Greg Smitherman

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Mr. Greg Smitherman serves as Chief Financial Officer at Cloudastructure. He serves as Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Corporate Development at Accelergy. Mr. Smitherman brings over 25 years of working with early and midsized companies in a range of industries. He brings a wealth of experience as an operator, venture capitalist, and M&A specialist. Since 2007, Mr. Smitherman has been working as an entrepreneur with early and mid-sized companies. He came in as CEO to turn around FreeConference.com, the largest free conferencing company in the U.S. He was COO of mKlik a mobile video start-up and CEO of Expert Insight a mobile content company. Additionally, he has worked with a variety of companies supporting their business development, financial, and fundraising strategies. Prior to his operating experiences, he was brought in the help build American Capital Strategies' Technology Group and establish a Silicon Valley presence. In its first year of operation, the group invested $330MM in both early and revenue-stage companies. From 1997 through 2004, Mr. Smitherman was a partner with Advent International. He was the managing partner responsible for a joint venture investment fund in New Zealand and Australia and a lead member of the investment committee. From 1988 to 1997 Mr. Smitherman was a venture capitalist and M&A specialist for Ameritech, one of the Regional Bell Operating Companies formed from the breakup of AT&T. He executed a broad range of deals from early-stage ventures to multi-billion dollar acquisitions. Mr. Smitherman has served on over 25 boards including Topspin Communications (Acquired by Cisco), BroadVision (NASDAQ: BVSN), Combinet (Acquired by Cisco), Advanced Radio Telecom (NASDAQ: ARTT), Connexn (Acquired by Azure Solutions), DTI Networks (Acquired by Coppercom Communications), XIOtech (Acquired by Seagate), Lightware (Acquired by Plus Corp), Level One Communications (NASDAQ: LEVL, Acquired by Intel) and Radish Communications (Acquired by Systemsoft). Mr. Smitherman received a BS in aerospace engineering, summa cum laude, from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the University of Chicago.