Management Team

Donald E. Sweet
President & CEO

Don is an industry veteran with over twenty years of experience in general management, sales, marketing, engineering and product management. He has held senior positions at General Electric Information Systems, Computer Sciences Corporation, Ashton Tate, Software Publishing, Practical Peripherals, NetManage, and NEC. He is a graduate of the General Electric Management Program, attended the Harvard and Princeton Programs at GE University, and holds a B.A. from Iona College.

John Fruin
Interim CFO

John has over 25 years of senior management experience in magazines, software publishing and Internet companies. As CEO of Pinpoint Publishing, publisher of cooking and recipe management software, he led the turn around effort the culminated in the sale of the company. As CFO at Macromind and ArtToday, he participated in extensive venture capital and M&A activity. Mr. Fruin is a graduate of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Bob Moll
Vice President, Engineering

Bob has successfully lead engineering departments that have brought new technologies to market. He had held leadership positions at Honeywell, InterPlant, Process Solutions and Impact Blue. Bob holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada, and a Master of Applied Science degree from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Bruce Carothers
Chief Technical Officer

Bruce has designed software and systems for embedded platforms for the past fourteen years. For the last four of those, he has concentrated on implementing Java "in the small." Before coming to CardSoft, he served as a Principal Software Engineer for Schlumberger both in the U.S. and abroad in Paris. Well-versed in the theoretical problems of bringing big-machine software to constrained environments, Bruce has also worked closely with customers in the field and understands their needs.

Zen Kishimoto
Vice President of
Strategic Alliances
Zen is a business savvy technologist with more than 25 years of experience in both Fortune 500/start-up companies, including his own, and consulting to provide business and technical marketing services. He has been exposed to a variety of technologies like Internet security, including Java security, distributed computing, object oriented paradigm, networking, and various software design/architecture. In addition to the US market, he has strong networks of business contacts in Asia, including Japan. He held numerous technology and business positions ranging from senior software developer to functional General Manager at GTE, Hewlett Packard, and NEC as well as CEO, COO, and CTO in start-ups. He holds Ph.D. in Computer Science form Northwestern University.

Tony Kong
Director,
Business Development


Tony has extensive experience in global business development in the IT and networking industries, particularly in the wireless and security space. Prior to Cardsoft, Tony has held key business development and marketing positions at Cisco System, 3COM, Apple Computer, Vernier Networks and Tropos Networks. He has excellent business contacts with carrier and enterprise customers, channel partners, mobile and network equipment manufacturers in North America, Asia and Europe. Tony holds a M.S. degree from California Institute of Technology and a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Oregon, Eugene.

 
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