JMI - Key Persons


Aayush Sharma

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

Alejandra Gallardo

Job Titles:
  • ASSISTANT
  • Executive Assistant
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
Alejandra joined JMI in 2018 and supports Sureel Sheth, Preston Horner, and Josh Wang. Prior to joining JMI, Alejandra was an executive assistant at ARYZTA and the office manager for GModelo USA.

Alexander Lin

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

Andy Knox

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Vice President of the Principals & Vice Presidents Team

Arthur Kaslow

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

Benjamin Givner

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

Bert Winemiller

Job Titles:
  • Operating Advisor
  • Senior Advisor
  • Senior Advisor / Finance & Investor Relations
Bert provides strategic operational counsel to JMI portfolio companies. He joined JMI in 2011 from PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PRO), a JMI portfolio company, where he served as president, CEO and chairman. He also served as president of American Business Information Inc., senior vice president at ADP, Inc. and group president at IRIC. Bert began his career at IBM as a systems engineer and software developer.

Beth Thorpe

Job Titles:
  • ASSISTANT
  • Finance Coordinator
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Operating Advisor

Betsy Ratliffe

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

Bob Nye

Job Titles:
  • General Partner
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Partner

Brian Hersman

Job Titles:
  • General Partner
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Partner

Bryan Jangro

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Senior Associate
Bryan joined JMI in 2021. He is responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities. Prior to joining JMI, Bryan was an associate at GTCR within their Technology, Media & Telecommunications group. Previously, Bryan was an investment banking analyst at Lazard.

Carrie Wadlington

Job Titles:
  • Operating Advisor

Chandler Kallas

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

Charles Noell - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founder
Charlie co-founded JMI and has over three decades of experience in the software industry. He is a former director of ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW). Since the early '90s, Charlie has been president of the family investment company of John J. Moores, the founder and former chairman and CEO of BMC Software, Inc. Prior to joining JMI, he served as a managing director and co-head of Alex. Brown's technology group. Charlie was also an investment associate in the treasury division of American Security Bank and at Pittsburgh National Bank. Charlie is a member of the board of directors of Authentify, Alex. Brown Realty, Inc. and Greystar Real Estate Partners. He also serves on the Center Stage Board of Trustees and the Board of Governors of St. Christopher's School.

Chase Thomet

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Member of the Principals & Vice Presidents Team
  • Principal
Chase joined JMI in 2014. He is responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities as well as providing strategic and operational support to portfolio companies. Chase is currently a director of Greenlight Guru, Swiftly, and Visiting Media. He is a board observer at Applied Systems, HackerRank, SOCi, and Vena Solutions. Prior to joining JMI, Chase was an investment banking analyst in the mergers & acquisitions group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Christian Kurth

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Member of the Principals & Vice Presidents Team
  • Principal
Christian joined JMI in 2015. He is responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities. Christian is a board observer at TimelyCare, Canto, CipherHealth, and Jane Software. Prior to joining JMI, Christian was an investment banking analyst in the technology group at Wells Fargo Securities.

Claire Mendelson

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

Claudia Juarez

Job Titles:
  • ASSISTANT
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Sales Operations Associate / Support

Connor Wallenhorst

Job Titles:
  • Finance Associate
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Operating Advisor

David Greenberg

Job Titles:
  • General Partner
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Partner

Dennis Dresser

Job Titles:
  • Operating Advisor
Dennis is an Operating Advisor at JMI with over 25 years of experience as a Go-To-Market leader with large enterprise software and high-growth SaaS companies. Dennis initially built his GTM playbook from world-class training at Oracle and IBM. For the past 12 years as a Senior Revenue Executive, Dennis has enhanced his GTM playbook through successful early stage to IPO experiences at SaaS companies such as Eloqua and Anaplan. As an operator partner/advisor, investor and board member, Dennis has a passion of partnering with founders and executive teams to deliver material shareholder value.

Dina Berdichevsky

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Vice President of the Principals & Vice Presidents Team
Dina joined JMI in 2019. She is responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities. She is currently a director of Unanet. Prior to joining JMI, Dina was an investment banking analyst in the technology, media, and telecommunications group at DC Advisory.

Emily Young

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Operating Advisor
  • Investor Relations Associate

Eric de Jager

Job Titles:
  • Operating Advisor
Eric is an Operating Advisor at JMI whose focus is on product leadership, with a particular emphasis on the intersection with Commercial: client value creation, offering constructs, pricing, and sales enablement. He has created growth by serving in executive roles at companies like Microsoft, Blackbaud, and Cloudmed/R1. Most recently Eric led his own healthcare automation company through a successful exit in 2021.

Gary Allison

Job Titles:
  • Operating Advisor
Gary is an Operating Advisor at JMI with over 20 years of engineering leadership at the executive level. He has led teams delivering cloud solutions through worldwide expansion, acquisition integration, two successful IPOs, and architectural transformation. Most recently Gary served as SVP of Engineering for Ping Identity and prior to that EVP of Engineering for Bazaarvoice ensuring delivery of 24/7 operations. He has also served in board roles in both for-profit and nonprofit corporations.

Grayson Baxter

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Controller
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Operating Advisor
Grayson joined JMI in 2020. Prior to joining JMI, Grayson was a financial analyst at T. Rowe Price and a senior audit and accounting associate at Ellin & Tucker. She is a certified public accountant (active).

Hadley Irwin

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
Hadley joined JMI in 2023. She is responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities. Prior to joining JMI, Hadley was a senior product marketing specialist at Attentive.

Haley Donzella

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Talent Associate
Haley joined JMI in 2021. She focuses on JMI's internal talent-related initiatives, including professional development and performance management. Prior to joining JMI, Haley was a senior talent associate at Wrike and a talent development assistant at O'Melveny & Myers LLP.

Harry Gruner - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • Managing General Partner
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Partner

Harry Westbrook

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

Heather Ewing

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Director, Portfolio Talent
Heather joined JMI in 2022. As a member of JMI's operating team, Heather works with portfolio company leadership teams to hire executive talent. Prior to joining JMI, Heather was the Head of GTM Talent at Thrive. She was previously the Director of Talent at Great Hill Partners and a Senior Recruiter at Drift.

Isaac Scoville

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

Jack Benedict

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

Jack Duane

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Vice President of the Principals & Vice Presidents Team

Jack King

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Senior Associate

Jacob Walker

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

James LiVigni

Job Titles:
  • Operating Advisor

Jeff Wood

Job Titles:
  • Operating Advisor

Jeremy Curley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Senior Director

Josh Wang

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Vice President of the Principals & Vice Presidents Team

Karen Pisha

Job Titles:
  • Operating Advisor
Karen is an Operating Advisor at JMI with over 20 years of customer success experience in the software industry. She recently served as the SVP of Customer Success at Code 42 and has built customer success programs for world-class brands like Eloqua, Oracle, Adaptive Insights, and SuccessFactors. Karen currently serves on the Board of Higher Logic and was formerly on the Boards of Cosential and Benevity.

Kate Budosh

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant
  • ASSISTANT
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

Katie Carter - VP

Job Titles:
  • Controller
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Operating Advisor
  • Vice President

Kelly Kilman

Job Titles:
  • ASSISTANT
  • Executive Assistant
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

Kev Willers

Job Titles:
  • Operating Advisor

Kitty Glick

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Talent Acquisition Analyst / Information Technology
Kitty joined JMI in 2022. She focuses on internal recruiting with an emphasis on JMI's analyst program. Prior to joining JMI, Kitty was a business program manager at Baltimore Gas & Electric.

Krishna Potarazu

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Partner

Larry Contrella

Job Titles:
  • General Partner
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Partner

Lindsay Mehta

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Operating Advisor
  • Director, Investor Relations & Marketing

Lindsay Monti - CCO, Chief Legal Officer

Job Titles:
  • CCO
  • General Counsel
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

Lizzie Iwicki

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

Mac Williams

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Member of the Principals & Vice Presidents Team
  • Principal

Maggie Schmitt - CFO

Job Titles:
  • CFO
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Operating Advisor

Margaret Meyo

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Senior Associate

Matt Emery

Job Titles:
  • General Partner
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Partner

Melissa Guttman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Principal, Talent

Michael DiPietro

Job Titles:
  • Operating Advisor
Mike is an Operating Advisory at JMI with over 30 years of marketing experience in the b2b software industry. Mike was a long-time VP at UKG (formerly Kronos) in product and industry marketing roles, and more recently was CMO at Perillon, HealthcareSource, and Extension Engine.

Michael Eberle

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

Miranda Lamberty

Job Titles:
  • ASSISTANT
  • Executive Assistant
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

Nicole Mossmer

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

Pat Clark

Job Titles:
  • Operating Advisor
  • Operating Advisor With JMI Equity
Pat is an Operating Advisor with JMI Equity and has 30 years of financial leadership experience in technology companies, focusing exclusively on SaaS companies for the last 10+ years. Pat was CFO at two successful JMI Equity software businesses, most recently at SpaceIQ and the successor company resulting from its merger with iOffice. Pat has partnered with CEOs and their executive teams to successfully scale companies from $20M to $500M.

Paul Barber - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Partner

Peter Arrowsmith

Job Titles:
  • Managing General Partner
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Partner

Preston Horner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Vice President of the Principals & Vice Presidents Team
Preston joined JMI in 2018. He is responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities. Prior to joining JMI, Preston was an investment banking analyst in the technology group at Citigroup.

Rana Shahani

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

Randy Guttman - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer
  • General Partner
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Operating Advisor
  • Partner

Randy Harvey

Job Titles:
  • Operating Advisor
Randy Harvey is an Operating Advisor at JMI with over 35 years of product management and engineering experience in the software industry. He has led both small and large commercial product and technology organizations. He was recently the CTO at Clarivate responsible for engineering and information security. Prior to that, he led engineering, IT and Information Security at IHS Markit, before that he led product engineering at Seismic Micro Technology successfully positioning SMT for acquisition by IHS. Randy has held senior technical leadership positions at Sterling Commerce, Reynolds and Reynolds, Firepond and OnDisplay.

Ryan Lawrence

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Operating Advisor
  • Vice President, Tax

Samantha Mosketti

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Portfolio Events Manager

Sammy Feuerman

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Finance
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Operating Advisor
Sammy joined JMI in 2021. Prior to joining JMI, Sammy was an audit associate at KPMG. He is a certified public accountant (active).

Sarah Bettencourt

Job Titles:
  • Operating Advisor
Sarah is an Operating Advisor at JMI with over 20 years of Human Resources experience in the software industry. She has built and scaled high-performance organizations with award-winning culture and people strategies for multiple companies, including PointClickCare, Lightspeed, and Plusgrade. She has also been an advisor to many other software companies such as ACTO, Push Operations, Prodigy, and Gensquared to name a few.

Sarah Fetting

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

Shefali Kumar

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

Stephanie Carroll

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Operating Advisor
  • Senior Accountant
Stephanie joined JMI in 2022. Prior to joining JMI, Stephanie was a senior assurance associate at PwC. She is a certified public accountant (active).

Stephen Jones

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Member of the Principals & Vice Presidents Team
  • Principal

Stuti Grover

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
Stuti joined JMI in 2023. She is responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities. Prior to joining JMI, Stuti was an investment banking analyst at Bank of America.

Suken Vakil

Job Titles:
  • General Partner
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Partner

Sureel Sheth

Job Titles:
  • General Partner
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Partner

Taylor Gillis

Job Titles:
  • ASSISTANT
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Operating Advisor
  • Marketing Analyst
Taylor joined JMI in 2018. She helps implement JMI's marketing initiatives and supports Larry Contrella and David Greenberg. Prior to joining JMI, Taylor was an account executive at iHeartMedia in Baltimore.

Thomas DelMastro

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM

Tommy Moyer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Operating Advisor
  • Fund Accountant

Vincent Prajka

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Partner

Wayne Silverman - CIO

Job Titles:
  • IT Director
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • IT Director / Sales Operations

Will Priestley

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Member of the JOIN OUR TEAM
  • Senior Associate