Terry Garnett

Terry Garnett is an active part of the Inxeption management team and a member of the Board of Directors. Terry has over 30 years of experience in the software industry and, most recently, served two terms as acting CEO of Actian Software, a hybrid data management company with over $100m in annual revenue. In addition, earlier in his career, he was senior vice president and part of the Executive Management Committee at Oracle Corporation, where he ran worldwide marketing and corporate development. He served as a consultant in the McKinsey & Co. Electronics Practice and held technical manufacturing management roles at Tandem Computers.

Mr. Garnett was a general partner and venture partner at Venrock Associates for eight years, personally invested in Siebel Software and Salesforce.com, and was an active participant in the founding and launching of leading software companies such as New Era of Networks, Neoforma, and Niku. He worked closely with his wife, Katrina, to found Crossworlds Software in 1996, creating the EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) category. The company went public in 2000 and was later acquired by IBM.

Mr. Garnett is the co-founder of Garnett Helfrich Capital, a $350m technology venture buyout firm that successfully built up several market leaders, including Blade Network Technologies (acquired by IBM) and Wyse Technologies (acquired by IBM).