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Dave Malmstedt
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

As Chairman and CEO of Vincera, Inc., Mr. Malmstedt brings more than 30 years of experience in driving growth for numerous enterprise software companies. His vision has moved Vincera from two product lines that emphasized piracy prevention and behavior monitoring to a single solution focused on digital asset security and tracking. This vision uniquely delivers to the market the ability to protect “data in motion” just as organizations protect their data at rest, monitor the document thread, measure distribution metrics against business criteria and manage the access including the ability to disable and enable secured documents. Mr. Malmstedt's prior roles include service as COO and Director of The Kernel Group, a private storage management software company whose acquisition by Veritas Software he expedited; Executive Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations for Legato Systems, Inc., a public storage management software company; Senior Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations for FullTime Software, Inc., which was acquired by Legato Systems, Inc; Vice President, Americas and Asia Pacific for Candle Corporation; Vice President, Central Area for Legent Corporation; and co-founder, Business Software Technology, Inc., where he cultivated and grew the start-up into a successful organization acquired by Legent Corporation.

Press Release: Vincera Promotes Key Executives to Greater Leadership Roles

Kevin Schick
Chief Operating Officer

For over 30 years, Mr. Schick’s “outside-the-box” approach has delivered winning go-to-market campaigns that increase sales, achieve higher channel value, and result in excellent customer satisfaction and market recognition. By uniquely blending product management, corporate marketing, business development, sales, and software engineering, he has successfully brought to market products, solutions, and companies in a variety of characterizations from launch and growth, to channel development, to brand positioning. Schick's 30-year career as an analyst, consultant, and marketer in numerous technology industry verticals prepared him for his new role as Vincera ’s COO. Prior to joining VIncera, Inc., Mr. Schick held senior positions in both public and private companies, including Vice President of Product Management for global ecommerce solutions, Commerce One; Senior Vice President of Marketing, ClientSoft, Inc; Analyst, Gartner Group; and management positions at Cacheon, Inc., Viasoft, Inc., AnswerThink Consulting Group, and Andersen Consulting.

Press Release: Vincera Promotes Key Executives to Greater Leadership Roles

Mark Eshelman
Director, Sales Development

Mr. Eshelman has over 20 years of experience in sales and marketing at small and large corporate environments such as Initiative Technology, Inc. and CompuAdd Corporation. Mr. Eshelman is a Co-Founder of Vincera, Inc.

Mr. Eshelman has held several executive level positions where he has made significant contributions to the financial growth of those organizations, driving sales from under $1 million to over $500 million in less than 5 years. Mr. Eshelman founded and successfully sold Global Micro Systems, and has been instrumental in the funding efforts at Vincera. He was directly responsible for negotiating several multi-million dollar contracts with fortune 500 clients such as AT&T Research, USPS, Lucent Technologies, PetSmart and Siemens Electrocom.

As a result of his entrepreneurial success, Mr. Eshelman has been elected to the University of North Texas' Murphy Enterprise Center Blue Ribbon Board of Advisors and serves on the Board of Directors for Colonial Bank. As an active member of the Austin community, he also serves on the Board of Directors of Breakthrough Austin and the Austin Children's Shelter Advisory Committee.