PARTNERS

Dave Collins
Dave has over thirty years experience designing large distributed database and communication systems. He had a long career with IBM and in 1989, was part of the group that spearheaded object-oriented education within IBM. At Object Edge, his responsibilities have included major component design and the building of object-oriented frameworks for financial settlement, payments, and foreign exchange applications. Dave is the author of the book, ‘Designing Object-Oriented User Interfaces’, and has been a speaker on that topic at many industry conferences.

Chamond Liu
Chamond has over fifteen years experience in object-oriented analysis, design, and programming. He began his career as an assistant professor of mathematics at Fordham University, and then moved to IBM, where he held various development, management and research positions. At IBM he also helped seed object technology into the development laboratories as chief course developer and instructor for a broad range of object-oriented courses and seminars. Chamond has authored numerous publications along with the groundbreaking book, ‘Smalltalk, Objects, and Design’.

Hemant Thakkar
Hemant has an entrepreneurial background with strong technology knowledge and wide ranging business experience. He has a deep understanding of security architecture, networking and database software technologies, object-oriented methodology, software product lifecycle, software architecture, and design and project management. Hemant’s experience spans a period of over 20 years.

Richard Freyberg, Former CIO Schwab Capital Markets
Richard Freyberg is a senior-level executive with over 35 years experience in Information Technology and Financial Services. He has a proven track record of applying emerging technology to strategic business problems. Richard was formerly the CIO of Schwab Capital Markets, a Managing Director of Syndicated Lending Technology at Bankers Trust, and a First Vice President of Retail Technology at Security Pacific. Prior to these positions he started up several successful software development firms specializing in distributed, mission critical banking applications. Richard is currently on the Advisory Boards of Object Edge, Northstar, Certagon, 3Tera, Xtiva and Rockwater Hedge, and is on the Board of Directors of IO-Informatics, APCaP and Gold Medal Foundation.

He holds a BS and Masters of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.