Cohesive Flexible Technologies

CohesiveFT provides customers with the ability to create custom-configured, container-hardened, subscription-supported application stacks. We call these custom application stacks "Elastic Servers" - just the application elements you want, no more, no less. Elastic Servers can be built using our Elastic Server On-Demand service which is available in a Community Edition and through Private Enterprise Portals.

Customers and infrastructure software providers are both struggling with a significant shift in the marketplace; the move from single-sourced, tightly-coupled, vertically-integrated middleware to multi-sourced, loosely-coupled, vertically-aware application stacks. Elastic Servers bridge this gap by allowing integration and support of stack components from multiple vendors, regardless whether commercial source or open sourcce.

CFT has offices in Palo Alto, Chicago and London.

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Management Team

Craig Heimark (CEO)
Craig is currently a board member for Deutsche-Bourse. He was one of the early O'Connor Partners, a well known high tech derivatives firm. O'Connor was acquired by Swiss Bank (now UBS) and Craig became the first global CIO of the organization. Craig has also been a board-level consultant to top-tier financial clients such as Reuters and the CBOE.

Patrick Kerpan (CTO)
Pat is the former CTO of Borland Software and previously General Manager of one of Borland's most successful business units. Borland's acquisition of Bedouin Inc. (founded by Pat) led to the growth of ALM products in the Borland portfolio, including Pat's lead in the acquisition of the public company Starbase. Pat spent 13 years in Derivatives Technology as Managing Director at CIBC, Executive Director at Swiss Bank Corp and a VP O'Connor & Associates.

Dwight Koop (COO)
Dwight's experience spans enterprise IT and in entrepreneurial startups. He was global head of data center operations and security for Swiss Banks capital markets, and O'Connor and Associates. He was one of the founders and an EVP of the Chicago Board Options Exchange during its early and rapid growth years. As COO of Bedouin, Inc, he was instrumental in its acquistion by Borland, and as a VP at Borland he played a significant role in its acquisition of Starbase. He was also COO of Signet Assurance, where he is proud to say his engineering team consisted of Eric Hughes, the noted cryptographer, and Brahm Cohen, the founder of BitTorrent.

Alexis Richardson (Business Development Director)
Alexis also has startup and financial industry expertise. He was formerly CEO of MetaLogic Software, an innovator in shared memory caching combined with transactional integrity for the Java platform. Prior to that he was a trader in Goldman Sachs Fixed Income derivatives arbitrage group. Alexis has a MA/BA in Computation, Mathematics, Philosophy from Oxford, and is an accomplished presenter and moderator in London's Open Source Software communities.

Phil Clarke (Sales and Services Director)
Phil has over 20 years experience in strategy and technology consulting and sales and marketing. He has significant management consulting experience, helping financial services customers attain the greatest value from their software solutions. He deep expertise in customer strategy and organizational change management. He was a Senior Principal in the Strategy Group at Inforte where he was a practice leader in Specialty Banking and Insurance. He is the former EVP of Sales, Marketing and Product Management for EPL, and began his career with Accenture consulting in the London capital markets.

Investors

Murray Family Investments LP

OCA Ventures, Invested in TradeKing, Cleversafe, Globus
OCA Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investments in companies with dramatic growth potential, primarily in technology, financial services, for-profit education and technology-enabled services. OCA Ventures believes that venture capital investing is successful when a strong partnership is forged with the entrepreneurs in which it invests. This active partnership approach is how OCA Ventures manages financial and operational risk.

OCA Ventures is backed by the entrepreneurs who founded and built O'Connor & Associates, the derivatives trading firm that was acquired by Swiss Bank (subsequently UBS). OCA Ventures is based in Chicago and has investments throughout the United States.

Chess Venture Ltd., Invested in NorthStar, DigitalPersona, and Infoblox
Chess Ventures is a private equity firm that invests in earlier-stage technology companies that have direct application to the financial services industry. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, with an office in London, and it is funded in part by the Schwab family.

Chess Ventures, Ltd., is the investment vehicle used to conduct the strategic investment activities of the firm. The investment team is led by Charles Schwab, Jr. and the shareholders include large financial institutions located outside of the United States. The strategic goal is to provide the Fund's shareholders with the ability to access and adopt new technologies that will provide competitive advantage and direct financial benefit.

Mouli Cohen, Invested in Trading Dynamics (sold to Ariba in 1999), Biosense (sold to Johnson & Johnson in 1997), Teva Pharmaceuticals, Icos (sold to Eli Lily in 2006).

Clay Struve, Early stage investor in biotechnology and IT

Advisors

Patty Seybold
Patty Seybold is a consultant, customer advocate and thought leader with 30 years of experience working with customer-centric business visionaries and technology pioneers in many industries to help these leaders transform their businesses to better meet and anticipate their customers' needs. Patricia Seybold is the CEO of the Patricia Seybold Group , a Boston-based consulting firm focused on customer-led innovation, customer experience transformation, customer-centric business and IT strategies and roadmaps, and in helping leaders shift their organizations' behavior to align around customers' outcomes and customers' key issues. Seybold is the author of three best-selling books, Outside Innovation (2006) , Customers.com (1998) , and The Customer Revolution (2001) .

Jon Zakin

Mr. Zakin is currently CEO of Cleversafe Inc. , a developer of Dispersed Storage software. Mr. Zakin is a partner in Batterson, Cross, Zakin, L.L.C., an early stage venture capital firm and owns Seaview Holdings, L.L.C., an investment entity that actively invests in early stage companies. Prior to this he served as Proxim Corporation’s (NASDQ: PROX) Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Previously, Mr. Zakin spent 10 years with U.S. Robotics, Inc., a leader in data communications equipment in various management positions including Executive Vice President of Business Development and Corporate Strategy, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and Vice President of Sales. He was a member of the U.S. Robotics Board of Directors for nine years. Mr. Zakin joined the Company when revenue was $18 million with 150 employees and remained until it was sold and its run rate was approximately $3 billion with 6000 employees. He was instrumental in engineering the sale of USR to 3Com for over $8 billion, which at the time was the largest sale in the history of the data communications industry.