Management Team

Tom Beese

Tom Beese

Chief Executive Officer

Tom Beese has been ClearSpeed's chief executive officer since September 2000. He joined the group from Hewlett-Packard where he was a member of the functional management team of the Data Protection Organization and focused on the identification of new markets and development and exploitation of new technologies. He joined Hewlett-Packard after an Executive MBA at the University of Bath and gained his original business experience, after leaving the Army, in consulting and in the development and turn-around of start-ups.

Paul Webb

Andy Kroese

Chief Financial Officer

Andy Kroese joined ClearSpeed in 2007 as Chief Financial Officer and member of the Board. A seasoned HP veteran, he spent 24 years leading and managing various global finance and IT activities. Most recently he was finance director of World Wide Operations for HP’s Personal Systems Group.  As part of that responsibility, he lead the group's financial management of supply chain architecture, inventory, commodity procurement, manufacturing and customer support.  He holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from the University of Southern California, MBA in Finance from the University of Arizona, and Executive Education from both the Wharton School of Business and the University of Michigan.