Advisory Team

Richard Jones has more than 30 years of technology leadership experience. He is currently a partner of Executive Integrated Solutions (EIS), a company dedicated to building Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) and collaborative computing solutions. Jones is currently working on software development projects for EIS and Eccentex and acting in an advisory role in the development of the AppBase product suite.

Jones was CIO of both Fiserv (2008, 2009) and Countrywide Financial Corp. (2000 to 2007). He was instrumental in Fiserv receiving top honors from InformationWeek in the fall of 2008. The magazine named the Fiserv IT group No. 1 in the Banking and Financial Services category and ranked Fiserv IT No.4 overall on the 2008 InformationWeek 500. This award recognizes the nation’s most innovative users of technology. InformationWeek chose Fiserv as one of the top ten companies based on the company’s use of services oriented architecture and its proven ability to develop and deliver innovative products and solutions.

From 2000 to 2007, Jones led Countrywide’s technology efforts as their CIO. He established industry-leading technology practices, developing Countrywide’s global mortgage banking software and website infrastructure, and enhancing their risk management and security capability. Jones was named CIO of the Year in the 2003 Citigroup Smith Barney CIO Award Series. The award honors CIOs who have demonstrated superiority in Increasing IT productivity while decreasing costs.

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James M. Pierce is an Executive Information Technology Consultant with 20+ years experience in providing world class computer and software solutions to Government and Fortune 500 organizations, nationally as well as internationally. Jim has provided complete business technology solutions for organizations such as Countrywide Financial Corporation, United States Post Office, United States Naval Weapons Center, World Trade Center, Barclays Bank (United Kingdom), Prudential, City of Diamond Bar (launch of City On-line), Lately he served as the CTO for Orange County, CA. Jim is currently President/CTO for Executive Integrated Solutions, Inc. providing Financial Risk Application and Integration solutions. 

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Mr. Stiler is the Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager for the SoundBrook Opportunity Fund. From 1998 to 2008, Mr. Stiler was a Partner and Portfolio Manager for the Greylock Global Opportunity Fund, an emerging markets debt fund.  

Prior to Greylock, Mr. Stiler worked in emerging markets at Lazard Frères Asset Management in a group that started one of the first local currency emerging market funds.  Mr. Stiler also worked at BlackRock Financial Management and has over 12 years of experience in emerging markets.  Mr. Stiler received an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business and received his BS in Finance from NYU as well.

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Ken Rutsky has 20+ years of experience marketing and selling enterprise and end user technology and solutions. During Ken's tenure as VP of Product Marketing at Secure Computing, he spearheaded the company's go to market efforts, accelerating the growth of its web security business, leading to its eventual acquisition by McAfee at a 40% premium to market value. Ken has held executive roles at Intel, Netscape, where he created the Internet's first affiliate marketing program, "Netscape Now" and McAfee and ran marketing at 3 start-ups including Collation, which was acquired by IBM/Tivoli.  

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