James Legg, President & CEO

James Legg is the President and CEO of PHD Virtual. With over 22 years of management experience, Jim has a proven track record of building and growing companies. Prior to joining PHD Virtual Technologies Jim was the Vice President of World Wide Sales and Sales Operations at Idera from 2005 – 2012. Idera was consistently mentioned in the Fast Tech 50 from 2005 to 2011, and the 50 fastest growing companies in North America on Deloitte's 2007/2008 Technology Fast 50 list.

Prior to Idera James Legg served as the Vice President of Sales at NetIQ Corporation and PentaSafe Security Technologies where he was involved in a successful acquisition of PentaSafe by NetIQ. Jim had various management responsibilities including Sales, Support, Professional Services and Sales Operations. While at PentaSafe revenues and bookings increased over 1000% in five years. Prior to PentaSafe Jim served as the Director of North American Sales at Peregrine Systems where he was involved in a successful Initial Public Offering. Jim started in management at BMC Software where he oopened and managed the first remote North American offices for BMC Software. Jim attended the University of Denver and continued graduate studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Mr. Mike Triplett

Mr. Triplett is a Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners. For the past 14 years he has invested in Infrastructure Software companies, among which his successes include Quest Software (Nasdaq: QSFT), Authorize.net, Solarwinds (NYSE: SWI), Acronis, Parallels and Scriptlogic. He joined Insight in 1998 from Summit Partners, where he focused on investments in infrastructure and enterprise application software companies. Prior to joining Summit, Mr. Triplett worked as a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley & Co. and at Midland Data Systems. Mr. Triplett graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in Economics, cum laude.

Mr. Richard Wells

Mr. Wells is a Principal at Insight Venture Partners. He joined Insight in 2005 after serving as an investment team member at Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), where his interests included software and online media and commerce. Mr. Wells also spent several years working with technology companies as a manager and strategy consultant. He worked in product management for enterprise data protection products at Veritas Software (now part of Symantec), and in field sales for Paciolan Systems (now part of Ticketmaster). Mr. Wells also worked as a management consultant with Mercer Management Consulting. He received a BS from the University of Pennsylvania (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude) and a MBA from the Harvard Business School.