About Ramprate

Board Advisors

Curt Hessler

Curt Hessler brings varied and substantial business and legal experience to RampRate's board. Hessler has extensive experience in M&A, finance, strategic development, and law. He has served on the boards of 5 public companies and numerous private companies and non-profit organizations and is a seasoned executive with extensive experience at senior levels in the information technology, media and government sectors. He has held a variety of senior positions at major corporations including Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Unisys and Executive Vice President ... Read more

Peter Hirshberg

Peter Hirshberg is at the epicenter of the noisy, connected world of online conversation. He is changing our thinking about marketing, branding and customer relationships. A Silicon Valley executive with several high profile marketing and branding related ventures, Peter has led emerging media and technology companies at the center of disruptive change for more than 20 years. He is chairman of the executive committee of Technorati, the leading aggregator of user generated content in the world, tracking over 100 million Weblogs and 70,000 posts per hour. He is also co-fou... Read more

Barry Patmore

Barry Patmore brings over 35 years of consulting experience to help guide the further development of RampRate's proprietary outsourcing methodology.

Patmore had a distinguished 34 year career at Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) where he helped improve business processes and implement large scale IT systems for many leading companies including Microsoft, US West, Capital Group, Visa, Disney, Mazda and JPL. His responsibilities included managing partner of the Pacific Northwest and Southern California offices and global managing partner of the business proc... Read more

Ken Venner

Kenneth Venner is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Broadcom Corporation. Mr. Venner is responsible for all business system, computing and telecommunications infrastructure.

Mr. Venner has served as Chief Information Officer since joining Broadcom in August 2000. In February 2002 he was elected a Vice President. Previously, Mr. Venner was Vice President of Product Management and Chief Information Officer of Rockwell Electronic Commerce from 1997 to August 2000. Prior to that, Mr. Venner held a number of information sciences/informat... Read more