Cloze CEO and leadership

Dan brings a unique mix of technology, marketing, and business skills to the Cloze team. Foody previously managed a $500 million software product portfolio at Progress Software, driving both product strategy and management. He is adept at growing both small and large product lines; yielding triple-digit revenue increases in new businesses and transforming existing businesses. As CTO of Actional Corporation (Acquired: PRGS), Foody created a leader in the SOA Management space, and earned recognition as a Top 25 CTO by InfoWorld. Foody has consistently demonstrated thought leadership and drove product initiatives that achieved high growth and recognition in the leadership quadrants of both Forrester and Gartner. Foody holds multiple patents and has a Bachelor and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Specialties: dynamic web UIs, distributed systems, integration, enterprise applications, SOAs, Web service, distributed systems management, UX design, sales process, business strategy

• Co-founder of Cloze - Smarter Relationship Management

• Cloze is like a personal assistant for your professional relationships that is always prompting you at the right moment and remembering what you don’t.

It pulls from your apps to automatically create one view of every person and company - all their contact details, and your complete history - every email back and forth, your phone calls together, your meetings, your notes on Evernote, documents you exchanged and your interactions on social.

It's all organized for you - by contact, company and meeting - without any busy work.

With everything in one place, Cloze figures out who is important and keeps them top of mind, and will even remind you to reach out to a contact and refresh a fading relationship. Get in the App Store: AppStore.com/cloze

• 15+ years of Product Strategy and Marketing experience in both a start-up and mature product setting.

• Well rounded, customer-focused marketing executive with strong technology background capable of juggling the many responsibilities found in a startup environment.

• Led product strategy/definition, launches and marketing programs for several Software-as-a-Service and business information based products.

• Expertise in building customer communities, managing product user groups and creating feedback loops.

• Extensive experience with Internet products and software, as well as user interface design and prototyping.

• Quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, INC, TheStreet.com and several others.

• MBA - Marketing and Information Technology emphasis. Bachelor's degree in Economics.

Dan brings a unique mix of technology, marketing, and business skills to the Cloze team. Foody previously managed a $500 million software product portfolio at Progress Software, driving both product strategy and management. He is adept at growing both small and large product lines; yielding triple-digit revenue increases in new businesses and transforming existing businesses. As CTO of Actional Corporation (Acquired: PRGS), Foody created a leader in the SOA Management space, and earned recognition as a Top 25 CTO by InfoWorld. Foody has consistently demonstrated thought leadership and drove product initiatives that achieved high growth and recognition in the leadership quadrants of both Forrester and Gartner. Foody holds multiple patents and has a Bachelor and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Specialties: dynamic web UIs, distributed systems, integration, enterprise applications, SOAs, Web service, distributed systems management, UX design, sales process, business strategy

• Co-founder of Cloze - Smarter Relationship Management

• Cloze is like a personal assistant for your professional relationships that is always prompting you at the right moment and remembering what you don’t.

It pulls from your apps to automatically create one view of every person and company - all their contact details, and your complete history - every email back and forth, your phone calls together, your meetings, your notes on Evernote, documents you exchanged and your interactions on social.

It's all organized for you - by contact, company and meeting - without any busy work.

With everything in one place, Cloze figures out who is important and keeps them top of mind, and will even remind you to reach out to a contact and refresh a fading relationship. Get in the App Store: AppStore.com/cloze

• 15+ years of Product Strategy and Marketing experience in both a start-up and mature product setting.

• Well rounded, customer-focused marketing executive with strong technology background capable of juggling the many responsibilities found in a startup environment.

• Led product strategy/definition, launches and marketing programs for several Software-as-a-Service and business information based products.

• Expertise in building customer communities, managing product user groups and creating feedback loops.

• Extensive experience with Internet products and software, as well as user interface design and prototyping.

• Quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, INC, TheStreet.com and several others.

• MBA - Marketing and Information Technology emphasis. Bachelor's degree in Economics.

Dan brings a unique mix of technology, marketing, and business skills to the Cloze team. Foody previously managed a $500 million software product portfolio at Progress Software, driving both product strategy and management. He is adept at growing both small and large product lines; yielding triple-digit revenue increases in new businesses and transforming existing businesses. As CTO of Actional Corporation (Acquired: PRGS), Foody created a leader in the SOA Management space, and earned recognition as a Top 25 CTO by InfoWorld. Foody has consistently demonstrated thought leadership and drove product initiatives that achieved high growth and recognition in the leadership quadrants of both Forrester and Gartner. Foody holds multiple patents and has a Bachelor and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Specialties: dynamic web UIs, distributed systems, integration, enterprise applications, SOAs, Web service, distributed systems management, UX design, sales process, business strategy

• Co-founder of Cloze - Smarter Relationship Management

• Cloze is like a personal assistant for your professional relationships that is always prompting you at the right moment and remembering what you don’t.

It pulls from your apps to automatically create one view of every person and company - all their contact details, and your complete history - every email back and forth, your phone calls together, your meetings, your notes on Evernote, documents you exchanged and your interactions on social.

It's all organized for you - by contact, company and meeting - without any busy work.

With everything in one place, Cloze figures out who is important and keeps them top of mind, and will even remind you to reach out to a contact and refresh a fading relationship. Get in the App Store: AppStore.com/cloze

• 15+ years of Product Strategy and Marketing experience in both a start-up and mature product setting.

• Well rounded, customer-focused marketing executive with strong technology background capable of juggling the many responsibilities found in a startup environment.

• Led product strategy/definition, launches and marketing programs for several Software-as-a-Service and business information based products.

• Expertise in building customer communities, managing product user groups and creating feedback loops.

• Extensive experience with Internet products and software, as well as user interface design and prototyping.

• Quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, INC, TheStreet.com and several others.

• MBA - Marketing and Information Technology emphasis. Bachelor's degree in Economics.