Executive Leadership

As Chairman and CEO, Chris leads Magnitude Software’s corporate vision and strategic direction, driving the company’s acquisition, integration and growth strategies to extend the company’s global reach. Under his leadership, Magnitude Software has developed an unparalleled customer experience, strengthened its culture of innovation, and greatly increased profitability and shareholder value. In September 2014, Chris successfully secured up to $100 million in capital to further build Magnitude Software through product innovation, organic growth and strategic acquisitions.

Ney was previously Co-Founder and President of Silverback Enterprise Group, where the team completed the strategic acquisition of nine industry-leading enterprise software companies and leveraged their synergies to build two powerful new entities: Magnitude Software and Upland Software. Magnitude Software offers a family of award-winning solutions for enterprise performance management, master data management and data connectivity. Upland Software (Nasdaq: UPLD) went public in late 2014 and is a leading provider of cloud-based enterprise work management software with over 2,000 active enterprise customers and more than 235,000 active users in more than 50 countries.

Prior to co-founding Silverback, Ney was CEO of a series of Trilogy/Versata portfolio software companies. He previously served as Chairman of the Board, CEO and Founder of CoreTrac, a financial services CRM software company. Ney began his career working for investment banking firms Lehman Brothers and UBS.

He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Texas A&M University.

As CFO & COO, Rik leads Magnitude’s financial operations worldwide, overseeing finance strategy, risk management, legal, IT, the program management office, and a global operating platform. With responsibility for the overall business and financial operations strategy that will drive Magnitude’s growth and success, he is chartered with optimizing the company’s operating capabilities, administrative and financial reporting procedures and people systems, as well as employing strategies to maximize customer satisfaction, manage marketing initiatives to effectively grow the organization, and enhance financial strength, operating efficiency, shareholder value and the safeguarding of assets.

He is an experienced CFO, COO, and Advisory Board Member with broad, global leadership experience in the software, SaaS, internet, cloud, telecommunications, and electronic manufacturing industries. Rik is skilled in strategic finance, mergers and acquisitions, IPO readiness, business planning, investor relations, enterprise software, entrepreneurship, and international business. He is a strong business development and customer-oriented executive.

Rik spent 25 years in various executive finance and strategy roles at a number of well-known public and high-growth private companies, including Electronic Arts, Equinix, and Levi Strauss; he was also CFO of Plastic Logic, Meltwater and Mirantis. He started his career at PwC where he became a partner in the global technology practice based in the Amsterdam office. In 1999 he moved to the San Jose, California office where he served as partner in the Software and Internet practice. Following the path of many expatriates he, his wife and three children decided to call the San Francisco Bay Area their home ever since.

Rik holds a Double Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Marketing and Economics, a Master’s of Science Degree in Business Administration and a Post Graduate Degree in Accounting and Auditing from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Rik is also an active California CPA.

As Magnitude Software’s global people operations leader, Laurie drives initiatives that empower an engaged, high-performing workforce, in alignment with business goals and in support of rapid business growth.

Laurie brings extensive leadership experience across multiple industries and companies at different stages and sizes, including working with employees in 30 countries across 70+ locations. Prior to joining Magnitude, Laurie served as Vice President of People at Mirantis, a leader in open cloud infrastructure. Previously, she was Vice President of Human Resources at Meltwater, a global SaaS company engaged in media intelligence. She held leadership roles with several Silicon Valley venture-backed, technology companies before relocating to Austin, TX in 2017.

An accomplished data management and big data marketplace leader, Tony previously served as the SVP, Business Development & Strategy at Zaloni, an award-winning enterprise data lakes management provider; prior to that role, he was Vice President, Data Collaboration & Integration at Progress Software, where he led the business line’s strategic direction and operations.

Prior to Progress, Tony was the CEO of Dataflux Corporation. He also served as Director of data warehouse technology at SAS. A key technology leader at SAS, Tony provided the engineering research and development direction that helped make SAS the market leader in data warehouse software sales.

Tony earned a Degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Duke University.

As Magnitude’s technology guru and evangelist, Darren is critical to building on our position as a leading provider of software and services that help organizations tackle the challenges and opportunities inherent in digital information management.

Previously, Darren served as CTO and Group Vice President of Product Management at Kalido; prior to that role, he was the Lead Solutions Architect and Manager of Professional Services in the United Kingdom. He also worked in senior consulting positions for companies such as Royal Dutch Shell and British Telecom.

Darren received a degree in Management from Intec College in Cape Town, South Africa, and studied Economics at the University of Stellenbosch.

Mihir has over a decade of experience leading acquisitions and strategy. During this period, he led several public and private company acquisitions, divestitures, and minority and majority equity investments.

Previously, Mihir was M&A Executive for IBM’s Information Management Software division, executing IBM’s inorganic strategy through M&A and strategic partnerships. He also served as Operating Executive for private equity firm, Golden Gate Capital, and as Vice President for Corporate Development at Aspect Software.

Mihir holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Master of Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.