Management Team
Confio’s key management personnel bring together the deep expertise, coupled with the experience of managing a professional services organization to deliver best-of-breed services and solutions to clients.
Charlie Sander, Chairman and CEO |
| Charlie is a computer industry veteran with over 25 years of experience in product development, business management, and building customer relationships. Prior to joining Confio as an investor and CEO in May 2004, he spent 15 years with Conner Peripherals/Seagate Technology. At Conner he was Senior Vice President and GM of its Personal Storage Group helping the company become the fastest ever to reach the Fortune 500. After a successful merger with Seagate in 1996, he became SVP of New Product Development heading up Seagate’s design centers in Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Singapore. During Charlie’s tenure, Seagate attained market dominance and received numerous accolades for its product lines. Prior to his career at Seagate,he held engineering and management positions with StorageTek and Miniscribe Corp. Charlie has a BSEE from the University of Texas at Austin. |
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Matt Larson, CTO and Founder |
| Matt Larson is the Chief Technology Officer at Confio Software where he is responsible for current and future product strategy. Mr. Larson founded Confio Software, led the initial round of external financing, and led the company to first revenues and customer adoption. Prior to his involvement at Confio, Mr. Larson helped found an oil and gas technology company. In the span of a year, the company grew from four employees to over two hundred employees while raising over $110 million in venture capital. Mr. Larson is an international speaker on topics related to database technology. He also is the co-author of five, best-selling technology books. Mr. Larson holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Colorado where he graduated 1st in his class. He is also a member of the Mensa Society. |
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Don Bergal, Chief Operating Officer |
| Don is the Chief Operating Officer at Confio and is responsible for overseeing all of the company’s sales, marketing, product management and business development initiatives.
Don has over 15 years experience in the software, services and data communications industries, most recently with software developers Jabber, Inc. and Antepo, leading companies in the XMPP Instant Messaging market. He served as Vice President of Business Development for Antepo, launching the company’s US operations. As Vice President of Marketing at Jabber, Inc., he led the product marketing, demand generation and communications programs, he established and executed the technology partnerships and positioning for Jabber, servicing the enterprise, ISP and mobile network marketplaces.
Prior to joining Jabber, Don was a founding member of the management team at wireless data service provider Wireless Telecom (acquired by Vaultus), he held a range of responsibilities from Vice President of Marketing to Vice President of Product Development. Prior to that, he held product management, engineering management, and sales positions at SynOptics/BayNetworks and Rational Software.
Don earned a BS in Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. |
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