Converus CEO and leadership

Todd Mickelsen has more than 25 years of high tech senior management experience in business development, sales and product management at start-ups and established software giants, including Microsoft. Prior to joining Converus, Todd was Director of Product Management at Ancestry.com, responsible for the definition and delivery of a new family history software platform. As a co-founder of NextPage, a provider of search and content networking software, he also served as the Managing Director of NextPage Europe Ltd., overseeing the EMEA business out of the London office. As VP of Business Development at FAST Search, a leader in enterprise search technology, he helped grow the company to more than $100 million in revenue — leading to an acquisition by Microsoft for $1.2 billion. At Microsoft, Todd provided product direction for Microsoft’s enterprise search products. Todd holds a Bachelor of Science in marketing and business from Brigham Young University.

Ben Stout brings years of experience building industry-leading enterprise systems, and managing technology teams. Prior to Converus, Ben worked as CTO at MediConnect Global. Ben joined MediConnect in its startup phase and played an integral role in designing the scalable software, infrastructure and products that helped grow the company into a 1,000-employee corporation — which sold in March 2012 for $377 million. The applications and workflow processes he developed while at MediConnect are used on a daily basis by some of the country’s largest health and life insurance companies. Ben has a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Brigham Young University.

Greg Parkinson is a software industry veteran with a long history of engineering and delivering scalable systems and platforms. Greg previously worked as Chief Software Architect at MediConnect Global, where he helped position the company for acquisition by Verisk Analytics (Nasdaq: VRSK) in 2012. Prior to MediConnect, Greg served as Chief Software Architect at Ancestry.com, where he is credited with inventing many of the innovative algorithms needed for the company’s massive member trees and other proprietary data management solutions. While at Ancestry.com, he helped grow revenue from $12 million to more than $250 million at the time of the company’s IPO in 2010. Greg earned his Bachelor of Science with a double major in computer science and mathematics from Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, where he graduated magna cum laude.

Todd Mickelsen has more than 25 years of high tech senior management experience in business development, sales and product management at start-ups and established software giants, including Microsoft. Prior to joining Converus, Todd was Director of Product Management at Ancestry.com, responsible for the definition and delivery of a new family history software platform. As a co-founder of NextPage, a provider of search and content networking software, he also served as the Managing Director of NextPage Europe Ltd., overseeing the EMEA business out of the London office. As VP of Business Development at FAST Search, a leader in enterprise search technology, he helped grow the company to more than $100 million in revenue — leading to an acquisition by Microsoft for $1.2 billion. At Microsoft, Todd provided product direction for Microsoft’s enterprise search products. Todd holds a Bachelor of Science in marketing and business from Brigham Young University.