COMPANY
Board of Directors
The Gomez board of directors brings a wealth of intercontinental business and technology insights to ensure synchronicity with customer requirements across the globe. With distinguished backgrounds in key areas such as international finance, product and services marketing and information technology, the board serves as active advisors to the management team.
The Gomez board includes:
Richard Brekka, Chairman of the Board & Managing Partner, Dolphin Equity Partners
Robert J. Cobuzzi
Jaime Ellertson, Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Ivan Farneti, Principal, Doughty Hanson
Adam S. Greene, Managing Partner, Salisbury Ventures, LLC.
David J. Henshall
Thomas Krueger, Founder and Managing Partner, AdAstra
Carl Pavarini, Ph.D.
James Sanger, Partner, ABS Ventures
Richard Brekka, Chairman
Richard J. Brekka has served as one of our directors since 2001 and as Chairman of the Board since March 2005. Mr. Brekka served as our Acting Chief Executive Officer from August 2005 to December 2005. He has been the President and Managing Partner of Dolphin Equity Partners, a private equity firm, since 1998. Prior to founding Dolphin Equity Partners, Mr. Brekka was a Managing Director of CIBC Wood Gundy Capital, which then served as the merchant banking division of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and as a Director and the President of CIBC Wood Gundy Ventures, Inc., an investment subsidiary of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Mr. Brekka is a director of TeraGo Inc., a Canadian wireless broadband service provider that is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Mr. Brekka is a director of the following privately held companies: inQ, Inc., a provider of on-demand live chat services for e-commerce web sites; Island Data Corporation, a provider of analytics solutions for global online enterprises; Mobile Armor, Inc., a provider of electronic data and asset protection software; SeaPass Solutions Inc., a provider of on-demand connectivity solutions for insurance companies; Silver Carrot Inc., an online lead generation provider; and The Guild, Inc., an online source for artist-made home dˇcor products.
Robert J. Cobuzzi
Robert J. Cobuzzi has served as one of our directors since April 2008. From 2002 until his retirement in March 2006, Mr. Cobuzzi served as the Chief Financial Officer of Akamai Technologies, Inc., a provider of products and services for e-business infrastructure. From 2000 to 2002, he served as the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Network Plus Corp., a competitive local and long distance telecommunications carrier. Network Plus Corp. filed a voluntary petition for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the United States bankruptcy code in January 2002. From 1991 to 2000, Mr. Cobuzzi held a number of management positions, most recently as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, at Kollmorgen Corporation, a manufacturer of electronic equipment and software control that was acquired by Danaher Corporation in 2000. Mr. Cobuzzi is a director of Fundtech Ltd., a NASDAQ-listed provider of financial transaction processing software.
Ivan Farneti
Ivan Farneti has served as one of our directors since 2003. He has been a partner of Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures, a venture capital firm headquartered in London, since 2000. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Farneti served as Investment Director of Deutsche Bank Ventures, an investment subsidiary of Deutsche Bank AG. Mr. Farneti is a director of the following privately held companies: Handmade Mobile, a mobile social network operator; Mobango, a mobile content sharing platform provider; Fenestrae, a provider of communication software for the enterprise and wireless operator market; and Plazes, a provider of locationbased software and services.
Adam S. Greene
Adam S. Greene has served as one of our directors since November 2007. He has been the founder and the Managing Partner of Salisbury Ventures, LLC, a mergers and acquisitions and capital advisory firm., since January 2007. From 2003 to December 2006, Mr. Greene was a Partner of Genesis Capital, LLC, an investment banking firm. Mr. Greene is a director of Sportvision, Inc., a privately held sports broadcasting technology company.
David J. Henshall
David J. Henshall has served as one of our directors since April 2008. He has been the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Citrix Systems, Inc. since January 2006. From April 2003 to January 2006, Mr. Henshall served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Citrix Systems, Inc. From 1998 to 2003, he served in a number of management capacities, most recently as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, for Rational Software Corporation, which was acquired by IBM Corporation in 2003.
Thomas Krueger
Thomas A.F. Krueger has served as one of our directors since February 2006. He has been a founder and Managing Partner of each of AdAstra Erste Beteiligungs GmbH, a venture capital firm, AdAstra Venture Consult GmbH, a venture capital advisory firm, and AdAstra Clemm & Krueger Vermoegensverwaltungs GbR mbH, a holding company for AdAstra Erste Beteiligungs GmbH since 2000. Mr. Krueger served as Managing Director of HVB Beteiligungs GmbH, a private equity and venture capital affiliate of HypoVereinsbank AG (an Unicredit Group), from 1997 to June 2005. Mr. Krueger is a director of Augusta Technologie AG, a holding company for sensor and automation technology companies, and asknet AG, a provider of electronic software distribution services, both of which companies are listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Krueger was Managing Director of HVB Offene Unternehmenbeteiligungs AG, a private equity firm owned by HypoVereinsbank AG (an affiliate of Unicredit Group). From 1999 to 2000, he was a partner of KAPPA IT Venture Beteiligungs GmbH, a venture capital firm. In 1999, he was Managing Director and a partner of KAPPA IT Ventures Consulting GmbH, a venture capital advisory firm. Mr. Krueger is a director of ADI Innovation AG, a privately held technology consulting firm.
Carl Pavarini, PhD
Carl Pavarini, Ph.D. has served as one of our directors since April 2005. Since 1999, Dr. Pavarini has been an advisor to technology-based companies in the telecommunications, Internet infrastructure, optical components and applications software industries. In addition, he has served as an adjunct professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since 1999 and at Stevens Institute of Technology since 2000. From 1973 to 1999, Dr. Pavarini served in a variety of research and development and then business management capacities, including Vice President, at AT&T Inc. and, following its spin-off from AT&T, at Lucent Technologies Inc., a provider of telecommunication systems and services.
James Sanger
James D. Sanger has served as one of our directors since June 2004. He has been a Partner of ABS Ventures, a venture capital firm, since February 2004. From 2000 to January 2004, he served in various capacities at Deutsche Bank, including as a Managing Director of DB Capital Venture Partners, a venture capital affiliate of Deutsche Bank. Mr. Sanger is a director of two privately held companies, Island Data Corporation, a provider of analytics solutions for global online enterprises, and Persystent Technologies Corporation, an enterprise software company.


