Suresh Shankar
United States
Mr. Michael Potts serves as Retired CEO Consultant at Webroot. He is also an Angel Investor. He also served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Lancope. He served as Board Member at Terma Software Labs and Evident. He leads all aspects of Lancope's strategic direction and day-to-day operations. Prior to Lancope he served as President and CEO of AirDefense, where he led the company's breakthrough wireless security growth of more than 300% in tow and a half years and completed the strategic all cash acquisition of the company by Motorola (NYSE:MOT) in September 2008. Previously, he served as CEO of Clickfox, an analytic solutions' provider, and as a merger & acquisition advisor to a number of venture backed companies. In 1998, he was appointed President of Jacada (NASDAQ: JCDA), a software integration company. He leads the acquisition strategy of more than 1,000 customers during his 7-year tenure and was a key contributor to Jacada's initial public offering raising more than $55m on an initial $200m valuation in 1999. Later that year the valuation of the company subsequently surpassed $650m. While serving as President, Computerworld named Jacada one of the top 10 places to work in the Southeast. Prior to Jacada, he spent 7 years in various sales and marketing roles at MSA, a financial application software company, subsequently acquired by Dun and Bradstreet (NYSE: DNB). He has served on the board of directors of the American Israel Chamber of Commerce, the American Electronics Association (AEA) and currently serves as an advisor and/or board member to several emerging technology companies. He completed his BBA in Marketing in 1984 at the University of Georgia.
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