Leadership

David Mather is the President and CEO of Alegion. As an active investor with a background in tech and growth executive leadership, Mather brings an accomplished history of expanding and growing technology teams to the next level. Both a Boston and Austin native, he has held senior executive positions in several major technology companies, including Compaq Computer Corporation, Hewlett Packard, and Unisys. Most recently, he served as the President and CEO of MTPV Power Corporation, an advanced technology company in clean energy. Prior to MTPV, Mather also served as President of Hoovers Inc., a leading SaaS-based information company and wholly owned subsidiary of Dun & Bradstreet.

In addition to his role at Alegion, Mather sits on the Board of Directors at RealMassive Inc., a SaaS-based commercial real estate data provider and marketplace, and is the Managing Director of Ensys Capital, LLC, a boutique investment firm.

Mather holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University. He is an avid musician, boating enthusiast and loves spending time in cape cod during the summers.

Chip Ray has a passion for building products that appear to defy gravity and solve tough customer problems. Chip started out building solutions for film and broadcast post-production, which led him deep into the dark realms of real-time filesystems and shared storage networks. He spent many years leading a product group at NetApp, building advanced storage products for the enterprise.

Prior to Alegion, he ran Product at NodeSource where he led the successful launch of an enterprise-grade Node.js solution. Chip has a love for building awesome teams which in turn create great products. All work and no play makes Chip a dull boy, so he likes to tempt fate on a slackline with his boys or wrench on his track-day Miata.

Dr. Cheryl Martin knows that good data is essential to successfully applying Artificial Intelligence. Before joining Alegion she spent 13 years as a Research Scientist at The University of Texas at Austin. There, she directed the Center for Content Understanding, as well as a research group focused on decision support for cyber security. Prior to UT, she worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on intelligent control for life support systems. She advocates pursuing continuous improvement and working to understand how data fits a problem.

Cheryl enjoys being part of a great team with a common mission. She values service, and she volunteers in a number of community and education-focused roles. In her spare time, she loves nothing more than spending time with her family.

Troy Stringfield is passionate about impacting lives through work. He began as an electrical engineer working at multinational tech companies like Texas Instruments and Compaq Computers. He transitioned into leadership and management development, and along the way realized that healthy organizations can have a profound impact upon their employees, customers, and community. As an entrepreneur he founded several startups and consulted on others. His impact-driven startups have employed orphans, refugees, and the disabled while utilizing company resources to impact street children, prisoners, and others in need.

At Alegion Troy has worked to create Impact Centers around the world where the disadvantaged and disenfranchised can enjoy dignified work with a fair wage in favorable working conditions. Troy lived with his wife and three children overseas for almost 9 years and has been engaged in global business for over 17 years. Troy enjoys time with his family, nature, and working outdoors with his hands on his never-ending projects.

Colin Lacey, Alegion’s Chief Product Officer, has a passion for bringing great products and services to market. Colin has broad global marketing, product management, services creation, and business development experience spanning Fortune 50, emerging market, and startup organizations. Prior to Alegion, Colin was EVP of Product at a venture-backed clean-tech company. Colin previously held leadership roles in product management, marketing, and strategy for Unisys, HP, and Acer.

Shannon Kovar is Vice President of Operations at Alegion. He is an ASQ Certified Quality and Reliability Engineer, as well as a certified 6-Sigma Blackbelt. Shannon has previously led operations, business excellence, and sales operations functions at companies including MTPV Power Corp., Hoovers and Compaq. Shannon holds a BS from Stephen F. Austin State University and an MS from Louisiana State University. Shannon is also actively involved in several charitable organizations, including the Houston Livestock and Rodeo Organization.

Jeff Henry is Chief Revenue Officer at Alegion. Jeff brings Alegion over 30 years of sales, marketing, and executive leadership experience with a proven history driving long term sales and profit growth. He loves to build, coach, and lead top performing teams as well as develop partner relationships resulting in high customer engagement globally. 

Prior to joining ALegion Jeff was President of ViON, a provider of mission-critical enterprise IT infrastructure solutions for governments and commercial businesses where he orchestrated its transformation into a cloud services business. He previously served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Americas at Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), where he was responsible for leading a team of over 2,000 employees as a member of the executive committee. HDS saw exponential revenue and profit growth during Mr. Henry’s tenure. Before joining Hitachi, Mr. Henry served as Vice President and General Manager for Unisys Corporation, Vice President of Global Accounts at HP and Regional Vice President at Compaq Computer.

Jan Capps is an engineering leader with a proven track record of building high performing teams that create products that solve customers’ hardest business problems. Jan brings experience from a variety of industries such as Fintech, VoIP, Retail, and Content Management. Jan started out as a software engineer in the telecom industry but soon transitioned into engineering leadership.

Prior to joining Alegion, Jan served as the Head of Engineering at Welcome Commerce. Her experience spans early stage startups to public companies such as Fiserv, CA Technologies and Cisco Systems.

Jan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas. She loves live music, rock climbing and spending time hiking around Austin with her dog.

Sommer Bauer is a Texas licensed attorney and serves as Alegion’s General Counsel.  She earned her Juris Doctorate at Louisiana State University and practiced transactional law at a boutique law firm in Austin prior to joining Alegion.  She specializes in corporate counsel and contract negotiations in the technology and real estate sectors. 

Prior to her work as an attorney, Sommer completed a Master of Arts in Comparative Literature (English and Spanish) and worked as a college English Instructor for 4 years.  She earned a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Arizona, as well as a minor in Spanish, which afforded her the opportunity to study abroad in Spain and Mexico and work for an educational outreach program in Guatemala.  While travel, adventure, and lifelong learning are her passions, her greatest loves are her husband and two little boys.  They spend their weekends camping, boating, and cheering on their favorite sports teams.

Greg Warren is a marketing veteran that has built a career working with different size companies to deliver data-driven marketing strategies that reach the right customers, with the right message on the right platforms - to accelerate business growth. Marketing is the convergence of creativity and science and Greg’s passion comes from making marketing more effective.

Prior to Alegion, Greg led marketing organizations at Fortune 50 companies including IBM and Dell Technologies. With 18+ years of corporate and marketing consulting experience, Greg has a passion for heart-felt people development as well as building organization effectiveness through leadership.

Greg holds a BA from North Carolina Central University and a Master of Science in Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) from West Virginia University. He is the Founder of the Bridge Builders Male Mentoring and in his spare time Greg enjoys teaching leadership and college prep skills to young men across Austin. He is a board member of the Austin African American Chamber of Commerce and has also led volunteer work for American Heart Association and the March of Dimes.

Abi Shirley leads finance & accounting operations at Alegion. Previously, she worked for Holtzman Partners, where she advised clients on financial reporting, accounting, and internal controls issues in the technology, healthcare, retail, and non-profit sectors, as well as managed the completion of 30+ audits annually. Abi is a Texas CPA and received her master’s in accounting from St. Edward’s University. She began her career working in finance at It’s Time Texas, a non-profit organization, before joining the audit and consulting team at a Holtzman. For Abi, social responsibility, environmental stewardship, and ethical practices are top of mind in every endeavor in business and life. She proudly serves as an executive member of the board of directors for Treefolks, Inc.

David Mather is the President and CEO of Alegion. As an active investor with a background in tech and growth executive leadership, Mather brings an accomplished history of expanding and growing technology teams to the next level. Both a Boston and Austin native, he has held senior executive positions in several major technology companies, including Compaq Computer Corporation, Hewlett Packard, and Unisys. Most recently, he served as the President and CEO of MTPV Power Corporation, an advanced technology company in clean energy. Prior to MTPV, Mather also served as President of Hoovers Inc., a leading SaaS-based information company and wholly owned subsidiary of Dun & Bradstreet.

In addition to his role at Alegion, Mather sits on the Board of Directors at RealMassive Inc., a SaaS-based commercial real estate data provider and marketplace, and is the Managing Director of Ensys Capital, LLC, a boutique investment firm.

Mather holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University. He is an avid musician, boating enthusiast and loves spending time in cape cod during the summers.

Nathaniel Gates is the founder and Chairman of the Board at Alegion. He is a career technology entrepreneur with a focus on the Cloud Computing and Machine Learning industries and now serves as an industry evangelist. Prior to Alegion, Nathaniel founded Cloud49, a successful cloud computing solutions provider focused on the public sector. He has a passion for providing next-generation work opportunities to people around the world who demonstrate a willingness to work hard for themselves and their families.

Nathaniel lived and worked in Alaska for 36 years prior to moving to Austin, Texas with his family in 2012, and now greatly enjoys this warmer climate with his wife and their three children. 

R.H. Seale is an active entrepreneur and investor in multiple companies. He is a recipient of the esteemed EY Entrepreneur Of The YearTM 2015 Award in the Central Texas region, an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year National finalist, and a graduate of Texas Tech University. As the Founder and Chairman of Q2 he has experience both as a community banker and as an entrepreneur, building successful software companies that develop innovative financial services solutions as well as provide award-winning customer support.

An industry veteran, R.H. began his career as a loan payments teller for The Bank of the Hills, working his way up to vice president of operations. During that time, he was secretary and treasurer of the Young Bankers Division of the Independent Bankers Association of Texas. Following the acquisition of The Bank of the Hills, he co-founded Dallas-based Regency Voice Systems, a company that introduced voice banking to community banks and evolved into a multimillion-dollar business with more than 1,600 community bank customers.

When Regency was acquired by Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. in 1997, R.H. started Q UP Systems, a provider of technology to more than 700 community banks. He was a nominee and finalist for Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award in 1999. Q UP became part of S1 Corporation in 2000, and R.H. served as the CEO of S1’s Community and Regional Solutions group until 2001.

Jonathan Price is a fourteen-year investment banking veteran who specializes in uncovering investment opportunities in the software space. He is currently EVP of Emerging Businesses, Corporate & Business Development for Q2 Software, Inc. and previously served in the Technology & Business Services Investment Banking group at BMO Capital Markets, where he advised Vertical Software and Financial Technology companies on strategic opportunities and funding alternatives. Before BMO, he spent time between Goldman Sachs and Citi.

Jonathan helps drive the rapidly emerging fintech ecosystem to Q2’s financial institution customers. He is responsible for leading Q2’s M&A and Partnership activity as well as the Q2 Banking-as-a-Service (Q2 BaaS) and Q2 Marketplace organizations.

Jonathan holds an HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Carla Brodley is dean of Northeastern’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences and executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for Inclusive Computing. She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Brodley’s interdisciplinary machine learning research has led to advances not only in computer science, but in many other areas including remote sensing, neuroscience, astrophysics, computational biology, chemistry, and predictive medicine.

Since its launch, Dr. Brodley has led Northeastern’s Center for Inclusive Computing which supports not-for-profit universities in the redesign of their computer science curriculum and assists faculty and administrators to create an inclusive, welcoming community. The Center collaborates with universities across the United States that have large undergraduate computing programs, bolstering their efforts to increase the number of women and African American, Hispanic and Native American students graduating with a degree in computer science.

Dean Brodley’s numerous leadership positions in computer science as well as her chosen research fields of machine learning and data mining include serving as program co-chair of ICML, co-chair of AAAI, and serving as associate editor of the Journal of AI Research, and the Journal of Machine Learning Research. She has previously served on the Defense Science Study Group, the board of the International Machine Learning Society, the AAAI Council, DARPA’s Information Science and Technology Board, the executive committee of the Northeast Big Data Hub, as a board member of the Computing Research Association, and as co-chair of the Computing Research Association’s Committee on the Status of Women.