Board of Directors « SchemaLogic

Board of Directors

Trevor Traina — Chairman of the Board, SchemaLogic

Trevor Traina is an entrepreneur and private investor. Most recently he was a group manager in Microsoft’s MSN Internet division. Previously, he was the president and founder of Compare.Net, the leading buyer’s guide on the Internet. Media Technology Ventures, Intel and GE Capital backed the company, which was founded in 1996. Trevor sold his company to Microsoft in March of 1999.

Trevor began his career in marketing as a brand manager for Seagram’s in New York. 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. Trevor is chairman of SchemaLogic, is affiliated with three venture capital firms, serves on several corporate and charitable boards including the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and has been quoted in Forbes, Business Week, Time, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and other leading publications.

Jeff Dirks — President and Chief Executive Officer

Jeff Dirks is a hard-charging leader with a track record of success in both early-stage companies and established market leaders. He has an extensive background in operational execution spanning strategy, enterprise sales and services, distributed enterprise-system software engineering and financial operations.

From 1998 to 2003 Jeff served in various executive capacities at CapitalStream, including president and chief operating officer, where he architected the business and technical strategy that sparked company growth and market share leadership. Jeff led CapitalStream’s push into the commercial/retail banking sector developing the industry’s first ASP-based Commercial Finance Automation Platform, including winning and servicing accounts such as Bank of America, Fleet Boston Financial, Merrill Lynch, Siemens Credit and Bank of the West.

Prior to CapitalStream, Jeff was vice president of product delivery at HK Systems, a leading supply chain management software company. From 1992 to 1998, Jeff rapidly advanced at FourGen software, progressing from development team lead, group product manager and director of consulting before serving as vice president of engineering and executive director for General Electric Supply’s worldwide supply chain management upgrade. Jeff began his career in enterprise IT at IBM as a software engineer. He also served four years in U.S. Army Military Intelligence in West Berlin. Jeff earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Washington.

David Campbell — Vice President, Principal Investments Area,
Goldman Sachs

David Campbell is a Vice President of Goldman Sachs’ Principal Investment Area focused on enterprise technology investment across stage. He also serves on the boards of Surgient and Terracotta.

For the 10 years prior to joining the technology investment group, David Campbell held a number of senior roles within Goldman’s Technology Group, including global infrastructure architecture, and global enterprise storage. He was elected Technology Fellow in 2002 for his role in developing the firm’s technology. He started his career working on a number of industry and military projects, focused on operating systems and real-time control systems. In 1990, he moved to Japan to work in the Fujitsu super computer R&D labs.

In 1994, he joined Goldman Sachs in Japan managing their systems in Asia; relocating to NY to take on the global architecture role in 1998. David Campbell holds both a BE, Electrical Engineering and BA, Japanese from Queensland University, Australia.

Tim Porter — Partner

Tim is a Partner at Madrona Venture Group, a venture capital firm with over $670 million under management focused on early-stage technology investments in the Pacific Northwest. Tim is primarily focused on investments in the software, infrastructure, and wireless sectors. Tim joined Madrona in 2006 and currently also serves on the boards of PetraVM and Z2Live, and is a board observer for Apptio, ExtraHop Networks, Skytap, and Smartsheet.

Prior to joining Madrona, Tim was a key member of Corporate Development at Microsoft, where he shared responsibilities for sourcing, structuring, and negotiating Microsoft’s acquisitions, strategic investments, and joint ventures. While at Microsoft, Tim focused on enterprise software, security, and wireless and closed 14 transactions for over $850 million. Notable transactions included Microsoft’s acquisitions of Softricity, FrontBridge Technologies, and ProClarity. Earlier in his career, Tim worked for broadband satellite start-up Teledesic, spending part of his time there working for Craig McCaw’s Eagle River Investments.

Tim received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.