COMPANY / MANAGEMENT TEAM
Pointserve has assembled a world-class executive management team with a deep knowledge of business process optimization, industry requirements, software development processes and operations management. This team understands the changing dynamics of vertical markets and the need for rigorous cost control in everything from software development to operational process design. They recognize the importance of business optimization in making decisions that drive a mission to success.
 G. Edward Powell, Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Powell founded Pointserve in 1996 with the vision of applying economic optimization technology to service supply chain management. For eight years prior to founding Pointserve, Dr. Powell was a Member of the Technical Staff at the MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, where he developed advanced forecasting, modeling, and simulation algorithms for autonomous satellite navigation, now the core of the Company’s economic optimization technology. Dr. Powell received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Auburn University. Dr. Powell is currently a member of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee.
 Benjamin Bromberg, Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Bromberg has responsibility for all Pointserve operations, including Sales, Finance, Professional Services, Development and IT. Mr. Bromberg has over 15 years of experience in the software and telecommunications industries. He is the founder of BB Advisors, a firm that provides executive financial and operating services to private equity firms and hedge funds. Prior to starting BB Advisors, he was Senior Vice President of Product and Strategy for Talk America, a telecommunications company providing voice and data services. Talk America was purchased for $250 million by Cavalier Telephone. Prior to Talk America, Mr. Bromberg ran the pre-sales and professional services teams for EventMonitor, a software company that provides real-time analytical infrastructure to hedge funds and proprietary trading desks. Prior to EventMonitor, he was an investment banker in the Global Telecommunications group at Salomon Brothers Inc. Mr. Bromberg received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
 John F. Pence, Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Pence is a native of Austin, Texas with close to 20 years of accounting, finance and transaction experience serving both as a part of management as well as an advisor across numerous industries. Most recently, Mr. Pence served in various senior leadership roles with Freescale including serving most recently as its Chief Financial Officer for EMEA, based in Toulouse, France During his tenure at Freescale Semiconductor he helped to successfully separate Motorola’s $6 billion and 25,000 employee Semiconductor Products Division through an IPO and subsequently contributed to $11 billion of shareholder value creation as a result of the largest technology private equity transaction in history with a consortium led by the Blackstone Group. In addition Mr. Pence worked for Baxter Brinkmann International Corporation, as SVP, responsible for leading the finance and accounting organizations of a group of mature diversified consumer products companies. He was also with Allied Riser Communications, an early stage broadband services provider. While at Allied Riser Communications, he assisted in completing eight separate venture, IPO, debt and convertible financing transactions and four acquisitions as its VP of Corporate Finance.
Mr. Pence received a BBA degree in Accounting and Finance from The University of Texas in Austin with honors and is also a CPA.
 Mark T. Lane, Chief Scientist
Dr. Lane has been with the Company since shortly after its founding, designing algorithms that represent the state-of-the-art in forecasting and real-time optimization. He has over 15 years of experience in numerical and data analysis, optimization and combinatorial techniques, and genetic and evolutionary computations. Prior to joining Pointserve, Dr. Lane spent 10 years as a member of the Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He was the Co-Principal Investigator for the Midcourse Space Experiment, the largest SDIO-funded satellite mission. Dr. Lane is the author or co-author of more than 20 refereed journal articles and more than 30 other published papers. He holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.
 Greg Gray, Vice President of Sales
Mr. Gray leads Pointserve’s sales organization, directing strategies to bring Pointserve products successfully to market. Prior to joining Pointserve, Mr. Gray was a co-founder and Managing Director at Mobyz, a wireless applications company and key strategic partner of Nokia. Prior to Mobyz, Mr. Gray was a Managing Director for SE-Technologies, Inc, where he directed US sales efforts. Mr. Gray also ran sales for the OEM division of Digital Computer Integration and has served as Vice President of Marketing for Global Computing Consultants.
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