Board Members

Terry Garnett, Chairman of the Board

Prior to forming Garnett & Helfrich Capital with his partner David Helfrich in 2003, Mr. Garnett spent eight years with Venrock Associates where he was an early investor in Siebel, Checkpoint Software, Niku, Neoforma, and Neon Software. He was also actively involved in forming and funding Crossworlds Software with his wife, Katrina Garnett, Crossworlds' founder and CEO, which went public in 2000 and was acquired by IBM in 2001.

Steve Shine, CEO and President

Steve comes to Actian from Sybase where he was senior vice president and general manager for EMEA, overseeing all operational, sales, financial and human resources in the region for the past three years. While at Sybase, he achieved more than 200 million in revenue and managed 500 employees, charting over 50 percent growth in the Business Intelligence market for Sybase. Prior to Sybase, Steve was at Canadian-based Geac Computer Corporation for ten successful years, helping to successfully turn around two major global divisions for the ERP firm.

David Helfrich, Managing Director

David Helfrich brings more than twenty years of experience investing in and building technology companies. He helped found and build a number of the most successful and innovative networking companies in the industry - Newbridge Networks, Ascend Communications, Centrum Communications/3Com and Copper Mountain Networks.

Ken Goldman

Ken Goldman is Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Yahoo!. In this role, he is responsible for Yahoo!’s global finance functions including financial planning and analysis, controllership, tax, treasury, and investor relations.

Ken brings more than 30 years of experience in financial, operational and business management to Yahoo!. Most recently, he was CFO of Fortinet, a provider of threat management technologies. Ken spent nearly six years as senior vice president of finance and administration and CFO of Siebel Systems and has held CFO positions at several technology companies in his career, including Excite@Home, Sybase, Cypress Semiconductor and VLSI Technology.

Ken also serves on the board of directors of Infinera Inc. and NXP Semiconductor, as well as the board of trustees of Cornell University. He has been named among "America's 15 Most Connected Capitalists" by Forbes magazine. He earned a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a MBA from Harvard Business School.

David Murphy

David Murphy is one of the Silicon Valley’s most highly regarded business executives. Most recently, Murphy served as Senior Vice President for HP’s Laserjet and Enterprise Solutions business unit within the company's Imaging and Printing Group (IPG), responsible for driving IPG’s business imaging, printing and software growth across all customer segments. Murphy joined HP in 2006 through HP’s acquisition of Mercury Interactive, where he was Chief Financial Officer for Mercury Interactive. At Mercury, Murphy led the company’s finance and business operations, and market expansion and acquisition efforts into Mercury’s Business Technology Optimization (BTO) portfolio.

Prior to joining Mercury, Murphy was CEO of Asera, where he led the company’s efforts as a pioneer in delivering real-time collaborative business process applications for the extended enterprise with a web services delivery approach. Prior to Asera, Murphy was president and general manager of IBM Tivoli Systems, where he was responsible for day-to-day operations and drove aggressive expansion into new markets, helping make IBM a major competitor in the software space.

Murphy’s background also includes working as the head of the private equity investments group at Perot Systems and as a partner at McKinsey & Company. Murphy holds an MBA from Stanford and technical degrees in mathematics and electrical engineering from the Universities of Louisville and Florida Atlantic.

Andre M Boisvert

Mr. Boisvert has been in the technology field for over 30 years. Boisvert started his career with IBM in 1976 where he spent 13 years. While at IBM, Boisvert held senior management positions in sales, marketing and Research & Development. After leaving IBM, Boisvert held executive positions in some of the best respected software companies in the industry, such as Cognos Corporation and Oracle Corporation where he was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and was a member of Oracle’s Management committee.

In 2000, Boisvert was recruited as President and COO, of SAS Institute Inc, the world’s largest privately held software company with revenues currently nearing $3 Billion annually, with the mission of bringing the company public. When the plans of an IPO were abandoned in 2001, Boisvert followed one of SAS’ investments by becoming Chairman and CEO of Sagent Technologies (NASDAQ: SGNT). In April of 2004, Boisvert successfully completed the sale of Sagent Technologies Inc. to Group 1 Software Inc (NASDAQ:GSOF).

In March 2002, Boisvert became a director of VA Software (NASDAQ:LNUX), the creator and owner of SourceForge, one of the largest worldwide repository of open source projects. During his four year term at VA Software, Boisvert developed a wealth of knowledge about open source projects and their applicability to solving real world problems, which previously had been exclusively addressed through expensive proprietary software.

This experience led Boisvert to co-founding Pentaho Corporation in October of 2004, one of the world’s most popular commercial open source business intelligence platform. Boisvert then went on to invest and serve as an advisor/director of several other leading commercial open source companies, REvolution Analytics, Zenoss Inc. (systems management) and Infobright (data warehousing).