Company - Board of Directors

Board of Directors

Jack Sweeney

Jack Sweeney is President and CEO of Apparent Networks.  He is responsible for setting the Company’s strategic direction and leading its growth as a provider of solutions for effective monitoring and management of converged networks and the Web-enabled applications that depend on them.

Jack has a proven track record of entrepreneurial success in managing growth companies and capital investments in information technology markets.  Most recently he was president and CEO of Network Intelligence Corp., which was acquired by EMC for $175 million in 2006.  Post-acquisition, he served as Vice President of mergers and acquisitions for EMC.  Earlier in his career, Jack was president and CEO of Stargus (acquired by C-Cor, Inc.), CEO of EPiCON (acquired by Nortel for $450 million), and CEO of Bell Atlantic Network Integration, which grew to $330 million in revenues under his leadership.  He also spent four years as a General Partner with Prism Venture Partners, a $1.1 billion early stage venture capital firm.

Bradford D. Woloson

Mr. Woloson is a General Partner for JMI Equities, based in Baltimore, MD.  He serves on the boards of directors of Aptela, Inc., Axeda Corporation, Click Tactics, Inc., Eloqua Corporation, Empathica, Inc., Harmony Information Systems, Inc., Managed Objects Solutions, Inc., Panaroma Software LTD., and Unica Corporation.  Mr. Woloson’s past investment experience includes Astrum Software Corporation, NEON Systems, Inc., Network Intelligence Corporation, Primax Recoveries, Inc., Qiave Corporation and Transcentive, Inc.

Prior to joining JMI in 1994, Mr. Woloson was a Financial Analyst in the Technology Group at Alex, Brown, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and public equity financing.  Prior to Alex, Brown, Mr. Woloson was a Fixed Income Analyst at Kidder, Peabody International, Inc in London. 

Mr. Woloson received his B.A. from Harvard University

J. Benjamin Nye

Mr. Nye is a Managing Director for Bain Capital Ventures.  Prior to joining Bain Capital Ventures in 1994, Mr. Nye was a SVP at Veritas Software.  Prior to Veritas, he was COO and CFO of Precise Software Solutions, where he helped build Precise from a $10MM revenue private company to a $100MM revenue public company, acquired by Veritas for $600MM.  Earlier in his career, Mr. Nye was a Principal at Allied Capital, a public investment company.  He has also worked in the U.S. Treasury Department for Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and Robert Rubin and as a consultant for Mercer Management Consulting.

Mr. Nye attended Harvard University and Harvard Business School where he graduated with honors.

Andrew Lugsdin

Mr. Lugsdin is a Director for BDC Venture Capital.  Prior to joining BDC Venture Capital, Mr Lugsdin was the founder and President of a consulting firm for early stage high tech companies, providing strategic planning and development services.  Previously, he helped grow a Vancouver professional web services firm into a Canadian leader in his role as Vice President of Sales and Client Strategy.  Earlier in his career, Mr. Lugsdin has worked as a software engineer at Nortel and as a consultant at DMR Group.

Mr Lugsdin holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics and in Computer Science from McGill University.

Irfhan Rajani

Irfhan Rajani is a cofounder and former President & CEO of Apparent Networks. He is a technology visionary who has built his reputation with the successful formation of three ventures over the past 16 years. Early in his career, he co-founded Zentra, a network storage integration firm. In the mid-1990s he co-founded TeleBackup Systems, which developed software that enabled off-site computer backup over the Internet. In 1999, TeleBackup was sold to Veritas Software for in excess of US $143 million.

One year later, Irfhan co-founded Apparent Networks. With Irfhan as President and CEO, Apparent Networks was recognized as a Deloitte Fast 50 Company to Watch and recipient of BCTIA’s Excellence in Product Innovation Award. During 2002, the company completed the largest venture capital financing for a new Canadian software company. Today, Apparent Networks counts many of the world’s largest technology companies as customers.

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