John joined Sigma in 1996. With over 20 years of experience as an
entrepreneur, a business unit manager, and an investor, John uses
motivation, enthusiasm, and his own technology and operational
expertise to support Sigma’s portfolio companies. Throughout his
career, he has held executive management positions, created new
business units and departments, and sponsored new projects at some of
the industry’s most successful technology companies. Pri...
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John joined Sigma in 1996. With over 20 years of experience as an
entrepreneur, a business unit manager, and an investor, John uses
motivation, enthusiasm, and his own technology and operational
expertise to support Sigma’s portfolio companies. Throughout his
career, he has held executive management positions, created new
business units and departments, and sponsored new projects at some of
the industry’s most successful technology companies.
Background
Prior
to Sigma, John was the President & CEO of Vermeer Technologies,
Inc., the developers of FrontPage, the leading Web authoring tool.
Vermeer was acquired by Microsoft, providing Sigma and the other
venture investors a very successful return. Previously, he was an early
principal at SQL Solutions, where he created and led an engineering
organization chartered to build heterogeneous database tools. Following
an acquisition of SQL Solutions by Sybase, he took responsibility for
the new Systems Management Product unit, which he grew to $55 million
in sales in 30 months. Early in his career, John was recruited to
Honeywell, where he worked on a variety of engineering projects in the
areas of communications, operating systems, and unix co-processor
design.
Education
John
is a graduate of Tufts (BSE in Engineering Science and Mathematics) and
Worcester Polytechnic University (MS in Computer Science).
