Steve Pusey joined Solace’s board in November 2017. He brings more than 35 years of international business experience across several technology and service provider markets.

From 2006 to 2015, he served as CTO at Vodafone Group, where he was responsible for the company’s technology strategy and led its network, IT and product development operations. Mr. Pusey served on the Vodafone board from 2009 to 2015, during which he represented the board within the Verizon Wireless partnership. Prior to joining Vodafone, he held various positions at Nortel Networks Inc. including President in EMEA where he was responsible for all sales, marketing and customer operations within the region, and also spent several years with British Telecom.

He is a Bridge Growth Partners senior advisor and currently serves on the boards of directors at Accedian and Solace, both of which are portfolio companies of Bridge Growth Partners. In addition, Mr. Pusey serves on the board at Centrica, FireEye and Global Logic, is a Senior Board Advisor at Telatrix, and has also served on numerous telecom and IT advisory panels.

Mr. Pusey attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and holds certifications from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Haas Technical Education Center (HTEC) with distinction.

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Randy Cowen joined Solace’s board in November 2017. He served as the co-Chief Administrative Officer of the Goldman Sachs Group from October 2007 until his retirement in November 2008.

From September 2004 to November 2008, he was the Global Head of Technology and Operations for Goldman Sachs and from October 2001 to October 2007, he was the Chief Information Officer of Goldman Sachs. He was a director of EMC from January 2009 until Dell acquired EMC in October 2016. He is currently a director or GTY Technology Holding Inc. and an Bridge Growth Partners advisory board member.

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Ragunath (Raghu) Ramanathan joined Thomson Reuters as President of the Legal Professionals business on February 1, 2024. Previously, Raghu was the Chief Revenue Officer of SAP Business Technology Platform where he drove business growth and customer success in data and analytics, artificial intelligence, application development, automation, and integration solutions.

With more than 25 years of experience, Raghu is a recognized business leader in how technology can benefit consumers and businesses. He has a proven track record for introducing innovative commercial models that drive adoption and growth, as well as maintaining a strong reputation for building deep understanding of customer needs. He has lived and worked in 14 countries and across seven industries in roles at SAP, Barclays Group, Bluesoft Inc., and McKinsey & Company. Raghu also previously served as a Director of Syniti, a Bridge Growth Partners portfolio company.

Raghu holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Coimbatore Institute of Technology in India and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad.

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Steve Mills is an Executive Partner at Bridge Growth Partners and currently serves as a Director at Marsh and McLennan and Syniti.

Steve began his career at IBM in 1973 and held various positions over his 42-year career with the company. During his tenure at IBM, Mills oversaw many of IBM’s key strategic initiatives including transaction systems, development tools, security products, database and analytic offerings, including IBM Watson. He directed organic investments and acquisitions measured in the billions of dollars, and under his leadership IBM acquired and integrated over 150 companies.

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Daniel H. (Don) Callahan is an Executive Partner at Bridge Growth Partners and acknowledged internationally as a leader in both the financial services and technology industries.

Prior to retiring in 2018, Mr. Callahan was the Chief Administrative Officer and Global Head of Operations and Technology at Citigroup. He now serves on the boards of Tata Consultancy Services, Ltd., WEX Inc., Scotiabank and Kore.ai. Additionally, as CEO of Callahan Advisors LLC, he advises global companies with their digital transformation and technology start-ups with differentiated growth strategies.

At Citigroup, Mr. Callahan managed a complex set of businesses and services spanning more than 100 countries, a multi-billion-dollar operating budget and critical systems infrastructure including the bank’s cyber security initiatives. He led a top-to-bottom transformation of operations and technology, helping move the global bank from a collection of independent and dispersed entities into a lean, fully integrated enterprise. Mr. Callahan also established globally consistent technology standards and governance, and migrated critical functions to an integrated, managed, shared services model. As a result, in 2017, Citi was named by the Gartner Group as the most efficient of all major global banks in generating income per dollar of IT spending.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Callahan served in senior executive positions at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse and spent 12 years at IBM, where he held several management positions, including director of strategy for IBM Japan.

He serves as the non-executive chairman of TIME, where he is leading a comprehensive digital transformation of this iconic media brand. He is also on the business committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Association and on the boards of Columbia University Teachers College and NYU Stern – Andre Koo Tech MBA Advisory. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Manhattanville College, where he serves as trustee chair emeritus.

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Alok Singh is a Co-Founder and Managing Principal of Bridge Growth Partners, a leading private equity firm focused on technology and technology-enabled financial services. Alok is also a Director of Salient CRGT, a Bridge Growth Partners portfolio company, and AlphaCat Reinsurance, an affiliate of Validus Holdings.

Prior to founding Bridge Growth Partners in June, 2013, Mr. Singh was a Managing Director at New Mountain Capital. Over the course of nearly 12 years there, Mr. Singh served as Chairman of Red Prairie and JDA Software, and as a Lead Director of Deltek, Ikaria Holdings, Camber Corporation, Stroz Friedberg and AmWINS. He also served as a Director of Validus Holdings, EverBank Financial Corp., and Avantor Performance Materials.

Mr. Singh began his investment banking career at Bankers Trust, where he was a founding member and Managing Director of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group and later became responsible for the firm’s investment banking activities in the consumer and retail sectors, leading relationships with a number of major multi-industry and consumer product clients. Mr. Singh was elected a Partner of Bankers Trust in 1994, and in 1997 he joined the financial sponsors group of BT Alex.Brown. In 2001, he joined Barclays Capital, where he established and led the Corporate Financial Advisory Group before joining New Mountain in 2002.

Mr. Singh is an advisory board member of The Center for a New American Security, a member of the Dean’s Council of Weill Cornell Medical College, and a member of New York University’s Stern School of Business Board of Overseers. He received his B.A. in economics and history and his M.B.A. in finance and international business from New York University.

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Craig Betts founded Solace with the vision of embedding application intelligence directly into networks. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Queen’s University.

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Tom Manley is a Senior Principal of Bridge Growth Partners and serves on the Investment Committee, and is Chairman of Accedian, Lead Director of Solace, and a Director of Finalsite. He has more than three decades of experience within the technology sector. Manley most recently served as CFO of Avaya, a provider of business communications and collaboration systems. He was previously CFO and Senior Vice President of Administration at Cognos, a business intelligence and performance management software company acquired by IBM in 2008.

Before that, he served in management positions at Nortel Networks and General Motors of Canada. He currently serves on the board of directors of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. Mr. Manley previously served on the boards of Deltek, JDA Software, RedPrairie, DragonWave and Elastic Networks. He graduated from Carleton University with a bachelor of engineering with distinction, and holds an M.B.A. degree from Queen’s University.

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Edward Funnekotter serves as the Chief Architect and AI Officer at Solace. Leading the architecture teams for both Cloud and Event Broker products, he also leads the company’s strategic direction for AI integration within products and internal tools. In 2004, Edward began his journey with Solace as an FPGA architect. He later transitioned into management and led the Core Product Development team for several years before ascending to his present position.

Beginning his professional journey at Newbridge Networks, Edward took on the role of an embedded software developer after earning his Electrical Engineering degree from Queen’s University. After his tenure at Newbridge Networks, he embraced an ASIC architecture position at a Californian Internet Routing chipset firm. There, he successfully architected and designed multiple high-speed network processors and queuing chips.

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Kent Nash is Solace’s EVP Global Sales. Since joining Solace in 2005, Kent has held sales leadership appointments in the Americas, UK, Middle East and Asia Pacific. Kent has been an instrumental leader in scaling the business internationally and set strategies for alternative revenue resources for Solace.

In working with many blue chip clients worldwide, Kent focuses on developing deeper and broader strategic client relationships by advising them the latest trends in event-driven architecture and how they apply to business and operation challenges. Kent has also been involved with numerous digital transformation projects within a broad spectrum of market verticals.

Prior to joining Solace, Kent held key client management positions at Newbridge Networks and Alcatel, and served in the British Royal Air Force for 10 years as an ICT engineer.

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