General Partner, VERDEXUS
Toronto, Canada Area
- Current
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- Chairman at iotum
- General Partner at VERDEXUS
- Past
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- Chief Executive Officer at Coreworx Inc.
- Director at Necho Systems Corp.
- Chairman and CEO at MKS
- Education
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- University of Waterloo
- Connections
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- Industry
- Venture Capital & Private Equity
- Websites
Randall Howard’s Summary
Looking to connect to senior executives and private equity participants in the global technology business. I'm an experienced, serial CEO and entrepreneur primarily focused on Enterprise Software.
Currently, General Partner at Verdexus, a transatlantic strategic advisory firm, primarily delivering our "Venture 2.0" hands on investment playbook to early and mid-stage companies in Canada and Europe. Prior to 2001 was founder and CEO of MKS Inc., which is a public software company in enterprise collaborative development.
Randall Howard’s Experience
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Chairman
iotum
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
iotum is a Verdexus portfolio company and as part of the "hands on" investment model, I'm engaged assist management to drive market adoption of their presence-based Free Conference Calls Facebook application.
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General Partner
VERDEXUS
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
October 2001 — Present (7 years 10 months)
Founder and General Partner in Verdexus, which is a transatlanti strategic advisory boutique. We are focused on leveraging our deep senior operating experience with our portfolio companies, focusing on enterprise software, infrastructure software, wireless and IT services.
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Chief Executive Officer
Coreworx Inc.
(Public Company; ACFN; Computer Software industry)
May 2004 — April 2006 (2 years)
Coreworx (formerly Software Innovation) is an enterprise software vendor providing Project Collaboration solutions to the Architecture, Engineering & Construction (A/E/C) vertical market, providing project optimization to large CAPEX (>$500 million) projects.
Currently, Software Innovation's solution is deployed to over 200 projects in 25 countries and used by 30 000 users and subcontractors.
Software Innovation, originally spun out of a Norwegian Public company (Software Innovation ASA) was acquired by Verdexus in May 2004 and raised over $10 million venture funding in 2005.
Coreworx was successfully exited to Acorn Energy (NASDAQ: ACFN) in August, 2008. -
Director
Necho Systems Corp.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2001 — October 2005 (4 years 6 months)
Necho Systems Corp, a leader in software solutions for employee Expense Management Automation was acquired by Cybershift in October 2005.
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Chairman and CEO
MKS
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; MKX; Computer Software industry)
April 1984 — December 2000 (16 years 9 months)
Built MKS, which provides enterprise collaborative development solutions (encompassing both Software Configuration Management and Web Content Management), from scratch to US$45 million in revenue. Sales to Global 2000 companies like HSBC, Chrysler, Verizon Wireless, Siemens, and WalMart focused on methodology for optimizing IT development organizations. Grew both organically and through 7 acquisitions.
Randall Howard’s Education
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University of Waterloo
Computer Science, Pure Math 1971 — 1977
Additional Information
Randall Howard’s Websites:
Randall Howard’s Honors:
High Technology Entrepreneur of the Year, 1997
Communitech Impact Award, 2005
