Management Team

Management Team

Accellion Management Team - Provider of Secure File Transfer Solutions

Yorgen H. Edholm

President and Chief Executive Officer

Yorgen Edholm is a Silicon Valley veteran with 25 years of Enterprise Software expertise. Mr. Edholm co-founded Brio Technology and during 12 years as CEO, took the company public and grew it to $150 million in revenues with over 700 employees and a customer base of over 5,000 organizations. In addition Mr. Edholm was President and CEO of DecisionPoint Applications, an Analytical Applications company. Mr. Edholm has served on several public and private company boards including most recently Hyperion (sold to Oracle), I-many, Resilience, Verix and Saama.

Mr. Edholm earned an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics and a Masters in Engineering Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Trained as a concert violinist, Mr. Edholm studied with Ivan Galamian, and has performed in Carnegie Hall (2005).

 

Nikhil Jhingan

Chief Technology Officer and Founder

Mr. Jhingan, Co-Founder of the Company, has served as Chief Technology Officer since 1999. Mr. Jhingan is responsible for the creation and on-going strategic development of the Accellion file transfer architecture.

Prior to Accellion, Mr. Jhingan co-founded two startups: TouchBeam Systems and NyeQ Technologies, an Internet/Web application development services company.

Mr. Jhingan received a BA in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Delhi).

 

Glen Segal

Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Business Development

Mr. Segal joined Accellion as CFO and Senior Vice President of Finance in December 2002. He has over 20 years experience in finance, fund raising strategy and business development. He was a partner at Mercer Management Consulting and has held finance and strategy positions at GE and GE Capital, Nortel Networks and Bay Networks. Prior to joining Accellion he was CFO of FlowStorm, Inc. where his responsibilities included financial management and planning, fund raising, and administration. He has also served as VP of Finance and Corporate Development at FiberStreet where he spearheaded multiple initiatives in financing, business development and operations.

Mr. Segal holds a BA degree in Economics from Whitman College and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

 

Gary Rogers

Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Mr. Rogers joins Accellion with more than 20 years experience leading global software sales of enterprise solutions for industry leaders such as USinternetworking (USi), Solution 6 (CMS Data), Clarus Corp., and Automatic Data Processing (ADP). In addition Gary has extensive experience in Europe and the US, building channels with Microsoft. At USi he served as Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing and was a key executive involved in establishing USi as the leading ASP. He also served as Vice President of Sales for Clarus Corp. and led the early growth of this firm. At ADP he served in sales and marketing management roles with significant success in the National Accounts division.

Gary received a BA and completed graduate work at the State University of New York.

 

Paula Skokowski

Chief Marketing Officer

Ms. Skokowski joined Accellion in February 2007. She has more than 20 years experience in product marketing, corporate marketing and new product introduction for pre and post-IPO companies in Silicon Valley. Prior to Accellion she was VP Marketing, at General Magic, where she marketed General Magic’s patented voice interfaces including the voice of GM OnStar and spearheaded the market introduction of a J2EE/VoiceXML voice development platform. As Director Marketing, Echelon Corporation, Ms. Skokowski led the company’s product branding initiatives, creating an industry recognized standard for interoperable control networking. Earlier in her career she worked as a product manager and application programmer of high speed vision-guided robots for Adept Technology, the largest US-based manufacturer of industrial robots.

Ms. Skokowski has served as a Board Member of Teradata’s Ecommerce Board of Advisors, Director for the ComputerWorld Smithsonian Awards Program and Executive Director to the LonMark Interoperability Association.

Ms. Skokowski received a BA and MA Honors in Engineering Science from Oxford University and an MS in Robotics from UC Berkeley.

 

Paul Steiner

Managing Director, Europe, Middle East & Africa

Mr. Steiner joined Accellion in 2001 as Senior Vice President-Europe. Prior to joining Accellion he held positions as Vice President of International-Europe at AboveNet Communications, Inc. and Managing Director of Europe, Africa, Middle East and India for NetCom. As a management consultant with McKinsey & Co., in Munich, Germany, Mr. Steiner’s clients included Daimler Benz, Europe’s largest copper refinery, and leading German firms in banking, insurance, retail and publishing. Mr. Steiner also co-founded NETWAY in 1995, one of the first ISPs which grew to be the leading Austrian ISP before being sold to UTA/Tele 2 in 2001.

Mr. Steiner completed a PhD and MSc in Petroleum Engineering from Leoben Mining University, and an MBA from The University of Michigan.

 

David Cain

Vice President Worldwide Channel Sales

Mr. Cain joined Accellion in March 2005 as Vice President of Sales, North America. He has created and managed customer relationships for over fifteen years. In 2002, Dave joined the six founders of Corvigo, Inc. as the Vice President of Sales and helped build the company to 100 customers and a dozen channel partners, until it was acquired in 2004 by Tumbleweed Communications (NASDAQ: TMWD) for $41M. Prior to Corvigo, he served as Senior Director of Sales at eFinance, Inc., a company providing credit decision technology to the Fortune 1000.

Mr. Cain holds a B.A., magna cum laude, from Tufts University, and a J.D. from Boston College Law School.

 

Dr. Vinod Vasnani

Vice President of Engineering

Dr. Vinod Vasnani joined the Company in December 1999 as Vice President of Engineering. In this capacity he oversees and manages the product development process. Before joining Accellion, Dr. Vasnani held various positions at Fisher-Rosemount Inc.

Dr. Vasnani received his B.A. in Electrical Engineering and his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore.