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Group co-founders Chris
Shipley and Mike Sigal joined forces in 2003
with a shared goal of furthering early-stage
technology innovation around the world through
visionary research, media and events focused
on emerging markets. Inveterate entrepreneurs
themselves, they bring their experience, passion
and inquisitiveness to Guidewire Group’s
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The Guidewire Group Team  |
 Chris Shipley
Co-founder and Chairman
Chris Shipley is a leading technology and product analyst.
Best known as the executive producer of the DEMO Conferences
for IDG Executive Forums, Chris has helped technology companies
bring over 1,000 new products to market since 1996. As a founding
partner and Global Research Director of Guidewire Group, she
analyzes emerging technology companies around the world to
identify market opportunities and accelerate products to market.
Fortune Small Business Magazine placed Chris on its "Top
10 Minds in Small Business," and the San Jose Business
Journal named her a "Woman of Distinction." She has
often been cited as a leading influencer by Marketing Computers
magazine. Chris has covered personal technology since 1984
and has worked as a writer and editor for a variety of technology
and consumer media. She is currently working on a book on the
social impact of technology-driven change.
Chris holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Literature and Communication
Arts from Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa. |
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 Mike
Sigal
Co-founder and CEO
Mike Sigal is Co-founder and CEO of Guidewire
Group. Mike
brings to Guidewire Group a 20-year record of building innovative
technology-based businesses for existing and emerging global companies.
Previously, he ran a strategic advisory and interim
management consulting firm, with clients such as
the Daily Mail General Trust, Fresher Information
Corp, IDG, Office Depot, Pacific Bell, Philips
Electronics, Synoptics and the U.S. Postal Service.
He has lived and worked in Europe, providing
marketing and business development services to
technology companies as they developed their
trans-Atlantic strategies. As director of DASAR,
producer of the annual European Technology Roundtable
Exposition (ETRE) conferences, Mike built communities which
fostered relationships among technology industry executives
and investors.
An entrepreneur at heart, Mike has founded a
number of technology ventures, including FM Waves
and WiFinder. He holds a
Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California,
Berkeley. |
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 Carla
Thomson
Senior Analyst
Carla Thompson comes to Guidewire Group with a unique perspective
on the viability of companies and market sectors playing in
the technology of tomorrow. Specializing in social networking
and software, Internet communities, natural language processing
and the semantic Web, Carla has both inside knowledge of singular
Silicon Valley and a much-needed everyday consumer perspective
from her Texas address. She has worked in technology for 10
years, having counseled companies such as Visa, Intuit, Chase
Capital Partners, Network World, and Sun Microsystems on communications
and positioning as senior account executive at Ketchum Silicon
Valley and as co-founder of MC2 Communications. She earned
a silver SABRE award for the successful launch of Transmeta
Corporation in January of 2000, and ushered the company through
one of the Valley’s largest IPOs, during which time she
also served as publicist to Linus Torvalds, inventor of the
Linux operating system.
Carla resides in her native Texas and is a recovering political
junkie and active gadget freak. |
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 Alice Mar
Office Manager
Alice Mar expertly manages Guidewire Group’s business affairs. She has more than 20 years of administrative and project management experience in the computer industry, working for companies such as Apple, Avex Electronics, and Skyware. Her breadth of work experience as a development project manager, company administrator, customer support specialist, executive assistant, and HR generalist makes her ideally suited for organizing, adjusting and harmonizing activities in Guidewire Group’s fast moving environment. . |
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Mike Rogers
Director
Mike Rogers has spent more than 30 years in media and advertising and has extensive experience in media, marketing, and research. As Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Fortune 500, Knight Ridder, he championed sales efforts with the largest advertisers across the country and across the newspaper industry.
In addition, he led Knight Ridder’s marketing effort for local websites. Mike spent 6 years at International Data Group, a global technology media company, where he spearheaded relationships with top advertisers, championed groundbreaking research, and served as President and Publisher of Computerworld. Prior to that, he spent more than 13 years in senior account management roles at leading advertising agencies in Denver, Detroit, and New York City on such diverse brands as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Lexmark, Unisys, Eastern Airlines, and Lipton.
Mike served as CEO of SyndicateIQ, an early entrant in the RSS marketing/advertising category, and is currently Vice President of Sales for AllBusiness.com, a Dunn & Bradstreet company. |
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