Black Duck Software Board of Directors

Black Duck Software - Board of Directors

• Rob Bearden, SpringSource
• Larry Bohn, General Catalyst Partners
• Douglas Levin, Company Founder
• Jim Matheson, Flagship Ventures
• Dave Power, Power Strategy
• Tim Yeaton, Black Duck Software

Rob Bearden,  Until its recent acquisition by VMWare, Rob Bearden was President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of SpringSource. Rob has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry, with a track record for building strong, global sales organizations and operations.

Before joining SpringSource, Bearden served as an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Benchmark Capital, a leading venture capital firm based in the Silicon Valley. He was also chief operating officer for OpenSpan, a desktop integration software provider, responsible for global sales, marketing, business development and administration.

Most notably, Bearden previously served as chief operating officer for JBoss, an open source middleware company, where he helped architect and execute the company’s business model and managed its worldwide operations.

Prior to JBoss/Red Hat, Bearden was president of the Americas at i2 Technologies, a supply chain software provider, overseeing operations in the United States, Canada, Latin America and Mexico. He also served as senior vice president of worldwide sales for Manhattan Associates and spent six years at Oracle Corporation in various executive positions.

Larry Bohn, Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners, currently serves as a board member of Optaros, Choicestream, Ozvision, AEB, Demandware, and Qumas, all active General Catalyst investments. Prior to joining General Catalyst, he was the Chairman, President and CEO of NetGenesis, a market leading software and analytic solutions provider. He led NetGenesis from 1997 to 2001, overseeing the company's business, product strategy and direction. In February 2000, Larry took the company public (NTGX) and in December 2001, NetGenesis was acquired by SPSS, Inc. (SPSS). Prior to his role as CEO and President of NetGenesis, Larry was President of PC DOCS, Inc., a leading developer of document management software for enterprise networks. He led the company's highly successful public offering.

Prior to joining PC DOCS, Larry was Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Interleaf, Inc., where he defined and implemented the corporate strategy that put its electronic publishing solutions in a top market position and helped grow the business to more than $120 million in revenue. He is also a founder and the first president of OASIS, the industry consortium promoting XML adoption. Larry has been a board member and advisor to a number of private technology companies, including Venetica, Enigma Inc., Metreo, and Bidder's Edge. Larry is an honors graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and holds a masters of arts degree in Structural Linguistics from Clark University.

Doug Levin, founded Black Duck Software in 2002 and previously served as its Chief Executive Officer and President.

Doug is a software industry veteran, serial CEO and entrepreneur. Before Black Duck, Doug served as the CEO of MessageMachines and X-Collaboration Software Corporation, two VC-backed companies based in Boston. From 1995 to 1999, he worked as an interim executive or consultant to CMGI Direct, IBM/Lotus Development Corporation, Oracle Software Corporation and several other software companies. From 1987 to 1995, Doug held various senior management positions with Microsoft Corporation including heading up worldwide licensing for corporate purchases of non-OEM Microsoft software products.

Prior to Microsoft, Doug held senior management positions with two startups in California and served as an IT and financial consultant to an economic development corporation. Doug is a visiting lecturer on executive management and entrepreneurship topics at Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan and UNC Flagler School of Business.

Jim Matheson joined Flagship Ventures in 2000 and focuses on creating and funding new ventures in the sustainability, clean technology and special technologies (e.g. nano-technology, materials and software & system) arenas. He brings to this task over 20 years of technology and leadership experience across a variety of organizations and roles designing, engineering and deploying sophisticated technology platforms.

In addition to Black Duck, Jim serves on the boards of Flagship portfolio companiesMascoma Energy Corporation, and Novomer, and is Chairman of the Board of Genstruct and Ze-gen. He was previously a director of e-Dialog (acquired by GSI Commerce), Yantra (acquired by Sterling Commerce / SBC) and Flamenco Networks (acquired by SOA Software). Jim is on the Board of New York-based hedge fund Black Horse Capital, Common Impact (a non-profit providing IT services to other non-profits), and the Center for Women & Enterprise, and is actively involved in numerous entrepreneurial and venture capital organizations including the New England Clean Energy Council, the MIT Enterprise Forum, The Deshpande Center, and The Service Academy Business Network.

Jim earned an MBA from The Harvard Business School, a Bachelor of Science (with honors) from the United States Naval Academy and retired as a Commander in the US Naval Reserves.

Dave Power is an independent consultant representing Volition Capital on the board of Black Duck Software. Mr. Power, President of Power Strategy, is a strategic advisor to technology companies.  In his prior role as Partner at Fidelity Ventures he served on the boards of EnterpriseDB, Ping Identity, Polyserve (acquired by Hewlett Packard), Red Brick Health,  SpikeSource, Vibes Media and Ventana. He has also served on the board of Ximian (acquired by Novell).  Before joining Fidelity Ventures, Power was a venture partner with Charles River Ventures where he served on the board of Ximian (acquired by Novell).

Dave's prior experience includes a number of technology industry operating roles. Dave was CEO of Novera Software (acquired by Mercator Software), a pioneer in web application integration. Prior to Novera, he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development at RSA Security. Dave was also the Vice President and General Manager for PC-Unix Integration Products at Sun Microsystems. Prior to Sun, he was Vice President of Mercer Management where he co-founded the firm's technology industry practice, providing strategic advice to Apple Computer, Lotus Development, Digital Equipment and other technology leaders.

Dave earned his BS and MS degrees in engineering from Tufts University and an MBA from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He also serves as a Trustee at the Perkins School for the Blind.

Tim Yeaton brings 30 years of software and technology management experience to his role as President and CEO of Black Duck. Prior to joining Black Duck, Tim was Chief Marketing Officer at EqualLogic until its $1.4B acquisition by Dell in 2008, and as Dell’s Vice President of the Nashua (N.H.) Design Center, he led the integration of the two companies and managed Dell’s operations in the region. Prior to EqualLogic, Tim spent several years at Red Hat, the leading provider of open source software solutions, as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing & General Manager of Enterprise Products. At Red Hat, Tim was instrumental in expanding its business into the developer and middleware markets with acquisitions of JBoss and MetaMatrix, and built go-to-market partnerships with companies including IBM, HP, Dell, Sun and several other strategic partnerships as well. Tim was previously President and CEO of Avaki, a venture-backed data management software company that was acquired by Sybase. Before Avaki he was Senior Vice President & General Manager of the Server Products Division at Macromedia, via its acquisition of Allaire where he was previously Senior Vice President of Products. Tim spent the early part of his career at Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation, most recently as Vice President and General Manager of Compaq’s UNIX/Linux Software Division.

In addition to the Black Duck Board of Directors, Tim currently sits on the Board of Directors of the N.H. High Technology Council, and Stonebridge Country Club. He was previously on the boards of Avaki Corporation, The Open Group, and the Open Software Foundation. Tim holds an M.B.A. from Babson College, and a B.S., summa cum laude, from Roger Williams University.