Management Team
Adrian Tuck, Chief Executive Officer
Adrian has more than 20 years of executive management and leadership experience. As CEO, he focuses on expanding Tendril’s customer base through multiple sales and marketing channels, including alliances with leading companies. Adrian is also the vice-chair of the ZigBee Alliance, an association of companies working together to enable reliable, cost-effective, low-power, wirelessly networked, monitoring and control products based on an open global standard. Prior to Tendril, Adrian served as both interim CEO and executive vice president of Ember Corporation, a leading semiconductor provider to the Smart Grid, where he guided the company’s market strategy through its critical early-growth stage. He received his education at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the British Army’s prestigious officer training academy.
Tim Enwall, President and Chief Operating Officer
Tim has 18 years of high-tech business management experience. Most recently, he was Vice President and Research Area Director at Gartner, Inc. Prior to Gartner, Tim launched a successful entrepreneurial career founding and serving as Chairman of emerging technology advisory firm Solista, which was acquired by Gartner. He was also the Founder and a Board Member of Intellocity, an interactive television system software development firm which is now part of OpenTV, the world’s leading interactive TV system software supplier. Tim has held numerous emerging technology management roles at larger companies Apple Computer and Lockheed Martin and smaller entities including InfoNow and Requisite Technology, where he was involved in product development, customer support, business development, marketing and general management. Tim holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Mark Pougnet, Chief Financial Officer
Mark has more than 25 years of experience in the financial and technology industries. As CFO, he will be responsible for driving the day-to-day financial operations and strategic funding initiatives for the company. Prior to joining Tendril, Pougnet held executive financial positions at several companies in diverse technology industries, including Copan Systems, MPC Computers and Avaya. He has led multiple highly successful funding rounds and IPOs and has developed lasting relationships with key members of the financial community. Pougnet holds a master’s degree in accounting and a bachelor’s degree in commerce from the University of Natal in South Africa, and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Tony Bamonti, Vice President of Business Development
Tony has over 20 years of executive management and operational experience in early and mid-stage high-tech software and service companies. He specializes in corporate and business development with an emphasis on core strategy conception, technology assessment, new market development and OEM/channel alliances. Prior to joining Tendril, Tony was Senior Vice President at Jabber, Inc., a recognized leader in real-time messaging and collaboration solutions serving multinational and Fortune 500 companies including France Telecom, JP Morgan/Chase, Hewlett-Packard, BellSouth and Federal Express. Before joining Jabber, Tony was Vice President of Technical Operations at Vaultus, Inc., an enterprise mobile data software and service provider, and Chief Technology Officer and a founding member of the management team at mobile service provider Wireless Telecom, acquired by Vaultus. Tony also has held business development, product management, and engineering positions at Solbourne Computer, GeoVision Systems and SmartScan Systems. He holds a B.A. in Geology from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Kent Dickson, Vice President of Engineering
Kent brings more than 17 years of engineering experience to Tendril, where he will lead the product architecture, development, quality and on-demand infrastructure efforts. Most recently Kent was Vice President of Engineering at BEA Systems Inc., where he held a number of roles managing day-to-day operations for some of BEA’s key product platforms. Kent’s prior experience includes work as Engineering Manager for Avitek, a start-up Enterprise Java company, Senior Architect and Project Manager for BDM International Inc and Designer and Junior Architect for Ball Aerospace (a division of Ball Corporation, Inc.). Kent holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and an M.B.A. in Organizational Management from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Marcelo Bergquist, Vice President of Operations
Marcelo has a longstanding background in operations management with more than 33 years of experience in management positions in the United States Army, Texas Instruments, Maxtor Corporation and Exabyte Corporation. Most recently, Bergquist served as President and Co-Owner of Kramer and Kramer ID, a firm that designs and installs finished commercial and residential spaces, where he was responsible for operations and overseeing all commercial accounts. Marcelo holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tulane University, an M.S. in Business Administration from Boston University and an M.S. in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College.
Mike Ruth, Senior Director Product Strategy
Mike has over 20 years of experience as a seasoned start-up entrepreneur at successful, rapid-growth Silicon Valley companies. Mike brings a breadth of business management and leadership experience to Tendril with a solid background in hardware and software engineering product development and directing successful sales, product marketing and strategic marketing efforts and teams. He has held director-level leadership positions at KLA-Tencor, a semiconductor equipment manufacturer, and Wind River Systems, an embedded software and tools company. Under his management, Mike has achieved more than $80 million in revenues from various new product introductions. He holds a B.S. in Electronic Engineering Technology from DeVry Institute of Technology in Ohio, and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University.
Marie Bahl, Senior Director of Marketing and Communications
Marie has more than 20 years experience in marketing communications. Most recently, she managed successful communications programs for several Internet-based companies including ZOHO.com, an online applications suite; Netrake, an IP network processing system; TrueSpectra, an imaging platform for online commerce; NetFlip, an online customer retention network; Trinity Ventures, a leading high-tech venture capital firm; and The McKenna Group, a global strategy consulting firm. Previously, Marie was director of corporate communications for Zen Research, where she managed a closely integrated international public relations and marketing strategy. Prior to Zen, Marie was senior manager in charge of all public relations activities for the Solaris product line at Sun Microsystems. Marie began her high-tech career at Silicon Valley’s premier Internet public relations agency Neihaus Ryan Haller in their enterprise software practice. Marie attended George Mason University, where she majored in Communications.
Patricia Saunders, Director of Engagement Services
Patricia has 20 years experience in customer communications and education and brings Tendril a breadth of experience in technical and end user support, training, program management, and client communications. For the past 10 years, she has worked with start-up technology companies, focusing on new technology adoption and customer retention. Most recently, she created and managed the education services team at IP Commerce, a software company developing platform technology and developer toolkits. Her startup successes include developing and delivering a customer training program for Freshwater Software (now owned by HP) and creating a vehicle that was instrumental in driving sales and deeper client engagements. Patricia attended University of Vermont, where she majored in English.
