Jeffrey T. Barber
Managing Director, Fennebresque & Co.
Jeff is a Managing Director with Fennebresque & Co., where he focuses on healthcare and technology. Jeff joined Fennebresque & Co. in 2009 after retiring from PricewaterhouseCoopers ("PwC"). While at PwC, Jeff was a partner for 20 years and served as the Managing Partner of the PwC Raleigh office for 14 years. He has extensive experience working with publicly and privately-held technology, healthcare, and large, multi-national companies.
Jeff currently serves on the Board of Directors of Ply Gem Holdings, Inc., where he serves as chair of the audit committee. He also currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina.
Jeff is actively involved in the Research Triangle area business community. He is a past board member of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (“CED”), where he twice served as chairman of the board, and the North Carolina Technology Association (“NCTA”), where he served as Treasurer.
Jeff is actively involved in various civic organizations and currently serves on the board of directors of the North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, the North Carolina School for Science and Mathematics Foundation and NC IDEA. In the past, Jeff has served on the board of directors for Artspace, Inc., Community Learning Centers, Inc., the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce and the United Arts Council. Jeff holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from the University of Kentucky.
Timothy J. Buckley
Former Chief Operating Officer, Red Hat, Inc.
Tim is the former chief operating officer for Red Hat (NYSE:RHT), the world's premier open source and Linux provider. As COO, Tim used his insight to accelerate the momentum of open source and expand Red Hat's worldwide business operations. Prior to Red Hat, Tim was senior vice president of worldwide sales at Seattle-based Visio Corporation, where he was instrumental in growing the company from a start-up to a public company that was acquired by Microsoft for $1.5 billion.
During his more than 20 years working with emerging technology companies, he has helped launch many other successful start-ups, including Aldus, known for the creation of PageMaker, which was acquired by Adobe and Approach, a PC database company that was sold to Lotus. Mr. Buckley served on the board of SmartPath, which was acquired by DoubleClick (Nasdaq:DCLK) and as an advisor to MySQL, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems. He currently serves on the board of ChannelAdvisor, rPath and Carpio. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a degree in Liberal Arts.
Noel Fenton
General Partner, Trinity Ventures
Noel has been part of the Silicon Valley venture capital community for over 40 years. His focus at Trinity Ventures is software and services. Prior to co-founding Trinity Ventures in 1986, Noel was co-founder of three successful technology startups, and CEO of two of them, Covalent Systems and Acurex. From 1983 to 1986, he led Covalent Systems from start-up to a profitable $12 million sales level in three years. He led Acurex from 1972 to 1982 during a period when sales increased nearly ten-fold to $65 million.
Noel has led or worked with Alldata (acquired by AutoZone – AZO), Bright Horizons Family Solution (BFAM), Digital Research (acquired by Novell – NOVL), Forte Software (FRTE), Fuego (acquired by BEA Systems – BEA), KOS (MENT – acquired by Mentor Graphics), Intelligent Interactions (acquired by 24/7 Media – TFSM), Interval Logic (acquired by PRI Automation), KnowledgeNet (acquired by Thomson Publishing), Menlo Care (JNJ – acquired by Johnson & Johnson), and Personal Computing Tools (acquired by Netegrity).
In addition to SciQuest, Noel is currently on the boards of BlueStripe, Blue Tarp Financial, ID Analytics, LoopNet, and MyNew Place.
Noel is actively involved in the World Presidents' Organization and the Stanford Athletic Board. He is a past chairman of the Northern California Chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization and a past chairman of the American Electronics Association. Noel has an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in chemistry from Cornell University.
Daniel Gillis
Daniel has an extensive and successful background as a senior executive. Most recently, he was CEO of SAGA Systems ("SAGA"), a NYSE-traded enterprise software company with more than $200 million in revenue and 900 employees. As CEO of SAGA, Daniel led a management buyout of the company from its German parent for $85 million in April 1997. After closing the buyout, he completed two acquisitions, led an IPO on the NYSE in November 1997, and dramatically grew operating profit from $10 million to $45 million over three years. SAGA was ultimately reacquired by the German seller for more than $300 million, generating over 10 times the capital invested by the buyout sponsor, Thayer Capital. Prior to SAGA, Daniel was executive vice president of Falcon Systems, a $180 million Maryland-based interactive equipment company serving the Federal market. He guided the company through an unprecedented growth period, taking it from $13 million in revenue to $180 million, leading to Falcon Systems' 1994 acquisition by GTSI, a NASDAQ company.
Daniel is currently on the board of directors at the Lawrence Transplant Foundation. He was previously a member of the NYSE Listed Companies Advisory Board. In addition, Daniel served as a member of the board of Iconixx, an internet services firm based in Houston, Texas, and Vigilinx, a digital security company based in New Jersey. He was also on the board of directors of Cysive, a web software company based in Reston, Virginia, that was recently sold in a management buyout. In 1999, Daniel was selected as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year. He is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island.
Stephen Wiehe
President & Chief Executive Officer, SciQuest, Inc.
Since joining SciQuest as president and CEO in 2001, Steve has taken the company from an e-market exchange to the leading provider of on-demand eprocurement solutions for academic, healthcare and research-centric organizations. His vision for SciQuest's future led him to take the company private in 2004 and focus on creating a business-driven culture that provides organizations with a proven solution to achieve significant cost savings and advance their mission.
Steve has led the company to a compelling financial position by growing revenues and deeply instilling fiscal responsibility, making SciQuest the only profitable eprocurement provider. He focuses on guiding the company to achieve the highest levels of customer satisfaction through innovative product development and a dedicated professional services team.
Steve's early success as a technology entrepreneur continues to fuel his passion for leading companies to excellence. Prior to SciQuest, he served as senior director, strategic investments & mergers and acquisitions at SAS Institute in Raleigh, North Carolina. He joined SAS in June 2000, after SAS acquired DataFlux Corporation, where he served as president and CEO.
Before joining DataFlux, Steve was managing director/Europe and senior executive vice president for SunGard Treasury Systems, a division of SunGard Data Systems, Inc., and president and CEO of Multinational Computer Models, Inc., which was sold to SunGard Data Systems in 1998.
A well-seasoned executive with more than 20 years of experience, Steve started his career with the General Electric Company. He graduated from its renowned Financial Management Program with honors and became treasurer of GE Plastics. He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky.