Management Team

Management Team Bios

 
K. Mason Conner - President and Chief Executive Officer , has over twenty-four years in sales and business management experience. For the last sixteen years, he has held senior positions in the data and voice communication products and services industries with companies such as TMSI, LTS Corp, Digital Network Architects, Banyan Systems, Doelz Networks, and Timeplex.

H. Jay Hill - Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Director, has served on fourteen Boards of Directors. For the last seventeen years, he has primarily focused on high technology and telecommunication turnaround situations at the executive level. Mr. Hill has held management positions with Amnet (Netlink), Harris Corporation, Paradyne, Inforex, and IBM.

J. Thomas Zender - Chairman of the Board, has over thirty-five years of management and marketing experience in the information technology industry. He has held management positions with MAI Systems, Encore Computer, MTI Technology, General Electric, Honeywell, and ITT.

Gerik M. Degner - CFA was nominated to join our Board of Directors in June, 2009. Since May of 2009, Mr. Degner has been a Director at Waveland Capital Group focusing on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and private equity services. From July 2007 to May 2009, Mr. Degner worked with Charterhouse Group, a middle market private equity group, as an Advisor responsible for transaction and business development activities. From August 2004 to July 2007, he founded and managed Synergem Venture Group, an investment banking consulting firm that worked with numerous private equity funds on strategic consolidation and special acquisition projects. From November 2002 to August 2004, Mr. Degner founded and managed Cimarron Equity Partners, a micro market private equity fund that focused on lower middle market companies. Mr. Degner’s background includes a variety of transactions including private equity placement, mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, growth financings and divestitures. Mr. Degner holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder and is a CFA Charterholder.

Ricardo A. Salas - Director, currently serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Liquidmetal Technologies. From January 2000 through June 2005, Mr. Salas served as Chief Executive Officer of iLIANT Corporation, an information technology and outsourcing service firm in the health care industry, and he continues to serve as Chairman of iLIANT. From 1987 through 2004, he was Vice President of J. Holdsworth Capital Ltd., a private investment firm. As an officer of J. Holdsworth Capital Ltd., Mr. Salas held positions in various investments including Medical Manager Corporation as a vice president between June 1999 and January 2000, National Medical Systems, Inc. as vice president between April 1994 and February 1997, and Uni Flange Corporation as vice president between June 1989 and June 1994. Mr. Salas received his B.A. in Economics in 1986 from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.