Board Members
Chris Golec – Founder
Chris Golec founded Demandbase in 2006. Since that time he has led the company, bringing over 20 years of experience and a successful entrepreneurial track record. Chris started his first company in the mid 90's to help large enterprises overcome the challenges purchasing and engineering groups faced in managing their global supplier base. After building significant momentum in the marketplace, Supplybase was acquired by 12 Technologies (ITWO) in 2000 as part of the largest software merger in history. Chris then started a consulting practice helping companies build and manage world-class demand generation operations. The success of the practice evolved into Demandbase, Inc. with the vision of transforming the way B2B companies identify, reach, and convert new customers online. Prior to his success as a software entrepreneur, Chris spent 10 years with GE and DuPont in global marketing, sales and engineering. He earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Michigan State University and his MBA from Boston University.
Anthony Lee – Director
Anthony Lee is a General Partner of Altos Ventures, focusing on investments in the areas of infrastructure, Internet and enterprise software. Anthony currently serves as a director of Accelovation, CrownPeak, Demandbase, GuardianEdge, and Xignite. Before joining Altos Ventures, he served as Vice President of Marketing for Evolve (EVLV, later acquired by Primavera) where he developed and executed a turnaround strategy that resulted in a successful IPO. Anthony served as Vice President of Marketing for social search pioneer Clip2.com and co-founded Signature Wines, a national distributor of private-labeled wines. Previously, Anthony was a strategic consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he worked with clients in the telecommunications and pharmaceutical industries. Anthony received his MBA from Stanford University and earned his B.A. in Politics and Economics from Princeton University.
Dennis Stradford – Director
Dennis Stradford has more than 35 years in the high tech industry leading global companies to success. After starting his career in sales for IBM, Dennis joined Flextronics (NASDAQ: FLEX) where he led the growth from $40 million to $2+ billion per year and an IPO as the company's senior vice president of Sales and Marketing. After leaving Flextronics, Dennis entered the software industry at Supplybase where he successfully built and sold the company in March of 2000 for $380 million. He now serves as CEO of Nomis Solutions, a leader in pricing software for large banks and financial services companies. Dennis earned his B.A. at San Jose State University and his M.A. from St. Patrick's Theologate.
Bob Spinner – Director
Bob Spinner is a Managing Director at Sigma Partner and brings two decades of high-technology business operational experience. Bob has served in various operational capacities, including CEO, worldwide sales, technical sales support, software programming, database design, and private and public fundraising. While at Sigma, Bob has helped a number of the firm's portfolio companies expand operations, build management teams and increase revenues. Bob's technology focus areas include enterprise applications software, e-commerce, and software as a service. Prior to joining Sigma, Bob was President and CEO of Extensity. During his tenure, Extensity grew from $1 million to $25 million while raising money through private funding and an IPO. In March of 2003, Extensity was sold to GEAC. Prior to Extensity, Bob was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and International Operations at Clarify, a leading provider of integrated CRM solutions where he grew the company from $5 million to $140 million in revenue while managing a worldwide organization of 260 professionals. Earlier in his career, Bob served in expanding roles at Sybase including working as the director of one of Sybase's most successful regions, and held technical roles at ADR and Chevron, including sales engineer, programmer and database administrator. Bob received his B.A. in Mathematics from Washington University.
Greg Sands – Director
Greg Sands focuses on software, internet services, and advertising, marketing and media technologies and services across channels. He looks for important business functions the internet can revolutionize or replace, complex and scalable software, and high margin, defensible business models. Greg Sands joined Sutter Hill Ventures in 1998 from Netscape Communications. As the company's original product manager, he co-authored the company's original business plan and launched and shipped its initial products, working closely with both engineering and sales. He then created and led the SuiteSpot business unit, growing it from $0 to $150M. He also worked previously at Cisco Systems and at Corporate Decisions (now Mercer Management Consulting). Greg serves as a director for Authentic Response, ChoiceStream, Connection Engine, Guardian Analytics, Inflection, Intacct, Merced Systems, Nexxo Financial, QuinStreet, and Return Path. Greg is also a board observer at MyNewPlace. Previous investments include AllBusiness (DNB), Closedloop (LWSN), and FeedBurner (GOOG). Greg is President of Stanford University DAPER Investment Fund and President of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists. He earned an AB in government from Harvard College in 1989 and received an MBA at Stanford in 1994.
