Board of Directors & Investors

Board of Directors

Mick Mountz
CEO and Founder, Kiva Systems

Mick founded Kiva Systems in January 2003 after spending thirteen years in high tech product development, manufacturing, operations, and marketing. With a unique blend of warehouse management expertise and technology insight, Mick is the chief architect of Kiva's game-changing product vision. Prior to Kiva, Mick worked on a business process team at Webvan designing  a next generation distribution strategy for grocery home delivery, during which he experienced first-hand the high cost of order fulfillment and the inflexibility of existing material handling systems. Prior to joining Webvan,  Mick spent three years in product marketing at Apple Computer as a  Product Manager where he helped move many new technologies into the standard desktop platform including FireWire, DVD, Fast Ethernet, and 3D graphics acceleration. He began his career at Motorola, where he worked as both a Mechanical and a Manufacturing Engineer. In 2008 Mick was a winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award in the New England region. In 2009, under Mick's leadership, Kiva was ranked #6 on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing companies in America, and Gartner named Kiva one of its "Cool Vendors in Supply Chain Management." Mick holds six United States technology patents. He earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a MBA from Harvard Business School.

Ajay Agarwal
Managing Partner, Bain Capital Ventures

Ajay joined Bain Capital Ventures in 2003. Prior to joining Bain Capital Ventures, Ajay spent over seven years as a senior executive at Trilogy Software, a privately held enterprise software company based in Austin, Texas. As head of sales and marketing Ajay grew Trilogy's annual revenues to $300 million and led Trilogy's product expansion into new areas such as enterprise pricing and enterprise incentive management. Prior to Trilogy, Ajay was a consultant with the Los Angeles office of McKinsey & Company. Ajay holds a patent for the "Method and Apparatus of Configuration Solutions." He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

David Becker
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Meakem-Becker Venture Capital

Dave was a member of the leadership team of FreeMarkets, Inc., an early provider of internet deployed software and services for automating the sourcing processes of Global 1000 companies. As the Chief Operating Officer of FreeMarkets, Dave managed all operations during the company's growth from $8 million to almost $200 million of revenue and to over 1,200 global employees. Dave was a key member of the team that brought the company public. Prior to FreeMarkets, Dave served in management roles at Dole Fresh Fruit International and Union Carbide Corporation. He also completed two active duty tours of duty as an officer in the United States Army Reserve. His pioneering work on e-commerce methods and inventions has resulted in eleven U.S. patents. Dave earned a B.S. with high distinction in Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from West Virginia College of Graduate Studies (now Marshall University). Dave received his MBA from Harvard University.

Stephen Kaufman
Retired Chairman and CEO, Arrow Electronics, Inc.

Steve has been a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School since 2001. He teaches in both the MBA program and various Executive Education programs. He is the retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Arrow Electronics. Under his leadership Arrow grew from a $500 million USA centric corporation to a $12 billion global enterprise. In 2005, Electronics Business magazine named Steve one of the ten most influential executives in the electronics industry over the past 25 years. Prior to joining Arrow, he served in executive capacities with Midland-Ross Corporation and was a partner at the international management consulting firm, McKinsey and Company. In addition to Kiva Systems, Steve currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Harris Corporation, KLA-Tencor and Thermo Fisher Scientific. He also serves on the boards of several philanthropic and arts organizations in Boston. Steve earned his B.S. in Economics and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School. He received an honorary Doctorate Degree from Dowling College and was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award from Harvard Business School.

Patrick J. Scannell
President and CEO, Glasshouse Technologies

Patrick is the President and CEO of GlassHouse Technologies. Pat brings a rich operational and financial background to his roles, with more than 30 years of experience helping to guide and scale businesses to success, focusing on building highly differentiated and disruptive value propositions to aggressively capitalize on emerging market opportunities.  Pat previously served as senior vice president, CFO and treasurer of Netezza, Inc., where he led Netezza's 2007 initial public offering on the New York stock exchange, and was instrumental in negotiating the sale of Netezza to IBM for $1.9B in November 2010. Previously Pat was SVP and CFO of Silknet Software, where he took the company public on NASDAQ before orchestrating its sale to Kana (NASDAQ: KANA) for $4.2B, a leading provider of enterprise customer support and communications applications. He currently sits on the board of Kiva Systems, an innovative material handling and warehouse automation provider, and on the board of Xtalic Corporation, a metallurgy platform company that transforms metal alloys to new properties for a variety of industry uses.  Pat is also on the executive committee of the Boston College Technology Council. He received his B.S. from Boston College and an MBA from the Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.

Investors

About Bain Capital Ventures

Bain Capital Ventures is the Boston-based venture capital affiliate of Bain Capital and was founded with the mission of leveraging a customer focused and operational approach to helping young and growing entrepreneurial companies become market leaders. Bain Capital Ventures' history dates back to 1984 with investments in over 125 early and growth stage companies such as Staples, DoubleClick, Aspect Development, Shopping.com, Taleo, SolarWinds, LinkedIn, m-Qube, ProfitLogic, Network Intelligence, and MinuteClinic. Bain Capital Ventures currently has over $1.5 billion under management and invests in software, internet and digital media, healthcare, technology-enabled business services, retail and e-commerce, and wireless companies. Recent investments include: AdReady, Ameritox, Apparent Networks, AppAssure Software, Appriss, Archer Technologies, blip.tv, BloomReach, dynaTrace software, Enclarity, Enservio, Fingerhut, INRIX, Invoke Solutions, iPAY, Kiva Systems, LaLa Media, LinkedIn, MagazineRadar, MedeAnalytics, Memento, Nomis Solutions, Oyster Hotel Reviews, The Princeton Review, Rave Wireless, Rapid7, RDC, Skyhook Wireless, SurveyMonkey, TargetSpot, TheFind, Thumbplay, Tokbox, TravelCLICK, vAuto, VMLogix, and Vonage.

About Meakem Becker Venture Capital

Meakem Becker Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm which invests in a wide range of information technology and life sciences companies. Meakem Becker team members are experienced entrepreneurs, operators, and investors who advise, coach and mentor the entrepreneurial leaders behind whom they invest. Their goal is to help build leading, next-generation companies of significant value. The MBVC portfolio includes investments in the following companies: HotPads.com, Kiva Systems, Leostream, Rudder.com, Shipwire.com, WaveCam Media, Vector Entertainment, 3form, Akustica, Bantu, Beat Box Technologies, BitArmor, CollegeProwler.com, SEEC, NearVerse, and Tiversa.