Management Team

Mr. Duncan has over 25 years of experience focused on building companies and taking products and services to market. Prior to Boardwalk, Mr. Duncan served as President and CEO of Advanced Data Exchange ("ADX"). ADX provides on-demand supply chain transaction processing network used today by over 200 of the Fortune 1000. Mr. Duncan also served as President and CEO of The EC Company which was focused on payment transaction technologies for the small and mid-sized market. Mr. Duncan also served as President and CEO of Buena Vista Software. During his work in the technology field, Mr. Duncan has led companies through several stages of growth and secured significant investments from American Express, CMGI @Ventures, Invamed Associates, Intel Capital, Wasserstein Addelson Ventures, GKM Ventures, Sandler Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, Morado Ventures, Columbus Nova and The Thomson Companies. Prior to entering the technology field, Mr. Duncan was President and CEO of Duncan Insurance, Inc., a nationwide Insurance brokerage representing over 80 insurance companies specializing in commercial insurance.

Mr. Bennet brings over 30 years of experience to Boardwalktech’s Board of Directors, as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), investor, and/or board member of over 100 technology start-ups in the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial ecosystem, primarily in the software, Internet, and mobile sectors. Mr. Bennet is also the founder and managing director of the management consulting firm Bodega Partners. Mr. Bennet’s executive roles as CFO include Rollbar, Xenio Systems, Qvivr, Callisto Media, Revel Systems, iControl Networks (acquired by Comcast), Appstores (acquired by InMobi), Greystripe (acquired by ValueClick), Fliqz (acquired by VBrick Systems), Valchemy (acquired by IBM), GolfWeb (acquired by CBS Sportsline), Orbital Data (acquired by Citrix), TextDigger (acquired by Federated Media), and Pharmacy TV Network (acquired by RMG Networks). Mr. Bennet possesses a passion for both entrepreneurship and education. He has taught entrepreneurial finance since 1995 and is currently adjunct faculty at San Jose State University and has been a lecturer at U.C. Berkeley. His focus is on experiential education and has developed new courses at SJSU, including the Entrepreneurship Lab (ELAB), Venture Lab (VLAB), Startup Founders and Funders, and the Silicon Valley Experience. He is also on the Steering Committee for the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship and UCLA Venture Capital Fund. Prior to and concurrent with Bodega, Mr. Bennet was a Founding Partner at True Global Ventures, Partner at CrossCoin Ventures, Venture Partner at Outlook Ventures, Board Member of Sand Hill Angels, Partner at Menlo Incubator and held various financial and management positions at Bay Logics, Digital Microwave, and Arthur Andersen. Mr. Bennet earned an undergraduate degree in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.

Mr. Krishnan, and the other two founders Sarang Kulkarni & Dharmesh Dadbhawala of Boardwalk, have over 50 combined years of engineering product data management experience working for Parametric Technology, Sherpa, and Netfish. Prior to Boardwalk, Mr. Krishnan was a founder of the Hunington Group which provided advanced database architecture & design consulting. Mr. Krishnan was responsible for the vision and drive beyond a 10,000-user, US$100M collaborative product data management solution, using existing database technology, at Parametric Technology Corporation.

Mr. Dadbhawala has over 20 years of software industry experience in developing highly technical products in the area of Data Management and Software Control Systems. At Boardwalk, Mr. Dadbhawala is responsible for the product of the Boardwalk Enterprise Blockchain. Mr. Dadbhawala as a co-founder of Boardwalk has been instrumental in developing, market positioning and implementing Boardwalk at key marquee customers. Prior to Boardwalk Mr. Dadbhawala was the principal lead developer at Netfish, Sherpa Technologies, and CAE Electronics. Mr. Dadbhawala has a Bachelors of Science degree in Electronics engineering from Bombay University and a Masters of Science in computer science from SUNY Binghamton.

Mr. Cordingley brings more than 20 years of high-tech industry experience to Boardwalk. Most recently, Mr. Cordingley was a Managing Director of The Interim CEO Network, a firm delivering top CEO talent to venture-backed companies. Prior to that, as Vice President of Sales and then President, Mr. Cordingley drove the growth of high-tech staffing firm BAL Associates from US$2M to US$30M over an eight year period and a successful acquisition. Mr. Cordingley began his career with an eight year stint at AT&T Bell Laboratories and held key management roles in one of the early entrepreneurial ventures within AT&T to build enterprise-class UNIX-based systems for the healthcare industry. Mr. Cordingley moved west to join Arthur D. Little as a senior management consultant in their San Francisco office providing strategy and marketing expertise to information technology and telecommunications companies. Mr. Cordingley's work with Arthur D. Little led him to join TDS Healthcare Systems as Director of Business Strategy. TDS, an US$80M privately-held company, was a leading provider of enterprise-class systems to the healthcare industry and was sold to Alltel in 1992. Mr. Cordingley holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Mathematics from Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, and a Masters of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia.