive, advisor and investor. He most recently served as CFO of Dell Software following its 2012 acquisition of SonicWALL (a Thoma Bravo portfolio company at the time of its acquisition), where he had been the CFO/COO and a member of the board of directors. Prior to SonicWALL, he was the CFO of Kontiki, Artisan Components, Cooper & Chyan Technology and Claris (Apple’s software subsidiary), and earlier held senior management positions at Apple. Rob received both an MBA degree and a BS degree in Commerce from Santa Clara University.
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Operating Advisor
Operating Advisor
Don Siegel is an Operating Advisor for Thoma Bravo, where he provides financial planning, analysis and reporting support to the firm's portfolio companies. Based in Chicago, he joined the firm in 2015 and most recently served as the Vice President of Portfolio Analysis. Don joined Thoma Bravo from City Capital Advisors, where he was an Investment Banking Analyst, working on mergers and acquisitions and valuation analysis. Prior to City Capital, he was a Transactions and Restructuring Associate at KPMG, performing financial due diligence and quality of earnings analysis for both Private Equity and Strategic buyers. Don is a CPA, and he graduated from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University with an MBA in Financial Analysis and BS degrees in Accounting and Finance.
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Operating Advisor
Operating Advisor
Dan Smoot is an Operating Advisor at Thoma Bravo. He brings more than 30 years of experience in leadership roles driving revenue growth and operations excellence at some of the world's top technology companies. Dan was appointed President and CEO of Riverbed Technology in June 2021. Prior to taking on the CEO role, he was the Chief Operating Officer for Riverbed, where he led the company's Worldwide Sales, Channels and Alliances, Sales Operations, and Customer Experience teams. As a strategic Operating Advisor at Thoma Bravo, Dan helps portfolio companies achieve operational execution in sales, partner ecosystems and customer success with simplicity and focus. Previously he served as Executive Vice President of Global Partner Sales at Salesforce, managing the worldwide partner sales organization and as Executive Vice President of Market Readiness at Salesforce, where he created a global organization to deliver critical go-to-market operations. Dan has also worked at VMware as Senior Vice President of Global Customer Operations, overseeing advanced technology sales, global services, renewals, global channels and alliances, OEM / ISV sales, and go-to-market strategy. Before VMware, he spent more than 12 years in a variety of senior leadership roles at Cisco. Dan holds a BA degree in Environmental Science from the University of California, Irvine.
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Operating Advisor
Operating Advisor
Adam Thier is an Operating Advisor at Thoma Bravo. He is a senior software engineering executive with an exceptional track record at multiple startups and SaaS leaders, as well as at one of the world's largest software companies. Adam attributes his success to his passion for great design and an understanding of human/computer interaction. He spent several years as the SAP executive sponsor of the Hasso Plattner D.School at Stanford University, where he coached teams of graduate students on design-thinking projects.
Most recently, Adam was Head of Applications at Vianai, which focuses on building a platform that removes the technical and expertise barriers so regular business users can understand and apply the advantages of AI/ML in their operations. Before Vianai, he was Chief Technology Officer at Avetta. While there, he was awarded the CXO of the Year award from Utah Business Magazine for his work in helping change how millions of tradespeople interact with technology and reduced their accident and fatality rates by over 75%. Before Avetta, he was EVP of Engineering for the SaaS business line at Keynote Systems, which was acquired by Dynatrace, a Thoma Bravo company. Prior to that, Adam spent seven years in executive leadership positions at SAP, including SVP of Engineering and Chief Architect, where he worked directly with the company's global customers on a variety of technology programs. Before SAP, he was SVP Application Development at Hyperion. Adam has a BA degree in Communication Arts from Marist College.
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Operating Partner
Operating Partner
Nicolaas Vlok is an Operating Partner at Thoma Bravo. He is an experienced software CEO and Board Member. Nicolaas holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Pretoria.
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Operating Partner
Operating Partner
David Weiss is an Operating Partner at Thoma Bravo. David is a seasoned executive with over 25 years in the software business. From 2002 until 2011, he served as President and CEO of Numara Software, Inc. (formerly Blue Ocean Software), where he led the company to significant growth through product and market expansion. Prior to Numara, David served as vice president of worldwide marketing for Citrix Systems, Inc. during its rapid expansion from a small, private company to a global leader in remote access software solutions. He also was part of the founding team of a VC-funded software company in the late 1990s, and he spent seven years at Lotus and five years at IBM in various sales, marketing and technical positions. Dave has BS degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Duke University.
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Operating Partner
Operating Partner
Paul Zuber is an Operating Partner at Thoma Bravo. He brings 25 years of experience in founding and growing successful global technology companies. Paul currently serves as Chairman at Elemica, Inc., Continuum Managed Services, and MeridianLink, and holds Board positions at Dynatrace, LogRhythm, Inc., MedeAnalytics, Inc., Imprivata, Inc., Kofax, Empirix, Barracuda Networks, Inc., Frontline Education, and ABC Financial. He is a former board member of Telestream, Keynote, PowerPlan, Mediware, Landesk/Ivanti, Embarcadero, GHX, and SRS Software LLC.
Prior to Thoma Bravo, Paul was the founding CEO of Dilithium Networks, a global leader in mobile video infrastructure solutions. The company was acquired by OnMobile (NYSE:ONMOBILE). He also was a co-founder and CEO of Bluegum Group, growing the EMS company to $500M in revenue before its acquisition by Solectron. Paul also held a variety of senior management positions at the embedded systems software company Ready Systems, including VP of Operations, CFO and VP of Global Support Services before its acquisition by Mentor Graphics. Before joining Ready Systems, Paul founded JGC and as CEO, led the microcomputer-based CAD and CAE solutions provider into market leadership before a private investment group acquired it. He began his career as a management consultant with Bain & Company, where he was a founding member of the team that became the private equity group (Bain Capital).
Paul received the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer Award on behalf of Dilithium Networks in Davos in 2010. He is a member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and is a guest lecturer at the Iovine and Young Academy at USC. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University with BA degrees in both International Relations and Economics. Paul also holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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