Management Team

Management Team

Provider of Secure Mobile File Sharing Solutions

Yorgen H. Edholm

President and Chief Executive Officer

Yorgen Edholm is a Silicon Valley veteran with 25 years of Enterprise Software expertise. Mr. Edholm co-founded Brio Technology and during 12 years as CEO, took the company public and grew it to $150 million in revenues with over 700 employees and a customer base of over 5,000 organizations. In addition Mr. Edholm was President and CEO of DecisionPoint Applications, an Analytical Applications company. Mr. Edholm has served on several public and private company boards including most recently Hyperion (sold to Oracle), I-many, Resilience, Verix and Saama.

Mr. Edholm earned an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics and a Masters in Engineering Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Trained as a concert violinist, Mr. Edholm studied with Ivan Galamian, and has performed in Carnegie Hall (2005).

 

Glen Segal

Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Business Development

Mr. Segal joined Accellion as CFO and Senior Vice President of Finance in December 2002. He has over 20 years experience in finance, fund raising strategy and business development. He was a partner at Mercer Management Consulting and has held finance and strategy positions at GE and GE Capital, Nortel Networks and Bay Networks. Prior to joining Accellion he was CFO of FlowStorm, Inc. where his responsibilities included financial management and planning, fund raising, and administration. He has also served as VP of Finance and Corporate Development at FiberStreet where he spearheaded multiple initiatives in financing, business development and operations.

Mr. Segal holds a BA degree in Economics from Whitman College and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

 

Paula Skokowski

Chief Marketing Officer

Ms. Skokowski joined Accellion in February 2007. She has more than 20 years experience in product marketing, corporate marketing and new product introduction for pre and post-IPO companies in Silicon Valley. Prior to Accellion she was VP Marketing, at General Magic, where she marketed General Magic’s patented voice interfaces including the voice of GM OnStar and spearheaded the market introduction of a VoiceXML voice development platform. As Director Marketing, Echelon Corporation, Ms. Skokowski led the company’s product branding initiatives, creating an industry recognized standard for interoperable control networking. Earlier in her career she worked as a product manager and application programmer of high speed vision-guided robots for Adept Technology.

Ms. Skokowski has served as a Board Member of Teradata’s Ecommerce Board of Advisors, Director for the ComputerWorld Smithsonian Awards Program and Executive Director to the LonMark Interoperability Association.

Ms. Skokowski received a BA and MA Honors in Engineering Science from Oxford University and an MS in Robotics from UC Berkeley.

 

Rebecca Soler

Vice President of Human Resources

Ms. Soler is the Vice President of Human Resources for Accellion. Previously, she served as head of human resources for four high-growth organizations, including two enterprise software companies, Model N, Inc. and Veloz Global Solutions, XDx, a biotech company offering a unique genomic test, and SEIU-UHW, the healthcare workers’ union of California. Before focusing solely on human resources, Ms. Soler was a management consultant at KPMG, now BearingPoint, and Management Analysis Center, later Gemini Consulting, serving primarily technology clients. Ms. Soler consulted in the areas of finance process improvement, marketing and strategic planning.She was also a founding member of two startup companies, where she served as head of planning and business development for one and as Vice President of Common Services for the other.

Ms. Soler graduated cum laude from Harvard College with a bachelor’s degree in Government, and she earned her master in business administration degree from Harvard Business School.


Jon Pincus

Senior Vice President of Products

Jon Pincus is Senior Vice President of Products at Accellion where he oversees Engineering and Product Management for the company. Prior to Accellion, he was one of the original developers of PREfix and founder and CTO of Intrinsa Corporation, a static code analysis software company which was sold to Microsoft. He was made General Manager and stayed on with Microsoft for eight years in a number of roles including research on software reliability tools and technologies and online service development. During that time, he was the recipient of the “Chairman’s Award” in 2007. Before that, he worked on CAD and Document Management systems. Following Microsoft, Pincus was associated with several startups before joining Accellion.

A graduate of Harvard and UC Berkeley, Pincus is a recognized leader in security and privacy, having authored a dozen patents, published numerous papers, and delivered speeches and keynotes on these topics. He currently serves on the National Academies CSTB panel on dependable software.

 

Gary Rogers

Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Mr. Rogers has more than 20 years experience leading global software sales of enterprise solutions for industry leaders such as USinternetworking (USi), Solution 6 (CMS Data), Clarus Corp., and Automatic Data Processing (ADP). In addition Gary has extensive experience in Europe and the US, building channels with Microsoft. At USi he served as Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing and was a key executive involved in establishing USi as the leading ASP. He also served as Vice President of Sales for Clarus Corp. and led the early growth of this firm. At ADP he served in sales and marketing management roles with significant success in the National Accounts division.

Mr. Rogers graduated from the State University of New York, and participated in the Graduate Management Degree program at SUNY Buffalo.