Management Team
| Maynard Webb | Chief Executive Officer |
| Jon Temple | President, Worldwide Operations |
| Nancy Barrett | VP, Human Resources |
| Joe Eandi | SVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary |
| Mercedes Ellison | SVP and GM, Enterprise |
| Matthew Fisher | VP and GM, Direct Response |
| Jeremy King | EVP of Technology and Products |
| Azita Martin | VP of Marketing |
| Eckart Walther | SVP of LiveOps Marketplace |
Maynard Webb - Chief Executive Officer
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As CEO, Maynard brings almost 30 years of experience developing and leading high-growth companies to his role at LiveOps. He joins LiveOps most recently from eBay where he served as Chief Operating Officer. At eBay, Maynard directed engineering and technology operations, product development, customer support, trust and safety, global billing, human resources, and legal functions. |
| Prior to eBay, Maynard was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Gateway, Inc. He has also held management and leadership positions at Bay Networks, Quantum Corporation, Thomas-Conrad Corporation and IBM. A respected member of the Silicon Valley technology community, Maynard sits on the boards of several successful companies, including Salesforce.com, Admob and Baynote. Maynard holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Florida Atlantic University. | |
Jon Temple - President, Worldwide Operations
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Jon serves as LiveOps President of Worldwide Operations and is responsible for all marketing, revenue generating, partner and customer facing functions. Jon previously served as Executive Vice President, for the Worldwide Field Organization at Hyperion where he managed sales, global support, field marketing, channels and alliances, technical services and the other field operational functions. |
| Jon helped accelerate Hyperion's position as the worldwide leader in Enterprise Performance Management culminating in the successful $3.3B acquisition of the Company by Oracle in 2007. Jon has over 20 years experience in enterprise software. Prior to joining Hyperion, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Above All Software, a privately held firm providing business integration software. He earlier spent 12 years at Business Objects in a variety of executive sales and operational leadership positions. During his tenure, Business Objects grew to become the leading worldwide business intelligence vendor, with annual revenues of more than $900 million. Prior to Business Objects, Temple held various sales and account management roles at Information Builders. He also serves on the board of directors at Host Analytics, Inc., a business performance management company. Jon has a Bachelor of Science degree in biological sciences from Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. | |
Nancy Barrett - VP, Human Resources
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Nancy is Vice President of Human Resources for LiveOps. Nancy has more than 25 years of human resources and operations experience in large and small companies globally. She joined LiveOps after serving as vice president of human resources for eBay and, most recently, Shopping.com, a global division of eBay, where she was responsible for maintaining a division culture while simultaneously |
| integrating the Shopping.com group into eBay corporate programs and philosophies. Prior to joining eBay, Nancy served as director of human resources for 3Com Corporation where her responsibilities spanned division and corporate HR needs. Earlier in her career, she was a compensation consultant to Towers Perrin, a leading management consulting firm. Nancy holds a MBA and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Clark University. | |
Joe Eandi - SVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
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Joe directs and manages the LiveOps legal department and is responsible for all legal matters affecting the company. During his tenure with LiveOps, which began in 2003, Joe has served in a number of roles including his current position as Chief of Staff and executive lead of the LiveOps Foundation. In 2005, Joe was the General Manager of a division that launched LiveOps' Saas product. A seasoned |
| executive with diverse experience with high-technology companies, he worked previously at Inktomi Corporation in a variety of legal positions, most recently as Inktomi's general counsel. Prior to Inktomi, Joe was with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he counseled public and private companies in all aspects of corporate governance and business operations, public and venture financings, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property. Joe earned a Bachelor's degree in Economics from University of California at Davis and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School. | |
Mercedes Ellison - SVP and GM, Enterprise
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Mercedes leads the enterprise business focus for LiveOps including Sales, Alliances and Channels as well as Client Services. She brings over 20 years of experience in the software industry and most recently served as Vice President of Global Partner Sales for Hyperion, where she created and implemented the company's global channel and alliance strategy. Previously, Mercedes served as Senior Vice |
| President of Marketing for BEA where she led alliance marketing, field marketing and demand generation. She has held senior executive positions in sales, alliances and business development with companies such as Siebel, Oracle and Bell South. Recognized as a "Top Channel Executive" by VAR Business for four years running (2004-2007), she recently received two additional prestigious honors-the highly coveted "Stevie Award" (May 2007) and the rigorously-judged YWCA "Tribute to Women Award"-both based solely on exemplary individual achievements in business. | |
Matthew Fisher, VP and GM, Direct Response
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Matthew is responsible sales, business development and client services for LiveOps Direct Response business unit. Matthew has been with LiveOps since 2003 and until recently was responsible for the successful deployment of customer projects as VP of Client Services. Prior to LiveOps, Matthew worked with the core LiveOps engineering team at Netscape, developing its Internet browser. He holds an MBA |
| from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor's degree in Math from the University of California at Davis. | |
Jeremy King, EVP of Technology and Product
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Jeremy is responsible for the continued growth and success of the Product, Engineering, and Operations teams. Jeremy joined LiveOps from eBay where he was the leader of the Architecture and Engineering teams responsible for the eBay Trading platform. In his seven years at eBay, Jeremy drove the complete redesign and rebuild of the eBay architecture, site and backend systems. He was responsible |
| for choosing the new development platform and in charge of feature delivery for now one of the world's most heavily trafficked Java platforms. His team grew from 30 to well over 300 and delivered some of eBay's most critical features like international expansion, PayPal integration and dozens of other trading features. Previously Jeremy was the CTO of Petopia.com, held management and technical roles in web development at Bay Networks and SynOptics Communications. Jeremy has a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems from San Jose State University and is still active with the College of Business and Management Information Systems department. | |
Azita Martin, VP of Marketing
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Azita is responsible for all aspects of corporate and product marketing, including branding, messaging, analyst and media relations, corporate communications, and demand generation at LiveOps. Azita brings over twenty-years of experience in marketing with in-depth knowledge of the contact center market, having focused on marketing to that sector for the past seven years. Azita comes to |
| LiveOps from Salesforce.com, where she was responsible for outbound marketing and communication for the Salesforce Call Center and Customer Portal products. She has held various executive positions at TuVox, InQuira, Siebel and SGI. Azita holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA from the University of Southern California. | |
Eckart Walther, SVP of LiveOps Marketplace
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Eckart is Senior Vice President of LiveOps Marketplace and drives the strategic initiatives around virtual work in the LiveOps community. Eckart joined LiveOps from Yahoo!, where he was head of products for Yahoo! Search and was responsible for Yahoo!'s web, multi-media, and social search products including Yahoo! Answers and Del.icio.us. In previous roles, Eckart served as a key member of the Tellme |
| and Netscape teams, and held positions in artificial intelligence research at Stanford University and GE Corporate Research. Eckart has a Bachelors and Masters degree in computer systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is a co-author of the original RSS and Media RSS standards, and holds 11 patents. | |