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Executive Team
 
Randy Ray
Founder, President and CEO
Mr. Ray began his career with Price Waterhouse as an auditor specializing in high-tech and banking clients. Upon leaving Price Waterhouse, Mr. Ray served as Assistant Controller for Stac, Inc., a data compression, remote access, and backup software company. During his tenure at Stac, Mr. Ray was involved in several corporate software acquisitions as well as the creation and subsequent spin-off of the data encryption company, HI/FN. Mr. Ray next served as Director of Finance and Administration for the molecular modeling company, Interactive Simulations, and was involved in its sale to MDL, Inc. Mr. Ray left Interactive to become the Director of Business Development for Commercial Contracting Corporation, a machinery installation and general contracting firm. While at Commercial, Mr. Ray assisted in the acquisition of Pulte Construction, and he developed strong relationships with various automobile and construction-related companies. Mr. Ray holds a BBA in Accounting from Walsh College.

Peter Kochevar, Ph.D
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Kochevar holds a BS in Mathematics from the University of Michigan, an MS in Mathematics from the University of Utah, and MS and Ph.D degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University. From 1992 until 1998, Dr. Kochevar was employed by the Digital Equipment Corporation but worked at the San Diego Supercomputer Center in San Diego, California as a Visiting Scientist. At the Supercomputer Center, he managed a group of researchers in developing interactive data visualization systems, and he structured collaborative research projects whose results benefited Digital's engineering teams. In June of 1998, he co-founded SharedPlanet, Inc., a company that developed Web-based collaboration software and services, and was SharedPlanet's Chief Technology Officer. In April 2000, SharedPlanet was purchased by SkyDesk, Inc., a storage services provider based in San Diego. Dr. Kochevar worked for SkyDesk as its Principal Software Architect until January 2001.