In the Press
Over the last three years, Retail Solutions has been one of the most innovative companies in the CPG space. Retail Solutions' solutions have brought new levels of depth to the way CPG companies understand their customers and what all parties, retailers, manufacturers and merchandisers can do in near-real time.
-Kara Romanow, Executive Editor, Consumer Goods Technology Magazine
Board of Directors
Brian Ascher
Partner, Venrock Associates
Brian Ascher joined Venrock Associates in 1998 as a Kauffman Fellow. He is now a Partner in Venrock's Menlo Park office and focuses on software and information technology investments. Brian is a Director of Atrenta, Datallegro, RelayHealth, Retail Solutions, Unicru, Vocera Communications and Winery Exchange. Prior to Venrock, Brian was Senior Product Manager for Intuit's Quicken.com website and earlier, Product Manager of Quicken for Windows. Previous to his work with Intuit, Brian worked as a Strategy Consultant at Monitor Company where he advised clients worldwide on issues of management and strategy. Brian holds a B.A., magna cum laude, from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Byron Deeter
Principal, Bessemer Venture Partners
Byron Deeter is a Principal in Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) Menlo Park office. He concentrates on the software, Internet, Radio Frequency (RFID) and gaming sectors.
Most recently, Byron was an Executive at IBM as a result of its 2004 acquisition of Trigo Technologies, the product information management company that he co-founded. At Trigo, Byron served as the founding President & CEO, then became Vice President of Business Development as the company grew to profitability with 150 employees, and over $40+ million run-rate. BVP worked closely with Byron and the executive team after Trigo's founding in 1999 and invested in all institutional financing rounds.
Prior to Trigo, Byron worked in private equity with TA Associates where he focused on early stage technology investing. He came to TA from McKinsey & Company.
Byron holds a degree with honors from U.C. Berkeley in political economy. He was named a California Emerging Leader Scholar and an Alumni Scholar, and was a varsity member of U.C. Berkeley's national championship rugby team.
Jonathan Golovin, Ph.D.
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Jonathan Golovin (Jon) is the Chairman, CEO and co-founder of Retail Solutions. Previously, Dr. Jonathan Golovin was the founder and Chairman of Consilium Inc., the largest independent Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) company (now Applied Materials). Jon is considered the father of MES and was awarded the 2000 SEMI Award for his contributions. Consilium’s list of customers included the majority of the large semiconductor companies such as Intel, Hitachi, AMD, Hyundai, just to name a few, as well as many of the largest pharmaceutical companies such as Abbott Laboratories. Jon is also the founder and former CEO of Vigilance, the leading event management system.
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Keith Krach
CEO, 3Points, Inc.
After earning his degree in industrial engineering from Purdue as a General Motors Scholar and an MBA from Harvard University as a GM Fellow, Keith Krach worked at GM where he became the youngest-ever vice president at the age of 26.
After 10 years with GM, Krach headed out to Silicon Valley to join the founding team of Rasna Corporation. Krach helped lead Rasna to be recognized as #3 on the Inc. 100 list of Fastest-Growing Companies and was sold in 1995 to Parametric Technologies for $500 million.
Krach co-founded Ariba in 1996, serving as CEO and Chairman of the Board for 7 years. During his tenure as CEO, Krach took Ariba public, ultimately achieving a market capitalization of $34 billion.
In honor of his accomplishments in e-business, Ernst & Young named Krach the 2000 National Entrepreneur of the Year, the same year in which he was honored at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with the Technology Pioneer Award.
Keith Krach is currently the Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Purdue University, Chairman of the Board at DocuSign Corp and is also CEO of 3Points, Inc., an investment holding company.
Peter Rieman
Chief Operating Officer
Peter Rieman is the Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Retail Solutions. He has 20 years of management experience in the communications and computer software markets. Peter started his career at the strategy practice of BCG, continued it at Granger Associates (now Alcatel America), and later worked with Jon and Shantha at Consilium (now Applied Materials) where he was division Vice President with responsibility for the semiconductor and electronics division.
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Bob Todd
Partner, Red Rock Ventures
Bob Todd is an entrepreneur with 20 years of experience with technology companies. He has founded or been a founding investor/director in several start-ups, two of which are now public companies, with combined annual sales in excess of $6 billion. Bob's operating experience includes 10 years as a founder and CEO of Flextronics and five years as the CEO of CAS, Inc. Bob holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and an A.B. in statistics from Princeton University.
Noah Walley
Managing Director, Investor Growth Capital
Noah leads Investor Growth Capital's ("IGC") technology investment effort in North America. Investor Growth Capital is the wholly owned venture capital arm of Investor AB, the largest listed industrial holding company in Northern Europe. Investor Growth Capital's 30 investment professionals manage a portfolio whose value exceeds USD $1 billion from offices located in New York, Menlo Park, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Stockholm and Amsterdam.
Noah Walley joined IGC in 2003 as a Managing Director with the IT team having previously spent five years as a General Partner with Morgan Stanley Venture Partners in New York. Noah has been active in venture capital since 1994 and prior to joining Morgan Stanley worked for the venture capital firms of Bachow & Associates and Desai Capital Management. Over the course of his career he has served on more than 25 private company boards. He currently is on the boards of Greenway Medical Technologies, Tangoe, ForeSee Results, Recellular, Contextweb, ePac, Mindjet and Venda Ltd.
From 1990 to 1994 Noah worked at McKinsey & Company in New York. Noah has a J.D. from Stanford Law School, was elected to the Order of the Coif and earned M.A. and B.A. degrees (first class) from Oxford University. He also serves as a member of the Stanford Law School Board of Visitors, as a board member of Hope Street Group and the American Friends of Stowe and recently led an effort to permanently endow a professorship in Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford University.
Board Observers
Andreas Weiskam
Partner, SAP Ventures
Andreas Weiskam joined SAP Ventures in July 2006. He has been with SAP since 2001 and has held several corporate and business development positions. Before his career at SAP, Andreas worked in several start-up companies and co-founded Zadu, a venture backed start-up in the area of Instant Messaging Technology. Andreas holds a graduate business degree Diplom-Kaufmann from the University of Hamburg, Germany and an M.Litt. with distinction in Management, Economics and Politics from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.