OpenCloud Board
OpenCloud Board
OpenCloud's directors have significant experience and expertise in the Telecommunications and IT arenas.
Jeff Gordon, Chairman & CEO
Jeff Gordon has more than 28 years experience and an outstanding track record in holding executive leadership roles with large corporate entities in the telecoms sector. Jeff's previous experience includes heading up Motorola's EMEA infrastructure business in which he was responsible for $1.6 billion in annual revenues and leading 1400 employees. Prior to Motorola he chaired the Unisys European Management Board. Jeff is chairman of Axiom Systems, a leading provider of service delivery solutions to the telecommunications industry and Celltick, a leading provider of mobile content discovery and marketing solutions.
Murray McNae, Director
Murray is Chairman and founder of SolNet Solutions, a leading open systems software and services company in New Zealand. Prior to this, after graduating from Victoria University of Wellington with a BSC(Hons) degree, he held a number of senior sales and marketing positions at Unisys, Data General and Sun Microsystems. His past directorships include Silicon Blue, an internet tools company. Murray was nominated as a category finalist in the NZ Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2001, and in 2003 was appointed Chairman of the Government-initiated ICT Taskforce which was charged with formulating a 10-year growth plan for the sector. He became Chairman of the Hi-Growth project which was formed as a result of the Taskforce initiative. In 2005 Murray was made an Officer of the NZ Order of Merit for services to industry development.
Martin McNair, Director
Jenny Morel, Director
David Long, Director
VP Engineering, Director & Founder
David holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering. He has over 25 years experience in working with leading edge technology companies, mostly recently SolNet and Tait Electronics in New Zealand. David’s technical background in telecommunications development, combined with his sales and business skills, places him in a strong position to align OpenCloud’s technical and business direction.
Stephen Newton, Director
Before joining OpenCloud Stephen was President, EMEA at Convergys Corporation (NYSE - CVG), where he had overall responsibility for their billing and customer care business. Prior to Convergys, he was COO Geneva Technology, a Cambridge UK based billing software company. As a member of their senior management team, he was responsible for executing the company strategy, achieving compound growth of 120% per annum, to $50m revenues, and 450 people from product launch. Geneva was acquired by Convergys in 2001 for $692m.