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Phillip Merrick
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Co-founder and co-inventor of recruiting concept based upon a unique Web-enabled multimedia resume format. With fellow co-founders, developed product ideas, positioning and strategy. Raised angel financing round and venture capital, and helped recruit board members. What you are looking at is remarkably close to the original vision!
Bibury Partners is a small investment and advisory firm focused on early stage Internet and software companies. Advisory work includes assistance with market positioning and strategy, financing and recruiting. Investments to date include EnterpriseDB, RollStream, and VisualCV. Advisory clients include CPower, Inc., sold to Constellation Energy in 2010.
Led this enterprise and internet software company from inception through IPO and beyond to become a $200 million/year category leader. Developed company's very first product (in Java, 1996), and co-invented web services technology. Attracted investors including Mayfield Fund, Goldman Sachs, SAP and Michael Dell. Drove the company's unique partnership with SAP, resulting in $15M in direct and $100M+ in indirect revenue. Generated strongest revenue growth of any US software company in the period 1998 through 2002, and led the most successful software company IPO to date in 2000. Completed and integrated five acquisitions, including the $1.2 billion acquisition of Active Software. in 2007, webMethods was acquired by Software AG for $550 million. Led Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts with CFO and CIO. webMethods was acquired by Software AG in 2007 for $550 million.
Investor and board member at this Web 2.0 supply-chain collaboration firm. Assisted with positioning, strategy and customer acquisition. Recruited new CEO and helped prepare company for ultimate sale to GXS in 2011.
Asked by founders and venture capital investors to take on non-executive Chairman role at this leading open source enterprise-class database company. Assisted with market positioning, strategy, and recruiting of management team. Led initial fund-raising efforts, and supported subsequent venture capital fundraising.
Have started, worked in, run, or invested in a large handful of startup technology companies throughout my career.
Have served on a number of public and private company boards, in addition to two non-profit boards. Have held the role of Chairman across one public and four private companies.
10+ years of CEO experience, and prior to that many years of senior engineering management (VP Engineering, etc.).
Wrote the very first webMethods product in our basement in 1996. Prior to that, used to make my living as a software developer (I would struggle to do so now ;-)
webMethods opens the Nasdaq on March 11, 2000, shortly after our IPO. The only day the Nasdaq opened and closed above 5000.
Above the fold announcement of webMethods acquisition of Active Software in the WSJ.
Our patent on the basic web services mechanism has 70 citations at last count.
John, pictured in front of his tilapia fish-farming ponds, is a diversified farmer outside Kabale, Uganda. He has grown his farming business through multiple microloans from Five Talents.
A photo I took of children of stallholders at the Kabale market in Uganda. The stallholders have received microloans from Five Talents.
This VisualCV is available as a printable .pdf file
