David Kellogg
CEO

Dave has worked in the database and applications software industry for over 20 years, and has strong experience in marketing, operations, strategy, and product lifecycle management. Prior to joining Mark Logic, Kellogg served as senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Business Objects, a leading business intelligence software company. Kellogg was a key member of the executive team that grew Business Objects from $30M in revenues and 250 people to over $850M in revenues and over 4,000 people during his nine years there. Before Business Objects, Kellogg was vice president of marketing at Versant Object Technology, a provider of object database management systems. Prior to that, he held a number of technical and marketing positions with Ingres Corporation, a maker of relational database systems and tools. Kellogg has a dual bachelor’s degree in geophysics and applied mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley, and a master’s degree in business administration from Saint Mary’s College.

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Christopher Lindblad
Founder and Chief Architect

Chris is a seasoned technologist with over 20 years of software development experience. Before founding Mark Logic, Chris was the architect of Ultraseek Server, Infoseek’s enterprise search application, now one of Autonomy’s principal products following the acquisition of Verity. Chris had overall responsibility for the creation of Ultraseek Server, including the architecture, design, and development. Prior to Infoseek, Chris pursued post-doctoral research in high-speed networks and real-time video processing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During his research tenure at MIT, Chris authored over 15 publications in internet and multi-media technologies. Chris holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering and computer science from the California Institute of Technology, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in computer science from MIT.

Max Schireson
Executive Vice President, Customer Solutions

Max has more than 17 years of experience in database, web, and enterprise software solutions. Prior to joining Mark Logic, Max held a variety of executive positions at Oracle Corporation, including vice president of applications development and chief applications architect. In those positions, Max led a team of over 200 professionals and ran an $80 million business. Max also held information technology responsibilities for the Oracle web store, which accounted for over 70 percent of US orders, and for Oracle's web technical support infrastructure, which processed over 80 percent of customer support requests for more than 400,000 Oracle customers. In addition, Max started Oracle's e-commerce consulting practice, which he grew to over 200 consultants and over $50 million in revenue, worldwide.

Mark Tice
Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales

Mark has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise software executive management, sales, and business development. Prior to joining Mark Logic, he was with Oracle Corp. in senior management positions following the acquisition of Bridgestream, Inc. in 2007. Mark was CEO of Bridgestream, a leader in enterprise role management software, when Oracle acquired the company. Prior to Bridgestream, Mark was EVP and general manager of Mantas Software, a company specializing in the financial services market. Prior to that Mark served as a group vice president at Business Objects for five years. Before Business Objects Mark lead OEM sales at Sybase. Mark has a B.S. from UCLA.

Tracy Eiler
Vice President, Marketing

Tracy comes to Mark Logic with more than 22 years of high technology marketing experience. Prior to joining the company, she served as senior vice president of marketing at Ingres, where she helped reposition the company to become a recognized leader in open source database management systems. Before Ingres, Tracy was vice president of corporate marketing at Postini, a provider of on-demand email security and archiving solutions. At Postini, she created a closed-loop lead-to-sale process that resulted in predictable revenue growth. Google purchased Postini in 2007 for $625M. Previous to her role at Postini, Tracy served as vice president of corporate marketing at business intelligence software leader Business Objects (now part of SAP), running all aspects of the company’s global corporate marketing from media/analyst relations, the corporate websites, brand identity, sales support, worldwide events and global demand generation campaigns. During her tenure at Business Objects, Tracy was part of the marketing integration team for more than seven acquisitions. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan. Tracy is also a board member of the Family Service Agency, a community services non-profit located in San Mateo, Calif.

David Ponzini
CFO

Dave brings to Mark Logic more than 20 years of high technology experience. Prior to joining Mark Logic, Dave was vice president of corporate and business development at AlarmPoint Systems where he was instrumental in developing an OEM channel and managing the company’s strategic relationship with BMC Software. Before that, Dave served as vice president of corporate and business development at Verity, Inc., where he was responsible for the acquisition and integration of four companies. Previously he was vice president of business development at Inktomi, where he managed partner strategy and key business relationships. Dave holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from San Jose State University and master’s degree in business administration from Saint Mary’s College.

Josh Narva
Vice President, People

Josh has over 10 years of experience building highly effective management teams at rapidly growing, venture-backed start-up companies. Prior to Mark Logic, Josh was director of recruiting at Harmonic Communications, a Sequoia Capital portfolio company, where he played an integral role in building the executive team and growing the company to over 60 people. Prior to Harmonic, Josh was an associate in the international technology practice of Heidrick & Struggles. He began his career as a research analyst in the Boston office of McDermott, Will & Emery, a large international law firm. Josh received his bachelor’s degree in government and law from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Jason Monberg
Vice President, Product Management

Jason brings to Mark Logic deep experience building and managing server based products for both corporate and consumer markets, as well as consulting for large companies delivering enterprise solutions. Prior to joining Mark Logic, Jason was founder of Dashlight Software, a Web-based application that enables users to manage personal information online from any device or location. Before Dashlight, Jason was vice president of application products at Composite Software, a leading provider of virtual data integration software. In his career, Jason additionally founded two technology start-ups – Carbon Five, a purveyor of J2EE development solutions, and Sparks.com, a consumer gift and personalization company where he also served as chief technology officer. Jason holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Wesleyan University.

Ron Avnur
Vice President, Engineering

Ron Avnur has been working in the fields of database management systems and enterprise search engines for over 10 years, and joined Mark Logic Corporation in 2003 prior to its initial product release. His experience includes both Silicon Valley start-ups and large enterprise software companies, where he has specialized in database query optimization and performance. Ron held engineering, consulting and pre-sales positions at Cohera, a distributed database startup eventually acquired by PeopleSoft. In other positions, he helped lead business development at Business Layers, a security software startup acquired by Netegrity and also served as a programmer at Informix Software, which was purchased by IBM in 2001. Ron holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science and a master's degree in computer science from University of California, Berkeley.

Mark Kvamme
Chairman

Mark Kvamme focuses on services and software investments for Sequoia Capital. He is currently a Director of Cast Iron Systems, AdBrite, EMN8, Mark Logic, MotoSport.com, LinkedIn, and StrongMail Systems. Previously, he was a director of Corvigo (acquired by Tumbleweed Communications) and Allocity (acquired by EMC). Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1999, Mark was chairman of USWeb/CKS and chairman and chief executive officer of CKS Group prior to its merger with USWeb. Earlier in his career Mark was a director of international marketing for Wyse Technology, the president and chief executive officer of International Solutions, and a founding member of Apple France. Mark has a bachelor's degree in French economics and literature from the University of California at Berkeley.

Tom Banahan

Tom is a Managing Director of Tenaya Capital. He initially joined the predecessor to Tenaya (Lehman Brothers Venture Partners) in 1999, and co-founded Tenaya in 2009. Previously, Tom spent 20 years working as an operational manager in the technology industry. Most recently, he was the vice president of business development for Marimba. Tom joined Marimba as the 14th employee and was involved in all areas of the company's growth through its successful public offering in April 1999. Prior to Marimba, Tom was the vice president of worldwide sales for Spyglass. He joined Spyglass as the 23rd employee and was instrumental in helping the company deliver a string of 12 consecutive profitable quarters that positioned Spyglass as the first Internet company to access the public equity markets in June 1995. Tom started his career in the sales organization at IBM where he spent seven years. Tom holds a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Jeff Miller

Jeff Miller is an accomplished senior executive and venture capitalist with over 30 years of experience working with some of the hottest software companies in Silicon Valley. From 1993 to 2001, he served as president and chief executive officer of Documentum, Inc., growing it to become one of the fastest growing technology companies in the world. Miller founded business and consulting firm JAMM Ventures. Prior to JAMM Ventures, he was a venture partner with Redpoint Ventures, where he specialized in emerging enterprise and infrastructure software markets. In addition to Documentum, Miller held a variety of senior marketing and executive management positions at Intel Corporation, Adaptec, Inc., Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc., and Cadence Design Systems, Inc. He currently serves on the board of McAfee, Inc. Miller also recently served on the board of Data Domain, Inc., which was acquired by EMC in 2009.

Thomas Weatherford

Thomas Weatherford has over 35 years of experience in senior financial positions for global technology companies. Thom retired in 2003 as executive vice president and chief financial officer of business intelligence software leader Business Objects S.A., having held that position since 1997. He previously held senior financial positions at NETCOM On–Line Communication Services, Logitech, Texas Instruments, Schlumberger, and Tandem Computers in the US, Europe, and Japan. In addition to Mark Logic, Thom currently serves on the boards of Saba Software, Inc., Synplicity Inc., Tesco Corporation, Advanced Analogic Technologies, SMART Modular Technologies and several private companies. He holds a bachelor of business administration degree from the University of Houston.

David Kellogg

Dave is the chief executive officer of Mark Logic.

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Christopher Lindblad

Chris is the founder and chief architect at Mark Logic.

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