• Management
• Board and Advisors

Chester M. Regen PhD, President & CTO

A seasoned web application architect, technology analyst, and scientist, Chester has extensive database design and web development expertise and over 25 years of programming experience.

Based in our Oakland office, Chester designed the portal application architecture for the Applied Materials iMarketing intranet, the global extranet for Harmonic Inc., and has delivered web-based solutions for Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, McAfee Security, Seagate Technologies, and dozens of other Specific Impulse clients worldwide.

Chester was previously Senior Product Manager for Media Asset and Content Management with Informix Software. Prior to Informix, Chester served for six years as product manager, worldwide marketing manager, and product support supervisor for Bio-Rad Laboratories.

In 1986 Chester founded UMANS, a company that designed and built systems for biomedical research.  Chester supported UMANS installations on three continents before selling the product to Bio-Rad in 1991. Chester holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics from UC Berkeley and a BA in Physics and Integrated Science from Northwestern University.

Rich Julius, Chairman and CEO

Rich is currently chairman of the board of iMedia Revenue Ltd., having most recently served as CTO of New Media News LLC. Rich has held a number of executive management and senior technical positions over the past 20 years, including VP of Interactive Technology at Crimson Consulting Group, Director of Product Marketing at Netblue, Information Architect at Marketing Solutions Software (MS2), Director of Consulting Engineering at Perspecta, Director of Knowledge Systems at Informix, Director of User Assistance at Oracle, and Project Manager at PeopleSoft.

Rich has defined information architecture and localization strategies for some of the world's leading technology companies, including Applied Materials, Cisco Systems, Harmonic Inc., Seagate Technologies, and Verizon. He also sits on the board of AllEire Ltd., the Irish eBusiness community web portal whose EireBiz.com property received European Union grant funding in 2005-06 and again in 2009.

Founder of UC Berkeley Extension's Technical Communication program in 1995, Rich taught Digital Communication and Information Architecture courses for UCBE for over five years. He also served for three years as President of the Berkeley chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. Rich holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, where he later served on the faculty of the Department of English before his career in Silicon Valley high-tech.

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Derek Burke, Director of Business Development

A serial entrepreneur and business owner, Derek is a skilled business consultant responsible for translating client business issues into actionable solutions. He was previously a Director of EireBusiness International (Domona Ltd.) and served previously for 6 years as sales director for Foundation Marketing Ltd.

Derek has a proven sales and business background, and has served in several fields both in retail and IT sectors for over 11 years. He specialises in launching and marketing new products and services using the Web.

Scott Cottle, Senior Development Manager

Part of our Research Triangle Park NC team, Scott Cottle heads up our intranet and portal technologies group. He has worked since 1997 to develop integrated software systems for companies in the manufacturing, Internet, retail, financial services, real estate and automotive industries.

Scott has more than 19 years of experience in software application development, designing ATM settlement processing systems, order preference programs, and other accounting and integration programs for companies such as United Jersey Bank, Automatic Data Processing, EDS, and Mercedes-Benz, among others.

With expertise in back office systems integration, Scott has delivered secure, integrated solutions that enable companies to merge electronic commerce applications with their existing sales channels.

Scott is the lead engineer on the StageOne platform used to develop our portal solutions. He recently built the hosted time and task-tracking system for Seagate Technologies web development team, as well as the Seagate Branding Portal.

Over the past seven years, Scott has developed numerous database-driven web applications, particularly on the ColdFusion platform. As a web engineer, Scott has extensive experience in Web Services, WSDL, XML, HTML, CSS, AJAX, JavaScript, DHTML, RIA, and Flash MX programming. His expertise includes extensive database experience including SQL programming.

Rebecca Perry, Lead Developer

Rebecca Perry has over 17 years full product lifecycle experience developing complex and sophisticated software applications, with 9 of those years developing websites using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and programmatic scripting languages.

In addition to her extensive background in software analysis and programming, she has experience in user interface design, database design, object-oriented programming, and writing and editing web content and documentation. Predominant web technologies have included PHP, ColdFusion/ColdFusion MX, MS SQL Server, Oracle, JavaScript, VBScript, DHTML/HTML/XHTML, CSS 2.0, Web Services/XML/XPath, and eCommerce applications.

In addition to website development, Rebecca has many years experience architecting and programming desktop Windows applications such as order and inventory, accounting, marketing analysis, and customer tracking.

Her clients include Ravix, Harmonic, DigiDesign, AudioFeast, Shiseido America, New York Software Industry Association, and HarperCollins Publishers.

Rebecca holds a BS in Mathematics from George Mason University, an MA in Urban/Environmental Planning from University of Virginia, and a BA in Environmental Studies and Politics from UC Santa Cruz.