Eliminating User Downtime: market leading software solutions that combine automation, application aware monitoring and replication to deliver high availability and disaster resilience: Continuous availability from Neverfail - the intelligent way to avoid application downtime.
Karen Slatford, Chairman
Karen Slatford brings more than 18 years of industry experience to the Neverfail board. A former Hewlett-Packard executive in the UK, Slatford grew her career from sales manager positions to Chairman HP UK Ltd. In addition, she also served as VP and General Manager Worldwide Sales and Marketing for HP’s Business Customer organization. Currently, Slatford serves as executive chairman for HAL Knowledge Solutions, an Italian-headquartered business intelligence software vendor; as non-executive chairman for Portwise AB, a Swedish security software company; and as non-executive director of The Listening Company, a UK-based company focused on the outsourced call center market.
Simon Clark, Board Member
Simon Clark is a partner for Fidelity Ventures, the venture capital arm of Fidelity Investments. He is responsible for finding and managing investment opportunities in European technology companies and managing an investment team in London. Clark serves as Fidelity Ventures' representative on the boards of Neverfail Group Ltd., Netonomy Inc, JacobsRimell Ltd, Cash-U Ltd, Curam Software Ltd, BridgeCo Inc, Qumas Ltd, and Environment IQ Ltd. Clark joined Fidelity in 1999 as a principal at Fidelity Ventures and assumed his current role in 2000. Prior to joining Fidelity, Clark was chief financial officer and then international general manager at TheStreet.com (TSCM), a financial news website. During his tenure, he was responsible for building the company's financial processes and managed fundraising from the initial venture rounds to the company's IPO in 1999. Prior to that time, Clark spent more than seven years at Reuters in technology and finance roles and was responsible for establishing the company's Internet presence in 1995.
Mike Chalfen, Board Member
Mike Chalfen is a General Partner at Advent Venture Partners, one of Europe's most established venture and growth capital firms.
He has made around 25 investments over the past twelve years across most parts of media and technology and served on over 17 Boards. Before Advent, Mike was a partner at Apax Partners, where he spent ten years until summer 2006, and then spent two years making private investments. At Apax he was involved in growth buyouts such Future Publishing (FUT.L) and Ginger Media (sold to SMG); growth equity investments in SuSE Linux (sold to Novell), Eyretel (sold to Witness Systems), and King.com; and startups such as eDreams.com (sold to TA Associates), QXL.com (sold to Naspers), and Tideway Systems (sold to BMC). Prior to Apax he worked at the Boston Consulting Group.
His academic background includes being elected the Choate Fellow at Harvard University, and Cambridge University.
Sir Peter Michael CBE, Board Member
Sir Peter Michael brings a wealth of information to Neverfail’s board from his 44 years as an entrepreneur in Europe’s Silicon Valley. Currently, Sir Peter serves as a Director of GCap media plc, as Chairman of The Pelican Cancer Foundation and Chairman of the Greenham Common Community Trust. Sir Peter was the founder of Micro Consultant’s Group and from this base he spun out and was the driving force behind Quantel, a highly successful digital technology company.
In the 1980’s, Sir Peter’s private interests merged with UEI plc and he became its Chairman. In 1989, UEI merged with Carlton Communications plc and Sir Peter was knighted for his services to industry. During that same year, Sir Peter took over the reigns and was named Chairman of Cray Electronics plc. In 1992 Sir Peter co-founded Classic FM, the first national commercial radio station in the UK. Classic FM has since merged with GCap media plc and now forms part of the largest commercial radio group in the UK.
Peter Parker, Board Member and Group CEO
Peter Parker has more than 25 years experience in executive level and managerial positions at successful high-growth organizations within the software industry. He became Neverfail’s Group CEO in January 2007.
Parker most recently served as Senior VP and Chief Operating Officer for a European-based software company and has held a variety of executive positions with KVS, VERITAS and Symantec.
Parker joined KVS in 2000 serving as VP of Sales and later held the position of Senior VP responsible for sales and operations. He was instrumental in entering a number of new worldwide markets and growing company revenues exponentially in four years. Following KVS’s acquisition by VERITAS in 2004, Parker successfully integrated his global sales and operational team into VERITAS while consistently exceeding revenue targets. Upon Symantec’s acquisition of VERITAS in 2005, he was named VP of Sales for Symantec with responsibilities for building and expanding operations in Southern Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Russia.
Prior to this, he was Director of Global Channels at Forte Software (a division of Sun Microsystems) from 1995 to 2000. Prior to Forte Software he worked in management positions for several years with both Oracle UK and ASK Ingres. Parker began his career in sales at Hewlett Packard in 1979.
With our co-location facility and Neverfail, you’re always up and running, so even when you’re down, you’re not really down.
Sunita Gossai, Network Administrator, Chicken of the Sea International
