Leadership

Tom is a founding director of Acquia, working with co-founders Dries Buytaert and Jay Batson to develop the company’s open source commercialization model and recruit the early team members. Tom joined Acquia as CEO in 2009, following the sale of Tele Atlas to TomTom, where he had been Chief Products Officer.

As he has done throughout a 30+ year-career in enterprise software, Tom is focused on driving customer success and business strategy at Acquia, Tom also leads the unique blending of open source, digital agency and enterprise software backgrounds, fostering a culture which he perpetuates through extensive travel to the 11 countries and 3 US offices from which Acquia currently operates.

At Acquia, Tom has guided the company to CAGR bookings growth of 1250%. In 2012, Acquia was named the fastest growing software company in the USA in the Inc 500 list of private companies and received the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council Private Company of the Year award. Systinet’s revenue grew 5x in the 18 months Tom was at the help prior to the sale of the company. Tom led webMethods’ international growth from 2000-2004 at a CAGR of 90% in what was arguably one of the toughest periods for enterprise software ever.

Tom began his career in technical roles after graduating from the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a BS Honors degree in electrical and computer engineering. He has spent 14 years of his career living in Australia, England and France. He continues to be passionate about travel, languages, photography, and food and wines. He knows many pilots on a first name basis.

Tim came to Acquia from OpenSpan (a Matrix Partners company) where he served as Vice President of Worldwide Enterprise Sales & Channels, which included managing many Enterprise relationships and all worldwide ISV/OEM, Reseller, Global System Integrator and Public Sector relationships. Prior to joining OpenSpan, Tim served in various leadership roles including direct, indirect and Public Sector sales roles at Systinet Corporation (acquired by Mercury Interactive), Cape Clear Software (acquired by Workday) and Silverstream Software (acquired by Novell).

At Acquia, Tim oversees the Global sales and pre-sales organizations.

Tim graduated from Bryant University and currently resides in Sturbridge, MA with his wife, daughter and two boxer dogs. Outside of Acquia, Tim and his wife own a semi-professional auto racing team & enjoy traveling, cooking and great wine.

Mike is a 25 year veteran of the information technology industry, holding executive leadership positions at CompuServe and Sapient. Mike has also founded three companies including S&H Loyalty Solutions which was sold to Pay by Touch in 2006 for in excess of $100 million.

At Acquia, Mike plays a key part within the global sales organization overseeing the company's worldwide inside sales team, sales operations and account management teams.

Peter Guagenti is the VP of Products at Acquia, where he is responsible for overseeing product management and product marketing for all Acquia products. Peter brings an unrelenting focus on delivering results for Acquia's customers and partners.

Peter joined Acquia with over 15 years of experience in strategy and client services; helping the world’s best companies innovate and succeed in the digital world while working at organizations as diverse as Razorfish and Accenture. He was practically “born digital”, and has been helping Fortune 500 clients embrace the web since the early days of the browser in 1995. Since that time, Peter has helped some of the world’s most recognized brands use the digital channel to grow existing or develop new businesses, reach customers with innovative and efficient marketing campaigns, and create the kind of sites and infrastructure that ensure painless expansion and growth as the web increases in importance to their business.

Deborah joins Acquia as its first Vice President and General Counsel overseeing legal, data security and corporate compliance. Previously, Deborah was Vice President and General Counsel of Sapient Corporation, where she was the first General Counsel. Deborah helped steer Sapient, a business and technology consultant company, through tremendous growth including its initial public offering, several follow-on offerings and numerous acquisitions. Deborah has also held senior legal positions at Charles River Laboratories and Harcourt General. She began her legal career at Hale and Dorr (now WilmerHale) in Boston where she was a Junior Partner in the Corporate Department before leaving the firm to begin her in-house practice. Deborah is an alumna of Boston College Law School and Colby College. She is a member of the Board of Directors of The Home for Little Wanderers, a former Overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and is a Trustee Emeritus of Colby College.