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.
Pam Passaretti
CEO
Pam Passaretti has over 20 years experience in key operational roles for large
and small software companies. Having attained early success in her career selling software and services for industry leaders IBM and Lotus Development, Passaretti went on to play a key role in initiating a vertical market strategy for Oracle and growing a market-leading channels strategy for Progress Software. From 1997 to 2005, she worked with the venture capital community, helping firms such as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Hummer Winblad, and Red Rock Ventures with the design and implementation of successful sales, marketing, service, and support organizations within their portfolio companies. Her efforts led to IPOs and acquisitions at several of these companies, including Extensity (IPO), Epiphany (IPO), and Oblix (acquired by Oracle). Prior to New Momentum Passaretti was the head of operations for Blink Logic, a SaaS-based business intelligence vendor, where she oversaw sales, marketing, engineering, and services.
Stuart Clifton
Founder/Chairman
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.
Lei Jin
VP Development - Chief Architect
Lei Jin has over 16 years of software development experience and more than 9 years of software architect experience following the completion of his MS degree in Computer Engineering from USC. He has been key designer and developer of two software startups, including FieldCentrix, where he played the key role in creating and delivering the first field service software automation solution into the market. Prior to New Momentum, he was enterprise software architect for Countrywide Financial and Lending Tree where he managed a sizable team of internal and offshore developers.
Robin Carr
Director of Sales
Robin Carr has over 20 years experience in marketing, sales, and sales management in the software industry. She has consistently exceeded quota in mature selling environments such as Informix, Vitria, and GERS, and has also enjoyed good success in venture-backed software start-ups such as Doubletwist and Found, Inc. Carr’s expertise spans Database Management/Integration, Data Warehousing/ Business Intelligence, and Multi-Channel Commerce. Adopting Solution Selling as a proven sales methodology for enterprise software and SaaS, Carr has successfully sold and managed sales efforts in the Pharma, Financial Services, Retail, and Manufacturing verticals. Leveraging relationships in the channels arena, she has built out partner ecosystems with SAP, IBM, HP, Accenture, and Bearing Point. Prior to New Momentum, Carr was VP of North American Sales for SAND Technology, delivering a SAP-certified Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solution to SAP’s Tier 1 customers. She has a degree in Life Sciences from UC Berkeley.
Holger Hoppe
Chief Technology Officer
Holger Hoppe has fulfilled key technical strategy and senior management roles for over two decades. Prior to joining New Momentum, Hoppe served as CTO and VP of Engineering for ChannelNet, defining the product road map and technology direction for the company’s flagship web product. His background also includes serving as VP Professional Services for Consulting, Hosting and Education Services for Inference. At Inference he was the technical executive credited with the release of next generation XML-based knowledge search client applications, enabling access over web, email, IVR and desktop client. Prior to Inference, Hoppe spent 13 years at Digital Equipment where he managed large international product development organizations that included 100+ engineers. Hoppe and his global team played a key role in creating corporate real-time and data acquisition products, applications for the manufacturing industry and large custom applications for major European accounts.