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4:40 PM
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Brian Gumbel brings over 20 years of sales leadership experience to Armis. Prior to Sisense, he spent four years at Forescout running sales and operations as their SVP Worldwide Sales. Before that, he was VP for Americas East and Canada at Tanium, driving 400% YoY growth. He has also held various sales and leadership positions at McAfee and Cisco.
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Brian Smiga, Alpha’s Co-founding Partner, builds and works with our vast early stage venture network to source and evaluate investment opportunities. Brian also advises Pritzker Group Venture Capital on deal origination and relationships.
Prior to Alpha Partners, Brian was the founder and CEO of Preclick, (sold to Smilebox), where he developed photo software licensed worldwide by HP, 3M, Sandisk, Walmart, Costco, CVS, and Walgreens. Prior to Preclick, Mr. Smiga was CEO at 3Path, an early Dropbox, an Intel and Goldman-Sachs backed startup, and the SVP of Marketing at 1ClickCharge, where his product launch resulted in a sale of the company to CMGi.
Since first working with Mr. Brotman at 1ClickCharge, Mr. Smiga advised Brotman-backed portfolio companies: Altruik, Headliner, Knovel, and Mobile Commons. In the 1990s, Mr. Smiga began his career as a developer at Booz & Co, and in Silicon Valley was the founder of Portfolio Software and Actioneer, where he co-authored six collaboration software patents and licensed top-rated software to Apple, IBM, Lotus, Microsoft, AOL, 3Com, Acco, and others. Brian received a BA in Liberal Arts from Swarthmore College, and a Masters of Philosophy in Literature from Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland. Brian is the founder of TEDxAsburyPark, the top-ranked TEDx conference on the US east coast.
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Jaahred Thomas is a founding Partner of Connectivity Capital Partners with an innate knack for deep, analytical dives into the merits of each project CCP considers taking on. Prior to CCP, he spent 17 years in institutional equity sales. He spent the majority of his time during these years focused on the Media & Technology, Healthcare, Financials, & Consumer/Retail sectors and brings this valuable experience to CCP. He began his career with Hambrecht & Quist (H&Q) as a sales assistant and after 3 years, was co-managing one of the largest books of business at the firm. He subsequently went on to assume increasingly senior roles with JPMorgan, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Oppenheimer and other high quality investment banking boutiques. When not feverishly diving into the merits of a company’s business plan, or voraciously consuming the news, Jaahred can be found on the courts shooting hoops & playing tennis with his daughters. He also enjoys trying new restaurants with his wife and college sweetheart, who thankfully happen to be the same person.
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Corey Massella has more than twenty-five years of experience as an entrepreneur, tax, and business advisor, and as a specialist in SEC accounting and audit services. Additionally, Corey has experience serving as a Private Equity and Technology Industry Group Practice Leader for a Top Twenty accounting firm.
Corey has successfully guided his clients through all facets of the mergers and acquisitions transaction cycle to help them make critical decisions, while ensuring transactions are strategic and seamless. He has deep experience advising private equity funds, hedge funds, banks, broker-dealers, investor relations firms, and various other financial services companies. As a business consultant, Corey has worked with CEOs and CFOs, as well as the boards of both public and private clients. He has performed due diligence and negotiations on both the buy and sell sides. Corey also has experience preparing business plans and initial public offerings (IPO), and with cash flow and productivity analysis to help scale businesses for growth, as well as extensive knowledge and experience in complex tax structuring and planning.
In 2015, Corey was selected as the winner of the SmartCEO award for Industry CPA Leader in New York. He has served as moderator for several conferences, including ACG NY’s “M&A Landscape: Diving into Four of the Hot Industry Sectors” and “The M&A Advisor Summit,” and has authored numerous articles.