Compliance11 Management Team
William Wolf
Executive Chairman
William Wolf is Executive Chairman of Compliance11, a position he has held since 2006. Mr. Wolf has an extensive finance and operating background and currently oversees Talon Asset Management's private investment portfolio, Talon Opportunity Fund, LP, and is a portfolio manager for Talon International Select Partners, LP hedge fund. Mr. Wolf also serves as Talon's Chief Operating Officer and is as a managing member of Talon.
Mr. Wolf began his finance career in 1982 as an investment banker at Salomon Brothers Inc. In 1987, he joined the investment banking group of William Blair & Company where he worked for two years. In 1990, Mr. Wolf joined Henry Crown and Company to oversee a portfolio of privately-owned businesses. In that capacity, Mr. Wolf founded and became the CEO of Crown Golf Properties, L.P.
Mr. Wolf also serves on the Board of Directors of Answers Media LLC, PlayNetwork, Inc and the National Strategy Forum. He received an A.B. degree from Hamilton College in 1982 and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1990.
Tad Mitchell
President and Chief Operating Officer
Tad Mitchell was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of Compliance11 in 2008. Mr. Mitchell previously served as the Company's Vice President, Product Development. He has seventeen years of software development experience and prior to Compliance11 led a two year effort to improve the requirements gathering process for CNA Insurance. Prior to CNA, Mr. Mitchell worked as a project manager at Ernst & Young's Chicago Advanced Development Center where he developed software for Fortune 100 companies. He began his career as a developer at IBM's Rochester, Minnesota development laboratory.
Mr. Mitchell holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Brigham Young University and a M.B.A from Brigham Young University.
Laurence J. Goldfarb
Co-Founder and Chief Sales Officer
Larry Goldfarb is Co-Founder and Chief Sales Officer of Compliance11. Prior to co-founding the firm, Mr. Goldfarb was the Chief Investment Officer of Global Legal and Compliance at UBS for four years. During this tenure at UBS, he was involved in managing various mission critical projects including UBS' merger with Swiss Bank Corporation and its acquisition of Paine Webber. Mr. Goldfarb also managed the successful implementation of key regulatory, surveillance, compliance, and knowledge projects including: Global Surveillance and Restricted List, Affirmation On-Line, Global Shareholding, Knowledge Management, Documentation, Legal-Matter Management, and the Operational risk / SOX 404 framework for the Global Legal & Compliance Department. Previously, Mr. Goldfarb worked for Salomon Brothers for seven years as part of the Internal Consulting Group.
Mr. Goldfarb received an A.B. degree from Hamilton College in 1983, a Graduate Diploma in International Relations from The London School of Economics in 1984, and an M.B.A. from New York University in 1987.
Susan L. Rosenbaum
Chief Financial Officer
Susan Rosenbaum is Chief Financial Officer of Compliance11. Ms. Rosenbaum has over fifteen years of operational and finance experience and prior to Compliance11 was Director of Finance for True Partners Consulting in Chicago. Prior to True Partners, Ms. Rosenbaum had a tenured fourteen year career at Arthur Andersen holding various senior positions including Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of the firm's Chicago Audit Practice.
Ms. Rosenbaum graduated from the University of Texas with a B.S. in Accountancy.
Bruce Beerbower
Board Member
Bruce Beerbower is Chief Financial Officer of Talon Asset Management. Mr. Beerbower began his tenured career in 1990 as a C.P.A. for Arthur Andersen working with financial services clients in finance, banking, and asset management. In 1995, he joined WMS Industries as a Finance Manager in charge of financial reporting and worked on equity transactions, including the initial public offerings of Midway Games and WHG Resorts & Casinos and the acquisition of Atari Games. In 1998, Mr. Beerbower joined Spyglass as Manager of Investor Relations, where he was responsible for the company's communications with investors and equity research analysts and assisted with acquisition analyses.
Prior to joining Talon, Mr. Beerbower spent three years as Chief Financial Officer for Kettle Partners, an early-stage venture capital investment company, overseeing the company's operations, finances and investor reporting and assisting with investment and portfolio company analyses. Mr. Beerbower received his M.B.A. in Finance in 1990 and his B.S. in Accounting in 1989 from Indiana University.
James Gagnard
Board Member
Jim Gagnard is the President and CEO of SmartSignal, a privately held software solutions company founded by the University of Chicago to make the revolutionary Similarity-Based Modeling™ (SBM) technology commercially available. Prior to joining SmartSignal, Mr. Gagnard was the CEO of Questra, a leading provider of device-management solutions to healthcare and production-printing equipment manufacturers. In addition, Mr. Gagnard was President and CEO of Diffusion, a real-time CRM applications provider to the financial services industry that was acquired by Vignette. He also served as President and CEO of Trinzic Corporation, an enterprise software and services company specializing in decision support and database connectivity that was acquired by Platinum Technology. Mr. Gagnard also held senior positions with Pansophic Systems, Control Data, and IBM in Europe and the United States.