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Endorsements for Scott Mirer from Past Colleagues

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DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
Espial (formerly Kasenna, Inc.) (2007-present)

• Scott is an excellent product manager with the marketing skills to analyze market dynamics with critical strategic thinking. Tactically Scott is very productive and able to understand complex business and technical issues and define and organize processes that yield results. An excellent communicator, able to differentiate the essential from the noise and make a solid impact on an organization with better defined products/releases and more predictability. I highly recommend Scott.

  --Greg Carter, VP Business Development, Espial/Kasenna (managed Scott at Kasenna)

• Scott was super pleasurable to work with. He is extremely sharp and knowledgeable across a breadth of business and technology realms. He can articulate complex thoughts in a very succinct simple manner. It would be an honor and a privilege to have him on my team at any organization.

  --Mark Crandon, VP Marketing/Product Management, Kasenna (managed Scott at Kasenna)

• Scott is an outstanding product management executive at Kasenna. In difficult circumstances he helped guide our products in the proper direction, injecting discipline and reality into the product planning process. He also holds a very good customer and market focus, ensuring we deliver salable products that address market needs while helping existing customers continue to be successful.

  --Jeff Gould, Sr. Director, Support and Services, Espial/Kasenna

• Scott is one of those rare product managers who understands the customer needs to the perfection with extensive market research before discussing with the engineering team and also the one who stands out supporting the engineering teams' limitations by understanding the implementation boundaries. I really liked working with Scott to such an extent that, not to exaggerate but, I would look for an opportunity to talk to him because of the complete answers he used to provide along with the mild touch of humor! I would like to a chance to work for Scott again in the future.

  --Shridhar N S, Sr. Software Engineer, Espial/Kasenna

SENIOR DIRECTOR, MARKETING AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT,
Mediabolic, 2003-2006

• Scott is a DEMO GOD. His ability to present/demonstrate our products/technologies to customers, partners, and press is unrivaled and he can be counted on to thoughtfully answer all their questions. He develops strong relationships with his customers, is an excellent problem solver and brings tremendous creativity and innovation to completing his projects. He's a pleasure to work with and manage.

  --Robert Selzler, VP Marketing, Mediabolic, (managed Scott at Mediabolic)

• Scott possesses the ability to communicate across several disciplines and motivate cross-functional teams. He is very effective at managing initiatives that involve many departments and whose success was judged by stakeholders with different perspectives and goals. His wealth of varied experience and his intelligence ensure that he is able to contribute significantly in almost any organization.

  --Greg Peters, VP Engineering, Mediabolic

• Scott was a great colleague. He played a key role in our company as the person that understood both technology and business issues. He was also a person you could always count on to manage and resolve difficult business and technology issues.

  --Woody Deguchi, VP of Sales/Biz Dev. Japan/APAC, Product Managment, Mediabolic

• Scott is an excellent colleague with a strong work ethic, attention to detail, and a creativity in problem solving that is rare and extremely valuable. All that, and he is always cheerful and pleasant to work with. He is extremely willing to pitch in wherever there's work to be done, and is a valuable asset to any organization.

  --Richard Bullwinkle, Sr. Director of Products / Chief Evangelist, Mediabolic

• Scott is an invaluable asset to the PR function at Mediabolic. He has a very good understanding of the importance of PR and how to break down a very technical message into lay terms. He has an incredible depth of knowledge and his ability to address both technical and non technical audiences in any scenario is rare and priceless.

  --Alicia Nieva-Woodgate, Director of Corporate Communications, Mediabolic

• I've worked with Scott for about 3 years now and he's a great person and coworker. Scott's the kind of guy that doesn't drop the ball if he's on it, it gets done and done well. I've worked along side him during sales, marketing and business development initiatives and he brings true value in each discipline to an organization.

  --Adam Burg, Director, Business Development, Mediabolic

• Scott is a knowledgeable, diligent, and technologically-astute person. He excels at managing relationships between technology companies and understanding technologies those relationships nurture.

  --Christopher Dow, Director, Embedded Software Development, Mediabolic

• Scott provides an ideal mix of business savvy and technical know-how to his job. He's particularly adept at taking complex technical concepts and translating them - in a creative way - into ideas that are easy for non-technical people to understand. Scott often seeks to improve processes in ways that don't skimp on quality or quantity. Truly, he is an invaluable asset to have around.

  --William Smith, Director, Marketing Communications, Mediabolic

VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT,
Actify, 1999-2002

• I had the fortunate opportunity of working with Scott at I/Pro. I proactively recruited him for VP of Business Development because of his high degree of integrity, intellect and his strong ability to comprehend critical technical and business issues. I promoted Scott to VP of Marketing where he excelled both strategically and operationally. Scott was a real asset to Actify.

  --Mark Gisi, Co-Founder, President, VP Biz Dev, Actify (managed Scott at Actify)

• Scott was a valuable asset while at Actify where he acted as the bridge between the technical and business lines within the company. His flexibility, team work, and cross-functional skill set (BizDev-Operations-Marketing) proved their worth during the the company's critical growth phase.

  --Bill Matthews, VP Sales, Actify

• I'm extremely lucky to have worked with Scott. He brought great energy and insight to everything he touched. His drive and diligence was inspirational, and he was always able to draw out my highest potential. Some bosses help you perform, Scott helped me excel. His leadership wasn't limited to marketing, he was just as skilled in running the office, supporting sales anything he did, he did well.

  --Bill Stern, Marketing Specialist, Actify

• Scott's knowledge of the interactive media space is invaluable. His quick ability to pinpoint effective business opportunities makes him a great asset to the growth of any business. His easygoing attitude creates an excellent working environment. I would gladly work with him again.

  --Patrick O'Donnell, Marketing, Management & Business Development

DIRECTOR, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES,
Pretzel Logic Software, 1997-1999

• Scott's keen analytical abilities, his strategic vision, and his ability to effectively manage day to day operations in the consulting group proved to be an invaluable asset at Pretzel. His ability to operate within and across marketing, business development, and engineering is exceptional. I thoroughly enjoyed working with him.

  --David Hoffman, CEO, Pretzel Logic Software (managed Scott at Pretzel Logic Software)

• Scott's unique ability to identify key business drivers helped bring focus to the consulting practise at Pretzel. He took great pains in mentoring the team to differentiate the strategic goals of our projects. Most importantly, he brings loads of positive energy to the job.

  --Prasana Iyengar, Principal Consultant, Pretzel Logic Software

VICE PRESIDENT, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT and
DIRECTOR, PRODUCT MARKETING,
Internet Profiles Corp. (I/PRO), 1995-1997

• I reported to Scott as the QA and Release manager at I/PRO. He is a very supportive manager with a rare mix of technical, managerial and business skills; a combination not often found in an engineering manager. He has a high degree of integrity, communicates clearly and is a creative thinker. I highly recommend Scott and would gladly work with him again.

  --Lai-Mei Ng, QA & Release Manager, I/PRO

• I had the privilege to work under Scott as a software engineering lead at I/Pro. I have the utmost respect for his high degree of integrity, work ethic, leadership skills, and technical abilities. Scott maintained a deep understanding of software engineering principles and was highly effective in motivating and leading a diverse group of technical engineers.

  --Mark Gisi, Sr. Software Engineer, I/PRO

ASSISTANT MANAGER, ADVANCED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING,
Toshiba America MRI, 1989-1995

• Scott has a rare ability to see past the surface and identify the deeper issues that a company is struggling with. He has the courage and energy to attack difficult problems, and an Infectious enthusiasm.

  --Jeff Watts, Manager, Software Development, Cedara

• Scott made an extra effort to establish rapport with our colleagues in Japan. He bridged a challenging cultural gap in a seamless manner, and facilitated the cross-cultural team to work together as one. Scott played a definitive leadership role in making this happen. In general, Scott excels at building relationships, and always achieves outstanding results.

  --Tom McDermott, R&D Manager, Varian

• Scott took over a key eningeering project that was in poor shape and clarified the project deliverables by working closely with the marketing teams both in the US and Japan. He gave the team leadership, goals and the attention needed in order to deliver. He has excellent insight into problems and multitasks well under pressure. I also work with Scott and I/Pro. He's a pleasure to work with.

  --Emmett Cunningham, Software Engineer, Google