Management Team

Evan Goldberg, Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Chairman of the Board
Mr. Goldberg spent eight years at Oracle Corporation, where he served as a vice president. He was involved in a variety of projects, all focused on making powerful database technology more accessible to users. When he left Oracle, he started mBED Software and built groundbreaking Web site technology. He founded NetSuite in 1998. Mr. Goldberg holds a B.A. Summa Cum Laude in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University.

Zach Nelson, President and Chief Executive Officer
Zach Nelson has more than 20 years of leadership experience in the hi-tech industry, where he has held a variety of executive positions spanning marketing, sales, product development and business strategy with leading companies such as Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and McAfee/Network Associates. Nelson has been CEO of NetSuite since 2002. Under his leadership NetSuite's revenues have grown ten-fold, workforce has quintupled to more than 500 employees, and its customer base has expanded to thousands of companies around the globe. Recently named as CRM Influential Leader of 2006 by CRM Magazine, Nelson has led NetSuite to be one of the hottest software companies in the world. Nelson holds a patent in the field of application integration, and has several others pending approval. He holds B.S. and M.A. degrees from Stanford University.

Jim McGeever, Chief Financial Officer
Mr. McGeever has more than 15 years of finance and accounting experience in the high-tech industry. Leveraging his experience in working with companies through successful IPOs, he spearheads the initiatives in finance and accounting as CFO for NetSuite. Before joining NetSuite, he was the controller of Clontech Laboratories, Inc., a privately held biotechnology company that was acquired by Becton Dickinson. He was also the corporate controller at Photon Dynamics, Inc., a capital equipment maker. While at Photon Dynamics, he helped the company through a successful IPO in 1994. He is a qualified chartered accountant and previously worked at Ernst & Young. He has a B.Sc. from the London School of Economics.

Dean Mansfield, President, Worldwide Sales and Distribution
As a highly regarded tech industry veteran, Mr. Mansfield brings to NetSuite a wealth of leadership and executive management experience in sales and business development. Leading NetSuite's sales operations in the U.S., the U.K., Canada and Asia Pacific, Mr. Mansfield is charged with driving the company's winning strategy in on-demand software sales, customer success and growing the customer base worldwide.

Prior to NetSuite, Mr. Mansfield was with Brocade Communications Inc., where he held an executive position responsible for the sales organization's international region, comprising EMEA, APAC and emerging markets. At Brocade, he grew the company's international revenue by 55% and successfully built a world-class international sales team. Before that he was with Plumtree Software Inc., where he was Vice President of Asia Pacific & Japan and led the entry of the company's products into the Asian markets.

During his tenure at Network Associates, Mr. Mansfield held several executive positions. Starting as Vice President of EMEA Channel, he ultimately led all non-U.S. operations as Vice President of International Sales. He grew the company's revenue in the international sales region tow-fold and oversaw all direct and channel sales, marketing, operations and professional services programs.

Mr. Mansfield started his career as Director of OEM Sales for Connor Peripherals Inc., then as Legal Council and Vice President Corporate Development for O.R. Technology Inc.

Mr. Mansfield holds an honours degree in Law LLb hons from the University of London.

David Downing, Chief Marketing Officer
David Downing has more than 25 years experience in technology marketing, specializing in brand building, sales force readiness and market development for enterprise software companies. Downing’s leadership skills and innovative marketing strategies have been employed at some of the technology industry’s leading organizations, including Adobe, Oracle, Informatica and SAP. Before joining NetSuite, Downing was the vice president of marketing at venture-backed MetaLINCS, a leading provider of electronic discovery software to Fortune 500 corporations, which was acquired by Seagate Technology, in December 2007. Previously, Downing worked at SAP where he was an integral part of the team building support for SAP NetWeaver among independent software vendors (ISVs) and the venture capital community. As the vice president of marketing at Informatica, Downing was a key member of the management team that built the company into a worldwide leader in data integration and business intelligence, which included a highly successful IPO in 1999. Downing holds a BS degree from Boston University.