Paul Cooley

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Mr. Paul Cooley served as Managing Director at The Stage Fund. He has experience in operational due diligence along with direct leadership and management of portfolio companies, including oversight and control with a particular emphasis on sales and marketing development in technology driven organizations. Paul has over 30 years of experience in software, professional services and high-tech industries and was educated at Northern Michigan University, College of Business. Paul most recently served as Chief Executive Officer at Gores Group owned Astadia, where he drove leadership and performance in Enterprise Cloud, Enterprise Application Solutions and Digital Marketing. He clarified and upheld Astadia's mission to help customers get the most from their sales, marketing and technology platforms and provide measurable results for them, their employees, and their customers. He achieved this in an environment of divestiture and high turnover. Before his appointment as CEO of Astadia, Paul was a Managing Director at The Gores Group. Prior to joining The Gores Small Capitalization Group, Mr. Cooley was President & CEO at Marlin Equity Partners owned FCTI, a Los Angeles based ATM company. He was focused on the strategic growth of FCTI's market share within the ATM Services industry. He was brought into FCTI in 2011 to create a scalable growth model and ultimately provide an exit strategy. He successfully led the sales process of FCTI from Marlin to strategic buyer, Seven Bank of Japan and was retained as the president during the transition. Before his leadership in the FCTI exit, Paul served as President of ProLogic Redemption Solutions, another Marlin Equity Partners owned business, where he stabilized the customer base, turned the company around financially and operationally, secured strategic partnerships and significantly grew market share. In 2004, Paul was appointed President of Proxicom where he successfully executed an operational turnaround, was responsible for the merger and acquisition of Daou Systems and positioned Proxicom for its sale to iCrossing. Paul's private equity experience goes back to 1997 where he started with The Gores Group as EVP of Operations for the Americas with Artemis Management Systems. There he was responsible for directing all business operations, sales, marketing and IT activities throughout North and South America. Before entering the private equity arena, Paul held senior management positions with JBA International as the Brand Manager for Canadian Operations, Ameriquest/Robec as National Sales Manager and Versyss Incorporated as Regional and National Sales Manager.