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Michael Sullivan is CEO of Acquia, effective in December 2017. Sullivan joins Acquia from Micro Focus, where he participated in the merger of Micro Focus with Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s software business. The combined company became the world’s seventh largest pure-play software company and the largest UK technology firm listed on the London Stock Exchange. Sullivan was responsible for the information management and governance product portfolio both at Micro Focus and at HP, where he was senior VP and GM for SaaS. Prior to joining HP, he led the Protect business unit at Autonomy, which delivered risk and compliance solutions to Fortune 1000 companies. He joined Autonomy through the acquisition of Zantaz, where he was senior VP of operations and services. Sullivan was the founder and CEO of Steelpoint Technologies, a pioneer in technologies for the intelligent management of unstructured information. Sullivan was recognized by Ernst & Young as an Entrepreneur of the Year finalist in both 2000 and 2004. Earlier in his career, he was a software developer for Raytheon. A lifelong resident of Massachusetts, he holds a degree in computer information systems from Bentley University.

Senior executive with comprehensive experience and knowledge of strategy development, tactical execution, finance & accounting, debt & equity capital markets, and general administration for global tech-enabled services, consumer products, manufacturing and financial services companies.

I am 2x entrepreneur, investor, family office, author, speaker, and a (quant) value investor, seed investor in Coinbase. Interviewed and Quoted by Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, The Edge, Barron's. I am a general partner at Alpha Sigma Capital, a digital (crypto) assets arbitrage hedge fund. I am the founder and Chairman of AppAddictive, a S.W.A.T. team of engineers and data crunchers, who help CEOs and CMOs harness the benefits of data-driven, results-oriented social advertising. AppAddictive has over 50 million Facebook users in its web and Facebook platform, powering over 18 million fans, and 40000 businesses. AppAddictive has over 30,000 social apps created by its users. I managed a value oriented, long-term, concentrated hedge fund in Asian companies. Specialty: online businesses, spin-offs, post-bankruptcies, tender offers, engaged investing (as opposed to activist investing). Multiple winner of the best investing idea at ValueInvestorsClub.com, a 250 member only club that accepts hedge fund value investors only through the merit of your idea. Top-ranked analyst on SumZero. I discovered many spin-off ideas that generated high returns with low volatility, much earlier than the time bigger funds like Greenlight's Einhorn and Dan Loeb took their positions. I have time-stamp proof of my write-ups. I picked up event-driven special situations involving spin-offs, convertible refinancing and rights offerings in Southeast Asia, a region I am very familiar with because of my upbringing, my Chinese heritage and my relationships. I am an admitted Buffett follower and go to Omaha every year for the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting. Tom Murphy, James Sinegal, Ben & Jerry's are my favorite CEOs. Co-founded 123Jump and raised $15 Million. Prior to that, I was employee#3 and I worked with the 2 co-founders of GeoCities which was sold to Yahoo for $3.5 Billion in 1998. Prior to GeoCities, I worked at the Capital Group, a $1 trillion money management firm in Los Angeles, CA. I have a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from UCLA. Moderator of a value investing group centered on my mentor, Marty Whitman

Michael Cornell founded Accellos in 2006 with a vision that small and midsized business and logistics service providers were in need of a single source supply chain software partner. This vision has fueled Accellos’ dramatic growth through both organic product line enhancement and strategic acquisitions. Michael brings extensive executive management experience and a proven record of success in building software companies that pride themselves in innovation, customer service and delivering value to their stakeholders. Prior to Accellos, Michael was CEO of NxTrend Technology, the leading provider of distribution-centric ERP software in North America. During his tenure at NxTrend, Michael dramatically improved shareholder value resulting in the ultimate sale of the company to Infor in June of 2004. Previously, Michael was President of JBA Americas.