Mirador was founded to become the best permanent home for ERP software companies.
The founder’s journey—building out a proven software solution that solves a unique set of problems, and then amassing a targeted set of customers who will happily use it—often takes a lifetime. Mirador is a partner to these inspired founders and entrepreneurs who wish to safeguard their legacy by applying a long-view, never-sell approach to growth and value creation.
A family-owned software group with decades of unique and specialized experience in the ERP application software space, Mirador specializes in acquiring and operating ERP software companies at all stages of development.
The Mirador Team
Mirador is a family-owned software group, initially founded by father (chairman) Jeff Tognoni and son (CEO) Corbin Tognoni in 2023. As the group has grown, so has the Mirador executive team with Steve Bailey (Technology Board Advisor), Richard Furby (COO) and Melissa Stahley (CMO)—all joining with a shared vision of creating the best permanent home for ERP software companies. Having previously worked together building and operating two private equity (PE) funded ERP software platforms: Consona (now Aptean; 2003-2012) and Forterro (2012-2022), the five bring decades upon decades of experience in the ERP application software space.
Jeff Tognoni
Chairman
Jeff was a pioneer in developing build-and-buy investment strategies for the ERP software space, acting as founder and CEO of both Consona and Forterro. At each one, Jeff evolved a single, midmarket ERP company into a 12-product international software group. Today, combined, Consona and Forterro are valued at $4.7 billion and serve tens of thousands of industrial companies. Prior to his time at Forterro and Consona, Jeff held CEO positions at several other software companies, including Millenium Dynamics, iKnowledge Inc., EC Cubed, and Zeborg.
Corbin Tognoni
CEO
Corbin launched his career in the PE world, serving as an associate at Battery Ventures, before partnering with Jeff as CFO of Forterro, where he helped grow the company tenfold while overseeing finance, administration, HR, legal, and M&A for the group.
Corbin also maintains several board advisory positions for a number of software companies, including Gung AB and BookReport, and advises Ingressive Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm.
Richard Furby
COO
Richard has more than 25 years of technology leadership, sales, and consulting experience, having worked with some of the world’s leading companies including Siemens, Standard Life, AIG, Virgin Media, Telefonica, Starbucks and Pepsi. Previously, Richard was the GM of abas Software—Forterro’s largest acquisition—as well as Forterro’s SVP of Professional Services & Customer Success and CIO. Earlier in his career, he started and headed Smartsheet’s enterprise business and held several executive roles at Consona.
Melissa Stahley
CMO
Melissa has 20+ years of experience in the ERP / application software space, having overseen teams responsible for demand generation, corporate communications, business development, product marketing, and HR at Forterro, and before that Consona. Throughout her career, she has led due diligence, deal communications, and integrations for more than 20 PE-led M&A processes and developed strategies around culture, communication, brand, and marketing for two international, multi-product software groups.
Steve Bailey
Technology Board Advisor
Steve has over 20 years of experience as a CTO, including acquisition due diligence, integration of acquired firms, and continuous improvement of both R&D operations and product architectures in the US, Europe, India, and Morocco.
Earlier in his career, Steve served in technical management positions at several Fortune 500 companies, holding responsibility for software design, consulting, and global IT infrastructure growth. He is a published author and U.S. patent holder.
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