Astadia’s Board teams top executives with the combined backgrounds and tremendous experience needed to guide our company’s growth and leadership in the SaaS consulting marketplace.
J. Ernest Riddle
Chief Executive Officer, Astadia
Blake Wolff
Chief Operating Officer; Chief Financial Officer, Astadia
Chris Greendale
General Partner, Kodiak Ventures Inc.
Mark Shirman
President and Chief Executive Officer, GlassHouse Technologies
Tom Vadnais
Chief Executive Officer, ValueClick
Astadia Board Members
J. Ernest Riddle is the CEO of Astadia. Ernie delivers overall strategic and executive leadership to the Astadia team. He has more than 35 years of executive experience with Fortune 500 companies including leading the Marketing, Sales, and Planning division at Xerox during a successful 25-year career and serving as President of both Ryder Systems and Norrell Services. Currently, he serves as an advisor and board member for a number of public companies including Danka Business Systems and Airnet Systems, Inc.
Ernie has extensive growth management consulting knowledge in organizing and managing process design, developing executive leadership and helping companies with executive board-level strategic initiatives such as CRM and other sales & marketing strategies centered on improving market penetration and sales productivity.
Ernie holds an MBA from Emory University and a BS from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Blake Wolff is COO and CFO of Astadia where he is responsible for financial operations and the emerging business practices. Blake has over 20 years of experience in scaling and directing companies in the high-tech service, customer support and electronic industries.
Prior to Astadia, Blake co-founded MW Advisors in 2003, a successful management consulting and technology solutions firm based in Dallas, Texas. Previously, Blake held positions as President and CEO of The Telvista Company, a multi-national call center outsourcer. He founded the company as CompUSA Call Center Services in 1997 and under his leadership, expanded the company from a small, one-site call center to six centers with 4,000 workstations in two countries. During his tenure, the company completed a spin-off from CompUSA creating Telvista where he also served on the Board of Directors.
Blake is a nationally recognized keynote speaker for the SaaS and CRM industries. He holds a MBA from Emory University and a BBA in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin.
Chris Greendale
Chris Greendale is General Partner of Kodiak Ventures, Inc. where he brings more than 25 years of software and technology services experience in sales, marketing, investment, and executive management that includes co-founding Cambridge Technology Partners, which had one of the most successful IPOs of the 1990s. As a General Partner, he primarily focuses on investments in the software and services segments but does reach across all of Kodiak's technology segments including communications and wireless, Internet and new media, and semiconductors and equipment. Mr. Greendale also is on the boards of directors of the firm's portfolio companies including GlassHouse Technologies; HiWired; Kadient; uLocate; and Vettro.
Prior to joining Kodiak, Mr. Greendale was a seed investor in many successful technology companies. Most recently he served as Managing Director at Internet Capital Group and was a Venture Partner at GrandBanks Capital. In these positions he served as a board member for start-ups, including Surgency, and Context Integration, Inc. (acquired by eFORCE), and Clarify, a publicly traded company. He also served as Chairman of the Board for Breakaway Solutions, Inc., where he oversaw the company's IPO.
Mark Shirman, founder, President and CEO of GlassHouse Technologies, has over twenty years of entrepreneurial experience in the IT services arena. Mr. Shirman is responsible for building upon the GlassHouse leadership in the storage solutions space, managing the investment community, and setting the vision for the company’s solutions development. He also serves as a member of the Boston Public Library Technology Council and a director for Baby’s Breath, a non-profit organization focused connecting infants with loving homes and families.
Before starting GlassHouse Mr. Shirman was Executive Vice President of Corporate Development and CTO at Convergent Group. Prior to Convergent Group, he was responsible for the worldwide eBusiness and CRM lines of business for Cambridge Technology Partners. Mr. Shirman started his career with Arthur Andersen & Co. after receiving his BA in Economics from Brandeis University and his MBA from American University.
Tom Vadnais was named ValueClick's chief executive officer in May 2007. Mr. Vadnais joined ValueClick in October 2001 through the Company's acquisition of Mediaplex, where he was president, chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors. Mr. Vadnais became a member of the ValueClick board of directors in October 2001 and also has held general manager roles for the Company’s Mediaplex technology and Commission Junction affiliate marketing businesses. In June 2006, Mr. Vadnais was promoted to the role of president of ValueClick's U.S. operations.
Mr. Vadnais' experience prior to ValueClick includes positions as: president, chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of Data Processing Resources Corporation; president and chief executive officer of Tascor, Inc.; a member of Norrell's board of directors; and a member of the board of directors of Traffic.com. In addition, Mr. Vadnais held various management roles such as vice president of operations and assistant to the chairman and CEO during his 23-year tenure at IBM.
Mr. Vadnais holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a master's degree in business administration from Golden Gate University. Mr. Vadnais is a graduate of The University of Virginia Darden School of Business Executive Program and the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
