About / Board
George Sollman
Chairman
Mr. Sollman is Chairman and founder of Arabesque Investments LLC. He is the former co-founder, president & CEO, of @Motion Inc., acquired by OpenWave in 2000. Begun in 1997, @Motion was a venture-backed startup, created to pioneer Internet voice portal servers. Lead venture capital was DCM (Doll Capital) and investors included Deutsche Telekom and Intel Capital.
Before founding @Motion, Mr. Sollman was the president and CEO of Centigram Communications Corporation, a leading voice messaging company, from 1985 through 1997. The company grew from a privately-held firm to a public company with more than $100M, with its IPO in 1991. Prior to joining Centigram, Mr. Sollman was VP/GM for Sales and Marketing at Shugart Corporation, a leading disk drive company, in the period 1976-84. During this time, the company grew from about $6M to $240M and was acquired by Xerox Corporation.
Mr. Sollman has served on a number of private and public company boards. Currently, he serves also on the Board of Advisors of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University (Chairman from 2001-2004). He was active previously with the American Electronics Association (AEA), where he served on the National Board of Directors, during which he was elected National Chairman in 1996, representing its 3,200 member companies.
He received his BSEE from Northwestern University and an MSEE from Northeastern University. In addition, he has received five patents.
Dr. Mark J.F. Allen
President, Chief Executive Officer, Founder
Prior to founding Corticon, Dr. Allen was CEO of Internet Health, a provider of rule-based systems to the clinical healthcare market. Dr. Allen's experiences with the shortcomings of traditional business rule engines led to the discovery of several key innovations, which make business rule engines significantly easier to use for business process automation. These innovations, provide the foundation for the Corticon solution, which is now applied across diverse industries such as financial services, government, manufacturing and insurance.
Dr. Allen has a B.S. in Applied Physics from Columbia University, and an M.D. from the University of California Los Angeles, where he resigned from an Emergency Medicine residency program to found and lead Corticon.
Mark Carges
Mr. Carges is a leading software technology executive and visionary. He is currently Senior Vice President and CTO at eBay. Prior to joining eBay in September 2008, Mr. Carges was Executive Vice President, Products and General Manager at BEA Systems, a middleware provider that was acquired by Oracle in April 2008. During more than a decade at BEA, Mark held a variety of senior technology leadership roles, including Chief Technology Officer, leading the technology vision for BEA's Tuxedo, WebLogic and AquaLogic product suites.
Mr. Carges began his career at Bell Labs as one of the original architects of Tuxedo, software for constructing highly scalable transaction processing applications. Prior to BEA, he designed and developed early versions of Tuxedo at Bell Labs, Unix System Labs and Novell.
Craig R. Johnson
Mr. Johnson is the President and executive committee member of JMP Securities LLC, which he joined in January 2002. He is also a member of the executive committee of JMP Group, JMP Securities' parent company, and serves on the board of directors of JMP Holdings.
Mr. Johnson is a founder of Saw Island Asset Management (SIAM), which manages investments in hedge funds and other alternative assets. SIAM was acquired by JMP Asset Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of JMP Group, in January 2003. Craig previously spent twenty years, from 1980 through 2000, at Montgomery Securities, now Banc of America Securities, where he was most recently Director of Global Institutional Sales and a member of the firm's executive committee.
Mr. Johnson also serves on the board of the San Francisco Zoo and is a trustee for the Woodside Priory School. Craig holds a B.A. in economics from Stanford University.
Jonathan G. Morgan
Mr. Morgan is the President and CEO of Applied Science, Inc., ("ASI") a leader in the design, development and manufacture of integrated solutions for the global whole blood collection solutions. The company's flagship product is the HemoFlow 400 blood monitor and mixer. ASI's customers include: American Red Cross, United Blood Services, New York Blood Center and the National Health Service in the United Kingdom; all of whom are major purchasers of the Company's whole blood collection devices. Mr. Morgan is also the founder and managing partner at Rostrevor Partners, LLC, ("Rostrevor") a strategic consulting company which provides services to early stage growth companies. Rostrevor is the principal investor in ASI.
Prior to his current role at ASI, Mr. Morgan has built and managed businesses in a variety of industries. He was a founder, and the President and CEO, at PingDa Travel, a company organized to undertake a major roll up in the corporate travel industry in Greater China. He was the President and CEO of First Virtual Communications a company which developed highly scalable and secure, enterprise class, rich media communications solutions. The company's largest customer was the United States Department of Defense.
Mr. Morgan started his business career as an investment banker. Over the course of 25 years in the industry he worked at a number of firms and had the following positions: Worldwide Head of the Technology Group at Prudential Securities; Founding Partner and Managing Director of the mergers and acquisitions business at Montgomery Securities; and was a member of Morgan Stanley's mergers and acquisitions department.
Mr. Morgan is Chairman and a founder of Plus3 Networks, a pioneer in the use of social media applications to develop corporate wellness solutions; he is a director of Corticon Technologies, a leader in business rules management solutions; a director of Iris Wireless, a leading developer of solutions for mobile, fixed-line and VoIP operators in the United States and internationally; and a member of the strategic advisory board at Bishop Wisecarver, a leader in the development and engineering of motion technology solutions. He is a member of the MedStart CEO Forum in Sacramento and the Alliance of Chief Executives. He received his HBA from The School of Business Administration at The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada and was a member of the Dean's Honour's List.
Jim Thanos
Mr. Thanos has had 20 years of experience at the senior management level in enterprise software companies covering such areas of responsibility as Sales, Marketing, Professional Services, Customer Support, Business Development, and Alliances.
Mr. Thanos was most recently Executive Vice President and General Manager of Worldwide Field Operations at Broadvision. From the beginning of 1998 through 2000, revenues grew from $27M to $414M. Mr. Thanos' area of responsibility grew during that time period from less than 50 people to approximately 1000 people.
Prior to Broadvision, Mr. Thanos was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Aurum Software, a leader in sales force automation business solutions. He played a role in leading Aurum to profitability and then going public before being acquired by Baan. Revenue grew from $6M to $74M during Mr. Thanos' tenure at Aurum. Before joining Aurum in 1995, Mr. Thanos served as Vice President of Sales at Harvest Software. Prior to Harvest Software, he was Vice President of Sales Operations and Professional Services at Metaphor, Inc., a pioneer in business decision support systems, where he grew annual sales to $37M before the company was acquired by IBM. Before Metaphor, Mr. Thanos worked as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations at Informix, where he was responsible for expanding the company's revenues from $24M in 1987 to $103M in 1988. Mr. Thanos was also the VP responsible for sales, marketing, and professional services at Dunn and Bradstreet Computing Services.
Mr. Thanos has a BA in Behavioral Sciences from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is currently serving on two public boards and three private boards.