John Calamia joins LGES from Calamia and Associates, Inc., where he was president and founder. John is a senior executive search professional located in New York whose clients include firms such as Tibco, Cognos, Business Objects, Backweb, Visible Path, Fortify Software, and Mark Logic. His successful searches for premier venture firms include Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Carmel Ventures, BRM Capital, and Sigma Partners.

John�s 25 years of operational experience include senior executive positions at Cullinet Software, the #1 enterprise database vendor of the 80s; Sybase, the fastest growing relational database software company of the 90s; and Vignette, a software firm boasting one of the most successful IPO�s of 2000. In addition, John held the position of vice president of sales for Riversoft PLC, a public company traded on the London Stock Exchange.

John is largely credited with establishing market dominance over a seven-year period for Sybase in the Financial Services market as national director for sales in financial services. After exceeding his quarterly revenue goals for an impressive 20 consecutive quarters, he went on to hold a similar position at Tivoli, where he succeeded in generating over $150 million in revenue in less than two years.

While in executive search during the last five years, John has worked with many current and former CEO icons, specifically but not limited to the software industry, and has built an impressive list of both east and west coast high technology clients.

John has many extracurricular interests including tennis, fishing, running, classical music, travel, wine collecting, and genealogy. He participates actively in local and national charity work including Environmental Entrepreneurs and The Lupus Foundation.