Marnin Kligfeld, PhD

CHAIRMAN, ADVISORY BOARD

  • Board of Directors of Cure Autism Now (CAN) which merged into Autism Speaks 

  • Founder of Sequoia Partners, a boutique software M&A firm

  • Over 30 year’s experience in technology product management, strategy and mergers/acquisitions

  • Father of an adult daughter with Autism 

Marnin has spent his career providing leadership in a variety of capacities. He worked as a board member, was the founder and president of a mergers and acquisitions company and is an investor and advisor to selected technology companies. In each of these arenas, Marnin brings the combination of a strategic view, a practical eye toward achieving goals, a collaborative approach to problem solving and the ability to work with others in both short and long time frames. 

Marnin is on the Board of Directors, SmartEdTech, a special education Saas system that delivers a professional grade dedicated and collaborative tool for special education focused on language and communication development, generating better outcomes for special education students. He is also on the board of Coincident.tv, a company that delivered software to create, distribute and track rich, interactive web-based video experiences.

Customers like Fox Broadcasting, ABC Family, MTV Networks, Fox Sports, CBS, Audi and Travelocity deployed Coincident.tv software to deliver “interactive, social TV”. Marnin was on the board of Rulespace, a software company that managed web content categorization products and services. Microsoft acquired the business in 2003. 

Marnin’s employment history includes Founder & President, Sequoia Partners,a boutique mergers and acquisitions consulting firm that specialized in maximizing return for sellers of mid-size technology companies. Sequoia completed transactions to a range of acquiring companies including Microsoft, Business Objects/SAP, Oracle, Macromedia/Adobe, Documentum/EMC, Spirent, Reuters, Inktomi and Panasonic. He was also director of Business Development and Strategic Product Acquisitions at Integral Systems, Inc. where they evaluated hundreds of software products on all hardware platforms and ultimately negotiated for and acquired several strategically important new software products.