Codesion Management

Guy joined Codesion in October 2006 as the first business hire. He has rapidly expanded our sales and marketing programs and is forging new relationships with strategic partners, industry, and investors. Guy led several early expansion initiatives, including the business planning behind Codesion's winning $100K UQ Enterprize Competition (2007) bid, followed by raising an Angel round of funding (2008). Guy is honing the Codesion SaaS (Software as a Service) corporate strategy, and focusing on recruiting new customers, expanding website content and traffic, increasing brand awareness, and building our 'Green Donation' program. Guy is also managing the company's external marketing agencies and consultants. Guy was previously an Analyst with San Francisco-based Broadlane Inc. in a consulting group managed by a former McKinsey & Company principal. Guy earned a B.S. from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Queensland (Paleoceanography). Guy has published in numerous scientific journals and appeared in newspaper, TV and media reports.

Inspired by SourceForge yet seeking a private, commercial equivalent with enhanced features, Mark founded Codesion in 2002 and is the company's Chief Technology Officer. As the first 'free and commercial' hosted source control provider, Codesion gained a reputation for being affordable, developer-centric, and service oriented - growing to serve more than 1,000 users in 12 months. Supervising a team of programmers worldwide, Mark is coordinating the development of all new enhancements for Codesion's solutions across the company's growing range of free, professional and enterprise offerings. Mark has over 12 years of experience in Enterprise Linux®/Solaris® platforms in Australian and London-based IT organizations. As senior UNIX® programmer at the University of Queensland, Mark helped design and implement an IT software infrastructure that reliably scaled to 60,000+ users. Mark was recipient of the Queensland Premier's Richard Joel Young Entrepreneur award (2007), gave the winning pitch at the $100K UQ Enterprize Competition (2007), received a high commendation award at the Queensland Pearcey awards (2008), and holds a degree in Information Technology from University of Queensland and accreditions from Sun® and Oracle®. Mark is a keen traveler and surfer, and most recently hiked the Machu Picchu Inca trail in Peru.

Willie is a proven leader in the software industry. Most recently, he was the CEO of Emergence Software, which focuses on simplifying deployment of Open Source software. Prior to that, Willie was the VP, Consulting Services at BEA Systems, overseeing Web 2.0 and BPM implementations globally and grew revenue to 32+ million a year. Willie has deep management experience and running high performance teams based on Agile methodology.