Pivot, Inc. Board

John Cahaly

John Cahaly is President and CEO of Eze Castle Integration, the leading provider of technology and IT services to the investment industry. Eze Castle serves over 500 hedge fund and investment management clients and has 8 offices across the US and London. Under Cahaly’s management, Eze Castle has solidified its leadership in the investment-management industry, establishing an enviable track record of revenue growth and customer retention. In 2008 the company was recognized as one of the top technology service providers to the financial industry by Financial Insights and received the FINTech 100 Award. Cahaly serves on the board of BNY ConvergEx as well as Pivot, Inc. Prior to co-founding Eze Castle, Cahaly worked at Digital Equipment Corporation for nine years holding various engineering positions including a senior member of Digital's Windows NT technical marketing group. Cahaly attended Northeastern University's computer engineering program.

Bill Carson

Bill Carson is a Managing Director at Hudson Ventures, a New York based private equity firm with over $170 million in capital under management. Mr. Carson focuses on investing in early stage technology companies that are looking to expand. He has a particular interest in enterprise software, wireless, security and financial services type investments. Mr. Carson represents Hudson on the Board of Directors of Integral Development Corp., Dynamic Mobile Data, Pivot Solutions and was responsible for Hudson’s investment in Guardent before it was sold to Verisign. Prior to joining Hudson Ventures in 2002, Mr. Carson was head of Citigroup's Strategic Investment Group, co-founded Citigroup's Technology Investment Fund, served on the Investment Committee for the Smith Barney Opportunity Fund and was a member of the corporation's Internet Operating Group. Some of Mr. Carson's investments have included: Openwave, Netro, WebTV, Micromuse, Quinta, Xaqti, 724 Solutions and Transpoint. In addition to his private equity experience, Mr. Carson previously led Citigroup's internal M&A group and held various other positions within Citigroup's Corporate Bank. Mr. Carson has undergraduate degrees in both Engineering and Economics from the University of Notre Dame and a MBA from the University of Chicago.

Sean McLaughlin

Sean P. McLaughlin founded the Eze Castle family of companies which provide technology solutions to investment professionals. McLaughlin spent ten years as Chairman and CEO of Eze Castle Software, an industry-recognized leader in the business of order management, portfolio construction, and investment compliance tools. In 2006, Eze Castle Software joined BNY ConvergEx Group, for which Sean now serves on the board. He also serves on the board of Eze Castle Integration and Pivot Solutions. In 2005, Sean was selected as a White House Fellow, and he spent one year working as a high-level advisor to the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service through this prestigious leadership and public service program. Sean has recently started a personal investment company, Hurdle Rate Capital, and continues to serve his community through the Camel Needle-eye Corporation, a 501(c)(3) organization he founded with the purpose of educating the public on agricultural issues. McLaughlin was named a winner in the Ernst and Young Software Entrepreneur of the Year in 2004. In addition, he was named one of "Boston Business Journal's 2004, 40 under 40" representing Boston's next generation of business leaders and innovators. Other awards include, ranking #81 and #142 in Inc 500 fastest growing private companies in 2002 and 2003 respectively. He received the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Award in 2001, Deloitte and Touche New England Fast 50 company award in 2000, and Deloitte and Touche Fast 500 Company, in 2000. Sean is a former Air Force reservist and holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Harvard University.

Steven J. Murray

Mr. Murray joined SoftBank Capital in 1997 and has over 14 years of experience in managing investments, mergers and acquisitions, finance and accounting for growth orientated technology companies. In addition to his investment sourcing, evaluating and management responsibilities within SB Capital, he is also the CFO for the SoftBank group that manages substantially all of SoftBank's global activities outside of Japan. This role has allowed Mr. Murray to develop long standing and valuable relationships within SoftBank's management and operations that assists in facilitating deal sourcing from Asia as well as unique due diligence for potential investments. Mr. Murray has been the principal executive responsible for several billion dollars of complex structured transactions and monetization strategies to maximize investment value during his tenure at SoftBank. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a BS in Accounting from Boston College.

Daniel Schultz

Danny is a Managing Director and co-founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham Ventures. Danny is a member of the Board of Directors of Pivot Solutions and Magnolia Broadband, Chairman of the Board of SMART System Technologies, and a Board observer at XOsoft. He is a frequent speaker at entrepreneurial and technology-related conferences. Previously, Danny was a senior banker with Lehman Brothers' equity capital market groups in both New York and London focused on technology and emerging growth companies in the US and Israel. Just prior to founding DFJ Gotham, he was head of Equity Private Placements at Lehman Brothers where he spearheaded a dramatic increase in the firm's venture capital financings for a variety of technology, consumer products and healthcare companies. Danny is a member of the Investment Committee of the endowment fund of the American Friends of The Hebrew University and is AFHU's Assistant Treasurer. He is also a member of the Finance Committee at Willow Ridge Country Club. Danny graduated from Columbia University where he received his A.B. in Economics.

Robert Warshaw, Chairman

Robert Warshaw has over 25 years of experience in directing strategic initiatives and utilizing technology to change the way businesses operate. Mr. Warshaw is the chief executive officer (CEO) of OptiMark Holdings, Inc. and senior advisor to Teliris, the leading global provider of telepresence solutions. He served as CEO of Teliris during 2004 and 2005. As part of his role with OptiMark, he also served as the CEO for Vie Financial Group, a broker-dealer providing anonymous, low impact electronic trading for financial institutions. Prior to OptiMark, Mr. Warshaw was a director and chief information officer at Lazard for six years with responsibility for all technology and administrative services in the United States, as well as global technology for Lazard's asset management business. Before Lazard, Mr. Warshaw was a Partner at McKinsey & Co. His focus at McKinsey was helping large financial services and technology firms to adapt their structure and processes to be cost effective, innovative and able to deliver new capabilities. Mr. Warshaw began his career at Anderson Consulting (now Accenture) where he led both domestic and international strategy and large systems integration projects. Mr. Warshaw has a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.