Jim Thanos

Former Executive Vice President of Sales & Worldwide Field Operations

BroadVision, Aurum (Baan), Informix (IBM)

 

Jim Thanos currently serves on the Board of Directors at SupportSoft (Nasdaq: SPRT), ClickSoftware (Nasdaq: CKSW), and Enfish Corporation as well as on the Advisory Board at Epiphany (Nasdaq: EPNY), Covigna, and Siperian. He was most recently Executive Vice President and General Manager of worldwide field operations at BroadVision. From 1998 through 2000, revenues grew from $27 million to $414 million. Prior to Broadvision, Jim was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales At Aurum Software, a leader in sales force automation business solutions. Thanos played a role in leading Aurum to profitability and going public before being acquired by Baan. Before joining Aurum in 1995, Thanos served as Vice President of Sales at Harvest Software. Prior to Harvest Software, he was Vice President of Sales and Professional Services Operations at Metaphor Inc., a pioneer in business decision support systems, where he grew annual sales to $37 million before the company was acquired by IBM. Before Metaphor, Thanos worked as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations at Informix, where he was responsible for significantly expanding the company's revenues. He was also the VP responsible for sales, marketing, and professional services at Dunn and Bradstreet Computing Services. Jim holds a bachelorís degree from Johns Hopkins University.