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Since 2001, Morris Panner has been CEO of OpenAir.
Under his leadership, OpenAir has been named one of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in New England in both 2006 and 2007, a Deloitte & Touche Fast 500 Company, a Finalist in the 2005 Software and Information Industry Association CODiE award competition and a Top 25 Global Service Provider by ASP News.
Morris was previously an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and spent a year fighting narco-terrorism at the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, Columbia. Before that, he was a Federal Prosecutor in New York City, an attorney at Wachtell Lipton and a banker at Lazard.
A graduate of Harvard Law School and Yale, Morris is co-Chairman of the Board of the Software Division of the Software and Information Industry Association and on the Board of the Washington Office on Latin America, a leading advocacy organization for human rights and social justice in Latin America. He is a frequent speaker and has been featured in the Boss column of the The New York Times, Forbes and Fast Company.
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Geoff Crawshaw is Chief Technology Officer and a co-founder of OpenAir.
Responsible for driving OpenAir's development initiatives, Geoff oversees a
large team of engineers and has been involved with every aspect of OpenAir's
development from day one. After being among the first in the industry to
embrace the virtues of using a single code base for development, Geoff's
focus has moved to distilling the power of an enterprise-level application
into an easily usable, on-demand package.
Originally from South Africa, Geoff learned to program while attending
Milton Academy in Massachusetts and Rice University in Houston. After
serving four years in the U.S. Army, 82nd Airborne Division, Geoff
co-founded Pelican Environmental Corporation. Geoff then returned to
software development, co-founding another firm focused on developing 1.0
versions for other software companies. In 1999, he co-founded OpenAir.
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Tom Brennan is Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Strategic
Alliances, and a co-founder of OpenAir.
As CFO, Tom oversees all of OpenAir's financial, regulatory and statutory
responsibilities. In this role since OpenAir's founding in 1999, Tom has
sailed through uncharted waters in creating a scalable, sustainable and
profitable recurring revenue model for an on-demand software company-a rare
achievement today, and a rarer one still in 1999. Tom has led OpenAir
through three rounds of financing and has grown the company from a four
person startup to a multi-million dollar enterprise.
Before co-founding OpenAir, Tom was Vice President, Strategic Alliances at
Prodigy Communications Corp., where he was instrumental in launching the
company's first standalone Internet access service. He was also an important
participant in the company's initial public offering in February 1999.
Prior to joining Prodigy, Tom worked in financial and strategic roles-both
domestically and internationally-in the telecommunications industry. Tom
has also worked as an investment banker in the telecommunications space, and
is a published author with works appearing in several industry periodicals.
Tom received his BA from Holy Cross, and an MBA from Duke (Fuqua). |
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Ed Marshall is Vice President of Sales and Marketing at OpenAir.
Ed has served in a variety of functions at OpenAir, including Business
Development, Product Management, Professional Services, and Sales
Operations. Consequently, Ed has been involved with and continues to touch
nearly every part of OpenAir's business. In his current role leading the Sales and
Marketing teams, Ed has helped grow OpenAir's revenue by more than 50%
year-over-year for the past 4 years. Ed is one of OpenAir's foremost
product experts, and is leading the current drive to develop and implement
the next-generation user-experience of the OpenAir solution.
Before joining OpenAir, Ed worked as a management consultant at Bain &
Company and at Liberty Mutual. Prior to Bain, Ed was an engineer at General
Electric with responsibilities in the area of Product Design, Manufacturing,
and Marketing.
Ed received a ScB from Brown, an MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Brian Martin is the Vice President of Client Management at OpenAir.
Brian is charged with leading OpenAir's marketing, client management and
customer support activities. Upon joining OpenAir in early 2006 as
OpenAir's Director of Marketing, Brian discovered that a more robust support
and client management operation was the key to driving OpenAir's revenue
goals by improving customer retention. Creating these departments from
scratch, Brian has spearheaded OpenAir's user summits, increased focus on
support and Customer Success Associate program for recent college graduates.
Before joining OpenAir, Brian served as a consultant at Bain & Company,
advising Fortune 500 firms on a range of strategic initiatives. Prior to
Bain, Brian worked at American Express, AOL and AT&T's Financial Leadership
Program.
Brian received a BS from the University of Virginia and an MBA from
Northwestern (Kellogg), both with Distinction and Beta Gamma Sigma.
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