Hamish Butler Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, California, Us

Responsible for all operations functions, including but not limited to human resources, contracts, legal, IT, Security and third party relationships. • Company Secretary• Instrumental in helping CEO to raise both equity investments and venture debt for Gluware• Implemented Carta.com for cap table management, stock option management and 409A valuations• Works with company legal partners for all customer, vendor and partner contracts, HR matters, trademarks, investor relations.• Management of the corporate due diligence data room.• Leads corporate IT & security activities

Far West Masters is a non-profit organization.Far West Masters organizes USSA masters competition in the Far West division. Our yearly schedule includes all disciplines (SL, GS, SG, and DH), with races held mainly at ski areas in the central Sierras. Racers from 21 to over 80 years old compete in five-year age groups.http://farwestmasters.org

Responsible for all finance and operations functions, including but not limited to fund-raising, investor relations, strategic planning, finance, human resources, contracts, legal, IT and third party relationships. • Instrumental in helping CEO to close two rounds of equity investment for Glue Networks• Took company from unfunded start-up to fully operational entity, building all company infrastructure to support sales, marketing, product development and product support activities with staff in 7 states and the United Kingdom• Full responsibility for the Glue Networks operating and financial plan, reporting and tracking of performance against plan to the Board of Directors and shareholders.• Works with financial services partners for all company tax matters, 409A valuations and QSBS opinions for fund raising• Works with company legal partners for all customer, vendor and partner contracts, HR matters, trademarks, corporate matters (cap table, stock options etc.) and immigration paperwork for our CTO/co-founder.• Incorporated UK entity and put structures in place to operationalize the entity with finance, payroll, HR, etc., and inter-company agreements with Glue Networks, Inc., updated financial process for monthly consolidation of books of parent and child entities.• Management of the corporate due diligence data room.

Consulting and advising Glue Networks on strategy & operational planning. Developing plans to grow the operations and engineering organizations for Glue Networks.

CEO and member of the Board for Objective Systems Integrators, Inc.Successfully carved OSI out of Agilent Technologies. Transformed the business into a standalone leader in Service Management software to Communications Service Providers. • Successfully retained customers through the carve out.• Built Sales, Finance, Contracts, IT and HR departments around the existing organization.• Established branch offices in eight countries in Europe and Asia.• Negotiated inter-company arms length agreements between OSI Inc. and the branch offices, sister companies and the parent company.• Established regulatory compliance procedures. • Built corporate financial systems and successfully completed annual audit process.• Implemented corporate governance, standards of business conduct, IT and HR policies.• Identified new growth areas for OSI.• Established successful new product strategy. • Engineered new product developments with no additional investments by the shareholders( funded through on-going cash flow).• Deployed new products and solutions with 5 customers.• Achieved significant competitive wins.• Grew staff from 112 to 160 while improving operating performance.• Appointed to Board of Directors of sister company, Billing Components GmbH. Drove synergies between the businesses.

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Strategic PlanningInter-company liaisonTechnology leverage

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Profit & Loss ownership for OSI, including responsibility for R&D, Marketing, Sales Development, Professional Services and Customer Support• Restructured OSI and returned it to profit within one quarter of taking leadership.• Rebuilt morale in the team and retained all critical staff.• Built relationships with key customers and retained installed base.• Led identification of new owner for OSI and divestiture from Agilent.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Led the research and development organization for $200M business unit.• Executed all R&D roadmaps and customer commitments on schedule, on budget, and at the required level of quality.• Established & managed expense ($26M) & capital ($2M) budgets for the R&D department.• Managed staff of 240, located in Scotland, China and India. Successfully grew teams and added capability within budget.• Beijing R&D team grown from 50 to 75• Gurgaon R&D team grown from 25 to 50• Set vision for the Beijing and Gurgaon teams to grow cross functional capability in addition to R&D.• Developed the Technology Strategy and Technology Roadmap.• Led innovation workshops resulting in 20 new patent applications.• Established divisional portfolio management and opportunity assessment processes.• Established R&D management procedures for the division including lifecycle and checkpoint processes.• Created leadership development program and succession planning.• Successfully managed the executive role with extensive customer engagement.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Led the consolidation and return to profit of three business units each focused on the needs of Communications Service Providers. • Successfully weathered the global telecom downturn of 2001. • Achieved quarter on quarter improvement in financial performance, return to profitability in Q4 2003.• Integrated global staff of 120 in Scotland, Germany and the US into a single, successful organization.• Stabilized sales performance. Maintained confidence within worldwide Agilent sales organization in our products and continually made breakthroughs into key accounts. • Transferred manufacturing from Scotland to Singapore with no interruptions to production, resulting in significantly lower manufacturing cost.• Resolved excess inventory issues resulting from downturn.• Built strong links built between teams globally to leverage technologies & platforms and coordinate marketing to a common customer base.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Successfully delivered product development to enter a new business segment, delivering $44M orders in 2001.• Introduced first new product 3 months ahead of schedule with an order backlog of $30M.• Developed and implemented a “Fast Cycle Time” initiative to improve development productivity, organizational effectiveness and portfolio management capability. • Grew R&D team from 40 engineers to 68 within budget• Sped new product development schedules on average 20%.• Implemented off-shoring strategy for software development and programmable hardware designs resulting in cost savings of $500K per annum.

Houston, Texas, Us

R&D Project Manager, Cellular coverage test solutions (1997-1999)• Extensive customer engagement to define and specify the new test solution• Recruited and built the R&D team for new product line, new product delivered on schedule.R&D Project Manager, Transmission Test (1993-1997)• Defined, specified and led development of “virtual remote’ test SW running on Unix and PC platforms.• Managed the SW reuse program providing instrument simulation and compilation tools for increased productivity.

Software Engineer working on development of scanning sonar systems.

M.Sc., Digital Systems Engineering

B.Sc., Electronic & Electrical Engineering

B.Sc., Electronic & Electrical Engineering