The Future of Work About Us Founded in 2012, Biba is the Future of Work. Started by 5 friends who were sick of having horrible conference calls, Biba started by reimagining the conference call experience and have expanded their mobile-first approach to a real-time collaboration offering. Biba is the best way to work across distance. Carlin Wiegner, CEO & Co-Founder Prior to founding Biba, Carlin started a venture backed Enterprise 2.0 startup, CubeTree, where he was the CEO. CubeTree , a collaboration service aimed at enterprise social networking, was successfully acquired by SuccessFactors, now owned by SAP. Previously Carlin was at Symantec as the VP and General Manager of Symantec's email, IM and web gateway security product lines. Carlin joined Symantec via their acquisition of Brightmail. Carlin holds a B.S. from Stanford University with a focus in Computer Science User Interface Design. In his free time, Carlin can be found building giant lego towers with his son. Carlin sits on Biba's Board of Directors. Aaron Gowatch, Chief Architect and Co-Founder Previous to his role as Chief Architect at Biba, Aaron worked at SuccessFactors as an Architect on SAP Jam, the social business collaboration software based on the CubeTree product. He was one of the key developers at CubeTree prior to the acquisition by SuccessFactors. Aaron also worked at Symantec where he was instrumental in developing their Email Security appliance. Aaron joined Symantec via their acquisition of Brightmail. Previous to Brightmail, Aaron worked at AOL Time Warner, Critical Path and HotWired. When not working, Aaron enjoys watching the San Francisco Giants and refining his pulled pork recipe. Adam Marks, Co-Founder Previous to Biba, Adam also co-founded Listography, a social list-making site. Most of Adam's career has been spent developing large scale enterprise software. Adam was one of the key developers at Brightmail and then Symantec working on the Email Gateway Security product line. He also worked on hosted email infrastructure at Critical Path prior to his time at Brightmail/Symantec. Adam also spent time at Wired building high volume web traffic reporting systems. Adam holds a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan. In his free time he likes to do theoretical mathematics. Brad Kingsbury, Vice President of Engineering Brad has been building enterprise software for almost 30 years. Prior to joining Biba, Brad was a Senior Vice President of Products at Symantec, responsible for such enterprise products as Symantec AntiVirus, Symantec Endpoint Protection, and the Altiris product line. Previous to Symantec, Brad was with Brightmail, the enterprise anti-spam leader, where he was the Vice President of Engineering. Previous to that, he was the Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technical Officer at McAfee.com, a SaaS security company, which was acquired by McAfee. Brad served as the Vice President of Engineering and the Chief Technical Officer for CyberMedia, a security company, which was also acquired by McAfee. Previous to that, Brad was Chief Technologist at Symantec. Brad was Peter Norton's first programmer in 1985. Brad received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from California State University, Northridge. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling the world. Beth Styles, Sr. Director of Customer Success Prior to Biba, Beth was VP of Product at GoingOn where she was responsible for all aspects of the product life cycle ensuring that their clients and users were delighted and successful. Beth also worked at CubeTree where she built the product and customer success organizations and went on to lead the Social Collaboration, Social Learning and Mobile initiatives for SuccessFactors. Beth has a passion for pioneering strategic initiatives and revolutionizing the way people work together and connect. She has extensive enterprise experience and has worked at some of the leading companies in their space such as Symantec, SuccessFactors, PeopleSoft, Oracle and Vindicia. Beth holds a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of California, Irvine. When not working, Beth enjoys make action packed adventure videos of her basset hound Buddy. Eric Yoo, Co-Founder Before co-founding Biba, Eric served as a technical lead at a number of companies ranging in size from small startup to large enterprise. While working at IMLogic, a leader in the instant messaging (IM) space that was later acquired by Symantec, he was the technical lead for the protocol engine that powered all of the IMLogic products. At Symantec he led a team of engineers working on a new web security product. Eric consulted with several early stage startups before bringing his considerable expertise in that area to Biba. Eric also attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology prior to jumping into the startup world. In his free time Eric likes playing with motorcycles (his own) and dogs (other people's). Jim Matheson, Senior Director of Marketing Prior to joining Biba as the Head of Marketing, Jim drove the global marketing strategy and execution of all brand building, demand generation and communications initiatives at Blue Jeans Network. Prior to Blue Jeans, Jim built and launched the SMB go to market strategy for SuccessFactors. As Senior Director of Marketing, Jim led demand generation for the company and played a key role in SuccessFactor's rapid growth rate that resulted in the 2007 IPO, five acquisitions and ultimately the February 2012 sale to SAP for $3.4B. Earlier in his career, Jim worked as the Director of Interactive Technology & eCommerce at All Rides Inc, as well as spent time at Intuit and Sterling Software. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from California State University. On the weekends he spends time in Tahoe with his dogs, on a bike (mountain or motorcycle) and at the poker table. John D'Alessio, Co-Founder Prior to Biba John was the Director of Engineering at SuccessFactors (part of SAP) responsible for the CubeTree product. Earlier in his career John was part of a small team of engineers who built the first anti-spam router (ASR) as part of TurnTide, which was then acquired by Symantec in 2004. John joined Symantec as one of the 3 engineers who redesigned the TurnTide ASR service into the Symantec 8160 Appliance. During his 7 years at Symantec he also worked on the Mail Security (SMS) and Endpoint Protection (SEP) product lines in various engineering leadership positions. John holds a BS in Computer Science from West Chester University of Pennsylvania. When not working, John can be found sitting around a table playing No Limit Hold'Em or throwing himself out of planes. Biba Board of Directors Carlin Wiegner, CEO & Co-Founder Prior to founding Biba, Carlin started a venture backed Enterprise 2.0 startup, CubeTree, where he was the CEO. CubeTree , a collaboration service aimed at enterprise social networking, was successfully acquired by SuccessFactors, now owned by SAP. Previously Carlin was at Symantec as the VP and General Manager of Symantec's email, IM and web gateway security product lines. Carlin joined Symantec via their acquisition of Brightmail. Carlin holds a B.S. from Stanford University with a focus in Computer Science User Interface Design. In his free time, Carlin can be found building giant lego towers with his son. Carlin sits on Biba's Board of Directors. Kevin Harvey, Benchmark Capital Kevin Harvey, one of the Founding Partners of Benchmark, sits on Biba’s Board of Directors. Benchmark is an early stage venture capital firm focusing in Social, Mobile, Local and Cloud companies that disrupt various industries. Founded in 1995, the firm has offices in Menlo Park and SanFrancisco, California. Benchmark has invested in more than 250 early stage startups with a market value exceeding $100 billion. Successful Benchmark backed companies in the consumer space include eBay, Yelp, OpenTable, Twitter, and Dropbox. In the enterprise space Benchmark has invested in well known companies such as MySQL, New Relic, Red Hat, Lithium, and Zendesk. www.benchmarkcapital.com Bruce Cleveland, Interwest Partners General Partner Bruce Cleveland sits on Biba's Board of Directors and has been with InterWest since 2006. Interwest was founded in 1979, with the primary focus of providing venture capital to early-stage Healthcare and Information Technology companies. InterWest's commitment to its investors and its longstanding record of success has earned them a reputation as one of Silicon Valley's leading venture capital firms. InterWest combines over 200 years of operating and investing experience, has raised $2.8 billion, completed more than 70 IPO's, and participated in 60upside acquisitions. Other InterWest portfolio companies include Marketo, Get Satisfaction, Optimizely, Badgeville, iDoneThis and Gain Fitness. www.interwest.com Enrique Salem Enrique was most recently the president and chief executive officer of Symantec. He was also a member of Symantec’s board of directors. Before joining Symantec, he was president and CEO of Brightmail, the leading anti-spam software company that was successfully acquired by Symantec in 2004. Enrique also held executive roles at Oblix and Ask Jeeves. He joined Symantec in 1990 through the Peter Norton Computing acquisition and held a number of leadership positions, including vice president of security products and the company's first chief technology officer. In March 2011, Enrique was appointed to the President’s Management Advisory Board, which provides advice on how to implement best business practices on matters related to Federal Government management and operation, with a particular focus on productivity, the application of technology and customer service. Enrique currently serves on the board of directors of Automatic Data Processing (ADP). He received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Dartmouth College. When not working, Enrique enjoys time with his kids, cycling and skiing. Gus Tai, Trinity Ventures Trinity Ventures General Partner Gus Tai sits on Biba's Board of Directors. Trinity Ventures was founded in 1986 and is an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with passionate entrepreneurs to transform revolutionary ideas into reality. With over $1 billion under management, Trinity Ventures believes in personal engagement, mutual respect and goal alignment with the entrepreneurs. Trinity focuses on early stage and seed technology investments with particular emphasis on social commerce and entertainment, digital media, Saas, and cloud and infrastructure. Trinity Ventures has invested in companies such as Cubetree (now part of SAP), Sygate, New Relic, Starbucks, and Blue Nile. www.trinityventures.com Advisors Gary Griffiths Gary is CEO and co-founder of Trapit. As a 25-year veteran of the high-tech industry, Gary has held a number of executive roles in some of the Web's most pioneering companies. Prior to joining Trapit, Gary was president of products and technical operations at WebEx, eventually acquired by Cisco. Gary has also held numerous CEO and executive management roles at Everdream (acquired by Dell), Heat.net (acquired by Sega) and IBM. Gary also serves on the board of directors of JanRain, Inc., iPass, SGI International and Wildlands, Inc, and is Chairman of the Board for LightScape Technologies. Gary has a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the United States Naval Academy and an MS in Business Administration from the George Washington University. He served as an officer aboard nuclear fast attack submarines for five years. Aaron Levie Aaron Levie is the CEO and co-founder of Box, which he originally created as a college business project with the goal of helping people easily access their information from any location. Box was launched from Aaron's dorm room in 2005 with the help of CFO Dylan Smith. He is the visionary behind Box's product and platform strategy, which is focused on incorporating the best of traditional content management with the most effective elements of social business software. He has spoken about content and collaboration tools at events such as Fortune Brainstorm Tech, Web 2.0, Dreamforce, Accenture Global Summit, South by Southwest, and Svase. Aaron studied business at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California before taking a leave of absence. Jim Priestley Jim is currently Senior Vice President of Major Account Sales at Box. Prior to joining Box, Jim was Group Vice President at Oracle where he led the BI Products organization and managed a team of more than 200 sales professionals. Additionally, Jim has held executive sales leadership positions at SAP, Plumtree and BEA Software. He holds a degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Kara Wilson Kara is currently the Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of cybersecurity company FireEye. Prior to joining FireEye Kara was the CMO at Okta where she was responsible for all aspects of Okta's marketing strategy. Kara also held executive positions at a number of market-leading enterprise technology companies including CMO of SAP Cloud, CMO of SuccessFactors, VP of Collaboration Solutions Marketing at Cisco Systems, CMO of Network General (acquired by NetScout) and head of marketing communications at PeopleSoft. Wilson is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley where she was a Track and Field PAC-10 All-American. While she loves sports, her biggest passion is her family and watching her daughters play soccer. Lee Weiner Lee is currently the Senior Vice President of Product & Engineering at Rapid7. He is responsible for leading the direction and delivery of Rapid7’s entire product portfolio, including its award-winning solution Nexpose. In this role, he also identifies new opportunities to help Rapid7’s customers solve the complex security challenges they face. Lee has over 15 years’ experience in high-technology, most recently leading the customer care products group at LogMeIn, driving engineering, product management and product marketing. He has also held leadership roles at software security firms including Netegrity, IMlogic, and Symantec Corporation. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Massachusetts. Mike Conner Mike Conner, President of Mike Conner Consulting, has been involved in the technology marketplace for over 26 years. Most recently, Mike was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Webroot Software, Inc., where he managed the global sales strategy for both the consumer and enterprise product lines helping the company to grow to over $100M annually. Prior to Webroot, Mike was Vice President of Gateway Solution Sales at Symantec and was responsible for business unit sales over $250M. He joined Symantec after the successful acquisition of Brightmail where he was the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sale and oversaw a 250% increase of new license sales. Before joining Brightmail, Mike ran sales, marketing, technical support, finance, and HR efforts in North America for Trend Micro, serving as a company Senior Vice President and President of North American Operations. Mike helped grow North America's sales contribution from less than $10M to over $75M. A native of Illinois, Mike holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Western Illinois University. Press Contact Sales Blog Help Center Terms of Use Privacy Policy Download Sign In Copyright © 2014 Biba Systems Inc. · All Rights Reserved