Management

William L. Bain, Founder & CEO

ScaleOut Software was founded in 2003 by William L. Bain. Bill has a Ph.D. (1978) in electrical engineering/parallel computing from Rice University, and he has worked at Bell Labs research, Intel, and Microsoft. Bill founded and ran three start-up companies prior to joining Microsoft. In the most recent company (Valence Research), he developed a distributed Web load-balancing software solution that was acquired by Microsoft and is now called Network Load Balancing within the Windows Server operating system.

David L. Brinker , COO

Dave has over 20 years of software industry experience in a variety of operational, sales and financial executive roles in both public and private companies. Prior to joining ScaleOut Software, Dave was CEO/Chairman at Webridge, Inc., a pioneer in secure extranets. As an early employee of Mentor Graphics, he started up Asian operations and grew Mentor's Pacific business to more than $80M while stationed in the Japan headquarters. Near the end of his twelve years at Mentor he managed the worldwide field organization, a $400M software sales and consulting business. In addition to raising capital and selling two private businesses, Dave holds an Oregon CPA Certificate and spent his early years at KPMG Peat Marwick and Price Waterhouse Coopers.

Daniel L. McMillan, Vice President, Sales

Dan has over 16 years of experience in sales, marketing and channel management in high-technology companies. Prior to joining ScaleOut Software, he spent six years at Microsoft managing partners and field sales. At Valence Research, Dan was Director of Sales and helped lead the company to profitability and eventual acquisition by Microsoft. Earlier in his career, he held sales positions within the transportation services and telecommunications industries. Dan holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Oregon State University.