Our Management Team

Scott Owen
SVP, Global Sales and Alliances
Scott Owen heads the Channelinsight worldwide Sales Organization and Partner Alliances. His strong partner relationships have resulted in 50% of the sales forecast being delivered by partners.
Scott brings 25 years of aggressive Direct and Channel Sales, Operations and Business Development leadership to Channelinsight. He specializes in bringing emerging technologies to market by building high performance, well-trained direct and channel sales teams. He has considerable experience with Fortune 500 and 1000 companies across a wide array of service and technology verticals including High Tech, Telecom, Finance and Healthcare. His negotiation skills have resulted in numerous multi-million dollar, multi-year contracts. Scott holds degrees from Seattle Pacific University and the Dallas Theological Seminary.

Daniel Hawtof
VP of Product Management
Daniel Hawtof leads a team responsible for the definition, creation and adoption of the Channelinsight solution.
Hawtof brings more than 25 years of experience defining products and services, growing sales, increasing profits and capturing market share in the highly competitive electronics industry. Most recently, Hawtof was Vice President of Professional Services at iSuppli, a leading high tech research and consulting company.
Prior to iSuppli, Hawtof was Director of Marketing and Supplier Business Management for Avnet, a global technology distributor and Hewlett-Packard where he held technical sales and distribution management positions. Hawtof holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Michigan and has an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.

Roger Metz
Chief Financial Officer
Roger Metz brings 20 years of comprehensive finance and accounting experience, including over a decade in both venture-backed and publicly traded software companies. Prior to joining Channelinsight, Roger was chief financial officer at BroadHop, a Denver-based telecom software company, where he led many facets of an international expansion which resulted in $10 million in annualized revenues in 30+ countries. He was chief financial officer at Rivet Software, and also held several strategic finance roles at CSG Systems International (NASDAQ:CSGS), Before joining CSG, Roger was an equity analyst with Janco Partners, Inc., and was Assistant Controller at Aspen Skiing Company. Metz earned a B.S. in Accounting and Business Administration from The University of Kansas, and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Kirk Kaynor
VP of Professional Services
Kirk Kaynor has 30 years of experience in consultative sales and professional services. He leads a customer-driven team that provides unparalleled service and specializes in areas of process improvement, integration, cost savings, and customer satisfaction. He has led professional service teams with enterprises such as NEON, Xaware and Diogenes and is proud of the relationships with customers that he has developed throughout his career including IBM, Sybase and some of the top Wall Street firms. Most recently he served as Vice President of Professional Services with Recondo, where he had responsibility for activation of all Software Services. Kirk holds a BS in Computer Science from Brigham Young University.

David Bacon
VP of Technology
David drives process improvements in Content Management, Release Management and Customer Support.
David brings more than 20 years of experience in software development, operations, customer support and data analysis to Channelinsight. His experience includes founding and leading two entrepreneurial software firms. He served as Vice President of Engineering at i-Behavior where he drove the migration of the OLTP database to a new model handling tens of millions of transactions per day, as well as overseeing the application engineering team. Prior to i-Behavior, Dave was senior director of Software Engineering and Architecture for CashEdge, Inc. and Director of Enterprise Architecture and Engineering at BEA Systems, Inc (Oracle).
