Primary Job Title Advisor Primary Organization UPCUE
Location Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States Regions Research Triangle, East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
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Managing Partner Jim Chappell sees the forest AND the trees. With more than 25 years of experience in the high technology industry, Jim has built a successful track record as a senior executive who effectively combines big picture thinking with the knowledge of the internal workings of an organization. Incisive decision-making mixed with
collaborative management skills is critical to his ability to marshal an organization’s resources to align with on-going change events that affect the customer life cycle and create significant value for the company’s stakeholders.
As vice president of operations at Centrify Corporation and then later at MokaFive, Jim spearheaded the development of successful operational structures and processes. He built strong, effective sales teams and created change initiatives that yielded a continued growth of customers and revenues, positively impacting global presence and the bottom line for both organizations.
Prior to this, Jim spent 11 years as an executive at Legato, Inc., where he led the integration team through the $1.3 billion acquisition by EMC Corporation. During his tenure with Legato, Jim was responsible for mergers and acquisitions, business development, sales and sales operations, product marketing and management and business operations. His strategic endeavors helped the company grow from a start-up, through a successful public offering and into a key player in the storage management marketplace.
