EC|Wise, Inc. - Executive Team

CEO of EC Wise, Jack is an experienced business leader and analyst with a strong background in software architecture and in designing products that serve the needs of their target markets with a high level of usability. He was CEO of ICS which maintained a development shop in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He has successfully set up and run outsourced development projects in Russia, India, and Czechoslovakia. Before entering the nascent PC software industry some twenty years ago, Jack worked as a physicist on the cyclotron research staff at Columbia University. He also completed a Masters in Computer Science at the Courant Institute focusing on database and machine learning. While working at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, where he created computer graphics software to transform complex experimental results into easy to understand visual presentations he found his passion: creating software that makes it easy for people to understand, visualize and use complex information to make better decisions. His vision of a repeatable process that converts business goals into the right product for a well-defined market guides and focuses the efforts at EC Wise. Jack's work has centered on leveraging distributed data sources and analyzing data for the purposes of discovery and improved decision making. He has built and trained several agile teams, and has both designed and supervised the development of service-oriented business architectures at companies. He has served as outsourced CTO for four companies and has been brought in to others to turn around product and development projects. Jack held a number of technical positions in commercial software companies, including several years as Chief Architect at SBT Accounting Systems, where he was responsible for design and development of their client-server accounting system. Later, Jack designed and managed the development of a human machine interface for Solar Turbines that monitors complex energy pipeline control systems worth billions of dollars. Jack is a former board member of Object World, a regular presenter at national industry conferences on designing effective fault tolerant systems and leveraging agile processes. He has authored many technical articles on data analysis that have appeared in DBMS Magazine, Web Techniques, and Intelligent Enterprise.

Tom is a software industry and IT services veteran, having been the lead technologist at both consulting and software development companies for over twenty years. As part of the EC Wise senior team, he has served as project manager on many key projects, as well as providing architectural direction across the firm's practices. Prior to EC Wise, Tom was CTO at a late 90's venture backed e-commerce startup that is still in operation. From 1987 to 1995 he was VP of Engineering and Chief Architect for SBT Accounting Systems, which at the time was the leader in providing source code accounting software and accounting software built on databases with the leading share in their respective markets.

As Director of PMO & IT/Operations, Peter provides leadership in Offshoring and Large Scale Software Development having lead Development and Release Engineering organizations in top tier companies such as Silicon Graphics (SGI), NEC and Fujitsu Software Company (then HaL Computers). Most recently responsible for large data warehousing market research applications at Telephia (now Nielson Media Research), Peter’s depth in large scale development is complemented by his "Software Factory" approach to leveraging large teams.