About Carbonite
Carbonite launched its online backup service in May 2006. Our industry-first offer of unlimited backup space for a flat low price revolutionized the market for consumer and small business backup services. So far, we have backed up and protected more than 2.5 billion files and restored more than 160 million lost files for customers in over 100 countries.
Founded in 2005, we believe that computer users should not have to think about backup. We strive to serve as our customers' trusted partner in protecting and preserving their irreplaceable data by providing an affordable, reliable, secure and easy-to-use online backup service. Carbonite is available to consumers and small business through numerous channels, including its corporate website, major US retailers and international distributors.
Management Team
David Friend - Chairman & CEO, Co-founder
David Friend has been a successful technology entrepreneur for over 25 years. He previously co-founded five companies: Sonexis, FaxNet, Pilot Software, Computer Pictures Corporation and ARP Instruments. He has been featured in USA Today, Tech Capital, The Boston Globe, Mass HiTech, Fortune, Forbes and Tom Peter's best-selling management book, The Pursuit of Wow!
David has been a lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management and is an active supporter of music and the arts in Boston. He is a trustee (emeritus) of the New England Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, and the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
David holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Yale University and attended the Princeton University Graduate School of Engineering where he was a David Sarnoff Fellow. He is an avid marathoner, distance cyclist, windsurfer, and hiker.
Keith Cooper - President & COO
Keith W. Cooper is an experienced internet telecommunications entrepreneur, who has been a Venture Partner at VIMAC Ventures since 2002. Keith also served as President and CEO of FaxNet Corporation, which was named the #1 private telecom company in Upside Magazine's rankings of the "100 Hottest Companies" in 1999.
Before starting FaxNet, Keith was the General Manager of Trans National Communications, and spent 4 years as a Case Leader and strategic analyst at the Boston Consulting Group. Before his move to BCG, he spent 3 years as a Vice President at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
Keith is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Harvard College, where he graduated with honors and was the President of the Harvard Rugby Club. He lives outside of Boston with his two sons. He coaches baseball, is a Boy Scout leader, and enjoys golf, tennis, sailing, and global adventure travel.
Jeff Flowers - CTO, Co-founder
Jeff Flowers is a seasoned technology executive with deep IT and technical expertise. Jeff has worked with David Friend (CEO) since 1982 and co-founded Sonexis, FaxNet, Pilot Software and Computer Pictures. Jeff served as CTO of each of these companies.
In addition to the four companies he co-founded with Friend, Jeff served as VP of Development at ON Technology Corporation, a software vendor that provided groupware and utility products for Apple and Novell Netware operating environments. During Jeff's tenure, ON Technology completed its IPO.
Jeff holds a B.S. and M.S. in Information and Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and attended the Northeastern University School of Business.
Andrew Keenan - CFO & VP, Finance
Andrew has 24 years of experience providing financial expertise to groups of technology, manufacturing, and service organizations. Before joining Carbonite, Andrew served as SVP of Finance & Administration and Chief Financial Officer of Vovici Corporation. Vovici was formed by the acquisition of two enterprise software companies by a private equity firm. Before Vovici, Andrew was CFO of Silver Oak Solutions in Boston where he was instrumental in the sale of the company to CGI.
Andrew served as Corporate Controller at Synchronicity, Inc., where he managed worldwide accounting functions, raised two rounds of equity and grew revenue by more than 200%. Prior to that, Andrew was Corporate Controller at Provant, Inc. He also held senior financial positions at SystemSoft Corporation and Cadre Technologies. He started his career working as a CPA for 5 years with Deloitte & Touche.
Andrew holds a B.S. in Accountancy from Bentley College.
Bill Cunningham - EVP, Business Development
Bill Cunningham is responsible for all revenue channels. He brings 18 years of sales and sales management experience to the company. Prior to joining Carbonite, he held several senior positions at Riverdeep Interactive, the last being Vice President of Consumer Sales.
Prior to Riverdeep, Bill worked at Suplicity, a start-up focused on maximizing supply-chain ROI. He started in the computer software industry in 1988 with SoftKey, where he held the positions of Product Manager, National Sales Manager, Regional Vice President and Vice President of Sales. Upon SoftKey's acquisition of The Learning Company in 1996, Bill continued as Vice President of Sales until The Learning Company was acquired by Mattel in 2000.
Bill brings significant consumer product sales experience to the Carbonite team stemming from his has track record of placing consumer software products into the retail, licensing and OEM channels. He has successfully launched and supported such popular brands as The Print Shop, Mavis Beacon, and Calendar Creator.
Jeffrey Robison - VP, Customer Support
Jeffrey Robison has been senior executive at on-line consumer services and financial services & insurance companies for over 20 years. His most recent experience includes being President & COO of Sports Loyalty Systems, a company that provided loyalty programs to Major League Baseball teams, and VP for Customer Service & Operations at Upromise where he was responsible for customer service and brokerage processing activities.
Jeff has also held senior positions in customer service, operations and marketing at CIGNA Healthcare, NatWest Bank (Acquired by Bank of America) and Citibank. Jeff holds a Bachelors degree in BioMedical Engineering from Boston University.
Rob Rubin - VP, Engineering
Rob Rubin has over twenty years experience building and managing engineering organizations and bringing software products to market. Rob has developed programming languages and environments as a researcher at Brown, the Hebrew University and GTE Laboratories, as a developer at Lotus working on LotusScipt and Notes VIP, and as VP of Engineering at NetScheme.
He has deep search experience from FAST Search and Transfer (sold to Yahoo and Microsoft) where he was the GM of the Web division, and as a co-founder of Argo Technology which built the first desktop search tool and licensed it to Lycos as HotBot Desktop. As CTO at Cahners, a division of Reed Elsevier, Rob helped transform B2B publications into online destinations and marketplaces, and as VP of Engineering at Homeportfolio and Eons, Rob tackled the challenges of web scale and developing at web speed.
Rob holds a B.A. in Computing Science from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University.
Swami Kumaresan - VP, Marketing
Swami is responsible for marketing and product management at Carbonite. Swami joined Carbonite as its fifth employee in October 2005, but had worked with the Company as a consultant since March 2005.
Prior to Carbonite, Swami was a consultant at Fletcher Spaght, Inc. (FSI), a Boston-based market research and strategy consulting firm, where he advised technology startups on sales and marketing strategy and also served as an Associate at FSI's venture arm, Fletcher Spaght Ventures. Prior to FSI, Swami was a financial analyst at technology M&A advisor Broadview-Jeffries & Co. As a member of Broadview's semiconductor practice, Swami helped close five transactions including NVIDIA's acquisition of MediaQ.
Swami holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Yale University and serves on the Board of the Yale Club of Boston.
Board of Directors
Bill Kerrigan
Bill Kerrigan is currently a Director of and/or advisor to a number of privately held subscription businesses including Carbonite, White Sky, RatePoint and identityTruth.
Previously, Bill was Executive Vice President of McAfee's global consumer business. Under his leadership, McAfee's user base increased twelve-fold to more than 23 million users which resulted in annual revenues of over $400M.
Prior to McAfee, Bill served as CEO of Shaman Corporation, an early software-as-a-service company and as SVP of Sales, Marketing and Technology Services at Corporate Software, a global software and IT services provider.
Bill also held various leadership positions during his nearly twenty-year-long tenure at IBM. He holds a B.S. in Economics from Miami University.
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson has served as the CEO of several software companies over the past 20 years, most recently as Chairman and CEO of Geac. Under Bill's direction, Geac grew from a small hardware manufacturer to the largest software company in Canada with revenues of approximately CDN $1B. Prior to Geac, Bill was President & CEO of On-Line Software (NYSE), President & COO of Pansophic Systems (NYSE), and CEO of Pilot Software (recruited by David Friend).
Bill was a member of the White House Conference Task Force for Information Services of the National Commission of Libraries and Information Sciences during the Carter administration and has also been a board member of ADAPSO (a software industry association). Recently, Bill has served on the Boards of several public and private companies including Manugistics (NASDAQ), Geac (TSE), Catalyst International (NASDAW), HealthGate Data (NASDAQ) and RTI, Inc.
Bill holds a B.A. in Chemistry from Swarthmore College, an M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton School, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Rice University. Earlier in his career, Bill was a National Science Foundation Fellow in Economics, an Assistant Professor of Economics at Washington University and has taught economics and finance at both the University of Texas and the University of Missouri.
Pravin Vazirani
Pravin joined Menlo Ventures in 2001. He began his career at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he designed digital receivers for satellite communications. Later he worked as an engineer for Pacific Communication Sciences, Inc. and as a product manager for ADC Telecommunications in their Wireless Systems Group. Most recently, he evaluated investment opportunities for @Ventures, the venture capital subsidiary of CMGI.
Pravin represents Menlo Ventures on the boards of Credant Technologies, Ingrian Networks, Reactrix Systems, Sepaton and WiQuest. He is also involved with the firm's investments in Centrality Communications, NewScale and Q1 Labs. Pravin is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Business (M.B.A.).
Todd Krasnow
Todd Krasnow is an accomplished entrepreneur, consumer sales & marketing executive and early stage venture investor. Currently at Highland Capital Partners, Todd is a Director on the Boards of several privately-held companies including OnForce, and is a member of the Board of Advisors at Harvard Business School's Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship.
Previously, Todd was a member of the original management team at Staples and served as its EVP of Sales and Marketing. During his tenure at Staples, Todd won a gold "Clio" award for the best retail advertising in the United States while the company reached over $7 billion in sales. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an A.B. in Chemistry from Cornell University.