Kent Heyman | Alex Mashinsky |  Mel S. Lavitt | Carm Santoro | Timothy Wallace

Kent Heyman
Chief Executive Officer and
Chairman of the Board of Directors

Kent Heyman became Chairman of the Board of Directors in September 2005. Prior to Migo Software, Kent led the turnaround of ServiceWare Technologies, Inc., a publicly held software company, which had previously experienced an 11-year history of enormous losses, dwindling revenue, and depleted cash.

In just over 3 years, Heyman's restoration plan eliminated debt, restructured the balance sheet, and turned the company profitable, dramatically reducing expenses while achieving revenue growth. He led the company from a $30 million loss in 2001 to profitability in 2004, concluding the year with 3 consecutive quarters of positive earnings.

In 2004-2005, Kent engineered the acquisition of Kanisa, Inc., a primary competitor, effectively doubling the size of ServiceWare and creating the consensus market leader in the KM/SRM software space. During his tenure as CEO, the market capitalization of the company increased by over 1,000%. Upon consummation of the acquisition, Heyman assumed the role of Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Prior to his success at ServiceWare, Heyman was one of the founding officers in Mpower Communications, Inc (Amex: MPE), a competitive provider of telecommunications services, including local voice and broadband. As Senior Vice President and General Counsel, he directed legal, regulatory, corporate governance, and government relations, with oversight responsibility for investor relations, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and revenue generation.

Heyman's passion for solving business issues was honed during his 16-year tenure as one of California's leading commercial trial lawyers. Heyman received recognition from Martindale Hubbell as one of the Nation's "Preeminent Attorneys". Heyman was also a distinguished mediator, arbitrator, and served as Superior Court Judge Pro Tem.

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Alex Mashinsky

Born into Communism, reared under Socialism, and now thriving under Capitalism, Alex Mashinsky has become one of the most recognized figures in the international telecommunications industry. As the Managing Partner of VenturiFX , an early stage venture capital firm, Alex founded several companies including Qlimo in 2002, Qwireless in 2001, Elematics in 2000, and Arbinet in 1996, where he served as its CEO until Jan 2000. Combining the unique talents of business strategist and technological innovator alex is continuing to invent new technologies in the communications field. A featured speaker at over 120 international communications conferences and TV interviews, and a recipient of 17 domestic and international patents relating to communications infrastructure and signaling, Alex has received numerous awards for innovation including the prestigious 2000 Albert Einstein Technology medal and the Technology Foresight Award for Innovation (presented in Geneva at Telecom 99).

As the leading evangelist of the B2B bandwidth exchanges, Alex has proven his ability to identify the winning trends, build a powerful intellectual property portfolio and bring together winning teams to build world-class companies. He has raised over one hundred fifty million dollars to help position his startups as leaders in their fields.

Today, Arbinet, for which Alex continues to serve as Vice Chairman, is recognized as the leading exchange for PSTN and VOIP traffic. The company has over 89 employees and over 250 world carriers transacting billions of minutes every year. Prior to focusing on finding a replacement for the accounting rate system, Alex successfully identified the coming trends of VOIP and the need for softswitch and gatekeeper technologies and was successful in securing some of the original patents covering protocol conversion and call processing. He co-founded Comgates (find out more), The Israel-based company which is the world leader in media gateway technology has over 40 employees and has received venture funding of $20 million.

1991-1994 Alex Mashinsky was President of his first technology startup VoiceSmart which provided software and outsourced services for the Debit card and call back industries 1988-1990 Alex ran a commodities trading company called TTC based out of Luxembourg 1984-1987 Alex served in the Israeli Army. The service included the Israeli Pilot training program and service in the Golani infantry units as well as military intelligence.

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Mel S. Lavitt

Mr. Lavitt joined our board of directors in May 2006. Mr. Lavitt has been a managing director at the investment banking firm of C.E. Unterberg, Towbin (or its predecessor) since August 1992 and is currently serving as vice chairman and managing director. From June 1987 until August 1992, Mr. Lavitt was president of Lavitt Management, a business consulting firm. From 1978 until June 1987, Mr. Lavitt served as an administrative managing director for the investment banking firm of L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin, Inc. Mr. Lavitt is also a director of Captiva Corporation, Jabil Circuit, Inc. and St. Bernard Software.

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Carm Santoro

Having a B.S. (1963) from Manhattan College in New York City and a Ph.D. in Solid State Physics (1967) from Rensselaer in Troy, NY, Dr. Santoro's extensive background includes serving as CEO or Chairman to emerging technology and software companies such as Attensity Corp., AST Research, Silicon Systems, Aston-Tate, Inc., and Platinum Software, Inc.

Carm Santoro has also served on the Board of Directors for several publicly traded companies, including Seagate Technology, Inc., Dallas Semiconductor, Inc., S3, Inc., Techniclone, Inc. and Mentor Graphics, Inc.

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Timothy Wallace

Mr. Wallace joined our board of directors in May 2006. Mr. Wallace currently is the chairman and chief executive officer of Full Tilt Solutions, a business-to-business software company, which he joined in January 2000. Prior to Full Tilt, Mr. Wallace was the president and chief executive officer of Xerox Connect, a network integration technology company from May 1998 through December 1999. From 1996 until May 1998, Mr. Wallace was the president, chief officer and director of XL Connect Solutions, which he founded. Xerox Connect acquired XLConnect in May 1998. From 1991 to 1996, Mr. Wallace was the vice president of professional services of The Future Now, a national systems integration company. Mr. Wallace received a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree in business administration from Miami University of Ohio.

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