Board of Directors

Scot Wingo – Chairman of the Board
As President and CEO of ChannelAdvisor, Scot Wingo leads the company in its mission to provide retailers and manufacturers with the software and services needed to successfully sell their products via online sales channels. Prior to launching ChannelAdvisor, Scot played a role as the General Manager of GoTo Auctions, CEO and co-founder of AuctionRover.com (acquired by GoTo.com) and CEO and co-founder of Stingray Software (acquired by RogueWave). Scot received a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of South Carolina and Masters in Computer Science degree from North Carolina State University. Scot has received numerous awards including Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year and Triangle Business Journal’s 40 under 40.

Aris Buinevicius
As the Chief Technology Officer at ChannelAdvisor, Aris Buinevicius drives the company's technological vision and uses innovative knowledge management and development practices to enhance the company's competitive edge. Prior to ChannelAdvisor, Aris was the Director of Technology at GoTo Auctions, CTO and co-founder of AuctionRover.com and CTO and co-founder of Stingray Software. Aris received a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Iowa State University and Masters in Computer Science degree from North Carolina State University.

Louis J. Volpe
Prior to joining Kodiak Venture Partners, Lou was President, Chief Operating Officer and Director of ArrowPoint Communications where he was responsible for all of ArrowPoint's functional organizations and focused on managing worldwide operations to achieve company growth objectives. ArrowPoint had a successful IPO in March 2000 and was acquired by Cisco Systems for $5.5 billion in June 2000. Lou is a board member of airwide solutions, Azimuth Systems, Egenera, GTESS, HighRoads, K-Motion Interactive, Newforma, SpaceClaim, and ChannelAdvisor.  Prior to joining ArrowPoint, Lou was Senior Vice President Worldwide Sales & Marketing and a member of the Board of GeoTel Communications, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in June 1999. He joined GeoTel early in its development stage and was a major contributor in building its worldwide sales and marketing presence. He was also instrumental in guiding the company through its IPO and eventual $2 billion acquisition. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Operations for Parametric Technology Corporation from 1989 to 1994. Before Parametric, he was an executive at Prime Computer. Lou has been an active investor and board member of a number of companies including Atria (acquired by Pure) and Softdesk (acquired by Autodesk).  Lou holds a B.A. from Tufts University and an M.B.A from Boston University.

Tim Buckley
Tim is the former chief operating officer for Red Hat (Nasdaq:RHAT) the world's premier open source and Linux provider. As COO, Tim used his insight to accelerate the momentum of open source and expand Red Hat's worldwide business, service and support operations. Prior to Red Hat, Tim was senior vice president of worldwide sales at Seattle-based Visio Corporation, where he was instrumental in growing the company from a start-up to a public company that was acquired by Microsoft for $1.5 billion.

Richard Holcomb
Richard is a leading entrepreneur in the Research Triangle area. He was a founder of HAHT Commerce in 1995, a major E-Commerce application provider, and served as HAHT's first CEO and Chairman. Prior to HAHT, he was a founder of Q+E Software in 1986, a supplier of client-server database access technology, and served as that company's CEO, president, and chairman from inception to its acquisition by Intersolv in 1994. During his career, Mr. Holcomb has won several awards including the 1993 Ernst and Young Technology Entrepreneur of the Year for North Carolina and the 1996 Business Leader Top Gun Entrepreneur of the Year.

Bob Hower
Bob joined Advanced Technology Ventures in 2002. He focuses on new investments in the communications, Internet infrastructure and software markets. Bob also plays an important role in adding strategic, operational value to the portfolio companies within ATV's IT practice. Prior to joining ATV, Bob was a Director at BancBoston Ventures where he focused on the telecommunications and IT infrastructure sectors and completed investments in Telephotonics (sold to DuPont) and AccessLan (sold to AFC). Bob has more than 15 years of hands-on operating experience including responsibilities as Vice President of Sales at LHS Group (EMEA), where he built the firm's Enhanced Services Division for the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions, and four years as a member of the senior management team at Priority Call Management (PCM), which was sold in 1999 to LHS Group. His management background also includes sales and marketing roles at Lotus Development and General Mills.

Patrick Kerins
Patrick joined NEA in 2006 as General Partner focusing on a broad range of information technology investments with particular emphasis on enterprise software, network infrastructure and Internet companies.  Pat is currently on the board of ChannelAdvisor.  Prior to joining NEA, Patrick was General Partner of Grotech Capital Group where he specialized in high-tech investments and served on a number of boards including Advertising.com, Bluefire Security, CDnow, Fieldglass Software, Hillcrest Labs, SALIX Technologies, and Synchrologic.  Prior to Grotech, Patrick spent nearly 10 years at Alex. Brown & Sons as an investment banker for high technology companies.  At Alex. Brown & Sons, he was responsible for a range of financing and advisory projects including initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions for high-tech companies.  Prior to that, Patrick was a consultant with McKinsey & Co.  Patrick served as an officer in the U.S. Navy where he spent substantially all his tenure on the staff of Admiral H.G. Rickover at the Headquarters of the Navy’s Nuclear Propulsion Program.  Patrick is Chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association.  He received a Masters in Business Administration, with Distinction, from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science degree from Villanova University.