Leadership Team

Executive Officers

Jeffrey S. Davis - CEO & President
Kathy Henely - Chief Operating Officer
Paul E. Martin - Chief Financial Officer


Operations Executives

Chris Gianattasio - VP, Field Operations
John Jenkins - VP, Field Operations
Don Kasica - VP, Field Operations
Dick Kalbfleish - VP, Finance and Administration
Don Kasica - VP, Field Operations
Tim Thompson - VP, Client Development
Lenore Albee - GM, St. Louis
George Camp - GM, Philadelphia
John Griffin - GM, Great Lakes
David Hastoglis - GM, Healthcare
Hari Madamalla - GM, IBM BPMS
Jeff Martini - GM, North Plains
Scott Nesbitt - GM, Oracle
Mary-Beth Ostaz - GM, Denver
Ed Rawson - GM, Enterprise Content Management
Jim Roberts - GM, Houston and New Orleans
Tim Robinson - GM, Oracle
Eric Roch - GM, TIBCO EAI
Rajesh Shah - GM, Dallas
Kevin Sheen - GM, China Global Services
Jackie Thorn - GM, Minneapolis

Board of Directors

John T. 'Jack' McDonald - Chairman
Jeffrey S. Davis - Board Member
Ralph C. Derrickson - Board Member
John S. Hamlin - Board Member
David S. Lundeen - Board Member
David D. May - Board Member


Jack McDonald - Chairman
Jack McDonald is chairman of the board of Perficient. McDonald joined Perficient as chief executive officer in 1999, led its initial public offering, became chairman in 2001, and built and led a team that transformed the company from a startup to an award-winning industry leader with $230 million in 2008 revenues and more than 1,000 business and technology professionals across North America, Eastern Europe, India and China before assuming the role of Chairman exculsively in 2009.
Mr. McDonald, a winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, enjoyed success with several other companies prior to Perficient. From 1996 to 1998 he was president of software firm VideoSite, Inc., where he executed a successful turnaround and sale of the company. Earlier, he served in various positions including director of corporate development at Blockbuster Entertainment Group. Mr. McDonald began his career in the 1980s as an M&A and corporate finance attorney.

Mr. McDonald is vice chairman of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, chairman of both the Central Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization and the AusTech Alliance, and is a member of the board of the Austin Technology Council. He also serves on the boards of several nonprofit organizations that provide economic, education and healthcare opportunities for Central Texans and work to protect the land, air and water, including: KIPP Austin Public Schools, People's Community Clinic and Hill Country Conservancy. He is also chairman of the board of PeopleFund, a community development loan fund for low-income female and minority entrepreneurs.

 

Jeffrey S. Davis - CEO and President (top)
As chief executive officer and president Jeff Davis leads daily business operations and leads and oversees the development and execution of the Company's global growth strategy and initiatives. With more than 20 years of experience in technology management and consulting with both Big Five and entrepreneurial firms, Jeff manages all Perficient business units and functional disciplines including marketing, sales and client delivery. Jeff has played a central role in Perficient’s dramatic growth, managing the company’s organic expansion and leading Perficient's M&A program including the integration and assimilation of acquired businesses. Jeff became Perficient’s chief operating officer in 2001 and president in 2003 prior to assuming the position of chief executive officer in 2009.

Prior to Perficient, Jeff was the chief operating officer at Vertecon, a company Perficient acquired in 2001. Before Vertecon, Jeff was a senior manager and member of the leadership team in Arthur Andersen’s Business Consulting Practice. Jeff also served in leadership positions at Ernst and Young, LLP in the Management Consulting practice and in industry at Boeing, Inc. and Mallinckrodt, Inc.

Jeff is an active volunteer member of the board of directors of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of St. Louis and a member of the University of Missouri Trulaske College of Business advisory board. He holds an M.B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri.

 

Ralph C. Derrickson (top)
Ralph C. Derrickson has more than 20 years of technology management experience in a wide range of settings including start-up, interim management, and re-structuring situations. He served as a board member of Metricom, Inc., a publicly traded company, from April 1997 to November 2001 and as Interim CEO of Metricom from February 2001 to August 2001. Metricom, Inc. voluntarily filed a bankruptcy petition in US Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California in July of 2001. Mr. Derrickson was also a founding partner of Watershed Capital, a private equity investment management company established August in 1998. Prior to Watershed, Mr. Derrickson managed venture investments at Vulcan Ventures. He served as vice president of product development at Starwave Corporation. Earlier, Mr. Derrickson held senior management positions at NeXT Computer, Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. He has served on the boards of numerous start-up technology companies, is active in the business and entrepreneurship programs at the University of Washington and is a member of the advisory board of the Center for Technology Entrepreneurship. He also serves on the board of the Northwest Entrepreneur Network. Mr. Derrickson holds a BT in systems software from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

 

John S. Hamlin (top)
Mr. Hamlin is president and managing partner of Bozeman Limited Partnership, an Austin-based private equity firm. Previously, Hamlin spent eleven years at Dell Inc. where he served as an executive officer and senior vice president. He was the senior vice president responsible for Dell’s global online business as well as Dell’s worldwide brand and advertising strategy. Mr. Hamlin also served as senior vice president and general manager of Dell's U.S. consumer business. Prior to joining Dell, Hamlin worked in the venture capital field for three years and served as a strategic consultant at Bain & Company for six years. He is a board member of Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), Bare Escentuals (Nasdaq: BARE) and Spiceworks, a privately-held software company. He holds a B.A. degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

 

David S. Lundeen (top)
David S. Lundeen joined Perficient in April 1998 as a director. From March 1999 through 2002, Mr. Lundeen was a partner with Watershed Capital, a private equity firm based in Mountain View, California. From June 1997 to February 1999, Mr. Lundeen was self-employed, managed his personal investments and acted as a consultant and advisor to various businesses. From June 1995 to June 1997, he served as the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of BSG. From January 1990 until June 1995, Mr. Lundeen served as President of Blockbuster Technology and as Vice President of Finance of Blockbuster Entertainment Corporation. Prior to that time, Mr. Lundeen was an investment banker with Drexel Burnham Lambert in New York City. Mr. Lundeen currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Parago, Inc., and on the board of several private companies. Mr. Lundeen received a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1984 and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1988. The Board of Directors has determined that Mr. Lundeen is an audit committee financial expert, as such term is defined in the rules and regulations promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.


David D. May (top)
David May is the co-founder and portfolio manager of Third Coast Capital, an Austin-based equity fund. Prior to forming Third Coast Capital in 2004, Mr. May was a co-founder and Managing Partner of Ridgecrest Partners, a New York City-based fund founded in 1998. From 1996 to 1998, he was a Partner at Ardsley Partners, a Connecticut-based fund, where he served as an analyst and a portfolio manager.
Previously, May was a Vice President at Luther King Capital Management in Fort Worth, TX, an investment advisory firm. During his twelve years with the company, he served as a portfolio manager for a broad range of investment portfolios and co-founded the LKCM Mutual Funds, of which he served as President of the Fund group. He received a B.A. in Business and an M.B.A. from Texas Christian University. May also sits on the Board of Blackhawk Healthcare.

 

Perficient’s leadership team combines deep consulting industry experience and expertise, skills and perspectives to meet the challenge of building the leading technology management consulting firm in the country.