About Us
Windsor Circle's eCommerce Intelligence software helps online retailers increase email marketing revenue through better customer segmentation. It is founded by email marketing and data management veterans from Bronto Software, Inc. and LSSiData. Investors include IDEA Fund Partners and former partners at U.S. Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital. The company is based in Downtown Durham, North Carolina, or as we like to call it: "The (Budding) Entrepreneurial Hub of the South."
Leadership
Matt Williamson | Co-Founder & CEO
Matt is the Goose and Maverick of Windsor Circle. He charts the path and sets in motion a company tackling the biggest data challenges facing online retailers. Prior to founding Windsor Circle, he spent five years as VP of Sales for email marketing company Bronto Software, and held sales leadership roles at SAS, edocs, and Network Software Associates. Matt is a double Tar Heel, with a BA and MBA with Honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Outside of Windsor Circle, Matt does it all: Habitat for Humanity, "Top 40 under 40 award," conference speaker, triathlete, amateur chef, dad and husband.
Chris Humphres | Co-Founder & CTO
Chris is the evil mastermind behind the technical operations here at Windsor Circle, except for one minor difference - he's not evil. It's a big technical challenge that he's leading our team to solve, but it's not his first rodeo, as the saying goes. 13 years ago, he joined a start-up called LSSi Data as one of the first employees, and rose to become VP of Research & Development before the venture-backed company was sold for more than $70M in 2007. Pair that with some PhD work at Duke, plus BS and MS degrees from the University of Alabama, and it's needless to say that Chris is the man for the job.
When not at Windsor Circle, Chris's hobbies are Alabama football, Alabama football (not a typo) and Alabama football (still not a typo).
Brad McGinity | Co-Founder &
VP of Sales and Marketing
Brad's job is to make it rain. Something he did very well as a sales exec at Bronto Software. After that, he picked up an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler, during which he spent a year at technology venture capital firm IDEA Fund Partners. While at IDEA Fund, he executed due diligence on investments in Argyle Social and StatSheet. He also worked at software firm New Media Campaigns and the Special Olympics global headquarters.
When not leading sales and marketing at Windsor Circle, Brad moonlights as a dad, husband, home repair man, fantasy football league champion and runner.
Scot Catlin | Co-Founder &
Senior Developer
Scot brings Windsor Circle's ideas to life through a little magic, pixy dust and hard core coding. He's made a career of this wizardry while at LSSiData, Paragon Advanced Technologies, Bell Northern Research and Credit Suisse. At LSSiData, he was Director of Development where he managed teams developing and maintaining enterprise products for domestic and international clients.
In addition to Windsor Circle, Scot does international missions work with ministries in Haiti. He's also an adoption advocate, Steelers fan (don't hold that against Windsor Circle, please), husband and father of five.
Advisory Board
Scot Wingo | CEO and Co-Founder
Channel Advisor
As CEO of ChannelAdvisor, Scot Wingo leads the company in its mission to provide retailers and manufacturers with the software and services needed to successfully sell their products via online sales channels. In tandem with his work at ChannelAdvisor, Scot is an industry thought leader, contributing regularly to several ChannelAdvisor blogs and speaking often at industry events. Prior to launching ChannelAdvisor, Scot occupied the roles of general manager of GoTo Auctions, CEO and co-founder of AuctionRover.com (acquired by GoTo.com) and CEO and co-founder of Stingray Software (acquired by RogueWave).
Scot received a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of South Carolina and a Master of Computer Science degree from North Carolina State University. Scot has received numerous awards including Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year and Triangle Business Journal’s Top 40 under 40.
Vince Beese | Chief Revenue Officer
Amadesa
Vince is currently the Chief Revenue Officer at Amadesa, a leader in personalization and web testing solutions for enterprises. Previously, he spent more than 6 years as the SVP of Sales for Experian CheetahMail, taking them from a position of being one of the smallest players in a very crowded market to the top spot, growing revenue from $5M to $150M/year and eventually being acquired by Experian. Before Experian CheetahMail, Vince was Regional VP Sales for Acxiom Digital, a provider of online direct marketing solutions for enterprises, and the VP National Sales for Live Person, a leading ASP for real time sales and customer support technology on the web. At Live Person, Vince grew sales from 0 to over $700K/month in revenue, in a 2 year period, prior to an IPO. Vince has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland and was born and raised in the NY/New Jersey area.
Mark Metcalfe | CEO
In The Swim
Mark Metcalfe joined In The Swim in July 2011 after a successful run at Gander Mountain and Overton's. He purchased Overton’s in 2003 for $20M with $7M of equity, and sold it to Linsalata Capital in April 2006, and then to Gander Mountain in December 2007 for $70M. Prior to joining Overton’s Mr. Metcalfe served as President of Angara E-Commerce Services, a Kleiner Perkins backed enterprise software company selling applications to direct marketers. Previous to this Mr. Metcalfe held various positions at Cendant including Executive Vice President of Entertainment Publications, and President of Cendant Membership Services, a roughly $1 billion direct marketing business. Mr. Metcalfe has also held positions at Bank of America and at Ernst & Whinney.