Tholen brings to BroadSoft more than 20 years of financial management experience. He served as both chief financial officer (CFO) and chief operating officer (COO) at NetSec, Inc., a professional security services company acquired by MCI (now Verizon Business). Prior to NetSec, he served as chief strategy officer and CFO for CareerBuilder and was a founding member of that company’s board of directors. Tholen was an integral player in growing CareerBuilder into the No. 2 company in the Internet recruiting and job market segment, and helped architect its initial public offering and later sale to leading newspaper companies. Prior to CareerBuilder, Tholen was COO and CFO for FTP Software, and CFO at The Compucare Co. He also served as vice president of corporate development at Legent Corp., and was a technology investment banker at Morgan Stanley & Co. Tholen is an alumnus of Davidson College and holds a master’s in Public and Private Management from Yale. |