Mr. Sasser has extensive senior management experience with ten years as CEO building successful public and private enterprise software and services companies. His career encompasses strategic and operational leadership roles with five companies that became recognized leaders in their respective market segments. Mr. Sasser holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University.
Mr. Buchanan has significant experience in the CFO and COO position for public and private software companies with worldwide operations and annual sales ranging from $50 million to over $500 million. His career encompasses leadership roles with five companies that became recognized leaders in their respective markets. Mr. Buchanan has an MBA in Finance from Indiana University and is a CPA.
Before co-founding Merlin Technologies, Steve Sasser was President and CEO of Peopleclick, Inc., a privately held software-as-a-service human capital management company.
Prior to joining Peopleclick, from 1995-2003 Sasser served as President and CEO of Frontstep (FKA SYMIX) a NASDAQ traded public company which was acquired by manufacturing software provider Mapics. Prior to the acquisition, he guided Frontstep to over $120m in revenues from $40m and established the company as a leader in the ERP, CRM, and supply chain software sector for the discrete manufacturing industry.
He has also held various leadership positions with Trilogy Development, and high growth public software companies Legent, Goal Systems, and UCCEL.
Prior to co-founding Merlin Technologies, Jim Buchanan was the Chief Financial Officer of Peopleclick, Inc. Buchanan joined Peopleclick from Convera Corporation, a NASDAQ traded public software company with worldwide operations, where he was the Chief Operating Officer after serving as the Chief Financial Officer. Buchanan was instrumental in the creation of Convera which resulted from a merger between his predecessor company, Excalibur Technologies, and a division of Intel Corporation in a merger transaction valued in excess of $900 million.
He has held a number of financial and operational senior management positions with leading public software companies Legent and Goal Systems. Over the course of his career, Buchanan has led a significant number of M&A transactions and public equity financings.