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Sterling Peak's executive staff has significant experience in developing and
successfully marketing enterprise technologies into new and established markets,
domestic and abroad. With an average 30 years of successful startups and
turnarounds, 6 successful Initial Public Offerings and 7 profitable sales,
mergers, and acquisitions, of which 6 were from start-ups, this team has the
experience to navigate Sterling Peak to success.
Robert B. Ney, CEO Robert B. Ney, pioneering
software industry executive, brings 30 years of diversified software
industry experience. Bob has launched several successful start-ups as
well as held key management positions at some of the nation's best
software companies. Bob began his career in 1973 and helped found two
successful software companies. He was a principal in two separate IBM
co-sponsored innovative projects (ATM-Automated Teller-Machine, and one
of the first production relational database applications). Bob then
went to work for Amdahl (employee 76) as Vice President, Field
Management, through its IPO. He was one of Oracle's original employees
(employee 42), serving as Vice President of Worldwide Product Line
Support, through its IPO. Over the past decade, Bob has gained a
reputation for launching and growing successful companies. In 1987, Bob
joined Ingres Corporation as Vice President, Worldwide Client Services
and Support, to help stabilize the company and then help take the
company public. In 1993, he founded Soda Creek Technologies, which
developed and marketed an award-winning imaging system and was sold to
Unisys in 1995. One year later he launched Bridge Pointe Software,
which provides the means of leveraging data contained within existing
and disparate ERP applications, such as SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle. He
was also the founding CEO of InsureZone, enabling financial
institutions, web portals, and other businesses to offer insurance
services to their customers nationwide. He was also on the original
executive teams of Natural Language Inc., an artificial intelligence
software company (sold to Microsoft), and USoft (a division of UNISYS),
a rapid application development tool company. Bob also has a reputation
of "turning around" technology companies that have good technology but
need the added formula of "very successful teams" and "correct market
positioning". Bob was the "turnaround" CEO of Lexica, a software
development company specializing in B2B enterprise infrastructure
products, turnaround CEO of Elagent Corporation completing the
development of and launching an enterprise software product quickly
adopted by several fortune 100 companies to solve their most complex
"Supply Chain" and Financial Transactions, and the turnaround CEO of
Polivec, Inc., where he rebuilt the sales, marketing, and engineering
teams of the now leading Security Policy and Compliance management
company selling into the fortune 1000 corporations. Bob studied
psychology and computer science at Southwestern, San Diego State
University, and currently sits on the Advisory board of Andre Meyer
Group and is actively involved in volunteer organizations such as
"Angel Flight America" donating his time, skills, and resources for
transporting children to hospitals across the US for extensive
treatments.
Jeff Gorsak, CTO Jeff Gorsak, Prior to joining
Sterling Peak, Jeff was CTO of PoliVec, Inc., the trusted leader in
security policy automation. With his many years working for various
financial services firms, Gorsak was part of an experienced executive
team and directed PoliVec's product vision. This allowed PoliVec to
further expand the scope of its products to provide a complete
automated solution for defining, implementing, monitoring, and
enforcing security policies throughout the enterprise.
Jeff Gorsak served as Chief Technical Officer for large
financial institutions, including Republic National Bank and Citibank's
Capital Markets Group. He was the chief architect of the Bank of New
York's broker-dealer and settlement system, Goldman Sach's bond trading
platform, and The American Stock Exchange order routing systems. Jeff
has also held management level positions in engineering and product
development at several technology companies, including Tibco and Bridge
Pointe Software (acquired by Constellar Systems).
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