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Board of Directors
Kevin Klustner
John Laing
Mark Silverman
Ted Schlein
Trevor Traina
Kevin Klustner | President and Chief Executive Officer
As President and CEO of Verdiem Corporation, Kevin Klustner is a technology industry veteran bringing over 20 years of experience leading and growing organizations to achieve their strategic objectives. He is responsible for overseeing the company's daily operations including product development, sales, solutions delivery, marketing, and administrative functions along with his executive team.
Prior to joining Verdiem, Kevin was the Managing Director of Coastal Environmental Systems and President and CEO of Sightward, a venture backed software startup in Bellevue. As CEO of Sightward, Kevin raised three rounds of venture financing and built a technical, marketing and sales team that developed and launched enterprise data analysis software. Kevin has also served as the Chief Operating Officer for WRQ, a PC network software company and held various management positions at Hewlett Packard. He has worked and lived extensively in Europe and Asia throughout his career.
He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from Stanford University where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
John Laing
John Laing has a 35-year history in the technology industry, having held senior management positions with industry leaders in multiple markets: content discovery with Inxight; security with Symantec; desktop operating systems with Apple; and document printing with Xerox. While serving as the executive vice president of worldwide sales for Symantec from 1989 through 1997, he managed revenue growth from $15 million to $600 million and orchestrated several high-profile acquisitions, which helped to advance the company to its current successful position. As president and CEO at Inxight, John was instrumental in a company turnaround, growing revenue by 65 percent and expanding its worldwide channels. Throughout his career, John has raised money from respected venture institutions including Vantage Point Venture Partners, Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital and Reed Elsevier Ventures among others.
Most recently, John served as CEO of Reactivity, a provider of XML-enabled networking solutions. In less than a year he restructured and positioned the company for sale. In March of 2007 Reactivity sold to Cisco for $135 million.
In addition to joining the board of Verdiem, John also serves on the board of Workshare and Job Train, a non profit organization in the Silicon Valley.
Mark Silverman | Managing Director
Catamount Ventures
Mark Silverman has spent the past 15 years immersed in early stage technology businesses. Most recently, Mark served as President and CEO of Bocada from 1999 to 2006. He led the company from inception to the acquisition of 200 leading corporate customers and more than $8.0 million annual revenue. Mark continues to serve as Chairman of Bocada’s Board of Directors.
Prior to Bocada, Mark was Vice President, Business Development and Heath Services and General Counsel for drugstore.com. At drugstore.com, Mark was responsible for building key relationships with industry leaders, including Rite Aid, Amazon, GNC, PCS, CIGNA and WellPoint, as well as for helping the company to raise more than $300 million from venture capital funds, corporate partners and the public markets.
Prior to drugstore.com, Mark was a Partner at Venture Law Group in Menlo Park, CA. In addition to providing legal and business services for dozens of start-ups, Mark was one of three partners who lead Venture Law Group’s successful venture capital investing practice. Prior to Venture Law Group, Mark practiced law for several years at Davis, Polk & Wardwell in New York, New York. Silverman holds a J.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles and a B.A. in History from the University of California at Berkeley.
Ted Schlein | Managing Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Ted Schlein joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in November 1996. His focus has been in the area of enterprise security and applications, infrastructure and services. Ted managed the KPCB Java Fund, formed to invest in Java technology-based companies and related Internet, Intranet, networking and communications companies. He serves on the board of 3VR, 41st Parameter, ArcSight, Fortify Software, IronPlanet, Ketera Technologies, Oakley Networks, Verdiem and oversees the company's interests in Bit 9 and LifeLock. Ted is the Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and is the former President of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists (WAVC). Additionally, Ted serves on the Board of Overseers for the University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Ted came to KPCB with significant experience in enterprise software business management at Symantec Corporation. As Vice President of Networking and Client Server Technology, he was responsible for overseeing the marketing and development of enterprise products. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Symantec's European business development and as Vice President of Symantec's Data Management Group. Mr. Schlein is credited with establishing Symantec in both the utilities and antivirus markets by starting and building these business units. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Trevor Traina | Entrepreneur and Private Investor
Trevor Traina is an entrepreneur and private investor.
He is Founder and Chairman of DriverSide, a venture-funded startup in the online automotive category. He is also Chairman and Founder of SchemaLogic, Inc., a venture-funded enterprise software pioneer in Business Semantics Management.
Most recently he was Chairman of StepUp Commerce, an internet network for off-line retailers. (Sold to Intuit in September of 2006.) Trevor was also a Group Manager in Microsoft's MSN Internet division. Prior to Microsoft, he was the President and Founder of CompareNet, Inc., the leading buyer's guide on the Internet. (Sold to Microsoft in March of 1999.)
Trevor began his career in marketing as a brand manager for Seagram's in New York.
Trevor serves on the boards of DriverSide, SchemaLogic, Inc., Verdiem Corp., MyETone, and Swanson Vineyards. He also serves on six charitable boards including the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Gladstone Institute for medical research. He has been quoted in Forbes, Business Week, Time, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and other leading publications.
He holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton, a graduate degree in political science from Oxford and a master's in business administration from Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
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