Ripple Advisory Board
Mike Landman
Mike is the founder and CEO of Ripple, which provides a complete, managed IT department for small and mid-sized companies. Founded in 1997, Ripple lives to help small business unleash its potential through technology.
Mike is a graduate of The University of Wisconsin - Madison.
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Morris Miller
Morris Miller is founder of Sequel Ventures, LLC, a company which invests in and acts as advisor to numerous startup and established technology companies. Prior to founding Sequel Ventures, LLC Mr. Miller co-founded Rackspace Managed Hosting where he acted as managing director and co-chairman and helped build the company to over $150 million in revenue. Previously, Miller formed a start-up company, Curtis Hill Publishing, a legal publishing firm that was the first to publish Texas case law on CD-ROM. Miller also held various positions at Matthews & Branscomb, which is now part of Cox, Smith & Matthews, San Antonio's oldest and largest law firm.
After graduating from Phillips Exeter academy in 1984, Mr. Miller earned a BA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987 and a JD/law degree from the Southern Methodist University School of Law in 1990.
Blake Salle
Blake is the Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Emerging Technologies at Cisco Systems.
Blake has over 14 years of Sales and Management experience in Hardware, Software, and Medical Sales. He began his career with Cisco as an Account Manager in the Network Service Provider Area in 1999, and was promoted to Regional Manager shortly thereafter. In 2003, Blake led the Atlanta Named Region at Cisco to the top performing region in the US Enterprise & Commercial Sales Organization. In 2004, Blake led the Mid-Atlantic Enterprise Operation, growing the business at over 23% for two years in a row. In 2006 he led Cisco's US & Canada Security Business to achieve over $1 Billion of bookings.
Blake is a graduate of The University of Texas.
Frederick (Suizo) Mendler
Suizo joined Rackspace in January of 2003 and currently serves as Vice President of Customer Care for the company's $205M/yr small-to-medium sized business (SMB) segment. Suizo has had the opportunity to work in different areas of the segment, including roles as an Account Manager and Customer Care Team Leader. Today, he works to continually raise the bar of customer service by ensuring that Rackspace is the best place for both customers and employees.
Suizo is a graduate of Texas State University.
Harlan Karp
Harlan is currently the president of SouthBlock Management, a private real estate development and management group in Chicago.
Before joining SouthBlock, Harlan was a director of Mergers and Acquisitions for KPMG and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Over a nine year period, he consulted around the world with leading companies such as UPS, Deutsche Bank, Tyco, GE Power Systems, AFLAC, Swiss RE, Credit Suisse Group, Prudential plc and Air Canada.
Harlan is a graduate of The University of Wisconsin and is a licensed CPA in the state of Georgia.
John Reid
John is an Associate Creative Director at Crispin Porter + Bogusky. As an advertising creative, he’s required to refer to himself as “award-winning.” But more importantly, he’s spent the last decade learning how to get to the juicy bits of a brand’s DNA, and then using that intimate knowledge to solve problems and seize opportunities. Some brands he’s helped build: Volkswagen, Burger King, American Express OPEN, Ask.com, Corona, Careerbuilder.com, and T-Mobile.