About Intermedia

Phil Koen, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Phil Koen is Intermedia's Chairman and CEO. He joined Intermedia in May 2011 as part of the company's acquisition by leading private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners. Koen brings more than 20 years of C-level industry expertise to Intermedia, most recently as CEO and director of Savvis [NASDAQ: SVVS], a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises. Prior to that, he was president and COO of Equinix [NASDAQ: EQIX], the leading provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services. Koen previously served as Equinix's CFO and in a number of senior executive positions at other leading technology firms.

Koen currently serves on the boards of Infinera Corp (NASDAQ: INFN), an optical networking company, and Proofpoint [NASDAQ: PFPT], a cloud-based email security company. He earned a bachelor's degree from Claremont McKenna College and an MBA from the University of Virginia. Koen also serves on the Board of Trustees at Webster University.

Michael Gold, President

Michael Gold is Intermedia's president, leading the organization with a focus on profitably growing the company through an increasingly broader set of cloud services - and a superior experience for customers and partners. Gold joined Intermedia in May 2011 as part of the company's acquisition by leading private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners.

Gold brings over 15 years of senior management experience in cloud services and channel development. Before joining Intermedia, he was CEO of Zlago, a cloud services company he founded and grew via a nationwide network of managed service providers, VARs, and other channel partners. Previously, Gold was a senior vice president at cloud automation provider Parallels. Gold came to Parallels through its acquisition of Sphera, a cloud services company where he served as CEO.

Gold has held a variety of other executive roles in the industry, including CEO of software company Vicorp and senior vice president of Qwest Communications, where he had P&L responsibility for the Internet Products business and launched Qwest's CyberCenter datacenter and hosting business. Long dedicated to the channel community that supports small and mid-size businesses, he was named one of the 25 most innovative executives by CRN and Everything Channel in 2009 and 2010. Gold earned a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Stanford.

Scott Allen, Chief Financial Officer

Scott Allen, chief financial officer, has global responsibility for all of Intermedia’s financial functions including financial accounting, financial planning and analysis, revenue operations/customer billing, treasury, tax, legal and the development of internal IT systems and business processes. Prior to Intermedia Allen held the role of VP finance & operations at Citrix Online Services – a division of Citrix and provider of secure, easy-to-use cloud-based collaboration services such as GoToMeeting and GoToMyPC. While there, Allen was responsible for driving the overall business model while assisting the company in tripling revenue over a five year period. Additionally, he was heavily involved in the online division’s acquisition strategy. Prior to joining Citrix, Allen held various positions at ADP, including, business unit CFO and controller roles. ADP is one of the world's largest providers of business outsourcing solutions. Allen holds an MBA from Golden Gate University of San Francisco and has a bachelor’s degree in business administration/accounting from San Jose State University.

Jonathan McCormick, Chief Operating Officer

As COO, Jonathan McCormick manages all Intermedia hosting operations and operations staff. With the company since 2007, McCormick has played an integral role in bringing a number of industry firsts to market for the company including the launch of the company's first in-country UK datacenter. McCormick creates a positive environment heading Intermedia's Sunnyvale, CA office where inter-department collaboration and teaming is a strong focus.

Prior to joining the team at Intermedia, McCormick was employed as the SVP of operations and client services for Savvis, the global provider of managed hosting, network and collocation facilities. In this capacity he was responsible for the management of all operations and customer service organizations globally.

McCormick is frequently sought after as a thought leader in the business communications space to add commentary on industry trends and events. He has been published in such outlets as EWeek, Network World and SC Magazine. He received a double major in Psychology and Economics from Trinity College in Hartford, CT.

Prasad Akella, Senior Vice President of Product & Marketing

Prasad Akella, senior vice president of product and marketing, joined the company in 2012. A seasoned software executive, Akella is an entrepreneur and intrapreneur who has helped pioneer new market categories like social networks as a founder of Spoke Software and Intelligent Assist Devices while at General Motors. Most recently he was VP and head of global SMB marketing at SAP. Prasad has successfully managed global operations, product management, marketing and account development in diverse enterprise and SaaS markets. He has lived and/or led teams in the US, India, Japan, Germany, Russia and the UK.

Prasad serves on the board of Optessa, a supply chain optimization company. He holds a PhD from Stanford’s "d.school" where he was a Meakin Fellow, an MBA with High Distinction from Michigan’s Ross Business School, and a BS from the Indian Institute of Technology where he won the HAL Silver Award. He has received many awards in his career including GM’s highest technical award, the “Boss” Kettering award and holds two United States patents for his seminal work on Social Networks.

Andrew Gachechiladze, Senior Vice President of Product Development and Engineering

Andrew Gachechiladze leads Intermedia’s product development and engineering groups overseeing the development of software products for a hosted environment – including software as a service (SaaS) and unified communications as a service (UCaaS).

With the company since 2001, Gachechiladze was previously a product manager for hosted Microsoft Exchange. During his tenure, he helped Intermedia deliver new hosted products (such as Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, OCS 2007 and Unison) ahead of the competition. He also helped promote policies and procedures for the software development and engineering teams (such as general architecture, development cycles and communications) that allows Intermedia to develop and support one of the hosted industry’s best control panels.

Prior to Intermedia, Gachechiladze was a software developer at ThinkWave, the California-headquarted software company as well as at KomiEximBank in Moscow, Russia. He also held the position of technical director at SAnet, the first internet hosting company located in the Republic of Georgia.

Gachechiladze holds a degree in physics and computer science from Tbilisi State University.

Robert E. Leibholz, Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development

Robert “Bob” Leibholz oversees Intermedia's sales and business development activities as well as key partnerships. He is responsible for creating and expanding the company’s channel network to over 4,000 private label partners, as well as the extension of the program to Latin America and inking deals with Fortune 100-ranked Ingram Micro and Dell. He has lead Intermedia’s sales growth to become the industry leader in the business communication space.

In past positions at companies such as ASCAP and The Harry Fox Agency, Inc., Leibholz led licensing, sales and client relationship disciplines. Long a technology-focused business executive, he was the chief business driver for numerous technology projects, including an entertainment industry digital rights management system and many web-based client-facing applications.

A graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University, Leibholz served as editor for the American Management Associate course, The Art and Discipline of Managing Software Projects. A frequent speaker, he is sought after as a thought leader in business communications for small and medium size businesses.

Connie Adcock, Vice President, Client Services

Connie Adcock joined Intermedia in 2012 as vice president of client services. In her role, Adcock is responsible for Intermedia’s global technical support team where she champions companywide alignment in delivering extraordinary customer experience as measured by Intermedia’s Net Promoter Program, enhancing capabilities to scale with the company’s vision of growth, and supporting the client services team in realizing their career potential.

Adcock has a demonstrated record of success at building, mentoring and developing high performing customer service teams, including previous roles as SVP of customer service at 1-800-Flowers and VP of global customer contact at National Car Rental. These customer service teams won numerous awards, such as CRM Magazine’s #1 Best Customer Service Call Center for 1-800-Flowers, Training Magazine’s Top 125 Training Organizations two years in a row for 1-800-Flowers, and JD Power Car Rental Customer Satisfaction two years in a row for National Car Rental.

Most recently, Adcock was vice president of shared services at Vertex Data Science. While there she led the international virtual shared services team supporting global outsourcing operations with 32 call centers and 15,000 employees. She has tremendous experience creating and implementing innovative solutions in high growth companies, including building supporting capabilities for customer acquisition, cross-sell/up-sell and retention leadership, and career development programs.

Luis B. Curet, Vice President, Sales

Luis Curet joins Intermedia’s sales and business development team as vice president of direct sales and is responsible for providing senior leadership of the direct sales organization.

Curet most recently held the role of senior vice president of the Americas for M86 Security – a leading global provider of web and email security solutions – where the company recognized a four-fold increase in revenue during his tenure. The company was recently acquired by Trustwave. Prior to joining M86, Curet was a vice president at leading encryption and information security company, Rainbow Technologies, where he oversaw sales and corporate marketing for the commercial business unit. The company was bought by SafeNet in 2004. Curet was recently named one of CRN’s 2012 Channel Chiefs. The prestigious list includes influential leaders in the IT channel space and recognizes Curet for his leadership and commitment to channel partners.

Curet is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a Bachelors of Science degree in Industrial Engineering.

Elizabeth Mye, Vice President of Human Resources

Elizabeth Mye, vice president of human resources, has global responsibilities for Intermedia’s HR services including staffing, compensation and benefits, training and overall employee relations. She comes to Intermedia from NetSuite, the industry’s leading provider of cloud-based financials and ERP software suites, where she oversaw human resources for North America. Mye brings with her 20 years of human resource management experience with a focused strength on the ability to effectively manage through high change environments in start-up and high growth emerging companies, as well as Fortune 100 national and international organizations, in the in the technology, IT consulting, healthcare, manufacturing and consumer products industries. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Brent Rich, Vice President of Operations

As vice president of operations, Brent Rich oversees the senior support staff responsible for the daily and ongoing hosting operations. With Intermedia since 2007, and with over seven years of cloud computing experience, Rich has helped grow the company’s operations from 100,000 mailboxes to 400,000. He launched four new datacenters and is operationally responsible for supporting the company’s 99.999% financially backed uptime SLA.

Prior to joining Intermedia, Rich was employed as the Director of Application Engineering for Savvis, a global provider of managed hosting, network and collocation facilities. His responsibilities included research, development and productization of new high performance applications such as Oracle, DB2, MSSQL/MySQL, and of course Microsoft Exchange. Prior to being part of the Engineering department, he managed the US Microsoft Operations team responsible for the daily administration of SAVVIS’ hosted solutions.

Rich received his degree in computer science from St. Louis University where he graduated magna cum laude.

Irina Shamkova, Vice President of Product Management

As Intermedia’s vice president of product management, Irina Shamkova is responsible for the development and execution of the company’s product roadmap, ranging from hosted Microsoft Exchange to proprietary technologies such as HostPilot® Control Panel. She leads the company’s product and project management teams.

With the company for over 10 years, Shamkova previously held the role of a product manager. She has led many product initiatives, including product launch of hosted Exchange 2007 and 2010 ahead of competing Exchange hosts as well as Microsoft’s own hosting unit. Shamkova plays a key role in the forming of Intermedia’s direct and channel versions of HostPilot Control Panel, enabling it to be “private labeled” by partners for use by their end customers.

Shamkova received a masters in applied mathematics from Saint Petersburg State University in Russia.

Brian Shellabarger, Vice President of Product Innovation

Brian Shellabarger is Intermedia’s vice president of product innovation, focusing on developing new and interesting services that Intermedia will offer to customers. With a background in network engineering, software development and system administration, Brian was the CTO of a mid-sized hosting company in Utah (WestHost, now UK2), the VP of product management for Sphera, and spent the last four years at Parallels as the chief cloud architect and distinguished engineer architecting cloud solutions and running the company’s sales engineering group. While at Parallels and Sphera, Brian helped deploy software at many Exchange-based businesses and other hosting companies.