John Mandile

Who is John Mandile?

John joined Sigma in 1996. With over 20 years of experience as an

entrepreneur, a business unit manager, and an investor, John uses

motivation, enthusiasm, and his own technology and operational

expertise to support Sigma’s portfolio companies. Throughout his

career, he has held executive management positions, created new

business units and departments, and sponsored new projects at some of

the industry’s most successful technology companies.

Background

Prior

to Sigma, John was the President CEO of Vermeer Technologies,

Inc., the developers of FrontPage, the leading Web authoring tool.

Vermeer was acquired by Microsoft, providing Sigma and the other

venture investors a very successful return. Previously, he was an early

principal at SQL Solutions, where he created and led an engineering

organization chartered to build heterogeneous database tools. Following

an acquisition of SQL Solutions by Sybase, he took responsibility for

the new Systems Management Product unit, which he grew to $55 million

in sales in 30 months. Early in his career, John was recruited to

Honeywell, where he worked on a variety of engineering projects in the

areas of communications, operating systems, and unix co-processor

design.

Education

John

is a graduate of Tufts (BSE in Engineering Science and Mathematics) and

Worcester Polytechnic University (MS in Computer Science).