Management Team
Barry Crist
Chief Executive Officer
Barry is a seasoned technology executive with 21 years of experience in technology sales and operations. Barry spent significant time at Mercury Interactive, Network Associates (now McAfee), Trusted Information Systems, and Apple Computer. He joined Likewise Software from Mercury Interactive, where Barry led the Application Management business unit for the Americas. Under Barry’s leadership, this business grew from negligible revenue to over $75 million in annual bookings. Prior to Mercury, Barry served as a vice president and sales director at Network Associates (now McAfee), where he turned around several underperforming teams.
Barry started his technology career at Apple Computer where he spent just under nine years. Initially working in information technology (IT) at Apple, he later moved into field sales and then to Asia-Pacific market development helping to drive the company’s explosive growth in these markets.
Laurie Cansler
Chief Financial Officer
Laurie has more than 18 years of experience working in a variety of finance positions in both publicly- and privately-held companies. Prior to joining Likewise Software, Laurie worked for Brueggerman and Johnson Seattle’s premier business valuation consulting firm. Prior to her tenure at Brueggerman and Johnson, Laurie spent over 11 years at AT&T Wireless where she was a Director on the Finance team. As Director of Taxation at AT&T Wireless, she focused on M&A transactions and led various operational and planning initiatives. She came to AT&T via their acquisition of McCaw Cellular where she had been a key member of the team during their period of explosive growth. Prior to McCaw Cellular Laurie was a Senior Consultant at Arthur Andersen LLP.
Laurie received her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Washington and a Masters in Taxation degree from Golden Gate University. She holds a CPA certificate from the State of Washington.
Gerald (Jerry) Carter
Chief Technology Officer
Gerald Carter is Chief Technology Officer at Likewise. He has been developing, writing about, and teaching on Open Source since the late 90's at events such as LISA, LinuxWorld Expo, SANE, SambaXP, OSCON, and the SNIA SDC. He was a member of the Samba core development team from 1998 - 2009 and has authored both "LDAP System Administration" and the third edition of "Using Samba" and for O'Reilly \ Publishing. He has held previous positions at HP and VA Linux systems and completed his term on the Usenix Association's Board of Directors in June of this year.
Ken Cheney
Vice President of Sales and Marketing
As Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Ken brings a 15 year track record building and leading high performance sales, product, and marketing teams for market-leading software companies.
Prior to Likewise, Ken served as Director of Products for the Software organization at HP, with responsibility for the group’s application lifecycle management, project and portfolio management, asset management and IT financial management solutions. Previously, Ken served as Director of Product Marketing for Mercury Interactive, the global leader in Business Technology Optimization (BTO) solutions (acquired by Hewlett-Packard). After joining Mercury in 2000, he held positions in enterprise sales, helping grow the newly established application management business unit to over $75 million in annual bookings. Prior to Mercury, Ken held a variety of positions in marketing and sales at Network Associates, Computer Associates and several small start-ups.
Ken holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from The Evergreen State College.
Robin Budd
Vice President of Engineering
Robin brings more than 15 years of software development experience, most recently as principal of Redpoint Consulting. Previously, she has served in leadership roles at Kiha Software (where she was co-founder), Vulcan Inc. and EMC. As one of the founding members of Kiha, Robin was instrumental in building the team and managed all aspects of Kiha’s operations. As general manager of FlipStart at Vulcan Inc., Robin led all aspects of the development, manufacturing, sales and marketing of the FlipStart ultra-mobile computer. Her prior experience includes three years as consulting design engineer at EMC, where she worked in the Advanced Technologies Group, and as liaison to Microsoft.
Robin holds a degree in Physics from the University of Washington. She holds six patents in the areas of storage systems and mail delivery to mobile devices, with 10 additional patents pending.
