Beau co-founded and launched Gravity Point in 2009 with a desire to apply his extensive knowledge of technical marketing and marketing operations to those that require more out of technology. Beau has more than 15 years of advertising, marketing, design, and development experience that is instrumental in helping customers gain a competitive advantage in the market. Prior to co-founding Gravity Point, Beau founded Regard [ICG] and has worked for companies in several capacities to engage, nurture, and retain those interested in products and services offered by those companies.
For over 15 years, Claude has succeeded in strategic marketing, product management, and business development roles for startups and major corporations in the storage, consumer software, networking, and semiconductor industries. Claude currently runs business development at Virsto Software, focused on building partnerships in the storage and virtualization space. Claude’s most recent success was driving strategic partnerships which led to EMC’s $2.4B acquisition of Data Domain. Prior to Data Domain, Claude was again instrumental in his business development role at Rhapsody Networks which was acquired by Brocade. Claude has also served in senior level roles at Cisco, Symantec, 3Com, and Cypress Semiconductor. Claude holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, has entrepreneurial experience starting and running his own companies, and sits on advisory boards for other Silicon Valley companies.
Mark is on the advisory board for Gravity Point. Mark Richter is the founder, President and CEO of iStreet Solutions, LLC. Richter founded iStreet Solutions in July 2004 as he recognized the need for enterprise class hosting solutions for the SMB market without the Fortune 500 prices. In this process he values the importance of the financial viewpoint “spend as you earn” to assist our customers in achieving their goal of low total cost of ownership solutions. Richter exercises the philosophy of working with his customers until their needs are completely understood and met. He is continually challenging the iStreet delivery teams to provide ‘perfect delivery’ to maximize customer satisfaction. Prior to iStreet Richter served at Hewlett-Packard in multiple business development, professional services and SAP engagement management roles. Richter holds MBA and Bachelor of Science degrees.
