About FileCloud Team

Help Organizations Thrive by Supercharging Content Collaboration and Processes

Our mission at FileCloud is to build a hyper-secure content collaboration and processes platform that customers love to use.

FileCloud is a hyper-secure EFSS (enterprise file sync and share) platform that provides industry-leading compliance, data governance, data leak protection, data retention, and digital rights management capabilities. Workflow automation and granular control of content sharing across most enterprise platforms is fully integrated into the complete EFSS stack.

FileCloud is a leader in content governance and collaboration for unstructured data, trusted and used worldwide across Global 1000 enterprises, educational institutions, government organizations, and service providers. In addition to its enterprise file sharing solution, FileCloud’s product portfolio also includes Signority (acquired in May 2024), a Canadian-based e-signature and document workflow platform.

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Our Values

Be Customer Centric

We exist to solve problems our customers have and they remain at the heart of the work we do.

Get Work Done

We are outcome focused and use our creativity, resourcefulness, and perseverance to reach our goals.

Be Authentic

We strive to be true and keep everything we think, say, and do in harmony.

Our Leadership Team

Ray Downes

CEO

Ray Downes was Chief Executive Officer of Kemp from 2012 to 2021. During his time at Kemp, he oversaw the transformation of the company from niche load balancing/application delivery product into category leadership of the rapidly growing “Application Experience” (AX) market. Throughout this period, the company grew from > $10M to over $70M annual revenues and from 30 employees to over 300, completing two acquisitions along the way (Flowmon Networks & Lithops).

Ray initially joined the company in 2010 to work with the founders. He was elevated to CEO in early 2012 following a change in ownership to a consortium of expansion stage Venture Capital firms. In 2019 Kemp was acquired by Mill Point Capital, a New York based private equity firm focusing on strategic and operational enhancement of strong, profitable, growth companies. In November 2021, it was announced by Progress Software (NASDAQ: PRGS) that they had completed the acquisition of Kemp for $258M all-cash deal. Progress provides a suite of products to develop, deploy and manage high-impact business applications.

Prior to Kemp, Ray held several executive leadership positions including with global networking technology companies like Cabletron Systems and Enterasys Networks. From 2002-2010, Ray co-founded Arrosys, a European-based Sales & Marketing consultancy which specialized in efficiently launching expansion stage technology companies into European Sales markets. Educated in his native Ireland at the Limerick Institute of Technology, Ray and his wife Janet reside on Long Island, New York.

Peter Melerud

CRO

A 30-year IT industry innovator and entrepreneur, Peter Melerud has served a broad range of customer segments with a focus on delivering exceptional value through disruptive technology. Throughout his career, Peter has blended a deep understanding of data center infrastructure and application delivery technologies with innovative go-to-market strategies that have resulted in rapid customer adoption and revenue growth.

As co-founder of Kemp in 2003, Peter was instrumental in leading the Kemp business from incubation to one of the most disruptive players in application experience (AX), through to the company's eventual sale to Progress Software for $258M which closed in November 2021. He has navigated product management, business development, sales, marketing, and customer success programs that have translated into continuous year-over-year growth, profitability, and pioneering the new horizon of how enterprises and cloud providers deliver and secure their applications. Serving as chief strategy officer for Kemp, Peter develops, executes and sustains corporate strategic initiatives with a particular focus on go-to-market, product strategy, corporate development, as well as establishing key technology alliances.

Prior to Kemp, Peter has worked in various sales and engineering leadership roles for EIA, Orange Business Services and Netlan. Peter splits his time between The USA and Ireland where he and his wife Lora have homes.

George Lo

CFO

George Lo is the Chief Financial Officer at FileCloud overseeing the company’s global financial and operational functions. With more than two decades of financial management expertise, he is responsible for all aspects of FileCloud’s financial reporting, tax compliance, analytics, human resources, legal, corporate development, strategic planning, and internal control.

Prior to joining FileCloud, George served as Chief Financial Officer at Kemp Technologies, a global Application Experience leader, and completed two consecutive successful exits, one with a New York private equity firm, Mill Point Capital, and another to NASDAQ publicly traded company, Progress Software (PRGS), both represented significant returns to the shareholders.

Prior to Kemp, George was Director of Finance at a boutique global consulting firm, SmartAnalyst, an Edison Partners portfolio, from 2009 to 2013, where he managed subsidiaries in both UK and India from New York. Prior to that he started his career in the US first as Internal Auditor then Accounting Manager at MRBI, one of the top US media conglomerates specializing in radio and television broadcasting and participated in a $170 million acquisition from Scripps Networks. Prior to coming to the US, he worked five years in Taiwan with a local advertising firm and contributed driving the company for over 1,100% growth until he decided to pursue further education in the US.

George holds an M.B.A. graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of California and is a Certified Public Accountant. He was named CFO of the Year by Edison Partners in 2019.

Jason Dover

CPTO

Jason Dover has over 15 years of technology leadership experience working across enterprise organizations. At NYSE Euronext, he led systems integration projects with Liffe, AEMS, AMEX, and Euronext. At Deutsche Bank, he was responsible for management of the entire messaging ecosystem and supporting a global enterprise technologies services re-architecture and migration to HP management.

At Kemp Technologies, he held various roles across sales, marketing, product, and strategy leading to the creation of a $10M+ strategic partner business with Dell, the acquisition and integration of Flowmon Networks and the strategic acquisition of Kemp by Progress Software. At Progress, he led Product portfolio integration, worked on business unit M&A initiatives, coordinated emerging technologies development and created a newly integrated ~$100M product family as VP of Product Strategy. Currently, Jason serves as Chief Product Officer, responsible for overall product direction, strategic technology partnerships, and M&A activity.

Leigh Bradford

SVP, Global Sales

Leigh Bradford is the SVP of Global Sales at FileCloud. Previously, he spent 10 years at Kemp leading the EMEA and APAC sales teams and was accountable for over 50% of global revenues. During his time at Kemp, his successes were underpinned by building and managing highly productive channel relationships throughout Europe, Middle East, APAC, and ANZ before exiting in 2022 as part of a successful company sale to Progress.

With over 25 years of experience in Technology Sales, Leigh has held sales leadership and enterprise sales roles in vendors including Radware and Zeus and, earlier in his career, in VARs and Distribution. With a focus on large enterprise organizations, he has secured large deal wins in BBC, Disney, Plusnet, ARM Holdings, and Natwest and in recent years has gained experience leading diverse multi-country sales teams.

Derry Heraty

SVP, Customer Operations

Derry is the SVP of Customer Operations at FileCloud. In his role he oversees all aspects of customer operations – including Customer Success and Customer Support – and associated tool chains to drive customer retention and business expansion.

Prior to joining the FileCloud leadership team, Derry was helping the organization in a consulting capacity for almost 2 years, primarily helping the Revenue team to deploy enterprise-grade sales processes and supporting tools. Leveraging a 30+ year career in sales and sales operations, Derry has been running a successful consulting business for the past 8 years, helping companies (such as Kemp Technologies, now Progress) of all sizes to improve their operational structures and tooling. He has led and collaborated effectively with teams across multiple geographies and business functions to deliver multi-million dollar cost savings and/or significantly improved sales productivity through process optimization, automation, and analytics.

Away from work, Derry is a father to 2 daughters and is a keen (if not very good!) golfer.

Meet Our Investors

Savant Growth is a private equity firm that invests in bootstrapped, founder-led, B2B SaaS and tech-enabled services businesses. The firm combines 30 years of investment experience with a data-driven, entrepreneurial approach to bring together talent, companies, and capital for transformational outcomes in large, high-growth markets. Savant Growth believes it provides unique operating leverage to portfolio companies with its proprietary software and services for prospect identification (SaleSavant) and engineering resources to augment development initiatives (DevSavant). The firm has approximately $500 million in capital availability, including eight active portfolio companies: Conversica, CrossBorder Solutions, experience.com, Impartner, IntelePeer, Onfleet, Spatial Networks (Fulcrum), and ThinkHR. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Savant Growth collaborates with Kennet Partners to manage its Kennet V U.S. investment program and connect founders seeking to expand their global market leadership. For more information, please visit www.savantgrowth.com.

Kennet is a technology growth equity investor. We invest in established, fast-growing companies providing information technology products and business services that leverage technology. Kennet provides expansion capital to businesses that want to accelerate growth and build exceptional shareholder value in partnership with an experienced investor. We currently have over $700 million under management and have offices in London, Frankfurt, and Silicon Valley.

Level Equity is a private investment firm focused on providing capital to rapidly growing software and technology-enabled businesses. Level provides long-term capital across all transaction types in support of continued growth. The firm has raised over $3.0 billion in committed capital and has made over 100 investments since its inception. For more information, please visit www.levelequity.com/.

AirSend

FileCloud is fully committed to Open Source as we believe technology innovation comes from the power of open community collaboration and transparency. FileCloud has made its entire product line AirSend, a complete collaboration and messaging platform, fully open source through the MIT license.