Kent Skidmore

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Mr. Kent Skidmore is Investment Team Member at Rational Equity LLC.
He is a seasoned high tech sales executive with over 25 years experience.
Over his career, he has spent a great deal of time immersed in the $22 billion dollar Enterprise Resource Planning market.
In addition to his role at Rational, he has led a number of highly successful sales team’s consummating numerous multi-million dollar deals with both mid-tier and fortune 1,000 companies.
Currently he is a sales executive with a leading Oracle implementation services partner where he has exceeded a quota each of the past 5 years.
Prior to Oracle, he was Director of Sales for Corio, one of the first companies to market an On-Demand/SaaS software model for PeopleSoft and Siebel applications.
He is credited as one of the key sales executives who laid the foundation for Corio in the new emerging On-Demand software sector.
Prior to Corio, Mr. Skidmore was Director of Sales at Interactive Group during its rapid ascension in the ERP space.
While at Interactive Group, he led the western U.S.
sales team which was instrumental in taking the company from sub $10 million to over $50 million in revenue.
Eventually acquired by Epicor, Interactive Group was considered one of the foundation pieces of Epicor’s current $350 million dollar annual revenue.
Mr. Skidmore is originally from Detroit, MI and graduated with a BA degree from Michigan State University.

Kent Skidmore active positions

Companies	Position	Start
Rational Equity LLC Rational Equity LLC Investment ManagersFinance Rational Equity invests in US middle-market software companies in a variety of sectors including: (1) Manufacturing (2) Healthcare (3) Security (4) financial services (5) retail (6) construction (7) compliance (8) business services/outsourcing (9) government (10) entertainment/media and (11) utilities. The firm looks for companies with revenues of $5 million to $25 million and will consider companies with up to $50 million in revenues. Rational Equity targets companies with successful positions in fragmented industries. They prefer to invest in profitable companies but will entertain losses depending on the condition of the company and its ability to move to profitability. Rational Equity also looks for companies with 40% or greater recurring maintenance revenue stream, reasonable customer attrition and low levels of third party and hardware revenue. The firm concentrates on companies with successful positions in industries of $300 million to $5 billion in market size. They prefer to invest in companies that have been in operation for at least 8 years	Private Equity Investor	07/06/2010

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Companies	Position	End
InterActive Group, Inc. InterActive Group, Inc. Financial ConglomeratesFinance Development stage company	Sales & Marketing	-
Corio, Inc. Corio, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Develops enterprise software solutions	Sales & Marketing	-

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Corio, Inc. Corio, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Develops enterprise software solutions	Technology Services
Rational Equity LLC Rational Equity LLC Investment ManagersFinance Rational Equity invests in US middle-market software companies in a variety of sectors including: (1) Manufacturing (2) Healthcare (3) Security (4) financial services (5) retail (6) construction (7) compliance (8) business services/outsourcing (9) government (10) entertainment/media and (11) utilities. The firm looks for companies with revenues of $5 million to $25 million and will consider companies with up to $50 million in revenues. Rational Equity targets companies with successful positions in fragmented industries. They prefer to invest in profitable companies but will entertain losses depending on the condition of the company and its ability to move to profitability. Rational Equity also looks for companies with 40% or greater recurring maintenance revenue stream, reasonable customer attrition and low levels of third party and hardware revenue. The firm concentrates on companies with successful positions in industries of $300 million to $5 billion in market size. They prefer to invest in companies that have been in operation for at least 8 years	Finance
Michigan State University Michigan State University Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
InterActive Group, Inc. InterActive Group, Inc. Financial ConglomeratesFinance Development stage company	Finance