Christopher Junker, CEO

Chris brings to SpringCM a unique mix of leadership capabilities, enterprise content management experience, and a 20-year history of growing businesses.  Most recently, Chris was CEO of Fios, Inc.,  a Cloud e-Discovery software company.   Prior to Fios, Chris served as general manager of the iManage business unit for Autonomy and as the general manager and worldwide vice president of sales for the legal and professional industry solutions (PSIS) team at Interwoven, which was acquired by Autonomy Corporation plc in a transaction valued at approximately $800 million in 2009.  At Interwoven, he played a key role in leading the company through 21 consecutive quarters of year-over-year revenue growth and operating margin expansion.

Chris has extensive leadership experience in the enterprise content management market.  He led global sales teams for more than 11 years, first at iManage and then at Interwoven following a merger in 2003.  His leadership experience also includes serving as vice president of sales and business development at TechLaw, Inc., a leading professional services integration and consulting company, and managing national sales for Wang/Informatics, a software development division of Wang Laboratories.

Greg Buchholz, Founder and COO

Greg Buchholz provides extensive leadership to SpringCM, which he co-founded in 2005. Greg founded and managed Court Capital, Inc. and brings nine years of experience from his time as a vice president at Goldman, Sachs & Co. He has also served as a CPA for Coopers & Lybrand in Chicago.

Greg holds a BS from Indiana University and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

E-mail Greg at gbuchholz@springcm.com.

Keith Peterson, Senior Vice President, Sales

Keith Peterson joined SpringCM from SAP, one of the largest enterprise software companies in the world, where he spent almost 15 years in two critical phases of his career. He began as a sales representative for the company and grew to run SAP's North American Sales for all mid-market companies, where he was responsible for over $500 million in revenue and more than 500 sales, sales engineering and PS staff. Keith then left SAP to join TopTier, an early-stage software company where he drove sales from $10 million to $40 million in two years culminating in the successful acquisition by SAP, and the creation of the NetWeaver product. 

Keith Peterson has a reputation for results, sales leadership and global experience with development, planning and execution of product introductions, as well as partner and vertical industry expansion. Keith holds a Master of Business Administration from St. Xavier University and a Master of Business Administration from the Executive Management Program at Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management.

Roger Bottum, Vice President of Marketing

Roger Bottum brings a wealth of experience in marketing, product strategy, and demand generation in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and enterprise software segments. He led marketing for Axentis, one of the first SaaS companies to be successful in the enterprise market, which was named a Gartner Cool Company and acquired by Wolters Kluwer in 2009.  He has held top marketing and product management roles at System Software Associates, Acresso (Flexera), and served as an associate partner at Accenture.

In addition, Roger provided marketing and product leadership at Endeavor Information Systems, acquired by Francisco Partners, and ShowCase Corporation, a business intelligence software company where he contributed to a successful initial public offering.  Roger is on the board of GT Schmidt, a private equity backed company.  He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado College, and has both attended and taught at Accenture’s St. Charles global training center. 

E-mail Roger at rbottum@springcm.com.

Phil Beckman, VP, Research and Development

Phil Beckman brings more than 20 years experience in programming, systems analysis, engineering, product design and development to SpringCM.

Before joining SpringCM, Phil served as director of software development at Open Text Corp. During his 11-year tenure at Open Text, Phil was a senior-level technical architect during the conversion from a client server-based document management product to an Internet-based content management system. Under Phil's technical guidance, this content management system was Open Text's flagship product for more than 10 years. Prior to Open Text, Phil was responsible for managing software development at Odesta Systems Corp. and held key positions at Baxter Healthcare Corp. and Brock Software Products.

Phil holds a BS in electronic engineering from the University of Dayton.

E-mail Phil at pbeckman@springcm.com.

Steve Maier, VP and General Manager, Government Solutions Division

Steve Maier brings extensive and unparalleled government contractor expertise to SpringCM. Prior to heading the SpringCM Government Solutions Division, Steve served as VP of Strategic Partner Development for Novell where he focused on developing business relationships with top-tier consulting and systems integration organizations. Steve previously worked at Pearson Government Solutions as VP for Homeland Security. In this position, Steve oversaw the Transportation and Safety Administration (TSA) recruiting program. Before joining Pearson, he held senior management positions with several leading technology companies including US Internetworking and Sybase.

Steve holds a BS in computer and information science from the University of Michigan and an MS in computer science from Johns Hopkins University.

E-mail Steve at smaier@springcm.com.

Jeff Piper, Founder and VP, Professional Services and Partner Development

Jeff Piper comes to SpringCM with more than 19 years of practical experience, including serving as general manager of iFlourish.com, four years with the MBA Enterprise Corp., eight years as a business process consultant for Payco American Corp. and also founding and serving as president of New World Comfort, one of the first foreign-owned furniture manufacturing companies in Poland.

Jeff holds a BS from Appalachian State University and an MBA from the University of South Carolina.

E-mail Jeff at jpiper@springcm.com.

Schalk Theron, VP, Operations

Schalk Theron brings over 18 years of experience in the information technology industry to his position at SpringCM, which encompasses extensive leadership across all functional areas of the technology environment. Prior to joining SpringCM, Schalk served as first vice president at Washington Mutual, leading its operational support for over 50,000 users and a national network of over 3000 sites and multiple enterprise-class data centers supporting the award-winning Wamu.com. Throughout his career, Schalk has developed highly effective operations systems and procedures in demanding financial services environments.

Schalk is an avid student of business process management and information service management - in the latter he has earned a master's certification in Information Technology Information Library (ITIL) and Six Sigma champion status.

Schalk holds a BS in electrical engineering from the Vaal University of Technology in South Africa.

E-mail Schalk at stheron@springcm.com.