Board of Directors

Dave Sikora: Founder and Chairman
Michael J. Maples: Member
Susan Sheskey: Member

Dave Sikora

Founder and Chairman

Dave founded Digby in 2006, with a goal to radically improve the mobile purchasing experience for consumers around the world. He is a veteran of the software industry, having been CEO of several successful public and venture backed private companies during his 25 year business career. He has served as the CEO of Pervasive Software (NASDAQ: PVSW), Question Technologies, Ventix Systems, and Forefront Group (NASDAQ: FFGI, acquired by NASDAQ: SKIL). In addition, he has served on the boards of several public and private companies, including TippingPoint Technologies, Motive, ClearOrbit, Troux Technologies, and Powered, Inc. He is also active in various Austin technology and community organizations.

Sikora has an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

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Michael J. Maples, Sr.

Former Executive Vice President, Worldwide Products Group and Member of the Office of the President, Microsoft Corporation

Mr. Maples held various management positions at Microsoft Corporation from April 1988 to July 1995, including Executive Vice President of the Worldwide Products Group. As a member of the Office of the President at Microsoft, Mr. Maples reported directly to the Chairman. Previously, he served as Director of Software Strategy for International Business Machines Corp. Mr. Maples also currently serves on the boards of Motive, Inc., a service management software company, Lexmark International, Inc., a laser and inkjet printer company, and Sonic Corp., an operator and franchiser of drive-in restaurants.

He is currently a member of the Board of Visitors of the Engineering School at the University of Oklahoma and the College of Engineering Foundation Advisory Council at the University of Texas at Austin.

Mr. Maples received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and a Master of Business Administration from Oklahoma City University.

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Susan Sheskey

Former Chief Information Officer, Dell, Inc.

Susan E. Sheskey served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Dell Inc. from August 2005 until her retirement from the company in August 2007. In this role she was responsible for the whole of Dell's global information systems and technology infrastructure.

Prior to becoming Dell's CIO, Ms. Sheskey held the position of Vice President of Information Technology for the the company's Americas Region, where she oversaw the development, deployment, and support of Dell’s global sales, services, manufacturing and fulfillment systems.

A noted authority on supply-chain and eCommerce technology, Ms. Sheskey joined Dell in 1993. She performed various IT management and leadership functions across a wide variety of business areas, including sales, manufacturing, fulfillment, services, procurement, data warehouse, finance, and human resources. Her efforts were paramount in establishing Dell as a leader in ecommerce and supply chain management, and she received CIO Magazine’s CIO Enterprise Value Award in 2004 for her success in providing Dell’s sales agents with an integrated view of customer data. Ms. Sheskey was also awarded the CIO 100 award from CIO Magazine in 2006 in recognition of Dell's innovative work on its European order-management systems; an award she won again in 2007 for innovations in mobile application delivery.

Before joining Dell, Ms. Sheskey worked for for both Ameritech and [Ohio Bell], gaining key planning, development and operational experience.

Ms. Sheskey graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

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