Lewis Black

Growth-oriented strategic business leader. Spent the last 12 years focused on strategy, business scaling, and delivering operational transformations as CFO, COO, General Manager, and CEO. Recent Highlights: Intense role supporting the continuing business transformation of SolarWinds and the subsequent sale of the business to Turn River for $4.4BN in one of the most significant technology sector deals in H1'25. Also supported the raising of $2.75BN debt financing as part of the deal. Delivered a significant turnaround of Actian, reversing a 4% decline to deliver 19% growth in 2 years while increasing EBITDA by 3 pts to 39% - Drove sales transformation while repositioning the company as a SaaS Platform (cloud-first Strategy) - Rebuilt Marketing to deliver high-velocity digital demand leads. - Restructured engineering teams into a functional structure (from product silos) and adopted agile - Built a world-class leadership team, improving culture, and winning Best Place to Work twice. Led the scaling of Nexmo from $75m to $220m as GM in 2 years. - Scaled GTM and business operations to support accelerated global growth. - Opened operations in 20 new countries and built an indirect channel. - Extended platform by adding new value-added products. - Implemented rigorous planning and metrics-driven operating cadence. All 3 roles resulted in significant positive exits for PE Investors Experience covers B2B SW, SaaS Platform, Communication APIs, Enterprise SW and Hardware, Service Providers, Networking, Mobile phones and Telecommunications in businesses ranging from start-up to global multi-national. Comfortable leading in Public and Private companies. Extensive M&A experience, portfolio optimization, product strategy development as well as raising debt and equity financing. Strong operator - pragmatic, calm in a crisis, data-driven with a structured approach. Develops strong partnerships with the BOD and the leadership team. Passionate about driving performance through innovation and teamwork.