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).

Contact Jon

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.

Tim Ritchie
Tim brings a unique mix of 20-years of sales, marketing and tactical project delivery experience to Jakoba. Most recently, as the top sales performer at a 1,000 person Seattle-area wireless services firm, Wireless Data Services. While there Tim closed a number of multi-million dollar deals that helped his firm move in new directions and fund global growth. Prior to Wireless Data Services, Tim spent five years successfully leading product management, consulting, channel, and sales teams for a Seattle-area mainframe software manufacturer. Tim also served as Marketing Director for a Professional Services firm, where he led re-branding and demand generation efforts resulting in doubled revenues, diversified service offerings, and a broader customer base.

Dan Campi
Dan has spent his entire professional career of 24 years in the computer software industry. He has held in various sales, sales management, business development, corporate development and senior management roles, as a CEO and board member.

Notably, Dan rose to Senior Director of North America Sales during his 7 plus years at Adobe. He was President & CEO of web-based file sharing company Punch Networks during the late 90’s and most recently spent over 4 years as VP Business & Corporate Development at Captaris, Inc.

Dan is now an independent Business Development executive based in Bellevue, WA, specializing in helping emerging and established companies develop strategic distribution and reselling partnerships, go-to-market strategies, exploration and pursuit of new markets and new revenue streams, as well as strategic merger and acquisition analysis.

David Ehrenberg
David Ehrenberg began serving as an advisor to Jakoba Software in July 2006. Ehrenberg is currently the Vice President, Finance and Corporate Controller for Radiant Research in Bellevue, Washington. Radiant Research is a venture backed company with over $95M in revenue and 40 sites across the U.S. In this role he oversees the finance and accounting organization and is very involved in buy- and sell-side M&A deals.

Prior to joining Radiant Research David was the Corporate Controller at ClearPoint Holdings. ClearPoint Holdings is a privately owned partnership that owns four international businesses within the insurance industry. In addition to overseeing the finance and accounting organization David was responsible for obtaining new financing for the partnership.

Prior to ClearPoint Holdings David ran a finance group that supported a product team at Microsoft. In this role David was responsible for developing business plans for new Microsoft ventures, projecting revenue on new products, determining pricing models and creating the annual budget for the organization.

Prior to Microsoft David was at Extreme Networks, a local area networking company that was the fastest growing publicly traded company for the three years ending in 2002. In David’s first two years at Extreme Networks David was responsible for all product pricing and revenue projections for the company. In his last year at Extreme Networks David was responsible for both the Education and Healthcare market segments.

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.

Dave Hayden
David Hayden has over 30 years of experience in sales, marketing, operations and general management in technology-based businesses. Most recently, he has been engaged as an operations consultant for Ekaria, LLP, an operator of specialty retail web sites.

Prior to his consulting work, he was Vice President, Sales & Marketing for Saflink Corporation, a software company specializing in biometric identification technology. Previously, Dave served as President and CEO of Computech Systems Corporation, a re-manufacturer and marketer of Hewlett-Packard hardware and software to the corporate market. Prior to Computech, Dave participated in the start up of Surefind, which developed voice response technology to automate classified advertising. At Surefind, he was in involved in all aspects of this start-up, and held various executive positions there during his tenure including VP, COO, and CEO.

Previously, Dave spent several years with US West New Vector Group in a number of roles, ultimately serving as Vice President and COO of their paging division. Before joining USWest, Dave was in sales and sales management with Honeywell Information Systems, Inc.