Board of Directors

Spencer Tall

Managing Director at Allegis Capital

Spencer Tall is managing director at Allegis Capital and previously a co-founder and General Partner with APV Technology Partners. Spencer also co-founded Asia Pacific Ventures LLC, a consulting and advisory service firm where, over a 13-year period, he assisted more than 50 technology companies in their Asia expansion plans.

Spencer currently serves on the boards of IMVU, Allegiance, Collinear, Symplified and AvaLAN Wireless. Prior investments include E.piphany (EPNY), Web TV (acquired by MSFT), One Touch Systems (acquired by Hughes Satellite), Locality (acquired by e2Grow), and North Systems.

Spencer Tall on why listening to customers is critical

Greg Butterfield

Managing Partner, SageCreek Partners

Greg Butterfield is the managing partner at SageCreek Partners where he actively helps numerous accounts better execute on a variety of operational and corporate strategy areas. He uses his experience as a private and public company CEO to help companies with their go to market, recruiting, finance, and strategic business development initiatives.

Before founding SageCreek, Greg was the Group President of the Altiris and Server and Storage business units for Symantec. He joined Symantec through the company's acquisition of Altiris in April 2007. At Altiris, he most recently served as chairman of the board, president and CEO. Greg has more than 23 years of executive-level experience in the software industry. After joining Altiris in February 2000, he guided the company to eight consecutive years of revenue growth and profitability overseeing growth in revenue from $3M to over $250M. Butterfield was the driving force behind eleven acquisitions and he successfully completed an IPO in 2002 in the face of a notable economic downturn. The IPO was followed in August of 2003 with a successful secondary offering. Prior to joining Altiris, he served as executive vice president of worldwide sales at Vinca Corporation where he increased revenue from $1.7 million to $24 million in less than three years and positioned the company to be sold to Legato Systems for $92 million in 1999. He also held executive level positions at Legato, Novell and WordPerfect Corporation.

David Boyce

CEO, Fundly

Dave is the CEO of Fundly, an online platform that powers fundraising for political campaigns, universities, and non-profits by leveraging the power of social networks. Dave is known for his ability to think outside of the box and inspire those he works with to think creatively and non-linearly, and then to bring that new thinking and energy to tired industries with determination and practicality. Prior to Fundly, Dave was an early executive at ProfitLogic, a company that created and defined the retail price and inventory optimization space. Oracle acquired ProfitLogic in 2005, where Dave ran global retail products for four years. Dave began his career in strategy consulting for Monitor group. His avocation is music—he co-founded BYU Vocal Point, the 2006 World Champions of Collegiate A Cappella. Dave has an Honors Degree in German Literature from BYU and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Todd Rowe

Head of Worldwide Channel Sales, Google

Todd Rowe Rowe leads the Google channel sales organization globally, which is one of the company’s fastest-growing sales organizations worldwide. He is responsible for selling Google AdWords, video, and mobile products to small and mid-sized companies through third parties in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America.

Todd has 20 years experience in the hardware and software industries with sales, marketing and general management experience. He is experienced in building high-growth businesses, having built and managed mid-market oriented businesses in domestic and international markets. Before joining Google, Todd was the Group Vice President and General Manager of SAP Business Objects' Mid-Market business unit, responsible for Sales, Marketing, Product Management and Strategy, growing the business to over $500 million. Todd began his career at IBM in direct sales, where he achieved the Top 1% of Sales nationwide. He has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude from the University of Utah.

Todd Rowe on Why Companies Succeed with Allegiance

Scott Irwin

General Partner, El Dorado Ventures

As General Partner at El Dorado Ventures, Scott focuses on software and infrastructure investments. Scott is a board member of Allegiance, Bridgelux, Convio (NASDAQ: CNVO), Tower Cloud, Voxify and Webtrends. At El Dorado, he was previously a board member at MediaQ (acquired by nVidia), RipCode (acquired by RGB Networks) and Torrex (acquired by Applied Materials). Prior to El Dorado, Scott held software engineering and product marketing positions with Accenture (NYSE: ACN), where he managed enterprise software products targeting the energy industry and served as an industry analyst for emerging Internet technologies and vendors. His early career experience was with Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU). Scott received a Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA, where he was a Venture Fellow and Welsh Scholar.

Douglas Schrier

General Partner, Rembrandt Venture Partners

Prior to joining Rembrandt, Doug was at Argo Global Capital where he was a Senior Partner. Doug has been involved in funding, managing, and developing technology companies for over 20 years. His prior experience includes being Senior Vice President for Acquisitions and Strategic Ventures at SAIC. Doug has been a member of private and public boards including; Solect Technology Group (acquired by Amdocs), Multum Information Systems (acquired by Cerner Corporation), VocalData (acquired by Tekelec), Conita (acquired by Avaya), ODS networks (ODSN/NASDAQ), Ceon, Narad Networks, Digital Bridges, World Wide Packets, Cosmocom and uReach. Doug currently sits on the boards of Electric Cloud, Proximetry, and Zenprise. Doug received his MBA from Columbia Business School and his undergraduate degree in Economics/Pre-Med from DePauw University.