Board
Dan Finnigan
Chief Executive Officer, Jobvite
Dan has spent his career launching and growing Internet businesses with a focus on the recruitment market. Previously, Dan served as Senior Vice President of Yahoo! and General Manager of Yahoo! HotJobs, doubling revenue between 2002 and 2007. At Yahoo, Dan established Yahoo and HotJobs’ partnership with a consortium of over 700 newspapers, today representing 41 percent of total Sunday circulation in the U.S.
Prior to Yahoo!, he led the creation of Knight Ridder Digital, the Internet company of the world’s second largest newspaper publisher, serving as President and CEO. For Knight Ridder, Dan led its joint acquisition of CareerBuilder with Tribune, serving on CareerBuilder’s Board for three years. Prior, to joining Knight Ridder, Dan helped launch, and eventually led as CEO, Smartpages.com (now Yellowpages.com) for SBC/ATT. Dan holds an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and a B.A. in Communication Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.
James F. Watson
Managing General Partner, CMEA Capital
Jim is Managing General Partner at CMEA Capital and is on the Board of Directors of Apriso, HassoPlattner Ventures, iSuppli, LiveOps, MailExpress, Amitive, Odyssey Logistics, Pixazza, Schooner Technologies, SpikeSource, TrueDemand and Untangle.
Prior to joining CMEA, Jim was a founder and entrepreneur. He founded Skyway Systems, a high technology services company. He was company President and leader behind the supply chain strategy that twice landed Skyway on the Inc. Magazine list of fastest growing U.S. companies. Inc. Magazine also named Jim as one of the Entrepreneurs of the Year. Skyway, with over 1,300 employees and revenues above $100 million, was subsequently acquired by Union Pacific Corporation (UPN). Prior to Skyway, Mr. Watson was with IBM's large computer systems division.
Jim graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland and served five years as a Navy pilot.
Hatch Graham
Managing Director, ATA Ventures
Hatch is a co–founder and Managing Director of ATA Ventures. Following formation of the firm in early 2003, Hatch has made investments in telecom, enterprise, semiconductor, and software companies. He currently serves as a Director on the Boards of Synfora, Actelis, FastScale, Rivulet, VMIX and Yottamark.
Hatch blends a unique and celebrated background in public and private companies with extensive venture experience – his six years as a Managing Director of ATA Ventures is coupled with former experience through the 1990’s and early–2000’s supporting U.S. Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, Accel Partners, Sevin–Rosen Funds and CommVenture Partners in the process of evaluating companies/technologies and providing industry expertise to related Boards.
Hatch has been a recipient of Idaho State University’s Professional Achievement Award, where he graduated in 1982 with a B.S. Engineering degree and currently serves on the ISU College of Engineering Advisory Committee.
Jesper Schultz
Founder and Board Observer
Jesper has 20 years of experience hiring world class teams and delivering quality software products. He founded Jobvite to solve problems that growing businesses confront in attracting and hiring the best people. As CTO, Jesper co-founded Voice Media Lab, specializing in voice control of entertainment systems. He served as Vice President of Engineering at Mediabolic and held engineering and management positions at Borland International. Jesper holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from The Technical University of Denmark.
