Wimba's executive team combines for more than a century of experience in technology.

Tommaso Trionfi, Chief Executive Officer
Mike Golde, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Steven D. Kann, Co-founder and Senior Vice President, Engineering
Yancy Oshita, Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing
Jim Thibeau, Senior Vice President, Global Services

Tommaso Trionfi—Chief Executive Officer
Tommaso Trionfi is chief executive officer of Wimba. He is a director of the company and reports to the Board of Directors.

Trionfi has more than 20 years of management experience with early stage and larger global software and engineering companies. Since joining Wimba in 2000, Trionfi has overseen four successful acquisitions, including HorizonLive and Wimba. He spearheaded the company's vision of helping "people teach people" any time, place, speed, and mode, and make it universally accessible. He also worked closely with the educational community to bring assessment and content into Wimba.s collaborative learning vision through the acquisition of Brownstone, a leader in educational assessment and homework management. Prior to Wimba, Trionfi led business development at Omniticket Network, where he where he established strategic alliances with companies such as News Corporation and Singapore Press Holdings. Trionfi was formerly chief operating officer of Southern Europe for Colorlux, a global engineering company. Under his leadership, the region doubled sales to $60 million in three years. Before Colorlux, Trionfi was a managing founder at Delibes Consulting; and chief operating officer of Fontenay Industries, where he led operations and key acquisitions to grow the company from $15 million to over $120 million. Previously, Trionfi served in corporate finance at IBJ international, an investment banking firm based in London.

Trionfi received his MBA from INSEAD, and master's degree in Science with distinction from the University of Grenoble. He also serves as president of the U.S. Alumni Association for INSEAD.

Mike Golde—Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Mike Golde is responsible for the company's financial and operational planning, reporting, and company internal IT systems. He also plays a key role in the company's strategic growth initiatives including mergers and acquisitions. Golde has nearly 20 years of extensive and diversified financial experience with rapidly-growing companies, helping them access capital markets through public offerings and private placements, bringing mergers and acquisitions to closure, and integrating operations. Prior to Wimba, Golde was CFO and a founding member of management at Accretive Solutions, Inc., helping grow the company from start-up to $150 million in revenue. He guided an aggressive acquisition program that involved eight successful acquisitions. Golde also managed over $100 million in capital restructuring. Previously, Golde served at Randstad North America, where he was most recently controller. Before Randstad, through a series of transactions and corporate restructurings, Golde also held various financial management positions with AccuStaff Incorporated (now MPS Group) and Career Horizons. At Career Horizons, he was most recently director, Accounting. Golde began his career at Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers).

Golde received his master's of business administration and bachelor.s of business administration from Pace University. He is a certified public accountant.

Steve Kann—Co-Founder and Senior Vice President, Engineering
Steve Kann is responsible for the research, product strategy, architecture, and development of Wimba's Collaboration Suite of products. He is a co-founder of Wimba and chief architect of Wimba Classroom, the industry's first virtual classroom technology to use voice-activated switching to enhance the natural flow of collaboration. Kann spent his entire career on harnessing the Web to improve teaching and learning for everyone, especially people with disabilities. Prior to Wimba, Kann was founder and president of Adap-Tech, where he pioneered electronic communication aids to help better teach handicapped children. Before Adap-Tech, he was chief engineer at i/o 360 Digital Design, where he led the firm's transition to deliver complete internet and intranet application development to Fortune 100 clients such as Sony, Reuters, and The Wall Street Journal. Previously, Kann served in technical leadership positions at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and The Board of Education of the City of New York.

Kann received his bachelor's degree in Engineering from The Cooper Union. He is a thought leader on open source with several published articles in security and multimedia domains. Kann also is an industry expert on eliminating barriers in information technology for people with disabilities, a key part of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Yancy Oshita—Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing
Yancy Oshita is responsible for global field operations including sales, product marketing, customer programs, alliances and channels, and corporate marketing. Oshita brings to Wimba more than 20 years of technology sales, marketing, and consulting experience with some of the most well-known and early stage companies. Most recently, he served as senior vice president, Chief Marketing Officer, where he repositioned the Wimba Collaboration Suite, and successfully expanded the company into the K12 industry. Before joining Wimba, Oshita was Chief Operating Officer of MobileGates, where he led business development and redirected the company from a software vendor to a mobile advertising network. Previously, Oshita was Chief Marketing Officer of INFONXX, where he spearheaded the industry's first SMS directory search service. Prior to that, Oshita served at Oracle as senior managing director, Oracle Consulting, where he oversaw a $20 million practice that delivered solutions to clients such as AT&T. He also was senior director, Global Strategy and Marketing, where he led the telecom industry strategy and go-to-market execution that resulted in over $400 million in strategic acquisitions. Before Oracle, Oshita held a number of sales management and marketing positions at Teradata and NCR.

Oshita received his MBA from University of Dayton, and his bachelor's degree from California State University, Northridge. His research work on IT implementation success factors is featured in two books.

Jim Thibeau—Senior Vice President, Global Services
Jim Thibeau is responsible for global services including installation support and training, consulting, hosting operations, and support. Thibeau brings to Wimba over 20 years of services and consulting experience with software and system integration companies. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President, Professional Services. Before joining Wimba, Thibeau was vice president, North America Higher Education Services for Blackboard, where he drove over $12 million in annual revenue and improved consulting capabilities. Prior to Blackboard, Thibeau was vice president, Global Professional Services of WebCT. Under his leadership, the company expanded service offerings and grew revenue an average of 50% annually over four years. Before WebCT, Thibeau was regional vice president for Baydon Solutions, where he delivered knowledge management solutions to clients such as Charles Schwab and United Airlines. Previously, Thibeau held a number of senior professional services roles at Platinum Technology (now CA) and WexTech Systems. He also held positions of increasing responsibility at Information Mapping, most recently as director, Product Development.

Thibeau received his master's of history from Boston University, and his bachelor's of history from University of New Hampshire. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Florence Crittenton League, a 100 year-old non-profit adoption agency.

Tommaso Trionfi
CEO
Wimba

Walter Barandiaran
Managing Partner
Argentum Group

Kylie A. D. Sachs
Partner
Ascend Venture Group

Carmen Scarpa
Managing Director
Tudor Investment Corporation

Carol Vallone
Former CEO
WebCT