BUSINESS 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, design and project management. Hemant’s experience spans a period of over 20 years.

Eugene Saksonov
Eugene has extensive experience in architecting payment systems for health and flexible spending accounts. He has over 20 years of experience in successfully building large-scale systems utilizing state-of-the-art technology. As a Director of Architecture with MBI benefits he architected the award-winning payment solution (MBITime). The payment solution supports stored value debit card that provides multi-purse POS functionality for flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, health care reimbursement accounts, transportation and other benefits accounts. The solution was architected integrating SOA components, business processes, data flows and enterprise applications of three major participants. This includes a custodian bank, a debit card vendor and a health plan or a benefit administrator. The solution included a comprehensive adjudication engine, that utilizes multiple data streams from various third party providers, like pharmacies, pharmacy benefit administrators, general merchants etc. The payment solution featured web services framework and infrastructure that enabled high performance real-time data exchange and integration of the MBI system with partners and clients applications.

Eugene holds a BS in Computer Science and MS in mathematics, both from Kharkov State University, USSR.

Susanne Shibley
Susanne has worked in communications nationally and internationally for more than 12 years. She has managed internal and executive communication programs for Fortune 100 companies (i.e. Cisco Systems Inc., Siemens and Infineon Technologies Corp.) on an international level.

As the program manager for Organizational Change Management for IT at Cisco Systems, Susanne provided the leadership communication plan for Cisco’s CIO and his senior staff. She supported major IT initiatives in change management allowing faster and more effective roll-out and implementation of new systems across the company and specific business units. At Infineon Technologies Corp. Susanne designed, implemented and evaluated the internal communication strategy for Infineon Technologies Corp. leading the 30,000 employee company through a spin-off from its “mother company” Siemens, a name change (from Siemens Microelectronics to Infineon Technologies Corp.) and an IPO.

Susanne hold a Master of Business Administration and Economics equivalent degree from Witten/Herdecke University, Germany.