LoopFuse Leadership

Sean Dwyer, President & Chief Executive Officer

Sean brings a wealth of software experience to Loopfuse. He most recently served as senior vice president of sales and marketing at XAware, a leading provider of commercial open source data integration software, where he led field operations. Prior to XAware, he served as general manager of the community financial group and vice president of channel sales & alliances at S1 Corporation, a leading global provider of enterprise software and services to the financial services industry. His software industry experience also includes sales with BEA Systems (acquired by Oracle) and business development with an early stage E-commerce company. In addition to software, he has extensive experience in both the investment banking and commercial banking industries. Sean received a Master of Business Adminsitration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance from the University of Georgia.

Roy Russo, Co-founder & VP, Products

Roy is the driving force behind LoopFuse to fulfill its vision and extend the adoption of demand generation solutions to marketing and sales organizations. To this end, Roy is responsible for product strategy, management and expansion. Roy comes to LoopFuse following several years with JBoss (acquired by Red Hat) where, as the Co-Founder of the JBoss portal project, he led the successful incubation and launch of an enterprise portal product. Prior to JBoss, Roy worked at Sevista Messaging Technologies and SilverPOP, where he helped innovate the email marketing space. Roy has a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Florida International University.

Tom Elrod, Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer

Tom leads the LoopFuse software development team. He is responsible for the development process and for defining the technology, architecture and functionality for LoopFuse products with the aim to make them the best solutions in the market. Tom comes to LoopFuse after several years at JBoss (acquired by Red Hat), where he was the lead architect for JBoss Remoting. Prior to JBoss, Tom led the effort to build an enterprise-class email marketing technology at SilverPOP. Tom has also served as an expert member on several specifications within the Java Cummunity Process and president of the Atlanta Java Users Group. Tom holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in computer information systems from Georgia State University.

Matthew Quinlan, VP, Field Operations

Matt is responsible for sales, marketing and customer success at LoopFuse. Prior to LoopFuse, he was vice president of marketing and community at Appcelerator, leading the company's brand awareness, community development and user adoption programs. Matt founded the JBoss evangelist & sales consulting team, the open source middleware leader. After JBoss was acquired by Red Hat, Matt started Red Hat's "Rockstar Program," through which he was responsible for the recruitment, training and evaluation of all customer-facing technical talent. Prior to JBoss/RedHat, he spent eight years as a professional consultant for Tallan and Interwoven, writing custom software solutions for startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. Matt is a graduate of Purdue University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in computer science.

Board of Advisors

Matt Asay, Advisor

Matt Asay has been involved with open source since 1998, and is one of the industry's leading open source business strategists. Asay is currently general manager, Americas, and vice president of business development for Alfresco, the open source leader in enterprise content management.

Prior to Alfresco, Asay was on the founding team of Novell's Linux Business Office in 2002 and was an early agitator for the company's shift to open source. In 2003, Asay founded the Open Source Business Conference, now owned by IDG's InfoWorld, the industry's premier open source strategy event. He has served as an entreprenuer-in-residence for Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, focusing on open source investment opportunities. Before Novell, Asay was general manager at Lineo, an embedded Linux software startup, where he ran Lineo's network & communications business.

Asay earned his Juris Doctorate degree at Stanford Law School, spending two of his three years studying software licensing and innovation, and specifically the GNU General Public License, under Professor Larry Lessig. He also holds master's and bachelor's degrees from the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK) and Brigham Young University, respectively.

Asay is a board member for OSI and serves on the advisory boards of various open source companies, including SugarCRM, JasperSoft, MuleSource, Specifix, Radview, Bungee Labs and Intoto.

Rob Bearden, Advisor

Rob Bearden has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry, with a track record for building strong, global sales organizations and operations. Most recently, he served as chief operating officer for OpenSpan, a desktop integration software provider, responsible for global sales, marketing, business development and administration.

Previously, as chief operating officer for JBoss, an open source middleware pioneer, he helped architect and execute the company’s business model, managed its worldwide operations and played a key role in its acquisition by Red Hat Software (NYSE: RHT).

Prior to JBoss/Red Hat, he was president of the Americas at i2 Technologies, a supply chain software provider, overseeing operations in the United States, Canada, Latin America and Mexico. He also served as senior vice president of worldwide sales for Manhattan Associates and spent six years at Oracle in various executive sales positions.

Education: Bachelor of Science in marketing from Jacksonville State University.