Management Team | Modius
Craig Compiano – President, Chief Executive Officer
Craig Compiano is an expert business manager and entrepreneur with extensive executive management experience and a track record for developing successful businesses. He brings to the company and the industry, 30 years experience in business and systems development, operations, and finance. His prior accomplishments in software development for large commercial and public sector clients during his tenure at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) led to his current concentration on operational systems development and performance analytics for data centers, and the founding of Modius. Previously as Co-founder and Vice President of Paymap, Inc., Mr. Compiano prototyped, developed, and deployed an Electronic Payment System, that has been widely adopted by the banking industry. He was awarded a patent for this technology. Mr. Compiano has a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California, and an MBA Finance from UC Berkeley.
Scott Brown – Vice President, Engineering
Scott Brown is an accomplished software executive and technologist with over 25 years of engineering and enterprise software experience. He has a broad product/technology background that includes data warehousing, business intelligence, telecommunications applications, networking, and distributed storage systems. His functional background includes product development, strategy, product management, customer support, professional services and IT. Previously, Mr. Brown was VP of Products and Services at DecisionPoint Software where he built a high performance product team known for on-time releases, reinvigorated service and support and significantly strengthened the depth and breadth of the product offering. Prior to DecisionPoint, Mr. Brown held senior engineering and strategic planning positions: at Veritas - where he was responsible for four strategic product lines; Novell - where he drove the design and development of Novell Storage Services; and at Tandem Computers - where he managed the telecommunications applications group including engineering and customer service. Mr. Brown also led significant engineering teams for a number of start-up companies including Telespree, Andromedia and Computer Curriculum Corporation. Mr. Brown received an MBA from Santa Clara University and a BS in Computer Science from Utah State University. Mr. Brown is a contributing author in two books published by MIT Press: Technology 2001: The Future of Computing and Communications (1991) and The Future of Software (1995).
Donald Klein – Vice President, Marketing & Business Development
Donald Klein is Vice President, Marketing and Business Development at Modius, Inc. In this role, Mr. Klein oversees all marketing and strategic development activities at the firm. Prior to Modius, Mr. Klein held positions as VP Strategic Alliances and VP Product Management at Tideway Systems, an innovative enterprise software business focused on application management (acquired by BMC). Mr. Klein also worked as a technology analyst at Generation Investment Management (GIM), one of the world’s largest funds specializing in clean-tech and sustainability investments. Other software development experience includes Ingenta, the online publishing company that IPO’d on the London Stock Exchange in 2001, where he was responsible for the company’s software-as-a-service product line and spearheaded two acquisitions. Mr. Klein holds an MBA from London Business School, and degrees from Stanford University and Colby College.