Mike Seashols
Chairman and CEO
Avolent, Inc.

With a well-established reputation as a successful executive in the technology industry, Mike brings significant strategic expertise to the Avolent team. Mike provides Avolent with a proven track record in developing "go to market" models, leveraging his skills in defining significant market opportunities, optimizing a company's resources to deliver solutions to these markets, and to build substantial barriers to entry.

Mike began his career in the technology industry serving 10 years with IBM before joining Oracle as their first Vice President of Sales/Marketing, reporting directly to Larry Ellison. At Oracle, Mike was instrumental in establishing the company as the leader in the emerging relational database market with its impressive sales growth and IPO in 1986. Subsequently, he has served CEO and Board roles for a number of successful technology companies, including Versant, Documentum, Evolve Software, GoldenGate, and PostX.