Chief Executive Officer
Prior to founding MadCap Software, Anthony Olivier served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Macromedia with responsibility for driving the company and product line strategies across its Help, eLearning, and multimedia products.
Before becoming a member of the Macromedia senior management team, Mr. Olivier served as Chief Executive Officer for eHelp Corporation, the creators of RoboHelp, and worldwide leading provider of user assistance and simulation software. After growing the company into a high growth, highly profitable multi-product company, Mr. Olivier successfully sold eHelp to Macromedia for $69.3M, thereby providing liquidity to founders and employees, and gaining returns in excess of 270% to investors.
Prior to eHelp, Mr. Olivier held a variety of senior management positions in finance and operations, specializing in SEC reporting and IPO's (Initial Public Offerings), including Chief Financial Officer for Spider Technologies (formerly Digital Lighthouse), and Controller for Corbis Corporation, the Bill Gates owned, digital graphics and stock photography company.
Mr. Olivier is also a licensed CPA with the CA State Board of Accountancy.
VP, Product Evangelism
Prior to joining MadCap Software, Michael Hamilton served as the Product Manager for Macromedia's award-winning RoboHelp product line. As product manager of RoboHelp for most of its life, Mr. Hamilton gathered input and feedback from the customer community and guided ongoing development of the various RoboHelp products. Mr. Hamilton joined the RoboHelp family in 1999 as a founding member of the Training Solutions Program team, where he co-authored the certified training materials supporting the RoboHelp family.
Mr. Hamilton has over ten years of experience in training, technical communication, multimedia development, and software development at several organizations including Cymer, a leading supplier of laser illumination sources to the semiconductor industry, National Steel & Shipbuilding and the US Navy.
Mr. Hamilton is often a featured speaker at industry events, including the WinWriters Online Help Conferences, STC (the Society for Technical Communication) Annual International Conference , Forum 2000 London, the Annual Australasian Online Documentation Conferences, the European Online Documentation Conferences and many more events. Mr Hamilton has also appeared at the Microsoft Campus and STC regional conferences and events.
Mr. Hamilton is also frequently quoted in technology articles in various trade publications.
Chief Financial Officer
As Chief Financial Officer, Taunya Conte oversees all aspects of MadCap’s financial operations, human resources and customer relations. With over 15 years of experience in both private and public accounting, Ms. Conte has worked with a variety of industries including: software, dietary supplements, retail and not-for-profit organizations. During this time, Ms. Conte has been responsible for compliance reporting, strategic and financial planning, budget development, profit and loss management, cash flow modeling and instrumental in several key corporate acquisitions.
Prior to joining MadCap Software, Ms. Conte was Corporate Controller of eHelp Corporation and was integral in the due diligence and successful sale of eHelp to Macromedia.
Ms. Conte is a licensed CPA with the California State Board of Accountancy and has earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from California State University — Fresno.
VP, Engineering
Vince Denosta has been involved in the design, development and management of products relating to the Technical Communication industry since 1997.
Since the inception of MadCap Software, Mr. Denosta has been responsible for the design and implementation of MadCap’s software solutions. As the VP of Engineering, he manages the company’s day-to-day product development and delivery efforts for all products. Under Mr. Denosta’s leadership, MadCap has continued to bring award winning documentation solutions to the technical writing community.
Prior to joining MadCap, Mr. Denosta was the Engineering Manager at Macromedia (which acquired eHelp Corporation). Mr. Denosta joined eHelp as one of the original developers of RoboHelp HTML V1. Throughout his tenure, Mr. Denosta was a driving force behind the RobHelp product development and through its final release of RoboHelp Version X5. While at eHelp Mr. Denosta was also the Technical Lead responsible for creating and managing the RoboInfo and RoboEngine product lines.
Mr. Denosta earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree from California State University - San Diego.
VP, Product Management
As VP of Product Management, with over twelve years’ experience in the Technical Communication Industry, Francis Novak leads the product management team in helping drive new product developments, features and services. Mr. Novak also acts as agent and liaison for enterprise customers of MadCap Software. Since the Company’s inception, Mr. Novak has played a vital role in overseeing several facets of the Company’s operations including quality assurance, information technology and technical support.
Prior to joining MadCap Software, Mr. Novak served as the Quality Assurance Manager for the RoboHelp product suite at Macromedia, Inc. He also assisted with the transitioning of the product line for offshore development by Macromedia, Inc. Prior to the acquisition of eHelp Corporation by Macromedia, Mr. Novak served as a Quality Assurance Manager for the flagship product RoboHelp and was instrumental in helping drive the product’s quality and feature set.
In addition to owning and operating several small computer hardware and web companies, Mr. Novak has held positions at Gateway Computers as a Lead Trainer and worked in Quality Assurance for Intuit.