Poul Nielsen, CEO & President
Poul has more than 27 years of experience in distributed systems management and more than 13 years of executive management experience with Altiris Inc., Computing Edge, and Computer Associates. During his time at Altiris, Poul served as Vice President of Product Strategy, Marketing, and Corporate Development. Under Poul's direction, Altiris pioneered the concept of IT Lifecycle Management and the razor-n-blade model for systems management, while Computing Edge's Web-based architecture served as the integration platform for its suite of products. Altiris acquired Computing Edge in 2000 where Poul was President and COO.

In the late 90s, Poul served as AVP of Research and Development at Computer Associates and was responsible for several components of Unicenter TNG. Poul started his technical career at Digital Equipment Corporation where he spent 12 years in various development, program management, and technical director roles. Poul received a BS in Computer Science from Central Connecticut State University.

Barry Meyer, CTO
Barry is presently the CTO of TriActive and is the architect of TriActive's current and future product strategy. Prior to TriActive, Barry served as Director of Software Development and Director of New Product Development for The ForeFront Group. At ForeFront, Barry's products formed the basis for the foundation, growth, and eventual IPO of the ForeFront Group. ForeFront was later acquired by CBT Group, PLC which is now SkillSoft PLC (Nasdaq: SKIL). Prior to ForeFront, Barry served as project lead for the Virtual Notebook System (VNS) at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). This work resulted in the eventual formation of the The ForeFront Group, the first pure software spinoff from Baylor College of Medicine. Barry has a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Dana Canada, CFO
Dana has over 23 years of experience in Corporate Finance. Prior to joining TriActive, she served as VP of Finance at The Kernel Group and was responsible for all aspects of financial management. As a member of the executive management team at TKG, Dana helped secure $5.5 Million in the first round of venture capital and participated in the negotiation and subsequent sale of TKG to Veritas Software.

Dana has also done extensive consulting, serving as a partner in an Austin-based Tax and Finance Consultancy. Her responsibilities included general business consulting, CFO consulting, and audit and tax consulting. Dana started her career in Finance with Coopers & Lybrand and quickly moved into executive management positions. Dana is a registered CPA and graduated from University of Texas at Austin in 1980 with honors in Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting.

Ron Halversen, VP Marketing
Ron joined TriActive early in 2006 as the Vice President of Marketing and Product Management. Ron has held management positions with WordPerfect, LANSystems, Novell, and Altiris. Managing all of their products from Altiris’ start-up beginning, Ron helped design and manage products for Compaq, HP, and Dell, as well as being instrumental in early business development relationships that started the many Altiris acquisitions.

With a strong technical background including extensive studies in Design Engineering, Ron received certifications from WordPerfect, Novell, and Microsoft. Ron received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis in design engineering and his Masters in Business Administration.

Scott Robertson, VP Channel Development

Throughout his successful career, Scott has held executive positions demonstrating his leadership and business development skills. Prior to joining TriActive, Scott was VP of Channel Sales for Everdream, a software as a service company operating in the same space as TriActive. As Channel Sales Manager at Exigen, a leading provider of enterprise-level business process management solutions, Scott managed the successful development of key strategic alliances and partnerships including Xerox and IBM. At Autovia, an on demand buying network for the automotive industry, Scott served as Vice President of Sales and National Accounts, where his team pioneered software as a service for the automotive vertical. Immediately prior to this at Triad Systems, a provider of ERP solutions for automotive, Scott held numerous executive sales and channel roles over his seventeen years with the company.

Scott received his BS in Finance and Business from University of Oregon.

Richard Bross, VP of Engineering
Rick has 30 years in the software industry holding executive positions at Altiris, Computer Associates, SoftLogic Solutions, and Visionary Software Technology. As VP of Engineering at Altiris, Rick managed multiple teams working in many areas of Systems Management including Asset Management, Remote Control, Disaster Recovery, Security, Out-of-Band Management, Performance, and Server/Datacenter Management. Rick was one of the architects of Altiris’ server monitoring infrastructure and was the VP in charge of the Datacenter Management Suite.

Rick started his career as a manager and developer at firms that created custom financial software for companies in the manufacturing and construction industries. He then moved on to management and technical roles at SoftLogic solutions, creating PC utilities for the consumer market. While at Computer Associates, Rick managed development teams that created the Unicenter Management for Web Servers Solution, a Web infrastructure management suite.

Craig Bauman, VP Worldwide Sales & Service Channels
Craig brings over 15 years of leadership in the software and systems management industry to Triactive. Before joining the company, Craig was an Enterprise Sales Director at Microsoft responsible for sales of the Windows Enterprise Management products in the US and Canada. Under Craig’s leadership, the US experienced sales growth of 20% and recognized System Center’s two largest quarters of revenue attainment to date. Craig was a key stakeholder in driving Microsoft’s acquisitions of AssetMetrix and Softricity to expand the System Center portfolio.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Craig spent 5 years with Altiris as an Area Sales Director for Central North America. During his tenure, Craig assisted in the successful IPO of Altiris; growing the company from $10 million to $200 million in top line revenue over 5 years and 300% growth in partner-led revenue diversification. In 1994 Craig was the Founder and CEO of Cursor Design Group, a pioneer in delivering scalable systems management services and add-on solutions as a managed service provider to Fortune 500 companies.

Craig attended Michigan Technological University where he studied Scientific and Technical Communication and has an MA in Management Operations from Spring Arbor University.

Raymond Eifler, VP Service & Support
Raymond served as the VP of Global Information Systems for Altiris inc. when it was acquired by Symantec in April of 2007. In his role at Altiris, he transformed the IT department into a global infrastructure capable of supporting a business boasting a high growth rate, demanding customers, and innovative software development teams. He has held a majority of IT positions including software design, software development, relationship management, project management, technical support, database architecture, data management, hardware and data center operations, and senior management.

Raymond began his career in telecommunications, and during his 15 years in that industry, garnered both start-up and global operations experience. This included a pivotal year serving as an IT liaison in a customer facing call center. It was here that Raymond began to develop his own 'service strategy' for IT management.

Raymond moved into the software industry in 2002, where he scaled the infrastructure at Wise Solutions for high growth. He served as the Senior Information Technology Strategist over the infrastructure, when Wise was acquired by Altiris in December 2003. Raymond had automated a majority of Quote-to-Cash functions at Wise and immediately saw an opportunity to help Altiris do the same.

Raymond has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, and a Masters of Information Technology Management from Lawrence Technological University in Michigan.