Bunchball employs game mechanics that help businesses improve market performance and online engagement.
Bunchball is the market leader and visionary in gamification. Bunchball enables organizations to improve business performance throughout their ecosystem by creating highly active and loyal customers, employees, and partners. Bunchballs comprehensive suite of innovative cloud-based solutions empowers companies to engage and motivate, leading to improved employee productivity, customer loyalty, audience engagement, and ROI. Bunchballs world-class customers include Adobe, HP, Cisco, MTV, Comcast, LiveOps, VMware and Hasbro. Based in Silicon Valley, Bunchball’s investors include Granite Ventures, Triangle Peak Partners, Northport Investments, and Correlation Ventures. For more information, visit www.bunchball.com, our blog at www.gamification.com, or follow @bunchball.
Participation builds lasting relationships and impacts your fundamental business objectives. It doesn’t matter if you’re dealing with customers, students, employees, or fans – we’re all people, and if you can get us to participate, you can drive business value.
Nitro drives participation using Gamification.
Jim Scullion joined Bunchball in May, 2010. Jim has a proven track record of successfully growing early-stage and established businesses to profitability.
Prior to joining Bunchball, Jim served as CEO for two other Granite Ventures portfolio companies, DecisionView and Tumbleweed Communications, (where he also served as chairman). Jim also held the positions of CEO and Board member at Comnetix Inc., and has served in a number of executive positions at Identix, including president and COO, board member and CFO.
David has more than 25 years of financial management experience, and has worked with numerous emerging businesses. He was with CNET Networks for 12 years, where he managed the growth of its financial operations from its start up in 1995. David lives in Marin with his wife and twin girls, and when finds the time, can be found on his road bike on the hills of Marin.
Jim Cumella joined Bunchball in June 2012 to lead the Companys East Coast Sales team. In September, 2012, Jim was promoted to Vice President of Global Sales. Prior to Bunchball, Jim was Vice President of Sales Americas East for iPass, a cloud-based enterprise mobility platform. Before that Jim held various sales leadership roles for Verdasys, Lumigent Technologies, Tumbleweed Communication, AlphaBlox, Red Brick Systems and Information Builders. Jim holds a B.S. degree in Business from Fordham University, with a dual major in information systems and marketing.
Caroline Japic joined Bunchball in June, 2012. She has more than 20 years experience leading high impact marketing teams for many of Silicon Valley’s top brands. At Bunchball, Caroline is focused on increasing brand awareness, thought leadership, and demand generation.
Prior to joining Bunchball, Caroline was Vice President of Marketing at Taleo, which was acquired by Oracle Corporation for $1.9B. Before that, she held various marketing leadership roles at Polycom, Hyperion Solutions, Verisign, SGI and Tibco. Caroline was a previous member of the Gartner CMO Council.
Molly Kittle has 4+ years of gamification experience and has helped drive gamification initiatives with Bunchball clients including NBC, Warner Bros., Cisco, Hasbro, USA Network, Adobe, and ABC.
In her role as VP Digital Strategy, she provides consultation for how gamification can best be used within the context of client’s holistic engagement strategy.
From workshops to ongoing engagement optimization, Molly is personally invested in each Bunchball client’s success. Molly was recently named one of the Top 10 Women in Gamification by Gamification.co.
Prior to Bunchball, Molly held roles in Sales and Customer Advocacy at Macrovision and ZeroG Software. Molly has a BFA in Experimental Theatre from NYU, and isn’t afraid to use it.
Joe joined Bunchball in June 2012. He has more than 20 years of international product leadership leadership experience at enterprise software and enterprise security leaders.
Most recently, he was EVP of Worldwide Marketing at Axway, a leading enterprise integration vendor.
Prior to Axway, Fisher was senior vice president of product management at Tumbleweed Communications, a secure communications company acquired by Axway.
Before that, Joe spent 4 years at Schlumberger/CellNet and held senior product positions at Furukawa Electric and IBM.
Gary Chavez joined Bunchball in February 2011. Before joining Bunchball, he worked at Live Nation Entertainment in the Artist Services Division. During that time Gary held several senior positions including executive vice president of digital services, where he was responsible for driving digital media and marketing strategies, as well as client services, for the division. He has also held senior positions at Prophet Brand Strategy and Sony Signatures.
Ken Jones joined Bunchball in September 2010.
Prior to Bunchball, Ken spent three years at Cisco in the Media Solutions Group.Ken came to Cisco in February 2007 through the acquisition of his company Five Across, a white label social networking platform responsible for powering the communities of NASCAR.com and NHL.com. Ken was an early pioneer of concepts around user generated content, as it related to brand management and advertising, and the building of passionate online communities.
Ken Klein is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Wind River. With more than 20 years of experience in the software industry, he is working to further extend Wind River’s leadership position by expanding customer and partner initiatives, continuing to drive the market shift from in-house development to commercial software adoption, and delivering innovative, leading-edge products. Target vertical markets include consumer electronics, aerospace and defense, industrial, automotive, medical, and networking equipment. He is responsible for the management of 1,460 employees in 15 countries.
Before joining Wind River, Klein served as Chief Operating Officer and a board member of Mercury Interactive for 12 years. Klein and his team built Mercury from a pre-revenue startup into a software powerhouse with a peak market capitalization of $15B, 2,150 employees, operations in 35 countries, and membership in the NASDAQ 100 and S&P 500.
Chris Hollenbeck is a founding member of the Granite Ventures team.
He joined Granite after serving as Vice President of Hambrecht & Quist’s Venture Capital department, and focuses his investments in software.
In addition to software applications, Chris is also interested in companies that capitalize on the current digital content explosion from voice and video to consumer entertainment and next-generation software infrastructure technologies.
Chris currently sits on the Boards of Bunchball, HireVue, Oversight Systems, Rewarder, Smule, Telltale and YottaMark.
Jason Blessing is the CEO at Plex Systems.
Jason Blessing serves as CEO and is responsible for the strategic direction and growth of the company.
He is an experienced software executive with previous executive positions at,
Oracle,
Taleo,
PeopleSoft,
Price Waterhouse.
Blessing is a Graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Doug Dennerline serves as EVP of Enterprise Sales Americas for Salesforce. Dennerline brings over 20 years of sales leadership experience to the company, having served most recently as senior vice president and general manager of the Collaboration Software Group at [Cisco](/company/cisco), which includes its software-as-a-service
strategy and products, and all WebEx conferencing and collaboration
offerings. He will report to Frank van Veenendaal, president,
worldwide sales, and chief sales officer at Salesforce.com.
Senior Data Scientist at Bunchball
Former LinkedIn Exec who built LinkedIn’s Marketing Solutions business.
Steve Patrizi is Head of Partner Marketing at Pinterest, where he’s leading the efforts to help businesses put Pinterest to work.
Prior to Pinterest, Steve Patrizi served as a strategic advisor to Virtual Fan Network and was Chief Revenue Officer at Bunchball, a gamification technology provider. Prior to joining Bunchball, Steve spent nearly 4 years on the executive team at LinkedIn as VP of LinkedIn’s Marketing Solutions business, where he built the business from scratch and scaled revenues 10X – making a significant contribution to one of the most successful IPOs of the decade.
Prior to LinkedIn, Steve held a number of leadership positions at Microsoft and The Wall Street Journal. Steve is a graduate of Rutgers University with a bachelors degree in Communication.
Jeff Diana is the Chief People Officer at Atlassian.
Rajat Paharia is the founder and Chief Product Officer of Bunchball, creators of Nitro.