Patrick Kremer, CEO
Patrick has over 25 years experience in the technology sector, the majority of that with early stage VC backed companies in the US and UK. Three of which exited for over $1 billion including 1 NASDAQ. In addition Patrick worked for 2 ½ years as a VC at DN Capital and during that time managed two new investments – Shazam (UK) and Lagan (Belfast) which have both become profitable and successful companies. Patrick began his career at IBM where he worked for 8 years in sales, marketing, and strategy roles, and left IBM in the early 90s to join Sybase as Business Development Director during their growth from $170m to $1 billion in revenue.
He then worked in Silicon Valley as a business development exec for 3 early stage technology companies which were backed by Sequoia, Lightspeed, Trinity Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank and others. Patrick speaks frequently at investor conferences including a recent July 2010 panel appearance in Silicon Valley at “An Entrepreneurs Journey” discussing global financing options which was sponsored by HP and broadcast live to 12 countries.
Patrick has been CEO of Mtivity Ltd. for five years where he raised both angel and VC funding in the UK and recently opened the US operations. Patrick has an undergraduate degree in Economics from University of California, Davis and his Masters from London Business School.
James Mason, V.P. Client Operations
James is co-founder of Mtivity and has been an active participant in the technology for marketing/print space since 1999. He is recognized by clients and colleagues as a thought leader and subject matter expert in both marketing technology and the "Marketing Production and Procurement Lifecycle".
Between 1999 and 2009 he ran a number of divisions of Mtivity Europe including information technology, product management, and service partner implementations where he was responsible for successful implementations of Mtivity within a number of Global fortune 500 companies.
James moved to the USA in early 2009 to launch the US division of Mtivity and is currently based in New York. He has managed several successful implementations of Mtivity to US Fortune 100 accounts.
David Arnold, Director of Business Development
David is a graduate of Oxford University and has held senior finance and specialist tax roles with a number of organisations including Ford, the Inland Revenue, Binder Hamlyn and Crown Life Insurance. He later joined L&G where he became Chairman of the Central Purchasing Council. In 1996 he set up his own consultancy in outsourcing and procurement, specialising in print management for clients including Shell International and Xerox before joining Xerox in a full time capacity.
Laurence Hodge, Director of Finance
Laurence has over 15 years experience with both early-stage and large companies. Laurence holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Edinburgh and is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (FCCA).
