Tom Barton
Founding General Partner
Tom Barton is a Founding General Partner of Broken Arrow Capital. Tom was the CEO of Rackable Systems from 2002 to 2007, overseeing the company’s period of rapid growth from $25 million in annual sales to $360 million. Prior to Rackable Systems, he was a Venture Partner and Entrepreneur in Residence with Lightspeed Venture Partners. Tom was at Cygnus Solutions from 1996 to 2000, and held many executive roles there including Interim CEO. He was instrumental in Cygnus’ acquisition by RedHat, and stayed on post –acquisition as Senior Vice President of Client Services at RedHat. Tom was also a management consultant for many years, focusing on technology companies and IT projects. He was with McKinsey from 1990 to 1996, and also spent time at the Information Consulting Group and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Tom holds an MBA, BS, and AB from Stanford University.

Todd Ford
Founding General Partner
Todd has broad management and operations experience in developing companies from early stage start-ups, through public offerings and beyond. Most recently he led Rackable Systems (Nasdaq: RACK) in various capacities including President, EVP and CFO, from $20M in revenue in 2002 to over $350M in 2006 with a successful IPO in 2005 and subsequent secondary offerings in 2006. Todd has raised over $750M from public and private markets throughout his career. He has held various management and financial positions with several venture backed companies including Noosh, RasterGraphics, and Cadence Design Systems. He was the CEO of FCC, Inc., an Inc. 500 company where he was named a finalist for Entrepreneur of the Year. Todd graduated from Santa Clara University and began his career in public accounting with Ernst & Young and Arthur Andersen.