We are pleased to welcome the latest addition to the Outlook team, Cindy Padnos. Cindy has extensive operational experience and has also worked with many of the Bay area”s top venture capital firms.

In her 20 years of experience in high technology, Cindy has held a variety of operational roles. Most recently as the founder and CEO of Vivant Corporation, an enterprise application company focusing on Workforce Management and Services Procurement solutions, Cindy successfully facilitated the sale of the company to a public enterprise software company in late 2001. Prior to founding Vivant, Cindy was president and CEO of Acumen, a privately held human capital management application software company. At Acumen she orchestrated a financial turn-around and managed development and delivery of a new line of Internet-based performance assessment and balanced scorecard applications. These solutions were successfully delivered to tens of thousands of users in Fortune 500 organizations.

Previously, Cindy held sales and marketing management positions in several technology companies including: vice president of marketing at Scopus Technology (an early CRM company later acquired by Siebel) where she positioned the Company for IPO; head of corporate and core product marketing for IDE, a computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools vendor; director of strategic/product marketing at Ingres, a leading relational database provider and sales and marketing management positions at AT&T LongLines and AT&T Information Systems where she was selected as a member of their divestiture planning committee and management development program. Ms. Padnos has also worked extensively with both large and small technology companies during her tenure as a management consultant with Arthur D. Little and Booz Allen & Hamilton.

Cindy attended University of Michigan and received her MBA/MSIA with honors from Carnegie-Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. She serves on the board of directors of Louis Padnos Iron and Metal Company and is a member of the Board of Advisors for Carnegie-Mellon”s Tepper School of Business.

Cindy is not a newcomer to the venture capital scene. She has completed independent assignments with a wide variety of venture firms in the Bay Area and East Coast, including: Lightspeed Venture Partners, El Dorado Ventures, BA Ventures, Gabriel Venture Partners, 3i, InterWest Partners, Apex Venture Partners, Bay Partners, MDV, TPG Ventures, Benchmark Capital and USVP. Outlook is pleased that Cindy will bring these connections, her marketing/CEO operational background, as well as her varied experiences coaching founders and growth companies to the Outlook team.