Management Team

Justin Moore : Chief Executive Officer

Justin Moore is a serial entrepreneur whose mission and track record speak to turning around the status quo in established markets. He brings a broad background in technology startups to his role as CEO and co-founder of Axcient. Justin has served in executive, business development, marketing, and advisory roles over the past seven years. In 2002, Justin built MK Global, which successfully innovated an international approach to addressing the surplus of secondary market telecommunications equipment after the dot-com collapse. At MK Global he secured rights to over $1 billion in telecommunications equipment and was responsible for developing and negotiating exclusive partnership arrangements with companies such as Qwest Communications, Accenture and Nortel.

Dave Garnett : Vice President of Product Management

Dave Garnett, vice president of product management and a co-founder of Axcient, brings more than 10 years of storage and security experience to his leadership of the development team and product direction. Dave was previously sales engineering manager at Cimetrix where he architected groundbreaking factory connectivity software which enabled secure remote diagnostics and management of semiconductor fabrication tools from anywhere in the world. Prior to that, he co-founded Digital Data Storage, which pioneered delivery of scan-to-web automation software to the small and medium-sized business market.

Bill Culman : Vice President of Engineering

Bill Culman brings more than 20 years of software engineering management experience to Axcient and has extensive experience building both software and hardware products. Before joining Axcient, Bill held senior engineering management positions at Interwoven, Cast Iron, Tandem Computers, BEA Systems and Vitria Technology. While at Interwoven, Bill was the vice president of engineering responsible for global engineering services across all Interwoven products. At Cast Iron, Bill managed the engineering organization from its inception and launched Cast Iron’s application router, a device which provided easy-to-use data integration to the enterprise application integration (EAI) marketplace. During his 12 years at Tandem, Bill was responsible for development of application development (ADE) tools for Tandem's Pathway and CORBA transaction processing systems. While at BEA Systems, Bill was responsible for development of ADE tools for BEA Tuxedo and Weblogic. During his time at Vitria Technology, he was responsible for development of all BusinessWare EAI connectivity products.

Jack McGovern : Chief Financial Officer

Jack McGovern brings more than 30 years of accounting, finance and investment banking experience to his role at Axcient. Most recently, Jack was chief financial officer of Dilithium Networks, a software engineering firm providing video solutions to the mobile handset market. Prior to Dilithium, Jack was a partner with Ashwood Management Partners, where he provided interim financial consulting services to venture-backed startup clients in the technology and life science arenas. Additionally, Jack was senior vice president and chief financial officer for infoUSA, Inc., a publicly traded (NASDAQ) company providing database marketing services. Jack brings a proven background of corporate finance leadership within the technology sector that was strengthened by his positions at Strategic Capital, Matrix International, GATX, and KPMG Peat Marwick.