Eugene Lee, Former CEO, Socialtext

Eugene Lee is a seasoned leader and entrepreneur with a track record of founding, building, growing and selling transformational companies at the intersection of people, software and networks. He joined Socialtext as "CEO 2.0” and member of the Board of Directors in November 2007, leading the company's growth to cash flow positive and SaaS profitability. Lee led the company to a successful exit in April 2012, when Socialtext was acquired by Bedford Funding, a $1.4 billion private equity firm.

After graduating from the MIT Sloan School of Business, Lee co-founded Beyond, Inc., the developer of the award-winning BeyondMail product. Upon the company being acquired by Banyan, Lee was named General Manager of Messaging Business Unit, growing it from $5 million to $32 million in revenue in just 18 months, and earned four patents in messaging, workflow and privacy technologies. He also launched Switchboard.com, the leading white and yellow pages directory.

Lee was recruited by Cisco Systems as Vice President of Worldwide SMB Marketing, and then held the role of Vice President Marketing for Cisco's Internet Communications Software Group, and eventually Vice President of Worldwide Enterprise Marketing. From 2004 to 2007 Lee was at Adobe Systems as Vice President Product Marketing for the Intelligent Documents Business Unit and then as Vice President of Vertical and Solutions Marketing.

Lee holds a B.A. in Physics and B.S. in Engineering and Computer Science from Harvard College, and a MBA from M.I.T Sloan School of Management. He is an accomplished pianist and a passionate chamber musician, voracious reader, budding photographer and foodie, and enthusiastic skier and golfer.