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Ms Roche is a highly accomplished business executive with 20 years of experience in building and running global operations. Ms. Roche, 42, was most recently CEO in Residence, at the private equity firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). Prior to KPCB, Ms. Roche was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Evant, a private technology company providing supply chain and merchandise planning solutions to retailers.
Ms. Roche began her career in sales and marketing at Philips NV. In 1988, Ms. Roche joined the enterprise software industry with a position at a reseller of System Software Associates and continued on to found and lead Cygnus Technology, at the time, a leading implementation services firm, focused on SAP and Baan Enterprise Resource Planning projects. Ms. Roche left Cygnus in 1998 to join Baan NV, in the Netherlands, where she was Baan's General Manager for Supply Chain and was later promoted to the Company's Chief Marketing Officer. She left Baan with the sale of the Company to United Kingdom based, Invensys PLC. After Baan, Ms. Roche assumed responsibility as Chief Marketing Officer for i2 Technologies, where she was responsible for strategy, global marketing, and product marketing. | 