Acorn Systems

Chris serves as the Chief Strategy Officer for Acorn Systems, Inc. and the President of Acorn Systems International, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary. Having joined the company in 2000, Chris brings over 19 years of sales, business development, corporate development, marketing, and management experience and success in F1000 and early stage software and services companies. Today, Chris is responsible for Acorn's go-to-market strategies, global marketing, alliances and corporate development. He also oversees Acorn Systems International, a business he launched in 2004 with partners. Since then, he has grown the business via an EMEA-based Acorn International management team and a globally-diverse network of partners. Prior to joining Acorn, Chris was Vice President of Business Development for docHarbor, where he was one of the founding employees. Chris also served as Sr. Client Executive at Anacomp, Inc. where he was consistently recognized as a top sales performer with Fortune 500 clients, achieving profitable sales of over $19M in a five-year period. Chris serves on the Board and the Finance, Fundraising and Board Development Committees of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of The Make-A-Wish Foundation, and on the Advisory Board of Oak Forest Ventures, a private-equity and turnaround consulting firm. Chris received a B.S.B.A. in marketing with a concentration in finance from the University of Delaware.

- Lien T. Kingston, CPA, is responsible for the overall financial management of Acorn Systems, Inc. She has over 20 years of financial experience. Prior to joining Acorn Systems, Lien was VP, Finance/Co-Founder for a software service provider, where she managed the finance and administration departments from start-up to a company with 160+ employees. She was instrumental in raising over $40 million. Lien also served as Corporate Controller for a major physician practice management company. Earlier in her career she served as an Auditor with Price Waterhouse LLP and as the Director of SEC Reporting and Benefits for two publicly held hospital chains, helping to guide one of those companies through an IPO and continuing growth to a $1 billion firm.

Torsten brings over 13 years of commercial software product development experience to Acorn. He joined Acorn from BMC Software, where he was the Product Development Manager and architect for BMC's PATROL for Diagnostic Management suite. Other roles at BMC included serving as a member of an elite group that created new products incorporating advanced technologies. These advanced technologies included automated network configuration management, statistical analysis and data mining. Torsten was also a lead developer for BMC's PATROL DB database management products. Prior to BMC, he managed graphical database tools development at UniSQL . Torsten also has experience with compiler technology (at Ryan McFarland) and a reverse-engineering CASE tool while at Ten X Technology.

With over 20 years of consulting and management experience, Jim has successfully demonstrated the ability to build and lead large technology teams for some of the world's leading software vendors. Jim is responsible for managing all aspects of Acorn Systems' field services, including Professional Services, Pre-Sales Consulting, and Education. Before joining Acorn Systems, Jim served in a similar capacity with MicroStrategy, Inc. as the Central Region Vice President of Services. While with MicroStrategy, he was instrumental in the building of a standardized implementation methodology, the development of operational control systems, and best practices in the delivery of Professional Services. Prior to MicroStrategy, Jim spent a combined 15 years employed at Oracle Corporation and Information Builders, Inc. (IBI) in a variety of Senior Consulting Management positions. Jim received his B.S. from the University of Cincinnati in Industrial Management with a concentration in Operations Research.

Prior to joining Austin Ventures, Michael led business development and mergers and acquisitions for Mission Critical Software, which went public in 1999 and later merged with NetIQ. Earlier in his career Michael served as a management consultant to FedEx Global Logistics and Electronic Commerce. Before this he held executive management positions with Stanford Technology Group (acquired by Informix) and Empart Technology (acquired by ARI Network Services), where he was a founder. Mr. Rovner received his BA from the University of California at Los Angeles.