Todd Johnson
Software, Marketing
& Corporate Restructuring

Todd Johnson has over 20 years experience as a high-technology executive within hardware and software companies. His primary expertise is the rapid assessment of a company’s strengths and weaknesses and building an implementation plan repositioning the company for growth. Todd’s strong leadership abilities combined with his deep marketing and sales skills make him an ideal fit for company’s looking to open new markets, launch new products or strategies, or those implementing new channels of distribution.

• Todd’s experience includes long stints at both HP and Silicon Graphics (SGI). At SGI, Todd was responsible for a number of very successful product introductions and go-to-market campaigns including: Personal Iris, Indigo and O2. Todd also successfully ran one of the company’s most successful sales geographies from 1993 to 1997 where he grew the area from $33M to $165M+ in 3 years.
  
  
• In 1999, Todd was a part of the executive team that took BackWeb Technology public on the NASDAQ.
  
  
• Beginning in 2001, Todd spent four years at Jamcracker, first as VP of Marketing and later as President. Todd was the key driver of the restructuring of the company in 2003; and helped to build an offshore development center in Bangalore, India. After a successful restructure and change in strategy the company continues today as a successful innovator in the SAAS marketplace.
  
  
• In 2005, Todd became the CEO of struggling software maker Kontiki, Inc. where he quickly turned the company around and delivered 300% year on year bookings growth. In 2006, Todd successfully positioned the company for sale and had multiple suitors. The company was sold to VeriSign in March 2006 for $62M, over six times the pre-money valuation of the company in December 2004.
  
  
• Todd spent two years at VeriSign where he was the SVP of Marketing for the company and was instrumental in the internal and external positioning of the restructuring VeriSign undertook in late 2007 through 2008.

Most recently, Todd has served as the interim President and CEO of Accelrys, Inc. (ACCL) a publicly traded scientific software company in San Diego. The company has experienced strong performance in the time Todd has been on board especially in light of the difficult economy. Todd has executed strategic shifts in the way Accelrys is positioned in the market and has made numerous changes to the executive staff to better reflect the “enterprise” nature of the opportunity going forward.

Todd and his wonderful wife Luann live with their three daughters in Granite Bay, California. Todd enjoys: fishing, cooking, wine and watching his beautiful girls grow up!

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