Frank Artale is a managing partner at Ignition, joining the firm in 2011 after a 26-year career in the software industry. He most recently served as group vice president, business development at Citrix Systems, where he was responsible for all aspects of Citrix’s business development with software and hardware technology partners.

Frank joined Citrix from XenSource, where he was responsible for strategic marketing and business development. Prior to XenSource, Artale was a founder and CEO of Consera Software, a management-software company, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2004. Before founding Consera, Frank was vice president of the Windows Solutions Group for VERITAS Software, where he oversaw overall product strategy for Windows targeted solutions.

He also was a general manager in the Windows 2000 group at Microsoft, one of the many product-management and sales positions he held during his nine-year career with the company. Before joining Microsoft, he held positions as a software engineer and engineering manager building trader workstation and retail-brokerage delivery systems, first at an IBM/Merrill Lynch joint venture (IMNET), then at FD Consulting.

Frank led Ignition’s investments in Appfog, Apprenda, BlueStacks, Bromium, Couchbase, Cloudera, MessageBus, ScaleXtreme and ServiceMesh. He is a member of the board of directors for SkyTap.

Frank attended Polytechnic Institute of New York as a Board of Trustees Scholar where he studied electrical engineering and computer science.

frank@ignitionpartners.com

John Connors is a managing partner at Ignition, joining in 2005 after lengthy career as a software-industry executive, principally at Microsoft.

John spent sixteen years at Microsoft in several high-level, strategic roles. From January 2000 to April 2005 he was senior vice president of finance and administration, as well as the company’s chief financial officer. He also served as vice president of the Worldwide Enterprise Group and vice president and chief information officer (CIO). Before becoming CIO, John held a number of positions within and outside finance, including corporate controller; general manager of worldwide financial operations; director of business operations at Microsoft’s European headquarters in Paris; and director of business operations for the Worldwide Sales and Support Strategy Group.

John is a member of the board of directors of Nike (NKE), FiREapps, Scout Analytics, Datasphere, Motif Investing, Splunk (SPLK), Opscode, Parse and Tier 3. He was also a board member of Heroku, which was sold to Salesforce.com in 2010, and Xensource, acquired by Citrix in 2007.

John received his BA in accounting from the University of Montana. He also received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Montana.

johncon@ignitionpartners.com

Nick Sturiale joined Ignition as managing partner in 2013, after more than 25 years of experience developing startups, both as venture capitalist and entrepreneur. Prior to Ignition, Nick spent three years at JAFCO Ventures as a general partner, where he invested in companies such as Reputation.com, Bill.com and Delphix.

Prior to JAFCO, Nick spent eight years at Sevin Rosen Funds, where he incubated and led first investments in companies such as XenSource, which was acquired by Citrix Systems (CTXS) for $500 million; Splunk (SPLK), the leading public company in “big data”; and YouSendIt, a leading SaaS vendor in file collaboration. Nick also worked at The Carlyle Group as a managing director and co-head of its Silicon Valley office.

Prior to venture capital, Nick spent twelve years as a software entrepreneur. He was founding CEO of Timbre Technologies, a test-analytics software company, which was acquired by Tokyo Electron for $138 million in 2001.

Currently he serves on the board of directors of Splunk, YouSendIt, and Vuclip.

Nick holds a BS degree in economics from California State University, Chico, and an MBA with distinction from the University of California, Berkeley, where he is a frequent guest lecturer.

nick@ignitionpartners.com

Robert Headley is Ignition’s administrative partner, overseeing the firm’s day-to- day operations. He joined the firm in 2000.

Robert also represents Ignition as a director on the boards of Enclarity and Earth Class Mail. He previously served as director on Extend America (acquired by Sprint) andFiREapps.

Prior to joining Ignition, Robert spent seven years at Starbucks Coffee Company, most recently as vice president, finance & treasurer. In that role, he managed Starbucks’ investor-relations, corporate-development, Treasury, business planning & analysis, and profit-improvement functions.

Before Starbucks, Robert spent three years in the principal-investment area and investment-banking division of Goldman Sachs in New York and Sydney, Australia.

Robert holds MS and BS degrees with distinction in industrial engineering from Stanford University. He is currently a board bember with the Evergreen Venture Capital Association (EVCA), a partnership of Washington State venture capital firms working to nurture the venture capital community in the region.

rheadley@ignitionpartners.com

Cameron Myhrvold is a founding partner with Ignition, helping to start the firm in 1999. He worked as a top executive at Microsoft for more than a decade and previously co-founded a start-up software company that he sold to Microsoft.

Cameron worked for 13 years at Microsoft, mainly on operating system products. He was most recently the vice president of the Internet Customer Unit, where he was responsible for building business relationships with network operators and a broad range of telecommunications providers.

Prior to that Cameron created the Developer Relations Group at Microsoft, which evangelized Windows and Microsoft’s other operating-system technologies to independent software vendors and third-party developers. This effort eventually became a 320-member team with an annual budget of $65 million, and was responsible for revenue of over $400 million. It created a community of 44,000 independent software vendors to develop Windows software.

Earlier Cameron co-founded Dynamical Systems, a company that developed multitasking operating systems for the PC, which he sold to Microsoft in 1986.

Cameron serves on the boards of Cloudmark, Stellr, SEVEN Networks, Symplified, Topsy and Continuuity. He also acts as Ignition observer on the board of Splunk (SPLK). He previously served on the boards of Zenprise (acquired by Citrix Systems), Azaleos (acquired by Avanade), Likewise Software (acquired by EMC), Consera (acquired by Hewlett-Packard), Rendition Networks (acquired by Opsware) and RLX Technologies (acquired by Hewlett-Packard).

Cameron received a BA degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

cmyhrvold@ignitionpartners.com

Kristina Kerr Bergman joined Ignition as a principal in 2012, bringing over a decade of software-industry management experience and a focus on product management, marketing and entrepreneurship. At Ignition Kristina sources deals in areas such as cloud and “big data”, advises portfolio companies and provides counsel on industry trends.

Before Ignition, Kristina was most recently group product manager for Microsoft’s SharePoint Server, part of its industry-leading Office division. In that role she led the enterprise product management group which included Business Intelligence, Enterprise Search and Composite Applications. Later she led the SharePoint outbound team which included all external-facing engagement including partner ecosystem development for a new, cloud-based application-development model, worldwide sales and marketing campaigns, social media engagement, press and analyst relations, and events like the SharePoint Conference. Prior to that she led the Business Intelligence product-management team.

Before that, Kristina worked as a senior, and then a lead, product manager in Microsoft’s Business Division, focusing on Business Intelligence. Before joining Microsoft in 2006, she worked for Crystal Decisions, acquired by Business Objects, in Vancouver, BC, working primarily on product marketing for the company’s strategic alliances.

Kristina holds a bachelor of commerce degree, with a specialty in entrepreneurship, from the University of Victoria. She started a commercial painting business and a drive-in movie theater in Victoria prior to and during university.

kkerr@ignitionpartners.com