Peter Skinner

Who is Peter Skinner?

Peter Skinner has over 25 years of broad domestic and international experience in the financial and operational management of high-technology companies. He is the vice president of finance of Mimosa Systems, Inc., a provider of e-mail data management solutions. Previously, Peter was the CFO of BitPass, Inc, a venture financed startup engaged in providing micro-payment solutions for monetizing digital content across a global network of content providers. Before that, Peter was CFO and vice president of finance and administration at IXOS Software, Inc., a provider of enterprise content management software to Fortune 1000 companies. Peter joined IXOS in its startup phase and helped it grow into a global company with more than $100 million in revenue. At IXOS, Peter assisted with the planning and execution of a number of acquisitions as well as reseller arrangements with SAP and HDS. In 1998, Peter was instrumental in taking the company public on NASDAQ. IXOS was purchased by Open Text, a Canadian corporation, in 2003.

Prior to IXOS, Peter spent more than eight years as the CFO and vice president of international finance operations at CyberData Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of POS systems and software for the retail industry. Here, Peter managed the company's domestic and international financial and operational functions, including its R facility in the UK, offshore manufacturing arrangements in Asia, specifically with Kyocera Corporation, OEM partnerships with UK based ICL Ltd., (now part of Fujitsu) and Epson, as well as a joint venture with DEC (purchased by Compaq) and the Russian Postal Service. During his career, Peter also held financial and operational positions with iNTELLIGENT Peripherals Inc., and was an Auditor with Price Waterhouse.