Management
Scout Analytics is led by a veteran executive team with deep roots in behavioral analytics, SaaS, CRM, and market development.
Mark Upson
President and Chief Executive Officer
Mark Upson has over 20 years' experience and success in global technology sales and management. Prior to joining Scout Analytics, Upson was President and CEO of PureEdge, where he led the company to leadership in the business process automation space before a strategic acquisition of PureEdge by IBM.
Prior to PureEdge, Upson was SVP and GM, Americas for Onyx Software, where he led sales growth from $2M USD to over $119M USD over a 5-year period before and after their IPO.
Prior to Onyx Software, Mark held senior management positions at Wall Data. Mark also held technical and senior sales management positions with IBM Corporation over an 11-year period.
Upson holds a Masters of Science in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science with honors in Industrial Engineering from Virginia Tech.
Matthew Shanahan
Senior Vice President of Marketing and Strategy
Matthew Shanahan has nearly 25 years of experience in the technology industry, previously serving as Chief Marketing Officer of Teranode Corporation, where he helped to establish the company as the thought leader for informatics infrastructure in the life sciences industry. In addition to his tenure at Teranode, Shanahan was the original product manager at Documentum and spent 10 years in leadership roles until the company was acquired by EMC.
Prior to Documentum, Shanahan was a manager at Accenture, specializing in advanced enterprise architectures for Global 500 companies.
Shanahan earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington.
Derrick Mar
Senior Vice President of Engineering and Client Services
Derrick Mar has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, recently as a co-founder and CTO of a startup focusing on security and enterprise integration. Prior to that, Derrick was the CTO at Varolii, where he was responsible all functions of engineering, data center operations, security and client services. With 10 years of experience in SaaS technology and operations, Derrick led the Varolii team in building highly configurable and scalable multi-tenant SaaS products serving nearly 3 out of every 4 American adults. Derrick brings deep skills in predictive analytics and platform development.
Prior to Varolii, Derrick held other senior technology management positions at Microsoft, FrontBridge, McAfee, TIBCO, and others.
Derrick earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Washington and a Master in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley.
Mike Hayes
Vice President of Sales and Business Development
Mike Hayes has over 25 years of experience in the technology industry, recently serving as VP Sales and Strategic Alliances at Adapx where he helped define then drive initial sales into the largest Oil and Gas companies, managing both outside and inside sales teams to quota attainment. In addition to his tenure at Adapx, Hayes has built a number of sales and lead generation teams at TalentSpring, Payscale and Ascentis.
Prior to that Mike had a ten year career as a product manager for Uniplex, SPC and Oracle.
Hayes earned a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Mathematics from Cardiff University, Wales, UK.
