Tom Spengler
Chief Executive Officer
Granicus, Inc.
Tom co-founded Granicus, Inc. as Chairman and CEO in 1999. He currently heads up Granicus' senior management team and will lead the company in its next stage of growth. Prior to co-founding Granicus, Tom was a member of Anderson Consulting’s (now Accenture) premier Internet development group, performing Internet strategy and development work for Q-pass, E-trade, Anderson's R&D division, the United States Post Office and others. Prior to Anderson, Tom worked at Hewlett Packard to help develop leading Intranet communications tools used throughout the organization. Tom currently is a University Advisor for Cal Poly, a frequent public speaker, and also a certified teacher for the International Institute of Municipal Clerks (IIMC), teaching classes on minutes annotation and digital audio/video recording for local government agencies.
Emery Jones
Chief Financial Officer
Granicus, Inc.
As a co-founder of Granicus, Emery's focus is multi-faceted and far-reaching. In addition to building and expanding financial procedures, Emery's client-centered vision is at the base of Granicus' philosophical foundation. Emery brings a wealth of knowledge to his responsibilities in the financial sector. Before co-founding Granicus, Emery owned a successful financial consulting practice in the San Francisco Bay Area, offering financial advice and strategic planning to start-ups and small businesses. Emery received his B.A. in Accounting and Economics at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Peter Arrowsmith
General Partner
JMI Equity
Mr. Arrowsmith joined JMI in 1996 and is based in San Diego, California. Mr. Arrowsmith is currently a Director of AlarmPoint Systems, Inc., Arrowhead GIA, Inc., Configuresoft, Inc., DriveCam, Inc., Granicus, Inc., Jobing.com, Inc., Nimsoft, Inc. and The Search Agency, Inc. Mr. Arrowsmith’s past JMI investment experience includes Bindview Development Corporation, Blackbaud, Inc., ClearOrbit, Inc., Financial Alliance, Inc., Mitchell International, Inc., NetPro Computing, Inc., PROS Holdings, Inc. and Silicon Energy, Inc. Prior to joining the Firm in 1996, Mr. Arrowsmith was an Associate at AEA Investors and was a Business Analyst at McKinsey and Company. Mr. Arrowsmith graduated from Harvard University.
Ed Roshitsh
Executive Vice President and COO
AMS Services
Ed Roshitsh joined AMS Services in March 2006 as senior vice president of sales and enterprise operations and was promoted in 2008 to executive vice president and COO. Prior to joining AMS Services, Roshitsh held the position of vice president of worldwide sales at Blackbaud where he was responsible for sales, international operations and training. Under Roshitsh's leadership, the sales team grew revenue from $83 million in 2001 to over $155 million in 2005. Prior to Blackbaud, Roshitsh was vice president of sales, marketing and services for Data Processing Sciences Corporation (DPS), culminating a ten year period of successive sales career positions at DPS during which he helped grow software and services revenues for this networking-equipment and software company.
Javier Muniz
Chief Technology Officer
Granicus, Inc.
As Granicus' Chief Technology Officer, Javier draws on his broad knowledge of networking and application development technologies to provide direction and insight for Granicus application and infrastructure design. Prior to co-founding Granicus, Javier was a member of the Research and Development Team at Brodia.com and played a key role in developing their now flagship wireless and SmartCard products. Javier began his career at Sun Microsystems designing and managing remote access components of the Sun global network infrastructure, and later went on to WebTV Networks, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, where he designed and developed applications used by the Network Operations Center to manage a network of over 600 nodes that supported over 1 million active WebTV subscribers.