Marqui Management Team


 

Dale Borland, President & CEO
Dale recently concluded a 15 year tenure with Microsoft Corporation, where he held senior and executive management positions in business development, sales & marketing, operations and IT across UK and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regions.

Dale joined the Microsoft's UK Executive Board of Directors in 1994 as Director of their OEM Division, and became Director of Microsoft's Consumer Division in 1996, where he was responsible for building revenues to more than $200M in three years. From there, he assumed responsibility for IT Services and Operations across EMEA, where he was responsible for supporting 7,000 clients and $4B in revenues. Dale was pivotal in driving his team's productivity to the competitive advantage of Microsoft's business divisions across the region. He moved to Vancouver in 2001 to manage Microsoft's Enterprise Service and Partner business in Canada.

Prior to Microsoft, he was a founder member of a Value-Add Reseller business in the UK which grew to more than $250M in revenues before being sold. He started another technology consulting company before being lured to Microsoft.

Dale has a degree in Electronic Engineering and Marketing, and enjoys fishing and golf. 



Susan Clayton, Vice President, Finance
Susan manages all accounting, finance and human resources functions for Marqui. Susan has managed accounting and finance functions for high-growth organizations for the past 15 years. Prior to joining Marqui, she provided consulting services specific to the finance & accounting functions: software implementations and conversions, financial reporting and process improvements. She was VP Finance for Cayenta Canada, where she was actively involved in the 300% growth of this technology company.

Susan was a Commercial Account Manager for the Bank of Montreal, and served as Western Canada Accounting Manager for AT&T Canada where she earned AT&T's Service Excellence Award, as a top performer. She served as the Director of Finance and Administration for the Canadian Diabetes Association, and she started her career in accounting at Deloitte & Touche. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Simon Fraser University and a CGA designation.

Rick Patri, Vice President, Client Solutions
Rick is one of Marqui's founding team members and currently manages the North American Sales Team. An accomplished Sales and Operations executive, Rick joined Marqui from Vancouver, BC based Pivotal Corporation, a leading provider of CRM software for the mid-enterprise market. As Pivotal's Director of North American Sales Operations, Rick managed the Inside Sales Operations, Procurement and Operations teams. During his tenure, his team surpassed its annual quota every year and helped Pivotal achieve annual corporate sales of more than $95 million USD.

Prior to Pivotal, Rick was instrumental in developing a new start up division at RAND Worldwide. He holds a Masters in Economics, a Masters in Psychology and a Bachelor of Science in Education from Northeastern University. Rick is a Board Member for several North American start-ups.


    
Ryan Stocker, Vice President, Product Development
At Marqui, Ryan Stocker leads a team of software developers, testers and product managers. He is responsible for the product direction, design, and delivery of the Marqui SaaS-based Marketing Automation Suite. Ryan comes to Marqui with 10+ years of extensive experience in Software Engineering and Program and Product Management from both Microsoft and NCompass Labs. Prior to joining Marqui, Ryan was Lead Program Manager for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server where he was responsible for Microsoft’s SharePoint’s web content management architecture.

In addition, Ryan frequently speaks to professionals at industry events like Microsoft TechEd and Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. Ryan holds a BSc Computer Science Degree from Simon Fraser University.



Jackie Reid, Vice President, Client Services
Jackie joined Marqui in November 2006, and is responsible for Marqui clients’ experience. Jackie heads up Professional Services, Client Support, Internal IT and Data Center Operations. Jackie’s background includes several years as a client management executive in a professional software services firm, project management, technical operations management, and consulting in enterprise software implementations.


Jackie is passionate about the delivery of outstanding client service. Jackie holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Nebraska and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.



Richard Sharp, Vice President, Marketing
Richard brings 15 years of technology management and marketing experience to his role at Marqui, where he is responsible for demand generation, product marketing and corporate communications. Prior to joining Marqui, Richard led marketing at Vancouver-based ResponseTek Networks, a leading provider of Customer Experience Management software. He also has product management and marketing experience from Philips Electronics and two NASDAQ-list telecommunications firms, Airspan Networks and Adaptive Broadband.

Richard holds a BEng in control engineering from the University of Sheffield and an MBA from Cranfield University, both in the UK.