Collaborative Software Initiative

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info@csinitiative.com
Phone: 503.295.7970
Fax: 503.295.7789

Collaborative Software Initiative:
1 SW Columbia Street, #640
Portland, OR 97258

Management Team

Stuart Cohen, Chief Executive Officer
Stuart Cohen is the chief executive officer of CSI. A seasoned IT executive with 25 years of international business experience, Cohen is responsible for marshaling CSI's leadership team and IT business and technology leaders to apply open source methodologies to software development and business communities.

Cohen most recently served as chief executive officer at Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), which merged with the Free Standards Group to form The Linux Foundation. In Cohen's four years as the senior executive at OSDL, he more than tripled the Labs' vendor membership and formed Linux User Advisory Councils (LUACs) in three geographies to bridge vendors, users and the community, helping Linux grow from an emerging market opportunity to a mature market success. Prior to his post at OSDL, Cohen was vice president at RadiSys Corporation, where his responsibilities included sales, marketing and developing strategic partnerships with leading companies in the technology industry. Prior to RadiSys, Cohen was vice president of worldwide marketing and a corporate officer at InFocus Corporation. Earlier, Cohen spent 17 years with IBM, where he first held senior positions in the US sales & marketing division, and later in the IBM Personal Computer Company and Networking Division. He spent his final six years at IBM with worldwide responsibility for marketing and with business development teams reporting to him in the U.S., Europe, Southeast Asia and China. Cohen holds a B.S. in Quantitative Business Analysis from Arizona State University.

Evan Bauer, Chief Technology Officer
Evan Bauer is chief technology officer at the CSI. He brings to the position more than 25 years of experience in the architecture, design, implementation, and maintenance of complex information systems at a variety of leading companies.

Previously, Bauer served as chief technology officer of Global Technology Infrastructure at Credit Suisse First Boston where he provided overall direction and oversight for the re-architecting of CSFB's network, server and desktop environments. While at CSFB, Bauer also built a global Internet/Intranet hosting organization and infrastructure for the company that managed 77 external and over 1,400 internal sites and applications. Prior to joining CSFB he served as principal architect for both Global Operations and Sales and Trading Technology at Bankers Trust Company. Bauer has also served as managing director of Technology Operations at Sona Mobile, where he helped develop new product lines specifically for channel partners Alcatel and SugarCRM. Bauer was also a principal research fellow at the Robert Frances Group, where he conducted major projects for Dow Jones, Pfizer, IBM, HP, Unisys, Novell, Cognos, Red Hat, and Nstar Energy. Bauer was a founding analyst serving as vice president and senior research advisor at the Giga Information Group. Bauer has held additional positions at Control Data Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, First Pennsylvania Bank, International Database Systems, ManTech International, SEED Software Corporation, and the staff of the United States Senate.

Mark Gardiner, Chief Financial Officer
Gardiner has 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur, executive and financial/business advisor in a broad range of industries. He recently completed three years as President and CEO of Octavian Scientific, Inc. Octavian is commercializing new technology in semiconductor manufacturing, funded by $10 million in venture capital and debt financing. Prior to Octavian, Gardiner served numerous clients in a 20+ year consulting career - spearheading more than $10 billion of debt and equity financing. Recent projects include serving as business advisor to the Oregon Health and Science University for the River Campus/South Waterfront project – a $2+ billion bio-technology, academic, clinical, housing and commercial mixed use development. Gardiner also brings an extensive technical background to CSI. He is a director of three technology-related companies, has managed major technology development projects, served as systems engineer on NASA contracts, and designed a number of electronics products.

Gardiner has been a leader on numerous public and civic boards, currently including the six-member Oregon Investment Council, which oversees the $60+ billion portfolio for Oregon’s public pension and trust funds. From 1979 to 1985, Mr. Gardiner was City Economist, Budget Officer and ultimately CFO/CAO of a $700 million-budget public corporation – the City of Portland, Oregon – with a tenure spanning the terms of four mayors. Prior to joining the City, he served as a consulting utility economist. Gardiner earned a B.S. in Economics from Portland State University.

Lori Williams-Peters, Corporate Development Officer
Ms. Williams-Peters oversees new business opportunities and client operations at Collaborative Software Initiative. She is responsible for the company's revenue generation efforts as well as the day-to-day operations of the company's client-relations activities: marketing, partnering, sales, services and support.

Ms. Williams-Peters has held a number of leadership positions in the high technology industry over the last 24 years. Most recently Lori has been an independent consultant to early stage startups. She spent 4 years as the Director of Sales, West, Novell, leading the Fortune 1000 and government teams. Prior to that, she was the Vice President of Sales, North America, SAGA, managing both direct and indirect sales teams. Ms. Williams-Peters started her career with IBM, spending 15 years in a variety of national and worldwide sales, marketing and business development positions.

Ms. Williams-Peters graduated with a bachelor's of science degree in engineering from UCLA.