Prior to The FieldsGroup, Mr. Clifford was President and CEO of Gartner Group, Inc., the world's leading authority on the information technology industry, user and vendor technology strategies and market research. During Mr. Clifford's tenure, Gartner exhibited phenomenal growth. Annual revenue increased from $175 million in fiscal 1993 to $780 million in fiscal 1999. Under his leadership, Gartner's product line expanded from a single research-based service to include eBusiness/eCommerce research, consulting, events, benchmarking and market data products and services. In addition, he was instrumental in globalizing Gartner's research impact and established research operations in Australia, Asia and South America.

Before joining Gartner Group, Mr. Clifford was President of the Central and National Account divisions, and the Corporate Vice President, Information Systems Development at ADP. Prior to ADP, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Applied Data Research (ADR), Inc., the world's first independent software company and a leading systems software and relational data base management organization. He also served as national practice director for Applied Technology Consulting at Arthur Young & Co. Mr. Clifford began his career at IBM Corp. in sales and marketing.

Mr. Clifford previously served as the non-executive Vice-Chairman of the Board of Aperture. He also serves on the board of directors of Crucian Global Services, ViaNovus Technologies and as a member of the advisory board of Passport Software, Inc. He has been featured in CEO Magazine, Leaders Magazine and Forbes/Executive Edge; and has been a keynote speaker and panelist at numerous Technology Industry conferences. He also served on the Executive Advisory Board of the Stamford (Connecticut) Public School Academy of Information Technology (AIT) and the IT Advisory Board of the Norwalk (Connecticut) Community College (NCC). He has also served on the boards of ProBusiness Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:PRBZ), and Gartner Inc. (NYSE:IT).

Mr. Feinleib has always been interested in bringing the power of the computer to people who are not computer professionals. His track record for developing world-class software products dates back to 1968 when he developed VP/CSS, a Time-sharing Operating Environment that was the foundation for the success of National CSS, which he co-founded. While at National CSS, he led the development effort of a leading fourth generation database product called NOMAD. Today, nearly thirty years following its initial development, NOMAD is still marketed worldwide. NOMAD enables end users to build their own database applications.

While working as a consultant, he developed the concept for Aperture Technologies' first product, called The Graphic Data Center Manager (GDCM). This unique product combined a high precision drawing tool with database management and is the basis of the Visual Information Management concept. The reaction of many early customers was extraordinary. The Data Center Manager at Dow Jones, the first customer for GDCM, cited that in addition to the benefits of time and cost savings, GDCM helped raise the self-esteem of his department! They did a more professional job and presented a better image to the rest of the organization. This had a profound effect on Mr. Feinleib.

It led him to visualize how these same benefits could be extended to other areas of an organization. The result was the development of Aperture. Today Aperture is helping thousands of users do a better job in many different application areas.

Mr. Feinleib's motivation can best be summed when he says, "People understand information far better when it contains diagrams, pictures and data. Many people can benefit from the huge investment organizations have made in drawings and data, if they could only get easy access to them. Aperture is the tool to build applications that tie this information together in a logical framework so it is accessible through an intuitive visual interface. This changes the nature of management systems because it opens up a new class of applications that can benefit an organization profoundly.

Steven Yellen brings over 20 years of extensive marketing and technology experience to his role as Vice President of Product and Market Strategy at Aperture. He is responsible for product/market strategies, business development, product management, and product marketing. He has authored numerous white papers and technical articles, and has frequently spoken at industry conferences and seminars on both Data Center Management and Sales and Marketing Integration.

Previously, Mr. Yellen served as Product Line Manager of Windows Products at DataViz. At DataViz, he brought the company's first Windows product to market, and with profit center responsibilities, grew the product line to 40% of company revenue at a 37% annual growth rate. Mr. Yellen has also held technical and management positions at McDonnell Douglas and IBM.

Mr. Yellen has been an active voice within the technology thought-leadership realm throughout his career. He received his Masters in Business Administration in Marketing from the University of Connecticut, Masters in Science in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Connecticut.

Mike brings 18 years of sales and senior sales management experience to his role as Vice President of Worldwide Operations at Aperture. Previously, Mike served in Senior Sales Management roles at iPlanet (Sun-Netscape Alliance) and Sun Microsystems Software Tools Division. During his tenure at iPlanet, Mike was the top sales performer worldwide. His performance resulted in his subsequent promotion to Regional Sales Manager where he led a top performing team focusing on the Financial Services District. At Aperture, Mike is responsible for worldwide sales to all Global 1000 accounts.

Mike started his IT Sales Career at NCR Corporation in 1987; he has held direct sales positions at Attachmate, Open Connect Systems, Xylan and Forte' Software. He holds a MBA in Marketing from the University of Bridgeport and a BS in Management and Economics from the University of Dayton.

Eileen Spellman joined Aperture in 2003 as Director of Finance and brings 15 years of experience in financial controls, policies and procedures – including cash management and related forecasting, audits, budgeting, business plans and human resources management. At Aperture, Ms. Spellman is responsible for all global accounting, budgeting, financial reporting and maintenance renewals. She has established a number of key corporate policies relating to financial governance, internal controls and human resource management. She is committed to maintaining profitability through business process integration and cost management throughout the company.

Ms. Spellman has worked at a variety of companies before she joined Aperture including most recently Peppers & Rogers Group, a customer relationship management consulting company where she was Assistant Controller. Her other responsibilities included involvement in the creation and implementation of Web-based project economics, utilization and operational reporting as well as management of all financial closings, audits and reporting. Ms. Spellman was also a member of the executive team of PhotoChannel, an e-commerce startup that specialized in online photo processing and network creation for retail photo outlets where she directed the U.S. headquarter’s financial operations and Oracle systems implementation. She also helped launch the company’s U.S. presence as well as establish and document its corporate policies and procedures.

Previously, Ms. Spellman served as Controller and Manager of Finance and Information Systems at Electronic Retailing Systems International, a publicly traded innovative technology leader in wireless electronic shelf labels sold to medium to large supermarkets. She has also worked at News America Marketing (formerly Actmedia) as Director of Financial Operations and Systems. Ms. Spellman received her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Iona College and subsequently has qualified as a CPA.

Ms. Hohn brings over 12 years of Public Relations and Marketing experience to Aperture as Vice President of Marketing Operations and Communications.  In her role, Ms. Hohn is responsible for worldwide marketing, public, analyst and investor relations and internal and external communications for the Company.  In addition to overseeing strategic direction and planning, Ms. Hohn facilitates new product launches, provides support for the worldwide sales organization, and assures consistent messaging to maintain Aperture’s position as a leader in the data center industry. 

Prior joining to Aperture, Ms. Hohn spent over 8 years as Director of Corporate Communications for KANA Software, a CRM Company, where she was responsible for worldwide public, analyst and investor relations.  During her tenure at KANA Ms. Hohn lead the company through over 4 mergers and acquisitions and her efforts helped earn KANA numerous industry and corporate awards as well as worldwide recognition and awareness in the press and analyst community.  Before KANA, Ms. Hohn served as an account executive at McDougall Associates in Peabody, MA where she worked high profile accounts in the consumer, high technology and travel and transportation industries.

Ms. Hohn received a BA from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences from the University of Connecticut.