Entrepreneur in Residence placements fascinate me. Between 2001 and 2004, I worked on several EIR projects (indirectly) for some major VC firms. EIRs are best in class executives that have impressive careers with great companies and they have led these companies to successful exits, either IPO or acquisition. VCs hire them to advise and assist portfolio companies and often they end up leading a portfolio company. This week, I am highlighting Thomas Kelly, a new EIR at Trident Capital. Thomas has led or held senior executive positions at several companies. He has experience at leading his companies to acquisition, which is the most common exit strategy for VCs these days. It will be interesting to see where Mr Kelly ends up next.

Top 10 Executive moves:
Glenn Fishback, SVP Media Sales at Adify
ex-Turn, Coupons, Claria

Raymond Gerber, CTO at Chordiant Software, Inc.
ex-FirstSecond

Terry Schmid, CFO at Coremetrics, Inc.
ex-3DO, Enterasys

Peter Foster, Chief Advertising Officer at hi5 Networks
ex-Photobucket, ValueClick

Kevin Eggleston, SVP Asia Pacific at Hitachi Data Systems (HDS)
ex-BlueArc, StorageTek

Scott Swoish, EVP Global Services at Lawson Software, Inc.
ex-SPL, Peoplesoft

Josh Larson, VP Sales and Marketing at Mochi Media, Inc.
ex-Double Fusion, CNET

David Cassady, President & GM B2B Operations at Rearden Commerce, Inc.
ex-Spikesource, Interwoven

Tom Joyce, VP and GM Avance at Stratus Technologies International, S.A  r.l.
ex-Akorri, EMC

Thomas Kelly, EIR at Trident Capital
ex-Epicor, Monta Vista

Since our last post, there have been 124 executive moves at the companies we track, 68 Executives where added at 53 companies and 56 Executives where removed from 46 companies. For the full version of our weekly executive moves archive, please visit www.technames.com or call (925)831-2900.

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