Bill Daniel

BILL DANIEL President and CEO is responsible for the overall leadership
and direction of Surgient, including all aspects of strategy and
execution. Prior to Surgient, he held multiple senior management
positions at Vignette Corporation from 1998 to 2002, as the company grew
from $3.5M to $367.0M in annual revenues, including roles as Vignette’s
senior strategy and products officer. He joined Vignette from Wallop
Software Inc., a Web content assembly and management tools company he
co-founded in 1995 and which was acquired by IBM in 1998. Bill led two
other successful start-ups, Datis Corporation, a medical information
provider, and Mozart Systems Inc., a leading connectivity and graphic
use interface acquired by public companies. He previously held
positions in sales at Oracle Corporation as well as other Silicon Valley
based technology companies. Bill earned a bachelors degree in
engineering from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Haas School of
Business at UC Berkeley.