Dwain Kinghorn

Partner

Dwain’s focus is to help companies align their product portfolio with their go to market and business requirements.  Dwain regularly works with accounts on detailed product plans. He also actively participates in customer and parter discussions to assist the accounts in building a sales pipeline. In addition to the operational help, Dwain also sits on the board of directors of multiple companies. In 2010, multiple companies that Dwain worked with launched new product lines and grew revenue to record levels. Dwain has actively helped various accounts complete strategic technology licensing and channel sales agreements to enable revenue growth. Dwain has also helped various SageCreek accounts find and train C-level executives.

Prior to SageCreek, Dwain was Vice President at Symantec Corporation and was in charge of the collaboration architecture to ensure multiple Symantec products work together.  He was instrumental in the successful adoption of the Altiris platform at Symantec.

Dwain served as the CTO at Altiris from 2000 through the Symantec acquisition in 2007 and oversaw a development team that grew to over 500 people and an engineering budget in excess of $50M.  Dwain knows how to work with diverse teams across the world.  He has a strong background in how to manage teams that consist of both employees and outsourced resources across the world.  His leadership of the product teams was instrumental in Altiris’ products receiving a large number of industry awards.

Dwain was instrumental in evaluating acquisition targets and has had a key role in the M&A process for many transactions.  Dwain is a successful entrepreneur having started Computing Edge in 1994.  Each year for 6 years Computing Edge experienced greater than 40% growth and each year the operation was profitable.   Computing Edge was the recognized leader in solutions that extended Microsoft’s management platform.

Prior to Computing Edge, Dwain worked at Microsoft in the Operating System division.  Dwain graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Outside of work, Dwain loves to spend time outdoors with family and friends.  He has been married over 20 years and has 3 children.  He is an avid runner having run many marathons.  He has qualified for and run in the  Boston marathon multiple times.  His favorite vacation is to spend time at Lake Powell in Utah with the family on a houseboat.   Rumor also has it that while Dwain is the technology focused partner at SageCreek, he has been known to win on a few of the golf outings with other partners.