Our Team

Joe is responsible for making certain that SmartBear wows its customers and that every one of the 17 million developers on the planet has a SmartBear experience by trying our products. It’s a big and audacious goal, but with Joe’s track record of building software companies, and his infantry officer experience in the US Army, there is no doubt that he’ll accomplish it.

For the past decade, he’s been a CEO or President at publicly traded software companies such as Bluestone Software (NASDAQ: BLSW), Segue Software (NASDAQ: SEGU), and FAST (Oslo BORS: FAST). And on any given day you’ll find Joe involved in all aspects of SmartBear’s operations and helping to mentor the company’s emerging leaders.

Joe’s passion for leadership and teaching extends to his active involvement as the Chairman and Founder of the Gordon College Center for Nonprofit Studies and Philanthropy, and as Co-founder of the Lithuanian Rural Development Fund that serves 3,500 economically disadvantaged youth in that country.

Rip is responsible for all aspects of the company’s finances and for providing guidance to the rest of the leadership team – something he’s done for over 25 years. Previously, as the CFO of EqualLogic, he led the IPO process and road show development just prior to an acquisition by Dell, Inc. for $1.375 billion. Rip was also the CFO of Enterasys Networks (NYSE: ETS), a $350 million enterprise network infrastructure provider. Rip was also the CFO of Advantage Schools and held executive finance positions at PictureTel and Wheelabrator Technologies.

He also devotes his “free time” to being an active board member of Family Service, Inc., a 157 year–old social service agency focused on Youth Mentoring, Family Development, and Mental Health, and serves on the Finance Committee of Bellesini Academy, a private middle school in Lawrence providing quality scholarship education for boys.

Ian is responsible for building the wow factor into all of our products, getting them into the market, and frequently poking the competition. If Ian has his way, SmartBear will be the #1 company to ensure software success – and given his prior positions as SVP, Products at Segue Software, VP, Products at Borland software, and Director, Engineering at Rational Software, Ian has the background to make that happen.

He’s passionate about software product development and building high performance tools for developers, testers and operations people from their point-of-view. 

Ian started his career in the Edison Engineering Program at GE, home of just about every important innovation in quality control, management and technology team development.

Donna is responsible for making SmartBear one of the best places to work and helping the company assemble the best talent to make it so. She wears many hats – human resources, cultural attaché, coach, talent scout, and self-styled student of the world.

Donna has a degree in accounting from the University of Massachusetts, completed an Executive Leadership Program at Babson College, studied at MIT and Harvard Law School, and became certified as a Co-Active Coach through the Coaches Training Institute. If that wasn’t enough, Donna has held positions as an Executive Director at Omgeo LLC, a Vice President at State Street Corporation and a senior manager at Digital Equipment Corporation.

When she isn’t coaching, collaborating or culturalizing, Donna can be found careening down the nearest black diamond trail on her snowboard.