Mike Gardner has more than 30 years of general management experience, and has a strong track record for leadership during the rapid growth phase of a company’s development. He has successfully raised venture capital for early stage companies, built successful products and teams, and brought to market industry leading solutions to demanding enterprise customers worldwide.

His career started with IBM in a variety of Sales and marketing leadership positions. He led the single largest region in the Americas located in Los Angeles, California. His clients were the largest and most demanding financial, aerospace, retail, and petrochemical customers. Mike was recruited by Hewlett Packard as the business development general manager for industry and software marketing programs. After successful campaigns with large companies Mike took on his first of many small Silicon Valley start ups at INI, a networking start up where he was vice president of sales and marketing. The company grew quickly and was acquired by Ungermann Bass where he rose to the position of EVP of sales and marketing and managed the company’s growth from $50M to $450M in 6 years. The company was then acquired by Tandem in 1990. Mike continued in the Telecommunications field at Advanced Computer Communication, an early stage wide area networking start up focused on branch office and small office communications problems. The company grew from $3M to $35M and was acquired by Ericsson for $285M. Mike led operations at both Sybase and Blue Pumpkin, an exciting CRM software company whose rapid growth led to its acquisition by Witness Systems. As the CEO of Noosh Mike led its transition to an on demand delivery model and its subsequent merger with Newline Management.

Mike graduated from Villanova University and lives in Los Altos California.

Vlad has over fifteen years of experience in finance, and comes to Blue Vector Systems from Metara, a Silicon Valley-based semiconductor equipment manufacturer, where he served as Chief Financial Officer. Vlad has held a multitude of financial positions, including auditor with PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) and analyst with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He is a chartered certified accountant and a certified financial analyst (CFA). Kolpakov holds an MBA in finance and strategy from Yale University.

Ed Sterbenc is a senior executive with proven track record of driving profitability in competitive global customer markets. Ed’s professional experience includes leadership roles developing and directing high impact teams, organizations, and partnerships. Ed’s most recent role was as vice president, sales, Americas, at Nimsoft, where he was responsible for all revenue-generating activities in the region, including lead generation, pre-sales technical support, and inside and outside sales. In this role, Mr. Sterbenc led the delivery of nearly 60% of the company’s revenue. Prior roles include executive vice president, worldwide sales at Digital Fuel Technologies, president and CEO of SharkRack, and vice president of worldwide sales for Sylantro Systems. At Tandem Computers, Ed held a wide variety of management positions such as leadership of Product and Competitive Marketing, including PR, Industry and Consulting Relations, management of the Americas commercial field sales organization, head of sales operations for the Intercontinental Division and serving on the boards of several Tandem subsidiaries including those in Canada, Japan, Chile, and Peru.

Mr. Sterbenc has degrees in Industrial Management and Computer Science from Purdue University, awarded with honors. A member of Mensa, he is also an accomplished musician, sailor, and amateur astronomer.