Nick Mehta Elected at the Board of LiveOffice

LiveOffice, provider of
hosted
email, archiving, security and compliance solutions, announced
that it has
appointed three new veteran industry executives to its Board
of Directors:

• Steve Jillings, former president and CEO of FrontBridge Technologies, a global leader in message management and archiving services acquired by Microsoft in 2005.
• Nick Mehta, entrepreneur-in-residence at Trinity Ventures, and former vice president and general manager of Symantec’s Enterprise Vault (formerly KVS) information archiving and discovery software business.
• Susan Carstensen, chief operating officer of RightNow Technologies, an on-demand CRM software and services company, and a 19- year veteran of corporate financial management.

Jillings, Mehta and Carstensen join current board members,
Chairman
Alexander Rusich (chief executive officer), Matthew Smith
(president and
chief operating officer) and Mark Long (chief financial
officer) of
LiveOffice as well as Greg Goldfarb (principal) and Harrison
Miller
(general partner) of Summit Partners. A leading global private
equity and
venture capital firm, Summit Partners has a minority investment
in
LiveOffice and is helping the company grow and expand into
new markets.

Board Member Biographies

Steve Jillings is president and CEO of Vantage Media
and the former
president and CEO of FrontBridge Technologies, where he
was responsible for
taking the company from a startup to a global leader in
managed messaging
services. Tasked with driving the company’s strategic direction
and growth,
Jillings built a world-class management team focused on
execution. Raising
$28 million in three rounds of funding allowed the team
to build a broad
portfolio of services combined with the largest global distribution
footprint in the managed messaging space. The growth and
accomplishments in
that timeframe led to the successful sale of the company
to Microsoft in
August 2005. Jillings has more than 20 years of business-building
experience, specifically in the areas of corporate finance,
sales,
marketing and technology. Prior to FrontBridge, Jillings
was a cofounder
and executive vice president of Voyus, a recurring revenue
IT services
company based in Vancouver, B.C. Jillings has been responsible
for seven
startups throughout his career, taking them from inception
to
commercialization and eventual liquidity.

Nick Mehta is an entrepreneur-in-residence at Trinity
Ventures. He has
held senior operating roles for public and private companies
in both
enterprise and consumer technology markets. Prior to joining
Trinity
Ventures in 2007, Mehta spent more than five years at Symantec
Corporation and Veritas Software Corporation (acquired
by Symantec in
2005). Most recently, Mehta was a vice president at Symantec.
He also
served as general manager of the Enterprise Vault (formerly
KVS)
information archiving and discovery software business at
Symantec from its
acquisition in 2004 until 2007. During this time, the business
grew from
$23 million in annual sales in 2004 to $200 million in 2007
and received
recognition from Gartner, Forrester, IDC and Radicati as
the leading
product in the "on-premise" email archiving market. Mehta
also held other
roles leading product management for all email-related businesses
at
Symantec and previously for CommandCentral, the company’s
storage resource
management software product line.

Susan Carstensen is chief operating officer of RightNow
Technologies, a
software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions company built to
seamlessly
integrate sales force automation software, enterprise marketing
automation
and customer service solutions to ensure customer loyalty
and
profitability. A 19-year veteran of corporate financial
management,
Carstensen oversees RightNow’s finance, information technology
and human
resource divisions, and she serves on the company’s executive
management
team. She joined RightNow in 1999 following five years at
Powerhouse
Technologies, a $200-million publicly traded diversified
gaming technology
company. At Powerhouse, Carstensen held various positions
in finance and
audit, advancing to chief financial officer in 1997. She
was a key player
in the organization’s financial turnaround, culminating
in the 1999 sale of
the company.

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