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Management

Phillip Merrick, CoFounder and Chairman

Phillip is the founder and managing partner of Bibury Partners, an early-stage technology investment and advisory firm. Previously, Phillip was Chairman and CEO of webMethods, Inc., a leader of business integration software, which he co-founded in 1996 with his wife, Caren DeWitt Merrick. Under his leadership, the company pioneered web services and XML-based software integration technologies, demonstrated the strongest revenue growth of any U.S. software company in the period 1998 through 2002, and achieved the most successful software IPO to date in February of 2000.

Phillip is Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the Wharton School Executive MBA program, is chairman of EnterpriseDB, and serves on the boards of RollStream, the 118 Foundation and Five Talents International, a microfinance and microenterprise development non-profit.

Clint Heiden, CoFounder and CEO

Clint was most recently CEO of The Heiden Group, a highly successful recruiting firm for venture-backed and global technology companies, placing executives into vital leadership and revenue generating roles including CIO, CTO, VP of Sales, and VP of Business Development for hundreds of clients. The Heiden Group also specializes in building national sales teams from the ground up for a number of organizations, ensuring human capital investments drive rapid and profitable growth within companies.

Clint brings over seventeen years of executive experience including a full scope of P&L, finance, HR, sales, marketing, business development and operations management. He has delivered over $8 billion in organic revenue growth for the organizations that he has led. Clint is an expert at assembling high performance sales teams and has orchestrated over fifteen successful integrations for companies such as Cable & Wireless America, Exodus, Qwest, MCI and UUNET.

Douglas Meadows, VP and GM of Operations

As VisualCV’s general manager of operations, Doug oversees all aspects of the business, including product development. Doug has more than 20 years of domestic and international experience in developing and implementing strategic technology initiatives. He is a veteran manager of operations and has a demonstrated capability of moving a startup technology from the research laboratory to the commercial marketplace. Doug has developed numerous go-to-market strategies in his career. While at IBM, he managed the development of core banking software for the rapidly growing Asia-Pacific financial services market. Later, SAIC, the world's largest employee owned company at the time, selected Doug to lead a spinout of a technology business resulting in a significant financial return to the corporation.

Board of Directors

Phillip Merrick

View bio above.

Clint Heiden

View bio above.

Jeff Hunter

As vice president, Corporate Development for Heidrick & Struggles, Jeff manages global M&A for the company. Prior to joining Heidrick & Struggles, Jeff was managing director of Acumen Solutions, Inc., where he led the professional services practice providing strategic and management consulting for information technology, application services and operations divisions for the world’s leading financial services firms. Jeff has more than fifteen years of experience in sales management, business development, operational management, business consulting and solutions design, including positions as director and global head, Business Development, Financial Services Group of Perot Systems Corporation, president and chief information officer of The Olsen Group, a company that specializes in foreign exchange/interest rate money management, research, risk management and trading.

Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly was named CEO of Heidrick & Struggles in September 2006. One of a new generation of global CEOs, Kelly regularly contributes to the public debate on the nature of leadership today, with particular insights into cross cultural subtleties, leveraging technology and social networks. With a decade’s experience in Tokyo, Kelly spent the last 3 years in London running Heidrick & Struggles’ EMEA operations before returning to his native America.

Named “Headhunter of the Year” in 2000 by Finance Intelligence Asia magazine and “One of Asia’s Top Recruiters” four years running by AsiaMoney magazine Kelly has extensive first hand experience in building senior leadership teams for the world’s most successful companies across Asia Pacific and Europe. Kevin’s first book, “CEO: The Low Down on the Top Job”, was published in December 2007.

Gene Riechers

www.VisualCV.com/gene

Gene is recognized as one of the top value-added investors and board members in the Mid-Atlantic region and is currently a general partner of Valhalla Partners. He has over twenty-five years of experience in senior leadership roles at venture capital firms and technology companies. Prior to co-founding Valhalla Partners, Gene was the founder and managing director of FBR Technology Venture Partners ("FBRTVP"). The FBRTVP Funds produced seven IPO's including webMethods, the most successful software IPO in history.

Jack Lewis

Jack, partner with Morrison & Foerster, was named one of America's leading business lawyers in Corporate/M&A. Jack brings more than 30 years' experience helping businesses and entrepreneurs develop effective business strategies, from start-up stage to operation as successful public companies.

Heidi Heiden

A true "inventor of the Internet", Heidi has over 40 years experience in designing, building and selling information systems; including building the largest Internet system; leading Wall Street's move to Internet-based systems; and designing, building and managing the first Internet, the DDN.

Board of Advisors

Louise Kursmark

www.VisualCV.com/louisekursmark
Author, Speaker, Executive Resume Writer, Career Consultant
One of the leading resume-writing experts in the United States, Louise is an authority on a wide range of career and employment issues. She has written nineteen books about resume writing, interviewing, and executive search strategies and has been featured and quoted in countless online, print, and broadcast publications. Her passion is helping people and organizations "tell their story" in a way that is compelling, memorable, and relevant.

Her books include McGraw-Hill's "How to Choose the Right Person for the Right Job Every Time", "Executive's Pocket Guide to ROI Resumes and Job Search", "Cover Letter Magic", and the popular nine-volume, "Expert Resumes" series.

Guy Kawasaki

Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm, a columnist for Forbes.com, and a popular blogger. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. where he was one of the individuals responsible for the success of the Macintosh computer.

Kawasaki is the author of eight books including The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. His latest book is entitled The Art of the Start-the Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything. It reflects his experiences as an evangelist, entrepreneur, investment banker, and venture capitalist.

Kawasaki has a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.