Innovative Driven CEO and leadership

Accomplished high-tech executive built from roles at both large and small companies. Gary has over 20+ years of experience as a business executive, with extensive experience in enterprise software, global sales, market development, and strategy. A senior executive with vision and tenacious focus on execution. Gary has a winning track record in technology companies in high-growth markets.

Chris Wensel is the author of the Cascading data processing open-source project and formerly the Founder/CTO of Concurrent Inc. He also co-founded Scale Unlimited, the first Hadoop and Big Data related professional services and training company, where he mentored companies like Sun Microsystems, Apple, and numerous startups in the Bay Area.

Chris bootstrapped his first Internet startup in the early 90's, creating an early Web server-side scripting language. During the late 90's, Chris focused on distributed-agent based systems where he received patents on distributed computing. From there he became Chief Architect for the fastest growing business unit at Thomson Reuters. Just prior to Concurrent, Chris was a Consulting Architect to TeleAtlas geo-content management group in Belgium.

Chris also advises several startups in the technology space.

Specialties: System and software architecture design, deployment, and management. Technology evaluation and adoption.

Specific real world experience include large scale data processing and analytics, web content crawling and search, meta-data and taxonomy management, federated message and web oriented services, business process management, and content management and delivery.

John Kallerup is a Director of Marketing at Right Brain Marketing, Owner | Chief Marketing Officer | Freelance Marketer at Driven, and Digital Marketing Strategist at CREATIS INC and is based in Wayzata, Minnesota. He has worked as Marketing Chair at Redeemer School, Member at Toastmasters International, and Senior Account Manager at AT&T Inc.. John works or has worked as Elected State Delegate at State of Minnesota, Clifton Strengths Finder at Gallup, and Digital Marketing Strategist at Creative Circle. He attended CARLSON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT.

Mike Jreige joined Driven, Inc. as Chief Operating Office in 2006, bringing more than 20 years of invaluable hands-on experience in all aspects of Litigation Support. His responsibilities include overseeing strategic planning for support, implementation of those strategies for operational management purposes, and monitoring, measuring, and reporting on all operational issues. At Driven, Mike leads all service and support teams including Litigation Support Analysts, Case Coordinators, Project Managers, ONE Platform Support and Forensics. Mike has built a world- class support structure for Driven customers, and continues to evolve and refine Driven’s policies to offer unparalleled service. Mike began his career in Litigation Support helping to launch a major Litigation Support provider, and was a key factor in their growth to prominence in the Washington, D.C. area and the northeast region. He left to found a new company, which is still a major player in Litigation Support, and since joining Driven, has shepherded the support organization through over 2000% revenue growth.

Over 30 years experience in : Budget Formulation; Justification and Execution; Project and Program Management; Strategic Planning and Performance Measurement; Financial and Operational analyses; Fiscal Risk, Change Management; Developing and Implementing Internal Controls; Relationship Management; Cash Management & Control; Training & Organizational Development; Profit and Loss; Pivot Tables; Productivity and Efficiency Improvement; Information Technology Management. commercial or residential property accounting experience is required. AppFolio, Yardi and Propertyware experience QuickBooks, Excel and Word. Strong critical thinking, problem solving, analytical, team building, mentoring, and leadership skills.

Chris Wensel is the author of the Cascading data processing open-source project and formerly the Founder/CTO of Concurrent Inc. He also co-founded Scale Unlimited, the first Hadoop and Big Data related professional services and training company, where he mentored companies like Sun Microsystems, Apple, and numerous startups in the Bay Area.

Chris bootstrapped his first Internet startup in the early 90's, creating an early Web server-side scripting language. During the late 90's, Chris focused on distributed-agent based systems where he received patents on distributed computing. From there he became Chief Architect for the fastest growing business unit at Thomson Reuters. Just prior to Concurrent, Chris was a Consulting Architect to TeleAtlas geo-content management group in Belgium.

Chris also advises several startups in the technology space.

Specialties: System and software architecture design, deployment, and management. Technology evaluation and adoption.

Specific real world experience include large scale data processing and analytics, web content crawling and search, meta-data and taxonomy management, federated message and web oriented services, business process management, and content management and delivery.