Jakoba Software

Jon Clemens – Chief Executive Officer
Jon is the founder and CEO of Jakoba. He has a strong background and passion for using technology and processes to help organizations get the most from their workforce. Prior to Jakoba, Jon worked as an executive at Microsoft where he led the product planning and marketing for Microsoft’s Human Resource-focused Microsoft Office Solution Accelerators. While at Microsoft he also led a team whose mission it was to show customers and partners how they could profit from building solutions using Microsoft technologies to solve vertical and functional business problems.

Prior to Microsoft, Jon was CEO and founder of ServiceStop.com which built a multi-city network of deliverable convenience services and offered these to employers, along with a sophisticated billing engine, as an employee retention/rewards tool. Jon has addtional experience as a management consultant with both Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneurial/Mid Market consulting practice (now part of Cap Gemini) and Andersen Consulting (now called Accenture).

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Johan Pellicaan – VP EMEA
Johan is a senior technology industry executive with over 25 years experience. He has held responsibilities in the areas of corporate management and P&L, sales, marketing, business development, alliances & strategic planning. Johan was featured in television programs CNBC, RTL Business Class and many magazines cross the globe.

Johan developed and managed a global field team to introduce and sell Duet, the business process software developed by Microsoft and SAP. During the first year of business, Duet was sold to over 500.000 users across the globe. Simultaneously, he was Director for Microsoft’s OBA business in EMEA.

He was the Founder and Managing Director of ProClarity International operations and member of the Executive team of ProClarity Corporation, ID (USA). As Managing Director of ProClarity International, Johan and his team build and managed from scratch a global organization with 400 partners in 50+ counties. ProClarity now PerformancePoint is the Business Intelligence solution incorporated in SharePoint (MOSS). ProClarity was sold to Microsoft mid 2006.

From 1988 till 1998, Johan was responsible for all sales, marketing and product management activities at Incotec and ICT International. During this period Johan was one of the key forces in Europe driving mobile working (and indirect the PCMCIA industry). He was one of the leading regional drivers who created an initial market for top brands like Intégral, New Media, Option, SanDisk, and many others. In his drive to create a mobile workplace, he landed the largest global deal for the Hewlett-Packard Palmtop PC, selling almost 10.000 units including a custom designed accessory package and network connectivity to the Dutch National Railroad (NS). This double digit million deal was unique at the time given the professional use of the first PDA's.

Johan started his IT career in 1983 at Holco, a Philips Data Systems company.

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Shawn Shell – Chief Technology Officer
Shawn has spent more than sixteen years in the information technology field, and is a recognized expert in the development of solutions based on Microsoft technologies. Shawn is a frequent speaker at national conferences like Microsoft TechEd and the Shared Insights Portals Conference and he is one of the co-authors of "Microsoft Content Management Server 2002: A Complete Guide.".

Shawn started his career at Warner-Lambert Company, now Pfizer, in 1989. During his eleven year tenure with Warner-Lambert, Shawn held various roles including overall responsibility for managing web application development in the Corporate IT group, managing the global intranet, maintaining Warner-Lambert.Com and serving as the technical advisor to the Global Internet Steering Committee.

Following his work with Warner-Lambert Company, Shawn joined Plural, Inc., a technical consulting firm based in New York City’s financial district. Plural specialized in custom software development for financial services firms like Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and AIG. In 2002, Dell, Inc. acquired Plural to create Dell Professional Services. One of the key elements of the Dell strategy for the newly created business unit was to leverage the offerings created by Shawn’s group at Plural. Having helped to establish a strong business offering at the national level, Shawn was asked to help evolve the existing regional delivery model for professional services. As a Practice Executive, Shawn was responsible for managing consulting delivery in 12 states, serving on the management team for the central region and overseeing approximately 50 concurrent professional services engagements. His efforts helped the region to achieve a more than an 80% consultant utilization target, establish trusted delivery partners in key geographies, help to grow regional and improve overall customer satisfaction scores.

In addition to his work at Warner Lambert Company and Dell, Shawn was an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University from 1996 to 1999. As the Chief Technology Officer of Jakoba Software, Shawn sets and is responsible for the technology strategy and implementation of Jakoba’s offerings.

Advisory Board

Mike Nelson
Mike Nelson began serving as an advisor to Jakoba Software in January 2006. Nelson currently holds the position of Chief Operating Officer and Principal for Akona Systems, a privately held consulting services and software company focused on delivering world-class line of business solutions for its customers. Nelson manages the day to day operations for the company including finance, human resources and product development.

Prior to Akona Systems, Nelson held the role of Chief Technology Officer for HouseValues, Inc. (NASDAQ = SOLD). Nelson was the first executive hired at HouseValues and helped lead the company through 5+ years of explosive growth and a very successful initial public offering. Nelson managed all aspects of technology for the company including program management, software engineering and infrastructure. In the period of 2000 – 2005, HouseValues was named the fastest growing private company in Washington State, the fastest growing technology company in Washington State and the ninth fastest growing technology company in North America with a five year growth rate of more than 28,000%.

Prior to HouseValues, Nelson served as Vice President of Technology for Point.com, an online retailer of wireless phones and services plans. At Point.com, Nelson was responsible for all aspects of technology for the company including program management, software development and infrastructure. In 1998, Point.com pioneered the online commerce of wireless phones and services and developed the first online comparison shopping engine still broadly replicated across most internet commerce sites.

Prior to Point.com, Nelson held several technical architecture and development roles at SolutionsIQ and Microsoft Corp. Nelson’s area of technical expertise was in the design and development of operational and executive data warehouse and business intelligence systems.

Brett Bonthron
Brett works for Microsoft in Silicon Valley. At Microsoft, his role is to maintain relationships with Senior Business Executives proving the Business Value of Microsoft solutions. Several of the customers Brett works closely with include HP, Electronic Arts, Informatica, nvidia, ebay, Applied Materials, SanDisk, Xilinx, Yahoo, Google and other Silicon Valley icons. Brett is also a thought leader and frequent speaker inside Microsoft, relied upon for his business analytical and strategic skills. He is also called on frequently to speak to Executive MBAs from University of San Francisco and its international affiliates about Microsoft’s business.

Prior to Microsoft, his professional career focused on management consulting and start-ups. Brett’s management consulting experience includes Accenture, CSC Index, DiamondCluster, and the McKenna Group – focused on building strategic growth agendas with CEOs. In start-ups, Brett has served as CEO, COO, VP of Operations, VP of Business Development, and Partner in four ventures based in the Bay Area and Atlanta. His most recent venture raised $20M in Series A financing and was featured in Forbes Magazine. Brett has authored articles on Corporate Venturing and Innovation.

He holds a Masters of Management from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University; and a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Brett Bonthron is an Adjunct Professor at the USF School of Business and Management. He is also a member of the USF Entrepreneurship Program and a previous judge at the USF International Business Plan Competition.

David Ehrenberg
David Ehrenberg began serving as an advisor to Jakoba Software in July 2006. David Ehrenberg was most recently the CFO for Abound Logic a venture backed FPGA company with offices in California, France and Aremenia. Prior to Abound Logic David was the VP of Finance for Radiant Research in Bellevue, Washington. Radiant Research was a venture backed company with $95M in revenue and 1,000 employees the U.S. In this role, David oversaw the finance and accounting organization and he was responsible for the financial aspects of the sale of the company in two separate transactions.

Prior to Radiant Research David was the Controller for the New Markets group at Microsoft. In this role, David provided financial and business leadership for venture teams within the Microsoft business incubator and he was responsible for finance and business development within the division.

Prior to Microsoft David was at Extreme Networks, a local area networking company, during a period of time that the company was the fastest growing publicly traded company in the country.

David began his career in the Merchant Banking division of Deloitte & Touche working on M&A deals in the retail sector. He has a CPA from the state of New York, an MBA from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from Georgetown University.