
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.