Ken Nicolson

KEN NICOLSON is President and CEO of Veridiem Mr. Nicolson has held
executive sales and marketing positions in the software industry for
over 20 years with the past 10 years focused on the successful market
leadership of several Silicon Valley startups. Prior to joining
Veridiem, Ken was vice president of sales at Alphablox Corporation, a
leading provider of Web-based analytical applications. Key to
Alphablox’s rapid growth, Ken was responsible for increasing bookings
from under $2 million to over $20 million in less than two years. As
vice president of marketing at Kiva Software, Ken drove an aggressive
visibility campaign resulting in Kiva’s recognition as a foremost
application server company and ranking as one of Red Herring’s Top 5
Private Companies in 1997. Before Kiva, Ken was director of marketing at
Red Brick Systems. At Red Brick he negotiated significant industry
relationships that contributed to Red Brick’s position as a data
warehousing leader and successful IPO in 1996 (NASDQ: REDB). Ken’s early
career was in marketing and engineering at Informix Software and IBM,
the latter of which awarded him with a number of technical achievement
awards. Ken has an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business
Administration and a BS in electrical engineering from Duke University.