Len Chermack

Len Chermack has over 35 years of global management and profit and loss experience ($2 million to $750 million) in software companies. Since 1986, he has been brought into companies by investors as the turnaround or growth executive for a number of technology companies, including Fortune 500 and International 1000 companies. Since 2001, Mr. Chermack has also served as either the Chief Executive Officer or worldwide President on several technology companies. Len has served as an Associate of Naya Ventures and beginning in February 2020, he has been the CEO/Founding Partner focusing on capital sourcing for HEXA Global Ventures, which supports entrepreneurs and companies in technology, healthcare, human resources and services. With his team, he identifies global investment opportunities and arranges funding through the firm’s venture capital arm and private equity communities, providing value-added services to HEXA GV portfolio companies in Richardson, Texas. Mr. Chermack is a serial CEO and turnaround specialist. His largest turnaround was as Worldwide President Baan (now INFOR) and Managing Director of the Baan Companies (3rd Largest Global Software Company in over 123 companies) located in the Netherland and brought in from private equity-backed United Kingdom-based Invensys PLC.

As a co-founder of several software companies including two NASDAQ-traded companies (Penultimate, whose product Salesforce created the Opportunity Management System (OMS), which today is used in all customer relationship management, and Computer Depot). Len has raised over $100 million in funding and has been involved in a number of mergers and acquisitions in his career. Mr. Chermack serves on several technology company boards of private companies in the cloud, information technology (“IT”) services, IT operations management, IT infrastructure, healthcare IT, and social media industries. Mr. Chermack’s leadership experience includes serving in large public, venture capitalist, private equity and startup enterprises and he has served on partner advisory boards for leading technology companies including Microsoft and IBM.

Mr. Chermack received his Bachelor of Science in Economics with recognition in mathematical economics and a minor in marketing from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.