Our Management Team

Jeremy Jaech | President and CEO

As CEO of Verdiem, Jeremy Jaech brings 20 years of insight, leadership and market-creation strategy behind some of today's most recognizable software, including Microsoft Visio and Adobe PageMaker. As CEO, Jeremy leads Verdiem's corporate development and strategy in both defining and broadening the market for energy and carbon management in the enterprise and scaling the company's business operations to maximize the growing demand for energy management solutions. 

Most recently, Jeremy served as co-founder and CEO of Trumba, which makes calendaring web services for companies to manage events online. He also co-founded and served as President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Visio, developing the breakthrough technology from 1990 until its acquisition by the Microsoft Corporation in 2000. Jeremy began his entrepreneurial path by founding Aldus Corporation in 1984, the first company to create graphical design software for consumers. On the heels of PageMaker's success, Jeremy was appointed Aldus' Vice President of Engineering and oversaw the development of all Aldus products before it was acquired by Adobe in 1994.

Jeremy currently serves on the Board of Directors of Doyenz, Trumba, Cozi, and has contributed as a scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory at the Battelle Research Center. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Washington.

Steve Gordon | Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Operations

As CFO and Vice President of Operations at Verdiem,, Steve is responsible for Verdiem's finance, human resources, administration, operations, infrastructure development, and legal affairs. Steve was CFO and VP of Sales for Trumba Corporation, private web services company. He joined Trumba at its product launch and led its sales effort along with raising $8 million in venture capital financing to build out the go-to-market plan.

Prior to working with Trumba, Steve served as the COO for Casey Family Programs, a private operations foundation focused on the needs of children in foster care, helping create business disciplines that extended the program's reach while operating on two-thirds the budget of previous years.

Steve has also served as COO of Wavelink Corporation, a privately held wireless software provider. He was the Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration and CFO of Visio as well, where he helped grow Visio's revenue from approximately $60 million to almost $250 million in less than 3 years. Steve also led the team that negotiated and executed Visio's $1.5 billion merger with Microsoft Corporation.

John Scumniotales | Vice President of Engineering

John has spent his twenty-plus year career making software product development processes and organizations leaner and more efficient while optimizing customer value delivery. As VP of Engineering at Verdiem, John leads the company's creation of enterprise energy management software for a broad range of IT devices. Prior to joining Verdiem, John was the VP of Products at Serena Software where he led teams that created Agile Project and Portfolio Management products for their fortune 100 customers and was responsible for creating Serena's first Software as a Service (SaaS) product.

Prior to Serena, John was VP of Products at Pacific Edge Software, whom Serena acquired in 2006. John also held various senior technical and management roles at Rational Software (now a division of IBM). He joined Rational via the acquisition of Vigor Technology, a start-up he co-founded that specialized in enterprise application middleware. John developed a passion for agility and lean software practices at Easel Corporation where he is credited with co-creating the Scrum agile development method and being the first Scrum Master. John received his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of New Hampshire.

Brett Goodwin | Vice President of Marketing

As Vice President of Marketing, Brett Goodwin has more than 15 years experience in bringing breakthrough technology products to market and transforming emerging companies into established market leaders. As Verdiem's VP Marketing, Brett is responsible for product management with a focus on defining best-in-class enterprise software and service offerings and establishing a shared product vision, strategy, and product roadmap for the company. Brett also is responsible for all aspects of global marketing and corporate communications, with a particular emphasis of centering the company's focus on the enterprise customer experience and competitive value proposition.

Prior to joining Verdiem in February 2009, Brett spent 6 years as the VP Marketing & Business development for Isilon Systems (NASDAQ: ISLN), the pioneer and leader in clustered storage software and systems for enterprise customers. As the 15th employee at the company, Brett built and led the global product management, marketing communications, PR, and business development team that was instrumental in building Isilon from a pre-revenue, pre-product, private company into a publicly traded global leader generating in excess of $100 million in annual revenue. Prior to Isilon, Brett spent 6 years at RealNetworks (NASDAQ: RNWK), the industry pioneer in bringing streaming audio, video, and multimedia to the Internet. At RealNetworks, Brett held a number of key roles, including Group Product Manager for the company's line of streaming media servers, proxy caches, and authoring tools, Product Unit Manager for an enterprise products team developing and marketing streaming media solutions to Fortune 1000 companies, and General Manager of Corporate Development responsible for company acquisitions, strategic investments, and joint ventures. Prior to RealNetworks, Brett held senior product management positions at cellular industry pioneer McCaw Cellular (acquired by AT&T Wireless) and was a management consultant for Booz, Allen & Hamilton, a top global management consulting firm for Fortune 500 corporations.

Brett received an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, holds a Bachelor's degree in mathematical economics from Pomona College where he graduated cum laude and was awarded the Wall Street Journal Award in Economics, and studied at Oxford University, England.

Verdiem's Board of Directors

Jeremy Jaech | Director

As CEO of Verdiem, Jeremy Jaech brings 20 years of insight, leadership and market-creation strategy behind some of today's most recognizable software, including Microsoft Visio and Adobe PageMaker. As CEO, Jeremy leads Verdiem's corporate development and strategy in both defining and broadening the market for energy and carbon management in the enterprise and scaling the company's business operations to maximize the growing demand for energy management solutions. 

Most recently, Jeremy served as co-founder and CEO of Trumba, which makes calendaring web services for companies to manage events online. He also co-founded and served as President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Visio, developing the breakthrough technology from 1990 until its acquisition by the Microsoft Corporation in 2000. Jeremy began his entrepreneurial path by founding Aldus Corporation in 1984, the first company to create graphical design software for consumers. On the heels of PageMaker's success, Jeremy was appointed Aldus' Vice President of Engineering and oversaw the development of all Aldus products before it was acquired by Adobe in 1994.

Jeremy currently serves on the Board of Directors of Doyenz, Trumba, Cozi, and has contributed as a scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory at the Battelle Research Center. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Washington.

John Laing | Director

John has a 35-year history in the technology industry, having held senior management positions with industry leaders in multiple markets: content discovery with Inxight; security with Symantec; desktop operating systems with Apple; and document printing with Xerox. While serving as the executive vice president of worldwide sales for Symantec from 1989 through 1997, he managed revenue growth from $15 million to $600 million and orchestrated several high-profile acquisitions, which helped to advance the company to its current successful position. As president and CEO at Inxight, John was instrumental in a company turnaround, growing revenue by 65 percent and expanding its worldwide channels. Throughout his career, John has raised money from respected venture institutions including Vantage Point Venture Partners, Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital and Reed Elsevier Ventures among others.

Most recently, John served as CEO of Reactivity, a provider of XML-enabled networking solutions. In less than a year he restructured and positioned the company for sale. In March of 2007 Reactivity sold to Cisco for $135 million.

John also serves on the board of Workshare and Grid Net, and is the new Chairman of the Board for JobTrain, a non-profit organization in the Silicon Valley.

Mark Silverman | Managing Director
Catamount Ventures

Mark Silverman has spent the past 15 years immersed in early stage technology businesses. Most recently, Mark served as President and CEO of Bocada from 1999 to 2006. He led the company from inception to the acquisition of 200 leading corporate customers and more than $8.0 million annual revenue. Mark continues to serve as Chairman of Bocada's Board of Directors.

Prior to Bocada, Mark was Vice President, Business Development and Heath Services and General Counsel for drugstore.com. At drugstore.com, Mark was responsible for building key relationships with industry leaders, including Rite Aid, Amazon, GNC, PCS, CIGNA and WellPoint, as well as for helping the company to raise more than $300 million from venture capital funds, corporate partners and the public markets.

Prior to drugstore.com, Mark was a Partner at Venture Law Group in Menlo Park, CA. In addition to providing legal and business services for dozens of start-ups, Mark was one of three partners who lead Venture Law Group's successful venture capital investing practice. Prior to Venture Law Group, Mark practiced law for several years at Davis, Polk & Wardwell in New York, New York. Silverman holds a J.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles and a B.A. in History from the University of California at Berkeley.

Ted Schlein | Managing Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Ted Schlein joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in November 1996. His focus has been in the area of enterprise security and applications, infrastructure and services. Ted managed the KPCB Java Fund, formed to invest in Java technology-based companies and related Internet, Intranet, networking and communications companies. He serves on the board of 3VR, 41st Parameter, ArcSight, Fortify Software, IronPlanet, Ketera Technologies, Oakley Networks, Verdiem and oversees the company's interests in Bit 9 and LifeLock. Ted is the Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and is the former President of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists (WAVC). Additionally, Ted serves on the Board of Overseers for the University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Ted came to KPCB with significant experience in enterprise software business management at Symantec Corporation. As Vice President of Networking and Client Server Technology, he was responsible for overseeing the marketing and development of enterprise products. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Symantec's European business development and as Vice President of Symantec's Data Management Group. Mr. Schlein is credited with establishing Symantec in both the utilities and antivirus markets by starting and building these business units. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Trevor Traina | Entrepreneur and Private Investor

Trevor is Founder and Chairman of DriverSide, a venture-funded startup in the online automotive category. He is also Chairman and Founder of SchemaLogic, Inc., a venture-funded enterprise software pioneer in Business Semantics Management.

Most recently he was Chairman of StepUp Commerce, an internet network for off-line retailers. (Sold to Intuit in September of 2006.) Trevor was also a Group Manager in Microsoft's MSN Internet division. Prior to Microsoft, he was the President and Founder of CompareNet, Inc., the leading buyer's guide on the Internet. (Sold to Microsoft in March of 1999.)

Trevor began his career in marketing as a brand manager for Seagram's in New York.

Trevor serves on the boards of DriverSide, SchemaLogic, Inc., Verdiem Corp., MyETone, and Swanson Vineyards. He also serves on six charitable boards including the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Gladstone Institute for medical research. He has been quoted in Forbes, Business Week, Time, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and other leading publications.

He holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton, a graduate degree in political science from Oxford and a master's in business administration from Berkeley's Haas School of Business.