Board of Directors
Scott Maxwell
Scott Maxwell is the founder and Senior Managing Director of OpenView Venture Partners. Prior to founding OpenView, Scott was a Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners, having joined Insight in 2000 as the Chief Operating Officer. At Insight, Scott led the effort to institutionalize the investment process, outbound program, value add program, and finance, legal, and administration departments. Post institutionalizing the investment strategy and infrastructure, Scott started leading deal work in 2001 and was the partner responsible for investing in eight Insight investments. Scott was previously a Partner at Putnam Investments, where he was Managing Director, Corporate Development. Before joining Putnam, Scott was a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers, where he was the Chief Financial Officer of the Global Equity Division and a member of the Global Equities Executive Committee. Prior to Lehman, he was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company from 1990 to 1994.
Jeremy Levine
Jeremy is a Partner in the New York office of Bessemer Venture Partners. He focuses on software and Internet companies that are based primarily in the United States and Europe. Prior to joining BVP in 2001, Jeremy was Vice President of Operations at Dash, an Internet software publisher. He came to Dash from AEA Investors, a management buyout firm, where he specialized in consumer products and light industrials, and he started his career as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. Jeremy graduated from Duke University with a B.S. in Computer Science and Economics.
Firas Bushnaq
Mr. Bushnaq co-founded eEye Digital Security in 1998 after the successful establishment of two previous software development companies: WinWare and Avataro. Mr. Bushnaq utilized his knowledge in software development as well as his experience working as a Senior Engineer and Technical Director for Berkeley Systems to develop the technical foundation for eEye's security offerings. Additionally, Mr. Bushnaq was a contributing author to Inside the Minds: Security Matters, which discusses strategic approaches for establishing, protecting and ensuring security. Mr. Bushnaq has a BS in Computer Science and a Masters in Software Engineering from National University in Los Angeles.
Kamal Arafeh
Mr. Arafeh joined eEye Digital Security in 2006 as Senior Vice President Worldwide Sales & Marketing and now serves as the company's CEO. Mr. Arafeh brings more than 18 years of success in developing markets, building partnerships and growing sales revenue. Mr. Arafeh was most recently Vice President of Sales and Marketing of the Americas and Asia Pacific at Astaro, a fast growing Internet Security developer where he was responsible for over 100% annual revenue growth in both regions. Mr. Arafeh has a proven track record in executive sales management at a number of technology organizations including, Vice President of WW Sales at Vernier Networks, General Manager of Enterprise Products at Roxio where he successfully led the digital media software provider into the enterprise space resulting in Roxio's GoBack product acquisition by Symantec in 2003. During his 4 year tenure at McAfee/Network Associates, he grew McAfee's channel sales operations by 200% annually.