Perreault Birmingham Group LLC - Managing Principals

Robert Perreault

Mr. Perreault is a Managing Director of The Perreault Birmingham Group LLC, where he specializes in providing operational and strategic advice to software businesses and other technology-related companies. Most recently, Bob was Executive Vice President of Blue Pumpkin Software and was instrumental in improving the company’s performance and then selling the company to Witness Systems. Bob has also spent ten years in senior executive positions at Chemdex (Ventro), Borland Software, Visigenic Software, Compuware, and Arsin Corporation, and founded two consulting start-ups that were later acquired. Bob also served as Senior R&D Section Manager for database products at Hewlett-Packard, where he worked for over ten years.

Mr. Perreault holds a B.A. in Economics/Math Sciences with Distinction from Stanford University, an M.B.A. with Distinction from the University of Michigan, and was an HP sponsored participant in the Honors Cooperative Masters program in Computer Science at Stanford University.

Hobart McK. Birmingham

Mr. Birmingham is a Managing Director of The Perreault Birmingham Group LLC, where he provides business consulting and investment banking services to companies, principally in the high tech industry. Hobey spent several years in legal and executive positions at Borland Software and Apple Computer. He also spent over twenty years as a transaction lawyer with major law firms in San Francisco and Tokyo, specializing in domestic and international business and M&A. Hobey has served on the boards of directors of early stage companies and non-profit organizations. He has also taught international and Japanese law at the University of Michigan, Loyola University (LA) and University of San Francisco law schools. He currently serves on the board of directors of Optical Communications Products, Inc., a publicly traded company (NASDAQ:OCPI).

Mr. Birmingham received a J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School and an A.B. cum laude from Princeton University, and he is proficient in Japanese.  He holds a Series 7 and Series 63 securities registrations (CA) and offers investment banking services as a registered representative of ePlanning Securities Inc. FINRA, SIPC.

Bruce Stouffer

Mr. Stouffer is Vice-President of the Perreault Birmingham Group LLC, where he focuses on sales, marketing and other revenue generation activities for clients in technology-driven businesses. Bruce was previously Vice President & General Manager of the ePortfolio Software Division of the Arsin Corporation in Santa Clara, California where he was responsible for sales, marketing and product development for Investment Banking software. Before joining the Arsin Corporation, Bruce was a Vice President with the RONIN Corporation in Princeton, New Jersey, an international marketing strategy consultancy specializing in the computer and telecommunications industries, and before that he was Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Systech International. He was also a Business Director for the manufacturing automation division of FMC Corporation and traveling extensively overseas as he was responsible for international sales and marketing.

Mr. Stouffer has a BS in Economics from Cornell University and an MBA from the University of Michigan.  Bruce also teaches Marketing & Sales Management courses at the university level.