Don Springer
CEO
Don is a successful three time entrepreneur whose previous companies have returned more than 500% to his investors. Dante Software was a venture capital-backed company acquired by webMethods (WEBM) in the fall 2003. Don led WEBM’s business process optimization unit, achieving more than 40% in consecutive quarterly revenue growth and an annualized run-rate of $30M. He has an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and a B.S. in Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia.
Greg Greenstreet
CTO, SVP Engineering
Greg has more than twenty years experience delivering scientific and commercial software applications. He has a solid background in mathematics, artificial intelligence and parallel processing, directing commercial applications in aerospace, networking, storage and telecommunications. Greenstreet holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Colorado State University and a M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Colorado, with thesis work in parallel processing.
Richard Keck
CFO
Rich is an accomplished executive with more than 22 years experience in dynamic service businesses, including companies in the finance, logistics, technology marketing and IT outsourcing. Prior to Collective Intellect, he was the Vice President of Finance for IT outsourcing at Infocrossing, a publicly-traded firm which had acquired (i)Structure from Level 3 where he had served as Vice President of Finance and Service Management. Keck holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, and graduated with honors with a B.S. in Accountancy from the University of Illinois in Urbana.
Marc Silberstrom
SVP Strategy
Marc brings sales and strategy leadership and experience successfully growing revenues for a number of enterprise software, market research and business consulting organizations. Prior to joining Collective Intellect, Marc led strategy and business development for the Market Research Technology company iModerate, guiding the organization to a threefold increase in revenue in just 20 months. Marc led sales for the healthcare business and technology consulting organization Catalyst, directing a two-fold increase in revenue in just 15 months, earning Catalyst the status of the fastest growing woman owned company in Colorado in 2006. Marc has also held sales and strategy leadership positions at companies such as Statera, Sterling Commerce, Allen Systems Group (ASG) and Consilient. Marc holds a bachelor's degree in behavioral sciences from The Johns Hopkins University.
Mehrshad Setayesh
CIO
Mehrshad is an accomplished twenty-year software professional with extensive international experience and unique expertise in the high volume transactional systems that permeate social media content. A Collective Intellect veteran and architect of a patent-pending CI technology, Mehrshad brings deep social media and data mining insight to his CIO role, ensuring all customer deliverables benefit from sound process and best practices. Mehrshad studied software engineering at Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland, received a B.S. in Computer Science from Texas A&M and a Masters in Software Engineering from Southern Methodist University.