The Rivet Management Team

Patrick Quinlan – CEO

Patrick comes to Rivet as a business executive with a proven track record of startup development, funding strategies, and capital investment success. He brings experience in the small and emerging business space and is skilled in executing strategic planning, performing market analysis, and guiding new product development. As the CEO of several successful startups and as a consultant, Patrick has helped many companies build and manage effective sales teams, meet revenue goals, and achieve peak performance. Patrick graduated from the University of Kansas and holds an MBA from Regis University.

Emily Huang – Co-founder & VP, Business Technology

Emily brings to Rivet Software more than 12 years of experience in developing innovative, enterprise-level Business Intelligence solutions and information delivery strategies. Emily's disciplined approach and energetic leadership is a great asset in setting the development team's strategic and tactical direction. Emily's background, which includes advanced degrees in both Computer and Information Science and Computer Assisted Instruction, gives her a unique ability to design systems that are powerful, efficient and user-friendly. Before becoming a charter member of the Rivet team, Emily served as Director of Development and Director of Business Intelligence at Esurance. She was also principal architect at FRx Software for OLAP, XML-based reporting and Enterprise Bases Open Financial Interfaces.

Philip Winterburn – CIO

Philip is an IT executive with extensive experience building successful software and product development organizations across Fortune 500 companies and in the emerging business space. Prior to joining Rivet, Philip’s career in IT leadership spanned a variety of organizations and industries including Ernst & Young, EDS, AT&T Broadband and Great West Healthcare. His experience includes all aspects of application development, technology architecture and operations management. As CIO at Rivet, Philip is responsible for leading the core product development and internal IT operations.

Barclay Friesen – COO

Barclay Friesen came to Rivet Software in September of 2009 to lead business development efforts as Director of Sales. As such, he is responsible for creating and implementing strategic marketing initiatives and developing sales strategies across all vertical markets. His experience as a sales professional in both the telecommunications and manufacturing industries is directly translated to his position at Rivet as the challenges inherent in a diverse prospect pool are the same. Prior to joining Rivet, Barclay served as a Vice President of Sales and founder of a successful start up company.

Kevin Berens – VP, Products

Over the last 20 years, Kevin has worked in the Business intelligence space as both a customer as well as delivering software products. He has a broad and diverse business background that has helped him develop a strong understanding of the management and reporting challenges faced by our customers today. He spent five years at American Express/First Data Corporation where as a customer he faced the challenges with reporting tools that our users face each and every day.  Over the last 15 years, he has worked to develop and sell products that help users solve these reporting challenges (both for mid-market and enterprise level customers). Kevin was also a founder of FRx Software Corporation - a Microsoft subsidiary (formerly FRx Software), spending 10 years with varying roles - ranging from Product Specialist to Product Sales Manager to VP of Development. After FRx was purchased by the Microsoft Business Solutions Division in 2000, he continued on with Microsoft. Kevin's most recent accomplishment involved him as a Lead Program Manager on the PerformancePoint Server team where he helped deliver enterprise level Business Intelligence solutions to the Enterprise Performance Management market.

Raul Varela, CFA – VP, Strategic Partnerships

Brian Aratani – VP, Compliance Services

Brian Artani comes to Rivet as VP of Compliance Services. He brings with him a BSBA – Accounting degree from Colorado State University as well as an extensive background in the accounting field. Brian was formerly a member of Arrow Partnership’s Colorado practice. He has more than 15 years of experience in public accounting (most recently as an audit partner with Deloitte & Touche LLP) concentrated primarily on serving publicly traded clients in the technology and telecommunications and energy industries. Brian also served as CFO of a locally based, VC backed, technology and services company for over five years. His responsibilities included the initial formation of the company, VC fund raising, human resources, IT, operations, M&A activity, finance and treasury, strategic planning and execution. He was a director of technical accounting for a Fortune 100 telecommunications company with responsibility for M&A activity throughout Europe, Asia and South America. Additionally, Brian is a member of both the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Colorado Society of CPAs.

Craig Rutherford, CPA – VP, Finance & Administration

Craig Rutherford joined Rivet Software in November of 2009. As Rivet’s VP of Finance and Administration he is responsible for managing the company's financial and administrative operations. His experience in developing finance operations for technology start-ups as well as managing the financial, planning and analysis team for a $1B division of Microsoft Corporation will help to prepare the company for rapid growth and enable Rivet to realize its potential as an industry leader in XBRL and financial reporting. Prior to joining Rivet, Mr. Rutherford held various finance positions with other software companies from Controller to VP of Finance and CFO. He holds B.S. degrees in Accounting and Business Administration from Illinois State University and an M.S. in Management from the University of Colorado-Denver. He is a licensed CPA in the state of Colorado.

Christy Rohrs, CPA – Director of Education Services

Christy is leading the educational and professional services for Rivet's customers participating in the SEC Voluntary Filing Program, and oversees the creation of XBRL financial statements for submission to the SEC. Christy is directing the Rivet Software contract with the SEC for developing and implementing the XBRL Interactive Viewer for corporate finance as well as the Mutual Fund Viewer; both are accessible from the SEC web site. Christy is an active CPA. Her accomplishments include 5 years as an Auditor for a Public Accounting Firm, then multiple roles in accounting in private industry, followed by 9 years of increasing responsibility and leadership at FRx Software, now a division of Microsoft Business Solutions, in their accounting and client services area. Christy holds a BS in Accounting with emphasis in Finance from Metropolitan State College.