Pete Ianace – President & CEO Director
Pete Ianace is a co-founder of ESPRE Solutions and brings 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. During the first 20 years of his career, Ianace served as president of Pactel Meridian Systems, a joint venture with NorTel. Prior to that he served as Nortel’s vice president of marketing, where he led the market launch of the Meridian 1 product line, and as vice president of the New York Region. He also served as director of global accounts for AT&T, as well as in various senior sales and engineering positions at IBM.
Kyle A Nelson – Chief Marketing Officer Director
Kyle Nelson is a co-founder of ESPRE Solutions and the creator and visionary behind the ViewMail Marketing System. Nelson will help lead ESPRE Solutions’ strategy while managing its marketing and business development initiatives. As 8Point Communications’ Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer, Kyle Nelson led product marketing, strategic marketing and development, branding initiatives and strategic partnerships. Kyle founded CAREERS Live, a career broadcasting network which produced the recruitment industry’s first in-flight television show. Nelson also served as chief business development officer and vice president of marketing at jobs.com (backed by CBS/Viacom) where he was responsible for product innovations, alliances, marketing and venture capital partners, including Idealab, Yahoo!, CBS, The Tom Peters Company and others. He supervised the creation of a multi-million dollar, national television advertising campaign considered by Adweek Magazine to be the best in the category, in addition to award-winning radio and print campaigns that generated dramatic response. Nelson operated a consulting firm specialized in launching early-stage retail technology products, pioneering innovative software distribution techniques. Among his clients were ESRI, largest GIS software developer in the world, and Caldera, a leading LINUX software developer. He has also held various sales and marketing positions with such companies as Micrografx, Maximizer Technologies and Arts & Letters.
Bob Nimon – Chief Technology Officer
Bob Nimon provides ESPRE Solutions with a diverse, 30 year technical and management background. He co-founded DNA Enterprises in 1981, serving as President for fifteen years of the firm that provided premier contract hardware/software design and development services for a variety of industries. He sold the company in 1996 and has since served as a partner in Nimon Consulting, building a portfolio of major telecommunications and software vendor clients. 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, interprocessor communications subsystems and large multi-rate cross-connect systems for customers such as MCI, GTE, Sprint, Intelect Communications Systems and Honeywell. The DNA experience afforded Mr. Nimon opportunities to work with the senior management of a diverse group of companies to help solve seemingly intractable problems. Through these opportunities, coupled with the demands of managing his own company consisting of a large number of software and hardware engineers, he gained experience in all areas of corporate and product development.
Forres McGraw – Chief Financial Officer
Forres McGraw is a CPA and the Chief Financial Officer for ESPRE Solutions. He brings more than 19 years of accounting and financial experience to direct the company’s financial resources to meet immediate and long-term goals. Prior to joining ESPRE Solutions, Forres served as CFO for 8 Point Communications, Inc., a video conferencing company which merged with ESPRE. He was the founder, director and President of Nostrum BioTechnology, Inc., a small start-up bio-medical company. Forres developed and maintained domestic and international strategic relationships and built the team that produced Nostrum’s premier product. Prior to Nostrum BioTechnology, Forres was founder and President of International Factoring Group, Ltd for seven years. As President, Forres was responsible for due diligence, financial analysis of target companies, business and investment risks, collection, cash management, contract drafting/negotiation and UCC compliance. Forres went to IFG (International Factoring Group) from Computer Support Corporation where he was Director of Finance. For 10 years prior to joining Computer Support, Forres was the Partner in Charge of MIS at Donahoe, McGraw & Associates, CPA’s. As a name partner in the firm, Forres drew on his prior experience as Assistant Controller/Controller of The Pierre Hotel in New York and international tax specialist for Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company (ODECO).
Bob Logan – COO Director
Bob Logan is a seasoned sales and marketing executive with a motivational approach that integrates strategic planning, process and action to produce measurable results. Logan brings to ESPRE Solutions a 28-year background in computing devices, hardware, software and services which gives Logan an edge in marketing integrated digital applications for multiple markets. As a director at ASI, Logan launched and established the company's largest sales and marketing division, the Systems Integration Division, which led ASI in revenue, profit and market share for high-production consulting services and peripherals. As CEO of MIRUS Ltd., he developed a software sales organization and surrounding marketing initiatives that substantially increased revenues & market share for the company. Logan also played instrumental roles in boosting productivity, profitability and organizational strength in key sales and marketing management positions with IKON, Alco Standard Corporation, and Xerox Corporation. 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.
Greg Spindler, VP Sales
Greg is a top Sales, Marketing and Operations Executive with a 25-year record of success in the telecommunications industry. Greg has held senior Sales and Marketing roles in start-ups as well as in large corporate environments. Greg led a turn-around initiative at Intecom Inc. as Chief Operating Officer and transformed that company from a legacy PBX manufacturer to a market leading VoIP-based contact center company. Prior to Intecom, Greg served as head of marketing and business development for TelCom Training Corporation and led the company to enormous success increasing revenues 3000% in three years. The company successfully implemented its exit strategy and was acquired in 1999. As a key executive for Nortel Networks in the Asia Pacific Region, Greg spearheaded the establishment of Marketing Support Centers in Singapore and Hong Kong , dramatically improving market share and profitability for the company in that region. Before Nortel, Greg had a long and successful career in sales at Bell Canada and one of its key subsidiaries BCSI.
Andy Wilson - VP Product Management
Andy Wilson leads the ESPRE Solutions product management and design efforts drawing on more than nineteen years experience applying technology creatively to solve marketing and business problems. For the last nine years Andy has served as Chief Technology Officer and Lead Designer for a number of technology startups including 8Point Communications, eOrbis.com, Virtual Select and vCallME. Andy served as Managing Partner and CEO of eMercatus, a technology company that specializes in developing business e-commerce and guiding start-ups through the complex technology, strategy and finance decisions essential to success. Previously, Andy was VP of Interactive Development for Match Frame, Inc. a premier media production company developing multimedia sales and training systems for ADT, IBM, Motorola, HEB, Cyberlog and ATX. He also worked as a technical researcher and system designer developing distance learning systems and multimedia software and consulting with organizations such as IBM, AT&T, Motorola, Macromedia, Pacific Bell, and Texas Instruments.
Steven Stuart – VP, Mergers & Acquisitions
Mr. Stuart has over 20 years experience in Business and Finance. Before joining ESPRE Solutions, he was Chief Operating Officer for Newton ’s Spectra Corporation, where he was responsible for all business operations. Previously Mr. Stuart founded Rock Castle Group, Inc., consultant to private companies seeking to become publicly trading and to public companies seeking assistance in the preparation and filing of securities disclosure documents. He was also a principal in The Kettering Group, Inc., an investment banking firm specializing in debt and equity financing arrangements for start-up and developing companies, and assisting companies in becoming publicly traded. r. Stuart has 10 years experience as VP Investments, working for Stratton Oakmont and Gruntel Securities, the oldest broker-dealer on Wall Street. He has participated in the launch of 25 IPO’s that collectively raised in excess of $500 million. He also has consulted with small-cap companies, helping to raise private placement funding as well as broadening their shareholder base through widespread TV, radio and print media campaigns.
Rick Bansal – VP, Engineering Services
Rick served as Vice President of Engineering Services for Wireless Peripherals, which was acquired by ESPRE Solutions in 2004. At ESPRE Solutions, Rick retains this title and is responsible for all sales engineering, client services and support efforts for ESPRE Solutions. Rick has over 17 years of experience in the technology sector in both the development and management areas. Prior to Wireless Peripherals, he served as Chief Architect and Client Services Manager at Tonic Software, a leading vendor of enterprise-level web-application management software. As the architect, he was responsible for successfully implementing Tonic's largest and most valuable deployment to date. Prior to Tonic, he served as Consulting Engineering Manager for WindRiver Systems. Rick also has extensive design and development experience. His technical areas of expertise are in the design, development and implementation of both standards-based and proprietary datacom and telecom protocols, and in the design and development of real-time communications systems. Rick has held senior-level technical positions at various companies including DNA Enterprises, Coyote Technologies, Intelect and Loral Space Information Systems. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas .
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