Four Winds Interactive CEO and leadership

In 2005, David co-founded Four Winds Interactive with a vision for how digital technology would transform the way businesses communicate and engage with their customers and employees. With 7,500 clients and over 500,000 screens deployed, FWI’s software platform is driving visual communications to millions of people every day in airports, banks, corporate campuses, professional sports stadiums, hospitals, hotels, casinos, universities, manufacturing facilities and retail stores. FWI was recently selected by Gartner as a Cool Vendor in Content Management and David has been recognized by Forbes Magazine’s list of most promising CEO’s under 35. Prior to FWI, David co-founded Sage Circle, a software and consulting services firm and was an Associate at Denver-based venture capital firm, Cornerstone Ventures. When not working, David enjoys golf, skiing, running and travel.

Matt brings over 20 years of financial leadership experience to FWI, most recently as CFO of EagleView Technology Corporation, another Vista Equity Partners portfolio company. He has extensive experience in the value creation process and driving profitable growth in both public and private companies. Matt holds a B.S. in Accounting from the State University of New York at Buffalo as well as an MBA in Economics, Finance and Marketing from the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester. He is also licensed as a CPA in the state of New York.

Bob has a unique background in sales, operations, and finance, which sets him apart from traditional go-to-market leaders. Beginning his career in finance at Xerox, Bob accelerated through several field sales roles to executive level enterprise sales and operations positions at IBM, Microsoft and most recently Workiva, where he led the global sales and revenue operations team, delivering over 20% revenue growth. Bob is an expert at leading go-to-market teams as companies progress from delivering customer value with targeted, single SaaS solutions to multi-solution and SaaS platform capabilities.

Chris Keefe has more than 12 years of experience in the Visual Communications industry-ranging from marketing, project delivery, application development, sales engineering and product management. He is currently Chief Product Officer at FWI, responsible for a team of over 50 Sales Engineers and Product Managers across North America, Mexico, Europe and the UAE. With an obsessive passion for enhancing the user experience and advancing the usability, breadth and reach of Visual Communications, Chris and team develop the tools responsible for ushering the digital signage industry into the future.

20 + years’ experience in Senior Management, including Chief Executive level, working in pressurised, fast-paced and changing business environments, driving commercial advantage and profitable growth in highly competitive markets. Proven track record of strategic repositioning, business development, innovation and leadership, developing successful business relationships with global corporations and major national clients. Highly motivated, strategic, resilient, tenacious, results driven, commercially and politically astute and an achiever whether working independently on own initiative or collaboratively as part of a team.

Taufiq Shamim is a Chief Technology Officer at Four Winds Interactive.

Tammy brings more than 25 years of experience growing the talent of many organizations like EZLynx (350 employees), IronPlanet (600 employees), ACTIVE Network (3,500 employees), Fellowship Technologies (start-up to 100 employees). Over the course of her career, she’s demonstrated results by balancing strategic planning and operational execution. Tammy has a track record of scaling productive teams quickly, and she’s proud of her ability to building lasting relationships. Tammy earned her Bachelor of Science in Resource Management from Iowa State University where she met her husband, Derrell. They have two children, Zach and Alexandra –both of which are recent graduates from Iowa State University. She and her family have lived in Chicago, IL; Denver, CO; Portland, OR and Flower Mound, TX. She loves a good adventure by traveling internationally, hiking, golfing, pilates and paddle boarding.

In 2005, David co-founded Four Winds Interactive with a vision for how digital technology would transform the way businesses communicate and engage with their customers and employees. With 7,500 clients and over 500,000 screens deployed, FWI’s software platform is driving visual communications to millions of people every day in airports, banks, corporate campuses, professional sports stadiums, hospitals, hotels, casinos, universities, manufacturing facilities and retail stores. FWI was recently selected by Gartner as a Cool Vendor in Content Management and David has been recognized by Forbes Magazine’s list of most promising CEO’s under 35. Prior to FWI, David co-founded Sage Circle, a software and consulting services firm and was an Associate at Denver-based venture capital firm, Cornerstone Ventures. When not working, David enjoys golf, skiing, running and travel.