Management Team
Mumboe’s management team is led by experienced professionals with successful track records in building successful teams, software development, linguistics and online customer service. They are passionate about solving complex business problems, delivering high-value software as a service, usability, and Texas barbecue.
Bill Kane, Chief Executive Officer
Bill is responsible for defining and executing Mumboe’s market vision and strategy. Previously, Bill worked as a venture consultant advising high-tech startups, and served as managing director of a technology fund. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Bill spent nearly 10 years flying fighter jets. After narrowly surviving a high speed ejection over the Mediterranean Sea, Bill left the military for the safer and dryer confines of Austin to earn his MBA from the University of Texas. On weekends Bill throws tennis balls into Town Lake while Gus, his 10 year old yellow Lab, ignores them and swims around aimlessly for fun.
Scott Diedrick, Director of Product Development
Scott is a founding member of Mumboe and oversees the team responsible for developing Mumboe applications. He is an active proponent of the new generation of web-based software as a service applications, and spearheaded the initiative to use Ruby on Rails as Mumboe’s development platform. He is also the driving force behind many of Mumboe’s innovative, online collaboration features. A graduate of the University of Texas, Scott is passionate about all things Austin. Each spring he immerses himself in the city’s legendary South by Southwest music festival, surfacing only to post updates from the scene to the Mumboe Twitter account. In the great Texas barbecue sauce debate, Scott is squarely in the Salt Lick camp.
James Walley, Director of Customer Service
James is responsible for making sure Mumboe customers are happy customers. A Mississippi State University graduate, James migrated to Austin and settled just north of the city in Round Rock, Texas, where he leads the local Bulldogs alumni chapter and actively promotes his new home town by bringing Round Rock Donuts to the office. The go-to guy for customer questions, feedback and training, James is a certified Project Management Professional and the key reason Mumboe enjoys such a stellar reputation for customer service and support. Ask James a question, any question, about Mumboe’s capabilities and features, and you’ll have your answer faster than you can say “contract collaboration”. Little-known fact: James is also the source of the soothing knowledgeable voiceover in Mumboe’s video tutorials.
Anne-Marie Currie, PhD, Director of Linguistics
Anne-Marie is a founding member of Mumboe and oversees the development of Mumboe’s proprietary natural language processing technology. With a degree in Psychology from Harvard and a PhD in linguistics from the University of Texas in Austin, Anne-Marie is not someone you want to bet against in a casual game of Scrabble. Her passion for linguistics and her commitment to accuracy in her work has resulted in Mumboe’s ability to automatically extract more than 100 data fields from business agreements. Given a good sample document, Anne-Marie has been known to create new extraction rules in just a few hours. Her mantra: the more documents our customers have to upload into Mumboe, the better!
