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Executive Management
Michael N. Labate
President & Chief Operating Officer - ThinkBuildDeploy
Michael Labate serves as ThinkBuildDeploy's President & Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Labate's blend of visionary leadership, Six Sigma disciplines and vivacious creative character continue to procure lucrative opportunities for ThinkBuildDeploy and its strategic partnership base.
During Mr. Labate's tenure, he has forged strategic long-term relationships with leading back-end service providers, enabling ThinkBuildDeploy to offer superior quality products at exceedingly low price advantages on the company's complimentary service offerings in the marketplace. Mr. Labate maintains both professional and personal relationships with some of the most influential information technology perspectives in the industry.
Prior to ThinkBuildDeploy, Mr. Labate has held various leadership positions in the User Experience and Human Factors sector of Human-Computer Interaction Technology. His professional hands-on experiences have included Senior Usability Architect Manager at TEKsystems, Internet Director at Diamond.com and Senior Information Architect Lead at Motorola with contributions of user-centered design and applied methodologies, usability research and best-practices for a volume of projects.
Mr. Labate is an advocate for the end-user's experience, ensuring the deployment of quality usable products through user-engineering methodologies. He has facilitated successful user-accepted web and application initiatives throughout his career, including mobile devices and client-side software applications. At times, Mr. Labate's creative & technical experience and acute attention to detail is leveraged at ThinkBuildDeploy during complex user experience projects.
Mr. Labate's work has been featured in such publications as Photoshop User magazine during his employment term with a leading Software Game Publisher; featured Art Director in 1997. He has pioneered the "Redline Process" which has since been adopted by several Fortune 500 organizations; an essential asset to pixel-perfect user interfaces in a front-end development workflow, whereby high-fidelity screen proofs are precisely transformed to a coded instance.
Jason M. Napsky
Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer - ThinkBuildDeploy
Jason Napsky serves as ThinkBuildDeploy's Executive Vice President and Chief Technology officer. He is a consummate eBusiness visionary and technical leader with apex proficiencies in business management and senior-level software design and development strategy in both Java and .NET environments.
ThinkBuildDeploy was founded to offer a streamlined bundled-approach to eBusiness primary and complimentary solutions and services demand, enabling organizations of all sizes to leverage an all-in-wonder quality service provider with customer-first philosophies. A vision Mr. Napsky, in collaboration with the organization's Executive Vice President and Principal Partner, Michael Labate, modeled to perfection in 2002 after having served on the vendor procurement side of the table at former companies in pursuit of multi-disciplined business and technical facilitators - that couldn't deliver.
Prior to ThinkBuildDeploy, Mr. Napsky has played integral roles in Information Technology organizations of various genres and sizes since the birth of electronic commerce including the 'boot-camp' start up venture to the Fortune 500 enterprise such as Diamond.com and Motorola. His contributions represent a myriad of leadership capacities throughout his professional incumbency including Senior Manager of Software Development and Software Design & Development Lead.
Mr. Napsky is a Senior Advisory Board Member at TEKsystems and a senior member of the Key Process Team for the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model at Motorola.
Senior Advisory Board
Mike Urch
Senior Account Manager & Extended Services Strategic Sales - TEKsystems
TEKsystems is an IT Staffing and Services Firm that specializes in the procurement and on-boarding of IT Infrastructure, Application and Telecommunication contract and permanent resources, Instructor-led and virtual training, Workforce Management Solutions, Managed Staffing Solutions, Asset Inventory, Remarketing and Deployment Services, and several other offerings. Mike Urch has supported a variety of organizations ranging from Fortune 500 clients to startup companies since he began with TEKsystems in 1997. Mr. Urch has been responsible for establishing and developing IT business practices with American Express, Motorola, Citrix Systems and several other organizations throughout South Florida. In that time, he has assisted key management personnel ranging from IT Line Managers to CEOs with the recruitment of IT resources and the deployment of Solutions Services, as well as assisting in the creation and maintenance of hiring/retention protocol best practices.
Mr. Urch, ThinkBuildDeploy's Senior Advisory Board member and Strategic Sales Coordinator, currently acts as the primary conduit between TEKsystems and ThinkBuildDeploy for all engagements. TEKsystems' nationwide sales force, extensive client base and unparalleled IT resource pool, when combined with the unique, cumulative channel partnerships and IT services capabilities that ThinkBuildDeploy delivers, creates a marriage of capabilities that can and will assist virtually every client with an existing or desired eCommerce or web application presence.
David Kerlin
President and Co-founder - AmeriNet, Inc.
David Kerlin, President and co-founder of AmeriNet, Inc., delivers tremendous business experience and knowledge to the organization. After working for The Washington Post and NBC Television, David played key roles in startups like the Fortune 500 airline ticket consolidator, the IBT Corporation — later sold to Carlson Travel — and Players International, which Harrah's subsequently acquired for $250 million. In 1994, David recognized a unique opportunity and founded AmeriNet to offer a complete electronic check debit solution for direct marketers and other merchants who often found eCheck too complex to be practical. Under David's leadership, AmeriNet also pioneered the use of eChecks in the Internet.
ThinkBuildDeploy is delighted to leverage Mr. Kerlin as a Senior Advisor and subject-matter expert in the Electronic Check sector of Online Payment Processing. Mr. Kerlin has demonstrated significant professional achievements throughout his Ecommerce tenure including playing an integral role to the business and consumer's adoption of the eCheck payment method.
Chito Collins
Regional Vice President, Strategic Alliances - AmeriNet, Inc.
Chito Collins is the Regional Vice President, Strategic Alliances, at AmeriNet, Inc., the industry-leading payment solutions provider to the e-commerce and direct marketing industries. Ms. Collins is responsible for developing the new channel and reseller initiative at AmeriNet, consisting of strategic global partnerships and alliances with key industry partners such as ThinkBuildDeploy.
Her expertise includes 25 years of computer industry sales and "non-barney" business development experience in various industries. Ms. Collins' 9 year payments industry tenure includes working for leading edge technology providers such as CyberCash, CyberSource and IBM's Internet Division, where she was the worldwide internet payments specialist for IBM Software Group from 1997 to 2000.
Ms. Collins' "get it done and deliver" reputation - combined with personal relationship management in direct sales, marketing and technology consulting for a variety of companies, including IBM, Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment and 7 startup ventures - contributed to a network of executive clients from Fortune 100+ companies to "one-person" startups who will do business with her.
Ms. Collin's contributions as a Senior Advisory Board member are highly-leveraged at ThinkBuildDeploy in essential areas including knowledge-retention, precision product solutions and program deployments.
Dominic Brown
Senior Manager, Strategic Alliances & Channel Sales - CyberSource Corporation
In his tenure, Mr. Brown has played an instrumental & leading role in the re-establishment of CyberSource's Channel Sales program. He has built & managed a strong portfolio of leading Managed Commerce Providers/Resellers around the country & is responsible for personally overseeing many of the companies leading Financial & Technological Strategic Alliances.
Prior to his current role at CyberSource, Mr. Brown has over 10-years experience in a variety of Business Development & Sales Management roles in the eCommerce, Banking & Telecommunications Industries.
Mr. Brown holds a B.A. in Economics from George Mason University.
Mr. Brown's innovative vision, action-oriented discipline and superior knowledge in the Electronic Payment Processing industry make him an asset on ThinkBuildDeploy's Senior Advisory Board.
Brad Solomon
President & Co-founder - UnREAL Marketing Solutions
Brad Solomon's incumbency with UnREAL Marketing Solutions includes over 6 years of Business Strategy and Senior Leadership contributions. As President of the organization, he is the lead visionary, charged with corporate relations initiatives in the areas of vendor and partner selection as well as providing guidance in corporate development, agency acquisitions and growth strategy. Additionally, Mr. Solomon manages UnREAL Marketing's West Coast operations.
Mr. Solomon is considered a subject-matter-expert in the industry, possessing extensive knowledge retention in Online Advertising and strategic Search Engine Marketing tactics. He's been a guest speaker at several recognized events — including some of the largest Search Engine Strategy conferences to date — on the topic of "Perfecting Paid Listings"; a strategy, when instituted under Mr. Solomon's methodologies, has been proven to substantially increase the return-on-investment.
Prior to his tenure as Principal Partner at UnREAL Marketing Solutions, Mr. Solomon served as Senior Manager of Business Development for Initiative Media North America in Los Angeles, California. While at Initiative, Mr. Solomon managed the company's Search Engine Optimization division and played a key role in developing the company's comprehensive Online Marketing solutions and service offerings. In addition to representing over ten Fortune 500 organizations, Mr. Solomon assisted in Initiative's aggressive client acquisition strategies.
Mr. Solomon has also held various other integral positions during his career such as Director of Search Engine Marketing for the eBusiness strategist and Web consulting company, Zentropy Partners.
Mr. Solomon's unprecedented expertise in the areas of Search Engine Marketing, Online Success Strategies and Applied Sciences are highly leveraged at ThinkBuildDeploy, making him an asset inclusion on our Senior Advisory Board.
Bob Rothenberg
Executive Vice President - UnREAL Marketing Solutions
As Executive Vice President, Bob Rothenberg is responsible for overseeing Account Management, Media, Creative and New Business Development for UnREAL Marketing. He spearheads the strategic direction of client's accounts as well as providing personalized attention pertaining to ROI and penetration programs relative to their target markets. Mr. Rothenberg serves as the brand steward for the client base and the company, guides all marketing related initiatives both internally and externally, oversees the services team in client planning and retention, and orchestrates proposal development across a global scale.
Prior to joining UnREAL Marketing, Mr. Rothenberg served as the CEO of RHR Marketing, a Sports & Entertainment Consultancy organization. RHR Marketing's clientele included such accounts as Footlocker, NEXTEL, NBC, USA Networks and the NHL.
Mr. Rothenberg's aspiration for success in Marketing and Business Management incepted early on in the Sports industry with the Philadelphia 76ers, which subsequently lead to strategic positions with the National Basketball Association's Consumer Products Group. While at the NBA, Mr. Rothenberg had established strategic direction, development and contract negotiations for a myriad of assignments including the NBA Controlled Retail Distribution and Online Commerce initiatives, and Official Catalog Relationships and Database Ventures.
In 1999, Mr. Rothenberg left the NBA to head up Marketing and Business Development strategies for Global Sports Interactive. As Vice President, he successfully launched six Ecommerce businesses of the top ten Sporting Goods Retailers in the U.S. Among other various professional successes, Mr. Rothenberg has served as Executive Vice President of Strategic Development for University Sports Publications (USP). He has controlled $25 million in barter advertising with the New York Times, Newsday, WFAN, Clear Channel Communications and Westwood One.
Mr. Rothenberg received a Master of Arts from Adelphi University with a concentration in Business Administration and a Bachelors of Science from the University at StonyBrook.
Mr. Rothenberg provides a great value to ThinkBuildDeploy's Senior Advisory Board. His experience in handling large-scale accounts enables an impeccable client interaction among ThinkBuildDeploy's Search Engine Marketing and Optimization demands.
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| | Superior business and technical experience |
| | Quick-to-execute and action-oriented |
| | Six Sigma focused |
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