Carolyn McHale is an experienced Software Business Executive with more than 20 years expertise leading large and small companies in Systems and Energy Management. Carolyn has a strong, winning record taking cutting-edge technologies to market. Her background includes Dell Software and Northern Trust, as well as smaller startup environments Quest Software, ScripLogic, ENow Software and Phoenix Energy Technologies.

In her most recent Energy role Carolyn was the VP of Engineering at Phoenix Energy Technologies for more than five years. In this role she built on Keith’s vision for enterprise EEM and IoT smart buildings, scaling the platform and Engineering teams needed for the rapid growth of Enterprise DX and Data Analytics. By leading Software Engineering and product strategies, Carolyn enabled Phoenix ET to significant customer and revenue growth and to be named the Microsoft Partner Smart building solution for Energy and IoT. Carolyn was an active Executive working across all departments and with investors to optimize during growth, securing additional funding, supporting Sales, managing IT infrastructure and servicing enterprise customers.

Prior to Phoenix, Carolyn spent more than 10 years with Dell Software with multiple global product development teams for products in Systems and Endpoint Management. During her tenure, Carolyn was also engaged on business and strategic initiatives, including mergers/acquisitions, integrations, rationalizations and CTO group initiatives with IoT.

Carolyn has always been passionate about creating technology to serve customers and began her career as a Software Engineer writing code. A geek at heart who loves to learn, Carolyn holds a Bachelor’s degree from Purdue University in Computer Information Systems and has completed numerous additional training/certifications.