Our Leadership Team

Pete Ianace , CEO

Bringing more than 30 years of experience building
successful technology business units, sales channels
and companies. Mr. Ianace has extensive experience
with business startups and turnarounds, having
successfully built and spun out three technology
companies in the last twelve years. His broad experience as a CEO has included heading companies in aerospace, defense contracting, telecommunications and networking. He has raised more than $125M for his various companies and secured large contracts with US, European and Asian clients including the FAA, Lockheed Martin, Apple, Philips , Korea Tel, Beijing Telecom, and Singapore Telecom.

Peter Leighton,
President

Peter has over 25 years experience in funding and managing of new
and existing businesses and has served as Chairman, CFO, and CEO in
two public companies, over 20 private companies and joint ventures. 
In these capacities, he has raised over $350 million in private equity,
public offering, and debt financings.  Peter has successfully initiated
and managed both start-up and turn-around ventures through to sale. 
Professionally, Peter is a Chartered Account and has a B.Sc. 
(Engineering  Science).

Bob Nimon, CTO

Bob Nimon provides ESPRE Solutions with a diverse,
30 year technical and management background.
Mr. Nimon holds patents in telecommunications,
multiprocessor design, and embedded application
methods. Bob is one of the leading system architects
in the country, having designed process control and
switching systems, inter-processor communications sub-
systems and large multi-rate cross-connect systems for
customers such as MCI, GTE, Sprint, Honeywell and
Intelect Communications Systems.

Bob Logan, COO

35-year background in computing devices, hardware, software and services in key management positions with IKON, Alco Standard Corporation, and Xerox which gives Logan an edge in marketing integrated digital applications for multiple markets. Logan 's experience managing complex sales cycles and multiple product offerings will help ESPRE's sales, marketing and engineering teams to develop effective customer facing products supported by product knowledge, market insight and innovation.

Ernie Ianace
V.P.Strategic Accounts

Ernie Ianace brings over 18 years of successful, proven sales and management experience to ESPRE Solutions.  Before joining ESPRE Solutions, Mr. Ianace was Vice President of Strategic Accounts, at TippingPoint, a Division of 3Com.  Mr. Ianace also launched and ran TippingPoint's international sales efforts as Vice President of Sales for APR/LATAM.  Prior to TippingPoint, Mr. Ianace was the senior director of sales for North America at Siemens. Siemens acquired Efficient Networks where Ianace was the senior director of sales for North America and Latin America . Mr. Ianace has also held various senior management roles in sales, marketing and sales engineering at Nortel, VMX and Intelect Network Technologies.