Experienced Management Team
New Momentum's management team has significant experience in all facets of SaaS and enterprise software for the manufacturing community,.. Management has a proven track record of building and growing start-up software companies from inception to highly successful public companies and has substantial experience in IPO's and many merger/acquisition endeavors.
Stuart Clifton
Chairman and CEO
With over 25 years’ experience running software companies, Clifton has a track record for successfully building companies from startup to industry leader. As founder and CEO of DataWorks, he took the mid-market enterprise planning software company from a $2 million private firm to a $250 million public company. Prior to his DataWorks success, he was one of the five founders of Triad Systems, a supplier of inventory management solutions for automotive parts and hardware/ home center industries that culminated in a highly successful IPO. Clifton is recognized as one of the pioneers in market verticalization within the software industry. He has extensive experience in highly successful IPO's, secondary offerings, and merger/acquisition activities, in both the private and public sector. Clifton has been honored as Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” and was selected to have his enterprise software permanently placed in the Smithsonian Institute.
Mark Stevens
President/COO
With 25 years of experience in the enterprise software industry, Mark Stevens has held executive sales positions in a number of companies including Vesteq Financial, Insight Imaging System, New Image Industries and Dentsply. He established and managed 90 internal sales representatives in the medical and software markets, and he also developed executive level industry relationships with worldwide distribution in Europe, South America and Asia. In addition to his extensive sales background, as CEO and Senior VP of several companies such as Mainsaver, Cayenta and Titan Corp, he helped start, reorganize and merge private and public companies. Most recently he provided the leadership necessary to reorganize and reposition companies for the merger and sale of Titan Corp (TTN).
Eric LinxwilerVice President, Sales
Eric Linxwiler has nearly 19 years experience in executive level sales and business development positions within enterprise software and technology companies, including the management of complex channel sales organizations both domestically and internationally. Eric brings a wide range of experiences in growing sales revenues and increasing profitability through the implementation of a results-driven, repeatable sales management model. He has held Vice President of Sales positions at a number of software and consulting companies including EncryptaKey, WR Hess Company, Cayenta Corporation — a Titan company, offering a full suite of SaaS security software solutions.
Chris JensenVice President, Marketing
Chris Jensen has created and implemented marketing strategies for enterprise software providers such as IFS, DataWorks and Xerox for over 20 years. Her marketing programs have been credited with taking companies -- unknown in their markets -- to quickly being considered the “hot” company in the industry. In addition to developing high visibility marketing programs for a variety of high tech companies, she played a key role on executive teams responsible for determining marketing strategies for multinational organizations.
Thomas AlbersVice President, Development
Tom Albers, Director of Development, brings extensive Internet-based R&D expertise and management experience to the New Momentum team. Holding key development management positions at leading web-based companies such as MySpace.com, Tom has been responsible for developing, deploying and auditing new business concepts in extremely high traffic environments. Prior to New Momentum Tom was the Manager of Web Development at MySpace.com where he managed a team of over 35 web developers and managed 90% of the entire My Space code base. Under his leadership, his team led the conversion of all major site functions to .NET. His innovative development solutions at MySpace.com are credited with successful new feature development including product management and quality assurance. In addition to managing the development team, Tom also managed 100 simultaneous ongoing software projects.
Laura McCaughey
Vice President, Business Development
Laura McCaughey has over 20 years of institutional financial market experience. Prior to New Momentum she was the managing director of AMR Research's Investment Research Strategies group. She was responsible for leading the group, which advised private equity firms, institutional sell-side and investment firms, and vendor and industry clients about the strength and viability of technology market sectors, emerging trends, and individual enterprise application software companies. Prior to AMR Research, she held key research and marketing positions at SG Cowen Securities, including managing the company's research venture capital practice. Before SG Cowen, Laura was senior vice president and marketing director at Santander Investment Securities and part of the extremely successful U.S.-based global start-up team. At Salomon Brothers Inc over 1985-1995, Laura was instrumental in developing the international research platforms, first as part of the start-up team for Asian research and later for European and emerging markets research.