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Nimsoft Management Team
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Gary Read
President and CEO
A 20-year high-tech industry veteran, Gary Read founded Converse Software in 2002 and rapidly built a global reseller organization successfully delivering cost-effective service-level management solutions. In 2004, Converse Software merged with Norway-based Nimsoft Software and created Nimsoft, where Gary now spearheads the world-wide operation from its base in Silicon Valley, CA.
Mr. Read served previously as VP Marketing at BMC Software and VP Sales & Marketing at RiverSoft, being instrumental in the successful IPO of RiverSoft and the eventual acquisition by Micromuse.
Mark Harris
Chief Financial Officer
Before joining Nimsoft, Mark Harris was CFO of Miami-based DSLi, a VoIP company, where he was responsible for the funding and financial management of operations that provided a seven-fold growth in revenues. Previously, as CFO of RiverSoft Plc, a company providing network management software solutions, Harris led one of the fastest Initial Public Offerings in the history of the London Stock Exchange, raising $160m.
During his time at RiverSoft, the 20-person company grew to over 300 employees, raised four rounds of venture capital funding and secured financing led by industry partners Cisco, Intel and Hewlett-Packard. Prior to joining RiverSoft Harris held a number of financial management positions at Credit Suisse First Boston and Salomon Smith Barney. Harris was top of his graduating class and has a First Class Honors Degree in Mathematics. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in London, where he spent six years with Deloitte & Touche providing audit, corporate and accounting services to a varied portfolio of private and public companies.
Mark Rivington
Vice President of Technology
Mark Rivington has deep knowledge of the systems and network management vendor space having served in numerous technical and marketing roles at key software organizations over the last twenty years. At Candle, Boole & Babbage, BMC and RiverSoft, Mark gathered significant understanding of how management software can be developed and deployed to maximize customer returns in terms of business benefit.
In his current role this understanding helps drive the direction of the Nimsoft technology towards maximum customer benefit.
Dixon Fiske
Vice President, Sales
Dixon Fiske brings twenty years of high tech experience to his role as the head of worldwide sales. Prior to Nimsoft, he ran HP Software's $660M Americas Corporate Sales Division. Dixon came to HP via its acquisition of Mercury Interactive, where he helped establish the company's Application Performance Management business.
This included driving sales of SiteScope following Mercury's acquisition of Freshwater Software. Previous experience includes sales management positions at DoubleClick, Oracle, and AT&T. Dixon has a BA in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley.
John Smith
Vice President of Engineering
John Smith is responsible for corporate and product strategy at Nimsoft. He joined the Nimsoft executive team when Indicative merged with Nimsoft. He brings more than 20 years of experience in the areas of service management, network and systems management and operational support systems (OSS). In 2003, Smith founded Indicative Software, which was recognized as a leader in business service management.
Before Indicative, Smith was co-founder and joint general manager of the Firehunter service management business at Agilent Technologies, which generated more than $50 million in revenue. At HP, he was a member of the management team that started the OpenView business, where he was instrumental in streamlining the product delivery lifecycle, negotiating multimillion-dollar OEM relationships and bringing new products to market. Smith has a bachelor of science in computer science and a master’s in business administration from Colorado State University.
