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Company
Name |
Icarian, Inc |
URL |
www.icarian.com |
Category
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Employment |
Phone
# |
800.991.9699 |
Location |
Sunnyvale, California |
Number
of Employees |
101 ~ 200 |
Date Founded |
01001997 |
Capital Raised |
$50 million ~ $100 million |
Funding
Stage |
3rd VC and Beyond |
Company
Overview |
Icarian, Inc. is creating the market for Workforce Icarian Business Services. The company’s flagship solution, Icarian Workforce, provides end-to-end optimization of the planning, acquisition, deployment and development of talent. Icarian’s suite of Web-native services helps global organizations meet their just-in-time talent needs, at lower cost. Icarian Workforce Exchange provides workforce service suppliers with low-cost business-to-business e-commerce access to an expanded pool of buyers. Privately funded, Icarian is located in Sunnyvale, California. |
Founder
&
Management
Information |
Doug Merritt – CEO and President
Doug Merritt is co-founder, President and CEO of Icarian and leads the company’s efforts in Icarian Business Services. He brings more than 12 years of experience in the software industry, including being a key member of two successful start-up software companies.
Prior to Icarian, Merritt was one of the first employees at Patrol Software, a pioneer of database monitoring and alerting software. Following its acquisition by BMC Software, Patrol became a flagship product for BMC, which now generates more than $100 million in annual revenue. Before joining Patrol, he led PowerSoft’s efforts as the first head of Western Region Sales and Marketing.
Marie Jackson – VP Marketing
Marie Jackson joins Icarian as Vice President, Marketing with 20 years of experience in marketing and sales in the technology industry. Formerly, she was senior vice president of marketing at Computer Curriculum Corporation (CCC), where she was responsible for expanding the company’s award- winning educational software line and extending its reach in the K-12 education market.
Prior to joining Computer Curriculum Corporation (CCC), Jackson was vice president of corporate marketing at Taligent where she managed both sales and marketing activities for the Apple, Hewlett-Packard, IBM joint venture. She has also served in several executive management positions at Apple Computer, Inc., including senior director of sales operations covering all markets in Apple’s North American operations. Jackson received a bachelor’s degree in psychology, and a master’s degree in business administration and finance from the University of California at Berkeley.
Robert McKelligan – VP Business Development & Product Management
Rob McKelligan, VP of Business Development, is responsible for Icarian’s strategic partnering initiatives.
McKelligan most recently served as the VP of Product Strategy at PeopleSoft, where he oversaw a team of domain experts to create and dri |
Investor Information |
Van Wagoner Capital Management and many prior investors participated, including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Patricof, Fidelity Ventures and Hambrecht & Quist/Access Technology Partners.
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Oracle and Blackfin Capital, LLC. |
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