James Legg, President and 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.

Jeff Robinson, Chief Financial Officer

As the Chief Financial Officer, Jeff Robinson is responsible for the financial, legal and HR operations of PHD Virtual. Jeff is a senior financial and operations executive with over 25 years’ experience in public and private, international, technology, emerging growth and service businesses. He has spent the last 10 years in financial leadership roles for global technology companies.

Prior to joining PHD Virtual, Jeff was the vice president of finance and chief financial officer of LabVantage Solutions, an innovative provider of enterprise lab informatics systems, where he was responsible for the global finance, administration, legal and IT functions. During his tenure, Jeff negotiated a multimillion dollar acquisition that doubled the size of LabVantage Solutions in revenue and expanded its footprint throughout Europe and Asia-pacific.

Prior to LabVantage Solutions, Jeff has held various executive financial management positions at companies such as IBM, Princeton Softech, ServiceWare Technologies, The Icon Group and Aetna Health Plans. His experience includes IPOs, acquisitions and divestures. He also has extensive knowledge in improving profitability, strategic planning, M&A and due diligence, budgeting, management reporting, cash and asset management and risk management.

Jeff is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a B.S. in Accounting from King’s College. He serves on the board of various non-profit organizations. Additionally, he and his family are active participants in their church and in many community outreach programs such as Habitat for Humanity and the local area food bank.

Paul Throldahl, Senior Vice President of Global Sales

As the Senior Vice President of Global Sales, Paul Throldahl is responsible for generating and growing worldwide revenues as well as architecting future business development strategies and Partnerships at PHD Virtual. During the course of his career, Paul has accumulated over 15 years of direct sales and management experiences that include building inside and enterprise sales teams from the ground up.

Prior to joining PHD Virtual, Paul was Vice President of Global Sales with Argus Software where he was responsible for generating and growing worldwide revenues as well as architecting future business development strategies.

Prior to Argus, Paul was a principal at Insight Venture Partners where he worked closely with the firm’s portfolio companies to improve sales processes and results. Paul also spent time on the executive management team at VoiceGenie Technology Inc., where he lead the global professional services sales organization. In this capacity, VoiceGenie's revenues increased by over 100% which has since been acquired by Alcatel.

Before his tenure with VoiceGenie, Paul was the Vice President of Global Sales for TrailBlazer Systems, an e-business company. Under his leadership, TrailBlazer’s revenues increased 40% leading to the firm’s acquisition by NuBridges LLC. Earlier in his career, Paul served as Area Vice President of Sales at Tidal Software, a systems management vendor specializing in job scheduling as well as held senior sales positions at EMC and Platinum Technologies. Paul holds a BBA in Management from the University of Wisconsin

Donna Grare, Vice President of Engineering

As the Vice President of Engineering, Donna Grare is directly responsible for managing the development, testing, and support for all PHD Virtual software products. With over 25 years of technical and managerial experience, Donna brings a wealth and depth of expertise in the core areas of virtualization, product development and consulting. She specializes in operational delivery, project management, team building, architecture design, development, and implementation of high quality, commercial software.

Prior to joining PHD Virtual, Donna was the VP of Engineering for AppZero, responsible for product development, product management, QA and support of this award winning application virtualization product. While at AppZero, Donna successfully directed the development of a cross-platform software product that supported Microsoft Windows (server and desktop platforms), Solaris, and Linux.

Before AppZero, Donna was the Managing Director and Partner at several technology firms. At Gotham Technology Group, Donna initiated and constructed the applications group, executing $1MM+ software implementations. Prior to that, Donna created Stratis Group, an award winning consultancy, which was subsequently acquired by Internosis (subsequently acquired by EMC), where Donna served as partner, designing, building and deploying applications and products for starts ups and fortune 100 companies. Before Stratis Group, Donna was a Managing Director for Micro Modeling (which later became Dell Plural).

Earlier, Donna was a Manager at AT&T, where she managed several teams of developers who created and supported AT&T’s financial systems.

Donna is both ITIL and PMI certified, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree of Mathematics from Stockton College.