Management Team
Deidre Diamond joins Percussion Software as Chief Operating Officer to scale the operations of the organization and continue to achieve substantial growth in the commercial and government sectors. Throughout her career Deidre has built large-scale sales and operations teams that achieve high performance by creating possibilities that are above and beyond the usual. By establishing a communication framework throughout the organization, Deidre forges a culture of positive energy, career advancement and a focus on success that harnesses the team’s potential and enables them to reach beyond peak performance.
Previously Deidre led sales at Percussion's sister company, Rapid7, a provider of Unified Vulnerability Management and Penetration Testing solutions. Deidre’s teams doubled the company’s new revenue each of the last four years. By creating a culture of success from driving both transactional and enterprise level sales Rapid7 is today achieving critical market scale.
Prior to Rapid7, Deidre built and led the sales team at Stride and Associates, providers of technology recruiting solutions and also a sister company to Percussion. While at Stride and Associates, Deidre hired, trained, and developed the inside telesales team that grew to over 27 offices and 90 Practice teams throughout the United States.
Deidre earned a double major in sociology and criminal justice from California State University-Fullerton.
Joe Wykes brings more than a decade of experience working for Percussion Software, and has a strong track record of success. As the Managing Director of European Operations, Joe led Percussion to record sales and dramatically grew the infrastructure. He more recently led worldwide sales and alliances from Percussion's San Francisco office. Wykes practiced law at Lamb Building and is a member of Middle Temple.
Joe holds a BA from the University of London, a CPE from SouthBank University and is a graduate of the Inns of Court School of Law.
Vern is responsible for assessing market needs and creating the long term strategic vision for Percussion products and technology. In his 13 years at Percussion, he has defined or guided the product direction of virtually every Percussion product, including a foundational role in the Percussion CM System. He frequently speaks and writes on Web best practices and technologies such as the use of social media, content and XML.
Vern pursued graduate research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He blogs at http://www.percussion.com/contentions.
Aaron Dun joins Percussion Software to drive marketing and strategy. Aaron has 15 years’ experience leading marketing, and connecting marketing performance to sales achievement for technology companies. Aaron was most recently Senior Vice President of Marketing at Ness Technologies, a global technology services firm, where he led marketing for its $200M North American business unit and the company’s global interactive efforts. He was responsible for all aspects of marketing and inside sales, tripling marketing’s contribution to the unit’s pipeline in just 15 months.
Prior to Ness Technologies Aaron drove marketing for Lionbridge Technologies, a leading provider of translation services, where he helped launch their Freeway language portal that connects content management systems to its translation process. Previously he led global communications for Softscape and communications teams for Lois Paul & Partners a leading technology public relations agency.
Aaron holds a BA from Hamilton College and an MBA with high honors from Boston University.
Nancy has been with Percussion for seven years overseeing global Human Resources operations. Prior to joining Percussion Nancy was Vice President of Operations at Bond Technologies and previously held senior positions at Chase Global Fund Services and Fidelity Investments. Nancy received her MBA from Simmons School of Management and her BA from Framingham State College.
Audra Ryan has been responsible for the global financial and administrative operations of Percussion since 2001. Prior to joining Percussion, Audra was the Corporate Controller for both Marathon Technologies, a provider of high availability software products and Spacetec IMC Corporation, a publicly traded provider of 3D interactive motion control hardware. Audra worked for Ernst & Young LLP in the Entrepreneurial Services Group, where she had earned her CPA accreditation. She holds a BS and MBA from Boston University.