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Ron Galowich
Chairman of the Board and Co-Founder |
Ronald H. Galowich co-founded Initiate Systems and has served as a member of our board of directors and as its Chairman, since its inception in October 1994. He previously served as our Chief Executive Officer from October 1994 to July 2002. Ron was a co-founder of First Health Group Corp., a publicly traded company, and held various positions, including serving as a director from June 1982 to February 2005, and as secretary, general counsel and executive vice president. Ron also served as the chairman of the audit committee and the compensation committee of First Health Group Corp. In addition to serving on our board of directors, Ron serves on the boards of directors of a number of private and not-for-profit corporations and was a director of real estate operations for the Pritzker Family from April 1981 to November 1990. He holds a B.S. and a J.D. from University of Illinois.
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Jeff Galowich
Co-Founder and Member, Board of Directors, Initiate Systems, Inc. |
Jeff Galowich co-founded Initiate Systems and has served as our Executive Vice President, Corporate Development since October 2007 and a member of our board of directors since our inception. Jeff has also held numerous other positions with our company. He holds a B.S. in accountancy from University of Illinois and a J.D. from University of California, Los Angeles.
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Bob Davoli
Member, Board of Directors, Initiate Systems, Inc
Robert E. Davoli has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2002. Since 1995, Bob has been a partner at Sigma Partners, a venture capital firm. Prior to joining Sigma Partners, Bob was president and chief executive officer of Epoch Systems, a provider of data management software products that was sold to EMC Corporation in 1993. Prior to joining Epoch Systems, Bob founded and served as president and chief executive officer of SQL Solutions, a provider of tools and services in the relational database market that was later sold to Sybase, Inc. He holds a B.A. from Ricker College and serves on the board of directors of numerous private corporations and on the board of directors of Virtusa Corporation, a public company that provides software development and related information technology services.
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Jim Pelts
Member, Board of Directors, Initiate Systems, Inc.
James J. Pelts has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2000. Jim has been employed by William Harris Investors, Inc. since 1997 as manager of various real estate and venture capital investments. He is also a member of its fund of funds and asset allocation committees. Jim holds a B.S.E. from University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from University of Chicago.
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Armando Pauker
Member, Board of Directors, Initiate Systems, Inc.
Armando Pauker has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2002. Armando has been a general partner of Apex Venture Partners, a Chicago-based venture capital firm which invests in early stage technology companies, since June 2000. Prior to joining Apex, Armando held executive and operational positions with a number of technology-based companies, including Tandem Computers, Inc., Booz Allen & Hamilton, Electronics for Imaging, Inc. and Cybernet Systems Corporation. He holds a B.S. in (Electrical) Engineering from California Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from University of Michigan.
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Bill Conroy
Member, Board of Directors, Initiate Systems, Inc. |
Bill Conroy has served as our Chief Executive Officer and President and a member of our board of directors since July 2002. Prior to joining Initiate Systems, Bill held various executive and operational positions with a number of technology-based companies, including president of Click Commerce, Inc., venture partner at Insight Capital Group, chief operating officer of TenFold Corporation and a group vice president of U.S. sales at Oracle Corporation. He also held numerous sales positions at IBM. Bill holds a B.S. in business administration from Bowling Green State University and has served on the boards of directors of two public companies, Click Commerce, Inc. and Braun Consulting.
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