Leadership
All the founding team members have had major successes, and this time they strive to make something 100 times better than before - hence the name Cien, which means "100" in Spanish.
Advisory Board
Wide expertise and deep experience across business, sales, AI and transactions
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Dr. CHRISTIAN BROWNLEESStrategic Advisor
Professor of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE
Expert in Statistics and Econometrics
PhD in Statistics from Università degli Studi di Firenze and Post-doc at NYU Stern
Linkedin
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JIM McGUIREStrategic Advisor
Former VP Sales - Microsoft Part of Sales Leadership that took Azure Cloud from $0 to Billion Dollar Juggernaut Turned around FAST (MS subsidiary) - received coveted MS Platinum Award Ex IBM, HP, etc - 25 yrs. of IT Sales BS Marketing Northern Illinois (Magna Cum Laude) Linkedin
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JOANNA RIDGWAY Strategic Advisor
Established & Led Santander Bank Corporate Banking in Southwest US Global Financial Services Advisory & C-Suite Relationship Expert German Marshall Fund Marshall Memorial Fellow & British American Project Fellow Rhodes College, B.A. Business & LSE, Exec Leadership Program Linkedin
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MATTHEW HOFFMAN Strategic Advisor
Former VP Sales & GM – RealPage, Inc Founder of 4 Companies Multiple Successful Exists BS Marketing & International Affairs, Florida State Linkedin
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JEROME ROSEStrategic Advisor
Executive positions in sales at SMS Inc & IBM Managing sales teams with over $100M in quota Expert in Sales Enablement & CRM Tools MBA Southern Methodist University, Cox School of Business Linkedin
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MICHAEL O'HARE Strategic Advisor
Managing Director at KeyBanc Capital Markets Advisor on over $2 billion of M&A and growth equity capital transactions for software companies Over 26 years of M&A experience in SaaS and Enterprise Software industry MBA, Indiana University, B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Purdue University Linkedin