Our management team has the right combination of business experience, customer focus, and visionaries to lead Dovetail today and for many years to come. Meet our team:

Stephen Lynn, CEO

Stephen Lynn is the Chief Executive Officer of Dovetail Software. As CEO, he is responsible for formulating the strategic vision, executing the business plan, and building the team for Dovetail Software. Stephen is a successful entrepreneur, with extensive experience running enterprise software companies.

Prior to becoming the CEO of Dovetail, Stephen was the President and Chief Operating Officer for bTrade where he was responsible for the day-to-day operations. Under his leadership, bTrade tripled revenue in 3 years and sold the company to Click Commerce, a public supply-chain company. Prior to bTrade, Stephen was President and CEO of AFX Technology Group International, a wireless telemetry company. He developed the overall company strategic direction and secured their initial key customer before leaving to join bTrade.

In the mid to late 90’s Stephen was the Chief Operating Officer at IEX, a telecommunications software products company. He led the company’s expansion globally, growing the company to over $50 million in revenues and was instrumental in IEX’s acquisition by Tekelec, a public telecommunications company, for $163 million.

Earlier in his career, Stephen held various senior level positions at Dalfort, Pepsi, A.H. Belo, LTV and American Can. He is also a mentor at STARTech, a Richardson, TX high-tech accelerator that works with startup companies in their early stages to develop their business plans and assist them in securing venture capital funding.

Stephen received a MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and also earned a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania with majors in Finance and Accounting, graduating Magna Cum Laude.

Mike Bailey, Vice President of Sales

Mike Bailey leads the Company’s sales organization. As Vice President of Sales he is responsible for building a world class sales team and executing the “go to market” plan. Mike is a successful enterprise software executive with extensive experience building sales and service organizations.

Prior to joining Dovetail, Mike was Vice President and General Manager of Telecommunications for Telution, a leading provider of CRM and OSS solutions and VP of Sales for Adexs, Inc. where he was responsible for sales of the Company’s web based document exchange services.

Previously, Mike was Vice President of Sales for Clarify’s North American telecommunications business. Under his leadership the organization grew from $10 million in revenue in 1998 to over $65 million in revenue in 2001. Mike’s responsibilities included sales, application engineering and consulting. Successful execution in the telecommunications business was a key factor in the sale of Clarify to Nortel in March of 2000.

Earlier in his career, Mike held various management positions at Harris Data, Coda, Inc. and Software 2000.

Mike received a BS in Accounting from Fairfield University, graduating Cum Laude.

Gary Sherman, Vice President of Services and Support

Gary leads the company's product support, professional services, and sustaining engineering efforts, where he gets to apply his customer-centric values and beliefs to building a world-class support and services department, focused on wowing our customers on a daily basis.

Gary started his tenure here at Dovetail in product development, and was one of the principal architects and developers of the First Choice Foundation Library, which serves as the backbone and development platform for the current Dovetail suite of applications. Later, he became the Director of Software Development, leading the development team on the current Dovetail suite of products.

Prior to joining Dovetail Software in 2001, Gary served as a principal technical consultant at Clarify for over four years, focusing on all aspects of implementation and customization. He worked on the implementations of some of Clarify’s biggest customers, including IBM, Compaq, Sprint PCS, AT&T and Best Buy.

Before joining Clarify, Gary worked at The MathWorks, where he managed and maintained their Clarify implementation, including system administration, customizations, interfaces, reporting and upgrades.

He has a BSEE degree from the University of Lowell.

Gary's blog focuses on all things Dovetail and Clarify.

Chad Myers, Director of Development

Chad leads the company's software product development efforts with a focus on quality in order to maintain Dovetail's long track record of customer satisfaction. Chad started with Dovetail in 2004 as a senior architect and developer leading the Dovetail SDK and Email Agent projects. In 2008, he became the Director of Development where he is currently focused on the development of new, upcoming products in Dovetail's already extensive product suite.

Prior to joining Dovetail, Chad served as a principal consultant and partner in a high-end software architectural and development consultancy advising and developing large-scale enterprise products for organizations such as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security, among several others.

Chad has over 10 years of software development experience including 5 years in a project leadership role with a proven track record of quality software results. He is a community leader who speaks at technology conferences, user groups, code camps, as well as contributing to various development communities and open source projects.

Jeremy Miller, Chief Software Architect

Jeremy is responsible for guiding Dovetail's strategic direction as it continues to enhance its application platform. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development.

Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller tool for supercharged FIT testing in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog at The Shade Tree Developer, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#.