Board of Directors

ABOUT PAROON

Paroon Chadha

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

ABOUT FRED

Fred Coulson

Founder and Managing Partner of Five Elms Capital

ABOUT BOB

Bob Nye

General Partner, JMI Equity

ABOUT KRISHNA

Krishna Potarazu

Partner, JMI Equity

ABOUT MAC

Mac Williams

Principal, JMI Equity

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Paroon Chadha

Paroon Chadha co-founded Passageways in 2003 and continues to lead its business strategy, as CEO. He serves on Boards at Passageways, Big Brother Big Sister of Greater Lafayette, Indiana University Simon Cancer Center, and TechPoint. He was a founding member of Youwecan.org, and is an angel investor in several technology companies.

Paroon is a frequent speaker at conferences and has been widely published in several magazines. He led Passageway’s sales team to be named in the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing businesses in America, in 2008. He was named in the Hall of Fame at Purdue University as a Purdue Innovator, in 2013.

Fred Coulson

Fred is the Founder and Managing Partner of Five Elms. Fred is also the Founder and Chairman of Spring Venture Group, the largest digital insurance platform in the senior healthcare market.  

Before founding both Five Elms and Spring in 2006, Fred was a senior investment professional with TH Lee Putnam Ventures, a $1.1 billion private equity firm focused on software-enabled businesses.  

He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Kansas. Fred currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the University of Kansas School of Business as well as the Advancement Board for the University of Kansas Hospital and its Medical School.

Bob Nye

Bob has deep experience helping growth companies build value. He is currently a director of Adknowledge, AlertMedia, Benevity, Higher Logic, Level Access, and Raptor Technologies, as well as a member of the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association (MAVA) board of directors. Prior to joining JMI in 2005, Bob was a consultant with Bates White, an economic consulting firm focused on econometric and statistical modeling.

Krishna Potarazu

As a member of JMI’s operating team, Krishna works closely with portfolio companies to help accelerate growth and navigate operational challenges. He currently serves on the boards of CampusLogic, TimelyMD, and Unanet and is a board observer at CipherHealth, Jvion, SpaceIQ, and Yello. Prior to joining JMI in 2008, Krishna was a financial analyst in the general industrial group at Morgan Stanley.

Mac Williams

Mac joined JMI in 2016. He is responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities. Mac is a board observer at Alert Media, Businessolver, Higher Logic, and UKG. Prior to joining JMI, Mac was an analyst at Tiger Veda Management. Previously, he was an associate at New Mountain Capital and a mergers and acquisitions analyst at Lazard.