The People Behind Elsewhere
Elsewhere Partners offers knowledge, experience, and vision to achieve a successful outcome for all stakeholders
FOUNDERS DRIVE. OPERATORS SIT SHOTGUN. INVESTORS ARE IN THE BACK SEAT.
Working with Elsewhere Partners means really experienced investors and really experienced operators playing the roles they play best.
Investors provide financial guidance and pattern matching while operators serve as full-time executives, board representatives, or formal advisors - delivering on-demand support when and where it's needed.
Collectively, we have the knowledge, experience, and vision to help you achieve a successful outcome for all stakeholders. And we have a network of C-level veterans who have built their careers building software companies who can help take your software business wherever it needs to go next.
150+ ORGANIZATIONS
100+ IPOS &ACQUISITIONS
150+ ROUNDS OF FINANCING
$1B+ TOTALINVESTMENT
The Elsewhere Partners Team
Meet the Elsewhere Operating Advisors
Our Operating Advisors are at the core of how we are different as a firm. These C-level veterans have built their careers building software companies, and generally serve as our board representatives, advisors or full-time executives depending on the needs of the business. They are Elsewhere's secret weapon, and many have developed small (but growing) fan clubs.
Andrew Kahl
- CEO of BackBox
- Former Chief Customer Officer of SailPoint
- Co-Founder of CREDANT Technologies (now Dell)
Dan Schoenbaum
- GTM Advisor and VP Business Development at ActivTrak
- Former COO of RiskIQ
- Former CEO of Cooladata and Redbooth
- Former Chairman M&A of Compuware
Eric Anderson
- CTO of Airbrake.io
- Former Co-Founder & CTO StackEngine (now Oracle)
- Former Co-Founder & CTO CopperEgg (now IDERA)
Josh Stephens
- Chief Strategy Officer, BackBox
- Executive Chairman, Evo Security
- Former Chief Strategy Officer, Itential & IDERA
- Former VP of Product, Community Leader, & Head Geek, SolarWinds
Kenny Van Zant
- Former Head of Business for Asana
- Former Chief Product Strategist for SolarWinds
- Board Member for Itential
Kevin Cunningham
- Former Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of SailPoint Technologies
- Former Founder of Waveset (now Sun Microsystems)
Marc Spier
- Former President and CEO for Budgeta (now Sage)
- Former Head of Go-to-Market and Product Operations for go90 (now Verizon Media)
Marie-Laure Carvalho
- CMO at Portnox
- Former VP, Marketing Technology at SolarWinds
- Former Senior Director of Demand Gen & Growth at Lifesize
Mark Beavers
- Former AVP of Business Technology at Alienvault (now AT&T Cybersecurity)
- Former Director of Marketing and Analytics at SolarWinds
Mark McClain
- CEO and Founder of SailPoint Technologies
- Founder and former President of Waveset Technologies (now Sun Microsystems)
- Board Member for Vyopta
Mike Bennett
- Chairman of ActivTrak
- Former CEO and Chairman of SolarWinds
- Former Chairman of IDERA Software, Executive Chairman
Pradeep Ittycheria
- CTO of Kasasa
- Former CTO & Co-Founder Virtual Piggy
- Former VP of Development and IT at Emerson
Rusty Stein
- Former President, Beneplace
- Former COO, Patton Medical Devices
- Former VP, LGI Financial Solutions
Shelley Perry
- Executive Chair of Airbrake.io
- Board Director of Chargebee
- Former CEO of Bynder
- Former Operating Partner at Insight Venture Partners
Tanya White
- CMO at BackBox
- Former VP of Marketing at CPA Global
- Former VP of Marketing at Innography
