Team

Chris Madsen
President & CEO (Founder)
A technology and business development veteran, Chris co-founded Brightmail, where he led product management and business development. There he successfully built business relationships with companies including Microsoft, AT&T, Comcast and Symantec. Brightmail was sold to Symantec in 2004. Chris was a former partner at Milestone Equity Partners, and previously held management and sales positions with Trusted Information Systems, IDS (VRML company), Thinking Machines Corp, and Symbolics.

Jim Kinchley
Vice President, Business Development
With over 20 years in sales and sales management, Jim has demonstrated success in developing new markets for emerging products and early stage companies. Jim held sales management positions with Racotek, a pioneer in wireless communications, Altos Computers (purchased by Acer Computers) and Microcom an early leader in network computing subsequently purchased by Cisco. . Later, as Director of Sales at Brightmail, he was responsible for signing Brightmail's first major Internet providers, including AT&T (precipitating C round funding), Bell Atlantic and GTE (as they merged into Verizon) and Bell Canada, amongst others. Most recently as the Director of Client Services at MacGillivray and Lee, a sales and marketing consultancy, Jim was instrumental in market development for the data grid software of Tangosol (recently purchased by Oracle), and Availigent, an emerging virtualization software company.

Gaige Paulsen
Strategic Technology Advisor
Gaige has worked for 27 years in the software and Internet industries, serving in technical and operations leadership positions. Gaige co-founded InterCon Systems and served as its CTO/COO for 7 years while it grew to be a leader in the Macintosh TCP/IP software market. After successfully selling the company to PSINet, Gaige moved to Ascend Communications where he was the Director of Software Architecture. There he led the team responsible for re-architecting the operating systems for the company's access products, including the Max and the TNT. In 2000, Gaige co-founded Inter.net and as Executive VP and CTO, managed global technical decisions. Since 2002, he has been acting as a management and technical consulting and led the sale of a Canadian ISP in 2006. Gaige has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, where he worked at NCSA (one of five NSF supercomputing centers) co-developing NCSA Telnet, and the first versions of HDF (the NCSA data file format scientific applications).