Paul Sutton

President and Chief Executive Officer

Paul Sutton has more than twenty-five years of experience in software and technology. Sutton has experience in executive management as well as sales, marketing and technical management. He has grown Kabira to 100 large customers in 32 countries, drove the company to produce the 64-bit Kabira Infrastructure System and the revolutionary cross-network Kabira Transaction Switch, and won VISA, Motorola and Hitachi as strategic customers and partners. Before joining Kabira Technologies, Sutton was vice president of sales and marketing at Intellicorp, a business modeling software company. Previously, he held positions as vice president of sales at Softlab, a computer-aided software engineering firm owned by BMW AG, and as managing director of Boole & Babbage, a system management software company.

Greg Straughn

Chief Financial Officer

Greg Straughn has over 20 years of experience in financial management of high-growth communications and technology firms. Prior to joining Kabira, Straughn was consulting to emerging Internet firms on developing and implementing merger and acquisition strategies. He was CFO of Pacific Bell Internet Services where he developed the original business plan and managed the establishment of the business and growth from zero to $25 million in revenue, and CFO of PacTel Finance, a diversified leasing company. Straughn previously held various financial management positions at Pacific Telesis Group. He has a BS in finance from UC Berkeley. Straughn is also the author of several books on financial and general management of a small business.

Eric Graber

Vice President Global Sales

Eric Graber brings over 20 years of experience as an executive responsible for revenue growth and customer success. Most recently, Graber was Vice President, Global Sales for Traiana, Inc., an enterprise application provider to the global capital markets sector. Prior to that he was Vice President of North American sales at Serena Software, and also held sales leadership positions at Sybase and Legent Corporation. Graber has a degree in computer mathematics from San Jose State University.

Dirk Epperson

Vice President, Strategic Planning & Marketing

Co-Founder

Before co-founding Kabira in 1996, Dirk Epperson was director and architect for Sybase's successful Intermedia Server that delivered video-on-demand to major telecommunications customers across the globe. Before joining Sybase, Epperson was vice president of software development at Hill Arts & Entertainment, Inc., where he developed industry-leading billing and ticketing systems. Epperson was a vice president and founder of Performing Arts Technology, Inc., which developed and supplied client/server sales and marketing information systems to theaters and management organizations. He holds a Bachelor's degree in physics from Harvey Mudd College and a Master's degree in engineering from Yale University.

Daniel J. Sifter

Vice President of Engineering

Co-founder

Dan Sifter has more than fifteen years of experience in networks, protocols and open system computing for telecommunications and other industries. Before co-founding Kabira in 1996, Sifter was chief architect for Sybase's connectivity products group, where he designed innovative extensions to Sybase's Open Client and Open Server products. Before joining Sybase, he worked for Control Data Corporation as architect for messaging technologies.

Chris Clabaugh

Vice President, Business Development

As VP of Business Development at Kabira, Chris Clabaugh oversees Kabira’s global partnering efforts, with the operating concept of “partnering with purpose”, and leads Kabira’s channel expansion in APAC and Latin America. He joined Kabira after his role as VP of Business Development for CollabNet, where he oversaw the global channel program, APAC operations, and launched an on-demand training and e-commerce site. Prior to joining CollabNet, he was VP of Application Partner Market Development for Progress Software. Mr. Clabaugh was co-founder and CEO of Allegrix, Inc., a pioneer in SaaS enablement, which was acquired by Progress Software in 2001. He has a BS in Computer Science from Tulane University and sits of the Board of Advisors for the Tulane School of Engineering.

Mark Phillips

Chief Technology Officer

Mark Phillips has successfully lead technology and software development efforts for more than three decades. Most recently the Chief Technology Officer at Knowmadic, Inc., Mark took over leadership of Kabira's product and solutions development in 2006. He has held executive positions at various early-stage technology companies in Silicon Valley, serving as vice president of product development at General Magic until 2001, where he was responsible for building and overseeing the company's technical and linguistics teams and planning and implementing the company's enterprise-focused product direction. He was chief technology officer and vice president of engineering at OPI Software, served as vice president of engineering at Angara E-Commerce Services, and also held positions at Insession, Inc. and Transactions Systems Architects, Inc. He began his career at IBM and Tandem Computers. Mr. Phillips earned a master of science degree in physics from Oxford University. He holds 15 patents.

Sanjay Saini

Vice President, Global Services

Sanjay Saini has been leading large professional services, support and education operations at major technology companies for more than ten years. He was an initial start-up team member at Kintana, and helped that company grow from a boutique consulting firm to be the recognized leader in IT governance. After Kintana was acquired by Mercury, Sanjay took on leadership of that company's strategic consulting division and professional services practice in the Western and Central U.S. and Canada. Mr. Saini began his career with Oracle in Bangalore, India. He holds M.S. and B.E. degrees from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science and a MBA degree from The Wharton School.