Scott Raskin

Chief Executive Officer

A dynamic leader with more than two decades of tech experience, Scott Raskin continues to build upon his record of success.

Raskin’s strategic vision has evolved Mindjet from mind-mapping start up to a cross-platform provider of collaborative and cloud-based productivity solutions. The results have fueled the growth of a passionate customer base to two million paid users worldwide and counting. Customers range from SMBs to iconic brands like Bayer®, BMW®, Coca-Cola®, Credit Suisse®, Dow Corning®, Microsoft®, Procter & Gamble® and Rolex®. Forty-five out of fifty of BusinessWeek's "World's Most Innovative Companies” use Mindjet solutions to crystalize ideas, boost productivity, and increase team effectiveness.

Raskin joined Mindjet after five years at Telelogic, where he served as President and Chief Operating Officer. At Telelogic, Raskin guided the company through strategic acquisitions and extensive organic growth, building a team of more than 1,200 employees in thirty countries. His efforts culminated when International Business Machines (IBM) acquired the company for $845 million.

Previously, Raskin served as Vice President of Sales and Corporate Development at Nexgenix, a pioneer in e-commerce solutions. At Nexgenix, he built the revenue and sales engines from the ground up, growing revenues to over $55 million per year. Under his direct leadership, the company counted twenty-five consecutive quarters of profitable growth. Raskin has also held senior management positions at Bachman Information Systems and MAI Basic Four.

Raskin currently serves on the board and is a past president of the San Francisco Bay Chapter of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), a peer network of 17,000 company Presidents and CEO’s in more than 100 countries. Raskin graduated from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin.

Blaine Mathieu

Chief Products Officer

Blaine Mathieu combines his years of software product and marketing acumen in his role as Chief Products Officer at Mindjet. Mathieu drives all product strategy and execution to address the needs of the evolving global market.

A seasoned software veteran, Mathieu most recently was CMO at Lyris, an email marketing and marketing automation provider, where he led product, business development, marketing, and corporate communications. At Lyris, Mathieu launched their initial SaaS offering and helped create the newly emerging integrated digital marketing space.

Mathieu has also served as General Manager and Vice President of Products and Marketing at Corel Corporation, a diversified software company where he drove product and market development across a wide range of productivity solutions targeting both enterprise and consumers. Mathieu has also held senior management positions at Adobe Systems Incorporated and Gartner Group.

Mathieu is a sought-after leader and speaker, having contributed to numerous conferences, webinars, and articles relating to technology and software markets.

Jascha Kaykas-Wolff

Chief Marketing Officer

Jascha Kaykas-Wolff oversees all Mindjet marketing efforts including branding, product marketing, demand generation, advertising, public relations, community, and web operations.

Prior to Mindjet, Kaykas-Wolff served as senior Vice President of Marketing and Customer Success at Involver, the world's largest social marketing platform. He previously headed Global Marketing for Webtrends, the leading customer intelligence platform that founded the web analytics industry.

Kaykas-Wolff served as a strategic consultant for Alvarez & Marsal, a global business advisory services company, and has held senior management positions at Microsoft's MSN and Windows divisions and the Yahoo! commerce business unit.

Kaykas-Wolff holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Whittier College in Whittier, California.

Valerie Burman

Vice President, Corporate Development & Alliances

A seasoned business development executive and M&A specialist Valerie Burman draws upon her impressive experience as she expands Mindjet’s strategic relationships and business partnerships to accelerate growth.

Previously, Burman was Vice President of Technology Partner Management at SAP where she managed a portfolio of key partnerships that drove significant co-innovation and revenue for the company. Previous roles at SAP included Vice President of Business Development and Vice President of Business User Strategy. At Business Objects (acquired by SAP in 2007), Burman led strategic corporate development initiatives and spearheaded corporate third-party licensing.

Before SAP, Burman spent eight years at Lehman Brothers with increasing responsibility, culminating in her role as Senior Vice President of Technology Mergers and Acquisitions. During her tenure at Lehman Brothers, Burman led a wide range of transactions including debt and equity capital raising, acquisitions, and divestitures.

Burman holds a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley.

Uwe Richter

Vice President and General Manager, International

Uwe Richter brings plus twenty years of experience in sales and management functions from leading business intelligence and performance management companies to Mindjet. Prior to Mindjet, he managed the CPM Business Unit in EMEA at Infor Global Solutions with a total of 250 employees. From 1989 to mid 2006, he was instrumental in establishing Cognos in Germany, where he drove growth in his last five years as Area VP for Central and Eastern Europe. Richter graduated in 1988 with a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universities of Dortmund and Bochum.

Abe Smith

Vice President and General Manager, Americas

Abe Smith brings over fifteen years of sales and business development success to his role at Mindjet. A leading thinker on Sales 2.0 solutions and new technologies, Smith leverages his knowledge to increase the speed and efficiency of Mindjet’s sales and customer support processes.

Previously, Smith held both domestic and international leadership roles at SaaS pioneer, WebEx Communications (acquired by Cisco). At WebEx, he was part of the core management team that innovated SaaS-based selling to grow revenues from sub-$50 million to more than $500 million in revenue, culminating in the $3.2 billion-dollar acquisition by Cisco. During his tenure, Abe was also chartered with growing business in the Americas and leading international expansion into the emerging markets, increasing revenues from $5 million to nearly $50 million in just three years.

Starting as an accomplished outside rep, Abe has developed highly productive relationships across the enterprise, mid-market and SMB segments. His Fortune 500 experience includes EMC Corporation, American Express, and Shearson Lehman, in addition to his tenure at Cisco.

Abe graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Felicity Wohltman

Vice President, Solutions

Felicity Wohltman brings nearly twenty years of product marketing, strategy, and go-to-market expertise to Mindjet. Wohltman drives the development and delivery of targeted solutions that meet the needs of Mindjet’s key customer segments.

Prior to Mindjet, Wohltman served as Vice President of Marketing for Genius.com, where she was responsible for the development and execution of go-to-market strategy and leading product marketing, corporate communications, sales enablement, and customer acquisition programs.

Previously, she was Director of Product Marketing with Macromedia (acquired by Adobe) for its Breeze Solutions (later Adobe Connect) and oversaw the development and execution of several product launches. Wohltman also spent two years at WebEx Communications (now part of Cisco) as Strategic Director of Marketing and Communications and Director of Product Marketing.

Tom Spence

Vice President, Finance

Tom Spence leads the finance, accounting and operations teams to help ensure Mindjet’s continued profitable growth. A twenty-year industry veteran, Spence brings a wealth of financial expertise and global experience which will be leveraged as Mindjet grows its business across the EMEA, Americas and Asia Pacific regions. Before landing at Mindjet, Tom established a record of success as the Corporate Controller at Electronics for Imaging (EFI), a leader in digital imaging software with twenty-three world-wide offices. At EFI he led the financial close process and consolidation of world-wide operations including the consolidation of US and foreign subsidiaries while managing international accounting teams in Europe and India. Previously, Tom has also held a number of senior finance roles at Autodesk where he oversaw corporate financial planning and analysis, accounting, and the media and entertainment division sales and service finance teams in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Prior to Autodesk, he worked at SGI and Visa International in finance management. Tom started his career at KPMG, in the high technology audit services group, and earned Bachelor of Science in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Ray Polanco

Vice President, Customer Success and Services

As VP of Customer Success and Services, Ray is Responsible for all aspects of Customer Lifecycle Management including On-boarding, Professional Services, Customer Success, Consulting, Customer Service & Support.

Ray brings over fifteen years of professional services management and customer development experience to his current role. Ray has extensive experience in working with both early stage and Fortune 500 companies to develop and build partnerships and trusting customer relationships. Previously, Ray worked at Lyris, Inc, a marketing SaaS provider, as Vice President of Global Services and Support, a role in which he strategically managed highly-visible opportunities and was involved in solution architectures, as well as communicating customer needs and coordinating efforts across departments and business units.

Ray has also held senior level positions at Avid Technology, Zhone Technologies and Lucent Technologies where he was instrumental in re-engineering of services and support operations to increase customer satisfaction and revenues and improve profitability.

Mike Duensing

Vice President, Engineering

Mike Duensing leads Mindjet’s engineering and development teams. Duensing brings twenty-four years of experience in building highly effective software and systems development organizations to Mindjet. As a SaaS expert, he has broken new ground in building large-scale, cloud-based computing systems that effectively handle reams of complex data and information in dynamic ways. Duensing joins Mindjet from EMC Corporation, where he served as Vice President of Development Operations for the company’s content management and archiving business. While at EMC, he increased product quality and enhanced company efficiencies while constructing engineering teams with hundreds of members working on more than seventy products in twenty-one distributed development centers.

Duensing led teams that contributed product architecture to scale to billions of objects and hundreds of millions of transactions per day at EMC, and also at Documentum before it was acquired by EMC in 2003. Prior to his tenure at Documentum he was Vice President of Engineering and Co-Founder of Synteleos, an Internet-based software company where Duensing pioneered the first generally available and most widely used SaaS collaboration and transaction management system for the North American real estate market. Earlier, at Standard & Poor’s, he led the way on development of the company’s first SaaS products, which were commercial successes in the financial, oil and gas, and real estate markets. Duensing graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.