Leadership

All the founding team members have had major successes, and this time they strive to make something 100 times better than before - hence the name Cien, which means "100" in Spanish.

ROB KALL
CEO / CO-FOUNDER
3 Previous Entrepreneurial Successes totaling $100M

SVP at leading Real Estate Software Co. RealPage (NASDAQ:RP)

Built 2nd most trafficked US Real Estate Website (remax.com)

Devised Strategic Partnerships w/ Airbnb, TripAdvisor

B.S. Comp Sci./B


MARGOT CARTER
INVESTOR / CO-FOUNDER
President Living Mountain Capital

EVP/CLO RealPage, Led IPO (NASDAQ:RP) Over $2B Mkt. Cap

Lead Director, Chair Nominating & Governance (NYSE:IBP)

Led over 100 M&A Transactions

Fordham Law, JD


Advisory Board

Wide expertise and deep experience across business, sales, AI and transactions

Dr. CHRISTIAN BROWNLEES
Strategic Advisor

Professor of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE

Expert in Statistics and Econometrics

PhD in Statistics from Università degli Studi di Firenze and Post-doc at NYU Stern

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JIM McGUIRE
Strategic Advisor

Former VP Sales - Microsoft

Part of Sales Leadership that took Azure Cloud from $0 to Billion Dollar Juggernaut

Turned around FAST (MS subsidiary) - received coveted MS Platinum Award

Ex IBM, HP, etc - 25 yrs. of IT Sales

BS Marketing Northern Illinois (Magna Cum Laude)

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JOANNA RIDGWAY 
Strategic Advisor

Established & Led Santander Bank Corporate Banking in Southwest US

Global Financial Services Advisory & C-Suite Relationship Expert

German Marshall Fund Marshall Memorial

Fellow & British American Project Fellow

Rhodes College, B.A. Business & LSE, Exec Leadership Program

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MATTHEW HOFFMAN 
Strategic Advisor

Former VP Sales & GM – RealPage, Inc

Founder of 4 Companies

Multiple Successful Exists

BS Marketing & International Affairs, Florida State

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JEROME ROSE
Strategic Advisor

Executive positions in sales at SMS Inc & IBM

Managing sales teams with over $100M in quota

Expert in Sales Enablement & CRM Tools

MBA Southern Methodist University, Cox School of Business

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MICHAEL O'HARE
Strategic Advisor

Managing Director at KeyBanc Capital Markets

Advisor on over $2 billion of M&A and growth equity capital transactions for software companies

Over 26 years of M&A experience in SaaS and Enterprise Software industry

MBA, Indiana University, B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Purdue University

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