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Key to business success, particularly in today’s economy, is listening to customers in a highly programmatic way and taking action to better serve them and deepen customer relationships.
— Jeb Dasteel,
Oracle CCO
and Vovici customer
We have been using Vovici tools for several years and now manage Nielsen's online Homescan panel using the EFM platform. Vovici has enabled us to maintain a greater than 70% response rate to our online survey invitations with the sizeable Homescan panel of consumer shoppers.
— John Toomey,
SVP Operations,
Nielsen Homescan
& Spectra
Business leaders should take a systematic approach and use Enterprise Feedback Management software to access targeted customer feedback, act on it, and communicate their actions to customers.
— Jim Davies,
Research Director,
Gartner

Management Team

Greg Stock, Vovici Chairman & CEO   Greg Stock, Chairman & CEO
Greg Stock is an accomplished executive with more than 20 years experience. Prior to joining Vovici, Stock most recently served as president and CEO of Mirage Networks, a provider of network security solutions based in Austin, Texas. During his tenure, Stock led the company from start-up to market leader with more than 600 customers across 40 countries. Mirage was successfully acquired by Trustwave in February, 2009.

Prior to Mirage Networks, Stock was a key player in successful DC-area technology companies. As Vice President, Marketing, Stock drove Vastera, a provider of global trade management solutions, to the market leading position and was instrumental in the companies’ successful initial public offering in September, 2000. Previous to this, Stock helped Manugistics, the supply chain management leader, grow to more than $200M in revenues and initiated the company’s expansion into China and Australia during his six-year tenure with the company. Greg holds MBA and BS degrees from the Pennsylvania State University.
     
Jody Bailey, VP Development, Vovici

 

Jody Bailey, VP, Development
Jody Bailey provides executive leadership to the Development and Data Center Operations teams. Jody brings with him over 15 years of experience building highly effective engineering teams. At Vovici Jody is responsible for the design, development and quality assurance of all Vovici’s products as well as managing Data Center Operations in order to ensure the success of Vovici’s SaaS products and customers.

Jody has an excellent track record of building high performance engineering teams that have designed and developed world class applications at companies such as VeriSign, Vastera and Fidelity Investments. Through the development of highly motivated teams and the introduction of new process and procedures, Jody has consistently been able to reduce time to market, improve quality as well as predictability of product delivery for both domestic and offshore teams. Prior to Vovici, Jody and his teams were responsible for the design, development and delivery of high availability systems that scale to billions of real-time transactions for RFID/Supply Chain systems critical to protecting health care delivery as well as the registry for .COM and .NET.
     
Kim Enders, VP, Finance, Vovici

 

Kim Enders, VP, Finance
As Vice President of Finance at Vovici, Kim oversees the company’s finance, administration and human resources divisions. She has more than 15 years of leadership experience in corporate finance and management. Prior to Vovici, Kim served as Vice President Corporate Controller of IXI Corporation, a high-growth, profitable venture-backed company specializing in solutions to differentiate and target consumer households based on measurements of wealth, income and spending. She previously held leadership positions at BCD Travel, Octagon and Marriott Corporation.

Kim's professional experience also includes working with Price Waterhouse in the audit practice. She is a Certified Public Accountant.

Kim holds a B.S. in Commerce with a concentration in accounting from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce.
     
Steve Freeman, VP, Field Operations, Vovici

 

Steve Freeman, VP, Field Operations
Steve Freeman is responsible for all Global sales for Vovici, bringing over 13 successful years of selling and team development to his role. Freeman oversees all aspects of enterprise and mid-market sales, and well as the development of business relationships with market research firms and strategic partners.

Prior to joining Vovici, Freeman was responsible for North America Sales for Endeca Technologies where he drove over 200% revenue growth in two years. Before Endeca, Freeman was head of Worldwide Sales for Above All Software where he took the company from five customers to over 45 in six quarters. Prior to joining Above All Freeman was responsible for building and developing the North American Reseller Channel and General Business sales team for Business Objects.
     
Jeffrey Henning, Founder & VP, Strateg

 

Jeffrey Henning, Founder & VP, Strategy
A co-founder of Perseus Development Corp. and a pioneer in the feedback industry, Jeffrey Henning brings a unique depth of experience in driving continuing innovation at Vovici. Henning has 21 years of experience in the market research industry with roles including market research consultant, analyst and writer to complement his time as a software developer for in-house projects and commercial software.

While at Perseus, Henning developed SurveySolutions® for the Web, which won the PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award for web-survey software. He was also named a Visual Basic Programmer's Journal "Basic Hero" in 1999. In 2004, he led the marketing and software development teams that pioneered and named the concept of Enterprise Feedback Management. Prior to co-founding Perseus, Henning worked with BIS Strategic Decisions (now part of Forrester Research) in the U.S. and in Europe managing survey-research projects for high-tech leaders of the Fortune 1000. Henning was formerly a columnist with Computerworld magazine. He writes regularly on the Vovici blog and is the author of the eBook, Survey Software Success.
     
Brian Koma, VP, Research, Vovice
  Brian Koma, VP, Research
Brian Koma is an accomplished research professional with deep domain knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research and technologies. He has pioneered new approaches that have enabled some of the world’s largest companies to improve customer loyalty and responsiveness through the innovative use of online feedback and social media. He is a frequent contributor to Vovici’s blog, and shares best practices with professionals across the industry through speaking engagements, white papers and web seminars.

An entrepreneur by background, Brian joined the company when Vovici acquired the market research firm he founded and operated for 10 years, Stratagem Marketing. Before Stratagem, Brian led the global marketing activities for Legent Corporation’s Enterprise Systems Management division, where he used innovative market research techniques to reposition more than 80 software products. He has also held management positions at The Genix Group and Burson-Marsteller.
     
Roderick Morris, VP, Marketing, Vovici
  Roderick Morris, VP, Marketing
Roderick Morris leads product management, product marketing, marketing communications, public relations, and analyst relations at Vovici, bringing 14 years of general management and strategy experience to his role.  Earlier at Vovici, he managed the renewal sales team, the professional services organization, the customer support team, and customer training programs.

Prior to joining Vovici, Roderick was the general manager for LexisNexis US Business Information Solutions. This included $150M of P&L responsibility for online research, text analytics, and SaaS products serving sales, marketing, and corporate knowledge professionals. Earlier at LexisNexis, he managed businesses in information services, e-discovery, and corporate legal SaaS solutions. At LexisNexis, Roderick built multiple high-growth businesses and consistently raised growth rates and renewal rates materially for the P&Ls he managed. Previously, he worked for Bain & Company, Microsoft, Simmons & Company, and Corporate Executive Board. Roderick earned an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.

     
Nancy Porte, VP, Customer Experience, Vovici
 
  Nancy Porte, VP, Customer Experience
With over 20 years experience, Nancy Porte is responsible for the Voice of the Customer program while managing customer support, customer training and CRM systems.

Prior to joining Vovici, Porte most recently served as Senior Director, Technical Field Operations at Approva, a provider of continuous controls monitoring solutions based in Reston, Virginia. While at Approva, Porte implemented a comprehensive client services strategy, resulting in 100% retention of customers over her tenure. Porte has implemented successful client support and retention strategies at several other DC-area companies including Monster Government Solutions, iDEFENSE and CareerBuilder.

     
Ben Smith, VP, EMEA, Vovici

  Ben Smith, VP, EMEA
Ben Smith is based in London and is responsible for all Vovici’s sales and business operations in the EMEA region. Areas of oversight include new business development, channel partner acquisition & management, and customer retention. He has an extensive track record managing the overall relationships for Vovici’s top strategic clients and partners in EMEA.

Smith is a Vovici veteran, having worked in various US & international focused roles before opening Vovici’s London office in 2007. He holds a BA degree in Economics and Spanish from Bates College and has completed coursework in Economics at the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain.