Meet our Team

Mike Dager

Chief Executive Officer

Mike brings more than two decades of experience in senior-level management positions at leading technology companies. Prior to joining GrammaTech, Mike held numerous successful leadership positions including CEO of Bayshore Networks, Arxan Technologies, a company in the Application Security space, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Worksoft, President and CEO of OSE Systems Inc., and held multiple senior sales management positions at Pure Software. Mike began his career at Texas Instruments in the semiconductor division.

Mike holds a BSEE degree from the University of Michigan. Mike is on the board of the University of Michigan Engineering School, and has been since 2007.

Marshall White

Board Member

Marshall serves as a Director of GrammaTech and is a Managing Partner of Five Points Capital and a member of Five Points’ Board of Directors and Investment Committee. Five Points Capital is a partnership-focused private equity investor dedicated to bringing patient capital to support the unique needs of business owners and management teams in the U.S. lower-middle market.

Prior to joining Five Points Capital in 2014, Marshall worked for American Capital, formerly a publicly traded $4.4 billion business development company, in its Dallas office. During his nine-year tenure at American Capital, Marshall focused on originating and structuring middle-market equity and debt investments while working closely with the firm’s portfolio companies. Prior to joining American Capital, Marshall worked in New York for J.P. Morgan, focusing on M&A and financings for large-cap, diversified industrial companies.

Outside of work, Marshall enjoys spending time with his family and following various sports interests.

Marshall received an BS in Finance and Accounting from Georgetown University.

Tom Reps

Board Member

Thomas W. Reps is the J. Barkley Rosser Professor & Rajiv and Ritu Batra Chair in the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Wisconsin, which he joined in 1985. Reps is the author or co-author of four books and more than two hundred papers describing his research (see http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~reps/). His work has concerned a wide variety of topics, including program slicing, dataflow analysis, pointer analysis, model checking, computer security, code instrumentation, language-based program-development environments, the use of program profiling in software testing, software renovation, incremental algorithms, and attribute grammars.

Professor Reps received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1982. His Ph.D. dissertation won the 1983 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. Click here for a summary of Reps’ current research activities, here for a summary of his past research achievements, and here for his C.V.

Scott Snow

Board Member

Scott serves as Chairman of the Board of GrammaTech and is a Managing Partner of Five Points Capital and member Five Points’ Board of Directors and Investment Committee. Five Points Capital is a partnership-focused private equity investor dedicated to bringing patient capital to support the unique needs of business owners and management teams in the U.S. lower-middle market.

Prior to joining Five Points Capital, Scott was an investment banker in the Media and Communications Corporate Finance Coverage group at Wachovia Securities (now Wells Fargo Securities), where he provided leveraged and equity capital raising and merger and acquisition advisory services to both public and private companies. Prior to Wachovia Securities, he worked for GE Capital and GE Plastics in various corporate finance and business development capacities.

Scott received his MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Brigham Young University.

Jim Routh

Board Member

A board member, advisor, and investor with specific expertise as a transformational security leader focused on applying risk management discipline to a converged security function for global enterprises to achieve enterprise resilience. Demonstrated track record of designing security control using innovation and data science to align senior executives to deliver world-class level security capabilities to drive positive business results in a digital world.

Mike Armistead

Board Member

Armistead is an industry veteran with three decades of leadership experience in the security, application development and consumer internet arenas. He co-founded Respond Software in 2016 and leads the company as its CEO. Previously, Armistead co-founded Fortify Software in 2003 and acted as VP & general manager for both Fortify and ArcSight business groups after the companies were acquired by HP in 2011. Prior to Fortify, Armistead held executive and key product positions at companies that include Pure Atria (IBM Rational) and Lycos.

Over his career, Armistead has led groups in all aspects of the organization, including marketing, development, operations and sales. His experience has spanned from managing large enterprises (+$350M revenues) to multiple start-ups in numerous industries.

James Vandervelden

Board Member

James is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Pleasant Bay Capital Partners (“PBCP”) and has over 25 years of private equity experience.  In 2012, James teamed up with Covington Associates to form PBCP, a private equity firm focused on working with family offices, high-net-worth individuals, and institutional investors in the acquisition, growth, and recapitalization of lower middle market companies.

Prior to Pleasant Bay Capital Partners, James was a Co-Founder and General Partner of Ticonderoga Capital Inc., an investment firm that managed three funds with total committed capital of over $250 Million.  As a General Partner, he focused on equity and subordinated debt investments in healthcare, business services, and software companies.  Throughout his career, James has been an active Board member in many companies and has assisted portfolio companies in management recruitment, strategic and operational issues, raising equity and debt financings, identification and due diligence on acquisition targets, and sale/merger/IPO discussions.

Prior to Ticonderoga, James worked at Dillon Read & Co.’s venture capital group making growth equity investments for its fund.  He worked previously with TA Associates where he focused on management buyouts, recapitalizations, and minority growth capital investments of lower middle market technology and service-related businesses.  Prior to TA Associates, he was employed by APM Inc., where he specialized in strategic and operational consulting to hospitals and managed care companies.

James received a B.A. in Economics and Organizational Behavior & Management, with Honors, from Brown University.

Tom Burns

Board Member

Over his 30+ year career, Tom Burns has been a highly successful Air Force officer, technology inventor, CEO, Fortune 100 R&D business leader, DARPA executive, and angel investor. He currently provides early-stage capital and hands-on business leadership to scientists and engineers with powerful technology ideas but little business experience.

Dr. Burns formerly served as the Director of the Strategic Technology Office (STO) at the Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA). His office led the world in the R&D of advanced sensing, communication, and electronic warfare technology.

Prior to DARPA, Dr. Burns served as Senior Vice President at SAIC (now Leidos), where he led over 900 employees executing over $300M in annual DoD-funded R&D business. Tom joined SAIC after they acquired his company, SET Corp., which he co-founded and led as CEO and Chairman. SET specialized in advanced R&D of smart sensing technologies for military and intelligence customers.

Dr. Burns received a B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. Degree in Philosophy from The Ohio State University, where he is a Distinguished Alumni. He received his M.S. Degree and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.