Smarsh Management Executives | Smarsh Archiving

Founder & CEO

Executives

Stephen Marsh
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Stephen Marsh founded the hosted email archiving and compliance vendor Smarsh, Inc. in 2001, and the organization achieved operating profitability almost immediately with just a handful of clients.

Today, Marsh oversees the operation with more than 15,000 clients worldwide and over 150 employees. The company is headquartered in Portland, Ore. with offices in New York City, Atlanta, Boston and Los Angeles. Smarsh has developed into the premier hosted email archiving and compliance vendor by helping companies in the strictly-regulated financial services industry satisfy SEC and FINRA regulatory obligations. Smarsh technology also helps firms maximize efficiency while minimizing regulatory compliance and legal risk.

Marsh serves as a mentor to local technology entrepreneurs and as a member of the board of directors for the National Association of Independent Brokers/Dealers (NAIBD). He was honored in April 2009 by the Portland Business Journal as one of Portland's 40 under 40, young business leaders making a difference in business and in their community. He was also a finalist for the 2009 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the Pacific Northwest. The eponymous founder and CEO is active in every facet of the operation at Smarsh, and is as comfortable providing technical support for clients as he is brokering business development.

Prior to founding the company, Marsh led product management and development efforts at CCBN, now a division of Thomson Financial, a market leader in investor relations communications services. He also spent time at both Fidelity Investments and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.

Marsh is frequently featured in financial and technology publications and speaks regularly at industry conferences. The Syracuse University graduate currently lives in Camas, Wash. with his wife and three children.

Andy Augustine
Chief Technology Officer

As Chief Technology Officer, Andy Augustine is responsible for all aspects of IT and product development, including operations, quality assurance, product management, project management and database admin at Smarsh.

Prior to joining Smarsh, he oversaw the development, quality assurance, and technical operations platforms at MFG.com, the largest global online marketplace for the manufacturing community. MFG.com connects buyers and suppliers of manufactured products from around the world in a collaborative, real-time manufacturing marketplace. As CTO, Augustine centralized a global team of 40+ technology staff that was spread across three continents to a core team of 20 in MFG.com's Atlanta offices.

Prior to MFG.com, he served as the senior vice president of application development for Thomson Financial, a leading financial services company that provides integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. In this role, Augustine developed and led strategies in the creation of a common platform for over 40 product development groups. He was also responsible for the support and development of over $1 billion worth of products. He also previously served as Chief Technology Officer at CCBN, which was acquired by Thomson in 2004, leading all aspects of technology from start-up to over $65 million in revenue and holding several product patents.

Augustine currently lives with his wife and two children in Atlanta, and he is very active in the Atlanta technology community.

Barbara Chiapuzio
Chief Financial Officer

Barbara Chiapuzio joined Smarsh in 2008 with a history of navigating start-ups to financial success and through aggressive growth. She brings 20 years of combined experience in public accounting and private industry to Smarsh and assumed leadership of the company's finance, accounting and human resources operations.

Prior to Smarsh, Chiapuzio spent five years as the CFO of Network Elements, Inc. in Beaverton, Ore. She helped raise over $100 million in equity, debt and government contracts. She also directed all accounting, human resources and IT functions.

As the vice president of finance at Claremont Technology Group, she helped lead the company through its initial and secondary public offerings. She later helped identify a merger partner and ultimately close the merger with CBSI. With the newly-formed Convansys, she continued her role as the vice president of finance, served as a member of the mergers and acquisitions team and developed and implemented their European strategy.

Chiapuzio also gained experience with KPMG in Portland, Ore. providing tax and accounting services.

The Portland State University graduate stays active in her local community and serves on a number of civic and school district committees. Barbara, her husband and two children reside in Tigard, Ore.

Sam Kolbert-Hyle
VP/Business Development & Strategic Initiatives

Sam Kolbert-Hyle joined Smarsh in 2009 as its Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Initiatives. He is responsible for managing Smarsh business development efforts including corporate development, strategy, and emerging businesses. He also leads Smarsh merger and acquisitions and strategic partnerships, including alliances with service partners and independent software vendors.

Prior to joining Smarsh, Kolbert-Hyle was an associate at Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors in Los Angeles, a private equity group which focuses on growth investments in profitable software and service businesses. There, he developed sector-specific expertise in Software-as-a-Service, enterprise software, IT services, technology products, online advertising, and other technology-enabled service businesses. He has also worked as an analyst at Citigroup and Cohen & Company (now Institutional Financial Markets) and was the co-founder and President of Campus Sportswear USA, Inc. from 2003 until 2007.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School with a concentration in Finance and a minor in History, Kolbert-Hyle grew up in Philadelphia and is an avid Philadelphia sports fan.

You can reach Sam directly at (971) 270-1163 or by email at skhyle [at] smarsh.com.

Justin Parker
VP/Product Development

Justin Parker has led Smarsh's development efforts since 2004, and he assembled and manages the well-rounded team of talent committed to the company's vision for perpetual innovation. He directs a nimble development agenda built on responsiveness to client feedback and requests.

Parker's team is charged with the conception, integration, design, coding, testing, implementation and maintenance of all of the company's proprietary applications. The team also aims to create efficiency for Smarsh's users by automating the routine, and to make the user experience integrated, intuitive and easy.

Prior to joining Smarsh, Justin spent five years at Antares Technology Solutions as a software and Web developer. There, he designed and developed database systems for SQL Server, MS Access, and MySQL, designed entity relationship diagrams based on client business processes and wrote stored procedures, user-defined functions and triggers needed to support database driven applications.

The Louisiana State University graduate resides in Portland, Ore.