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Michael Parham, Founding Partner
mike.parham@catalysta.com
Mike has over 25 years of experience building and managing fast growing technology-based companies. He is a cofounder of Catalysta Partners, LLC, and of EquipMD (acquired by Neoforma in 2000). From 1999-2007, Mike led Catalysta engagements to launch a number of early stage companies including InvoiceLink (acquired by BCE Emergis in 2000), MediaBin (acquired by Interwoven in 2004), Constructware (acquired by Autodesk in 2005), Revenue Technologies (acquired by Oracle in 2007) and Advectis (acquired by Xerox in 2007). Through liquidity events, these Catalysta clients have created over $350 million in shareholder value.

From 1990 to 1997, Mike was VP of Sales of XcelleNet Inc., a systems management software company, and built a sales team that increased annual revenues from 0 to $60 million. In 1995, XcelleNet was ranked #24 in the INC 500 list of "America's Fastest Growing Private Companies" and went public on the Nasdaq. As Senior VP of Business Development, Mike helped negotiate the sale of the company to Sterling Commerce in 1998 for $280 million. Prior to XcelleNet, Mike served from 1985 to 1988 as Director of Sales of Sales Technologies, a pioneer in CRM solutions. The company was acquired by Dun and Bradstreet in 1989. A frequent guest speaker at Emory's Goizueta Business School and the Institute for Continuing Legal Education (ICLE), Mike holds a BA from Davidson College and an MBA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is a member of the board of directors of Reveille Software and of Compliance360, Inc.

Eric S. Bleke, Founding Partner
eric.bleke@catalysta.com
Eric is an entrepreneur and sales executive with a 20-year career in sales, sales management, and marketing. With experience in ERP, Internet security, Internet infrastructure, and CRM, Eric has built and executed strategies with several early-stage and mid-stage companies to build revenue, market presence and significant shareholder value. Eric was a co-founder of Technologic, a pioneer in Internet security appliances, and served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing from 1992 to 1997. In 1999, Technologic was acquired by eSoft, a NASDAQ-traded Internet infrastructure company. Eric was responsible for launching the major accounts initiative at XcelleNet and served as Vice President of Sales and Vice President of Marketing for Enterprise Computer systems where he was responsible for increasing revenues to over $16,000,000 and achieving annual sales growth of 35%.

As a founding partner of Catalysta Partners, Eric has led engagements at FirstWave, EquipMD, Netuitive, ServiceCentral, Software Solutions, 180Commerce and iLumen focusing on launch, re-launch and business development strategies. Eric holds a MBA and BS with honors from UGA.

Steve McGraw, Partner
steve.mcgraw@catalysta.com
With a career spanning 19 years in the software and hardware industry, Steve has experience with ERP/CRM solutions, healthcare, internet infrastructure and web services. Prior to joining Catalysta, Steve served as Vice President of Sales at 2order.com from July 1997 to October 2000 where he ran direct sales, global sales channels, business alliances and professional services. From the base of strategic business alliances he developed, Steve identified and negotiated the successful sale of 2order.com to Primus Knowledge Solutions (NASDAQ: PKSI) in 2000 for $90 Million. Prior to 2order.com, Steve was the Vice President of Sales at Onewave, Inc., a publicly traded internet software company based in Boston. Steve began his career as a development engineer for Management Science America and has held other direct sales positions for Data General and for DataLogix, Inc., a supplier of ERP software to the process industries.

As a Catalysta Partner, Steve has led the engagements at Healthflash, Primus Knowledge Solutions and Flamenco. He has a B.B.A in Finance with a concentration in MIS from the University of Georgia.

Shep Parke, Partner
shep.parke@catalysta.com
Shep brings 25 years of high impact sales and marketing consulting experience across multi-billion dollar industries including Consumer Packaged Goods, Consumer Services, Complex Information Technology, Information Services, Manufacturing, Retail and Transportation Logistics.

Shep began his career with Procter & Gamble where he built and ran a $40MM Paper Products business unit in Georgia. Working closely with the founders of Sales Technologies, Shep helped scale this startup to $60MM and 600 associates, including opening European sales offices in London and Frankfurt. For WANG Laboratories, Shep helped lead the successful restructuring of a hardware-based to services business, culminating in successful emergence from Chapter 11. For KPMG Consulting, Shep helped build the first Big 5 CRM consulting practice growing to $50MM in revenue in just two years. For Andersen Consulting, and now Accenture, Shep built high impact, strategic client + alliance relationships with leading information services companies including Seisint (now Lexis-Nexis Risk Management), Acxiom and TransUnion. For Accenture, Shep built a new global consulting practice Accenture Customer Data Management into a 200 person, $100MM annual revenue business over five years.

As a Catalysta Partner, Shep helps clients crystallize complex value propositions, articulate them crisply-- often in a single page; and then engage effectively with key, targeted senior buyers and influencers across industries and Fortune 100 enterprises globally.

Michael Jongkind, Partner
michael.jongkind@catalysta.com
Michael has been focused on technology business development throughout his career. As founder and President of Religent, Inc., a life-sciences software company, he has steered the company to over 60% market share for their sales automation solution. Michael was a founder and general partner with a successful seed stage venture capital firm located in Research Triangle Park, NC (now Hatteras Seed Fund). He served as VP of Business Development at SND, a software integration firm focused on the needs of the pharmaceutical industry. At SND, he was responsible for business partnerships and for the search process that led to SND's eventual sale to e-Presence (formerly Banyan Systems) for $32 million in cash and stock. Prior to his engagement with SND, Michael was a co-founder and VP of E-Comm, where he focused on business development and revenue generation from the company's inception in 1993 until its acquisition by XcelleNet in 1997. Michael holds a B.A. in Telecommunications from Indiana University.

In 2006 Michael spun out a clinical decision support technology from Duke University and received initial funding from an STTR grant. This technology spin out has become the basis of Clinica, Inc. a clinical decision support services company based in Research Triangle Park, NC.