Board of Directors

Grant spent 18 years (eight as a partner) with Deloitte & Touche in its San Francisco office. For seven years he was Partner-in-Charge of services to emerging entrepreneurial companies. He left to be CFO of a public company that was later sold. He has held senior management positions in a number of Silicon Valley companies including the San Jose Sharks, Chipshot.com, RanOne, eHome and BenefitStreet. Grant has an MBA from Michigan State University.

Before joining EASi, Mark was Chief Technology Officer at BenefitStreet where he led the engineering team's project to web-enable what became the EASi solution. Excited by the company's prospects, he joined EASi as Vice President, Technology Development. Mark has over 30 years IT systems architecture and design experience. As an industry consultant, he served several major corporate clients including Intel, Deloitte & Touche, Fleet Mortgage, and Plaza Home Mortgage Corporation. In 1998, he founded Synteleos, an ASP software company that served the real estate industry. Mark has an MS in Computer Science from Ohio State University.

John has built financial services, web services, digital media, search, and community website / social networking software products in roles such as VP Products, Sr. Director of Product Management, and VP Engineering. He has been a venture partner, an officer of public and private companies, an instructor at Stanford Continuing Studies and on the founding team of several companies. John has worked at companies such as Silicon Graphics, TransactPlus – a JPMorgan Chase backed company, BenefitStreet, Moreover Technologies, SuperGroups, Essential/ODS Networks, and Moody's. John earned a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Boston University and is a graduate of the Executive Program for Growing Companies at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.

Vito was most recently a founder and interim CTO for two successful high tech start-ups — OptFor, Inc and ADPath Labs. He spent 15 years at AirTouch Communications in several leadership positions in Product Development, Business Development and Marketing. As Managing Director of Product Development, he was responsible for $400 million in incremental revenue while leading the development of major industry innovations in ancillary services, fraud reduction and mobile data. He also led the AirTouch expansion in the United Kingdom. Vito received an MBA from Harvard University and AB in Economics from Harvard College.

Gordon is a recognized national expert on financial markets, a widely-published author and inventor, and a founder of several successful start-up companies. The recipient of 16 national awards for original research discoveries, Gordon currently is the Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professor at U.C. Berkeley and chairman and founder of OnPoint Analytics, Inc. He also served as senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisors in the mid-1980’s and subsequently as chief economist of the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1988 to 1990.

A co-founder of BenefitStreet, Inc., Ken is a Senior Vice President responsible for BenefitStreet's advisor sales activities as well as the management of major national accounts. He has more than 15 years sales and benefit consulting experience and is the former president of American 401(k) Services. Ken oversees training, proposal system implementation and other marketing initiatives for BenefitStreet's national partners. By combining national networks of investment advisors with regional Third Party Administrators (TPA's), he is creating the power of a nationwide solution -- with the convenience of local service representation. Ken holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from California State University, Hayward.