Innovative thinkers with decades of experience and sound industry and business expertise
are at the helm at EASi.
Vito Palmieri | Chief Executive Officer
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.
Mark Ebersole | President and Chief Technology Officer
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.
Michael Guerra | Senior Vice President of Business Development
Michael joined the EASi team after serving as VP of Business Development with
BenefitStreet and as a registered investment advisor with Morgan Stanley with
more than $250 million in assets under management. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Michael
spent more than 15 years in sales and marketing and has been involved in mergers
and acquisitions throughout the state of California. He specializes in working
with top executives of growth companies to coordinate stock option exercise,
tax strategies and other estate planning solutions. Michael has Series, 7, 6,
66, 3 and 33 SEC registrations.
Gordon Hillegas | Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer
One of the founders of FT Solutions Gordon was the chief developer of FTSI's stock option
accounting technology for FT Solutions, Inc. (FTSI), a private company specializing in
compensation plan consulting. Gordon has over 30 years experience in the finance and accounting
fields with an extensive background in corporate financial accounting, business valuations,
compensation consulting and plan administration. In addition to serving as a Division
Controller of an affiliate of Corning Incorporated and the founder and former President
of Modular Software Systems, Inc., he is a former Vice President at Bank of America's
world headquarters in San Francisco in charge of worldwide benefits. Gordon has a JD from
La Salle Extension University, and is an Accredited Valuation Analysis and member of the
National Association of Certified Valuation Analyst.
Dan Katzman | Chief Financial Officer
Dan was most recently Executive Director of Finance for Vodafone and AirTouch Communications $10 billion domestic wireless operations. Dan has spent more than 20 years handling
finance for wireless companies. He brings expertise in financial planning and analysis and a track record for driving profitability,
raising performance and developing business plans for company mergers. Prior to joining AirTouch, Dan held finance positions at Bay
Area Cellular One and GTE Sprint. Dan received an MBA with an emphasis in Finance from University of San Francisco.
Don Gillotti | Vice President of Sales, Eastern Region
Don has ten years of experience in the equity management business. He spent the
major part of his career with Computershare/Transcentive where he successfully
held a variety of senior sales and business development roles. He directly handled
accounts for Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, UBS, and Charles Schwab. Don holds
a BS in Accounting from the University of Connecticut.
Jeff Graham | Vice President of Sales, Western Region
Jeff joined EASi as Vice President of Sales from
E*TRADE Financial where he spent 11 years in key national and regional sales and business development roles providing corporate stock plan
services. Jeff spent more than 22 years in the financial services industry and has experience in retail brokerage, corporate sales, money
management, business development and insurance. Jeff has worked for companies including E*Trade, Citi/Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley
Dean Witter. He has his Series 7 and 63 SEC registrations and a BA in Economics from UCLA.
Scott Bradley | Vice President of Engineering
Before joining EASi Scott was Director of Engineering at EMC where he directed
an international engineering team responsible for the core Documentum products.
Prior to that, Scott drove the development of Documentum's first industry-focused
applications which eventually turned into a $40 million regulatory-compliant
document control product line. Scott also worked at Sherpa Corporation and Lockheed
in a progression of software development, technical consulting and management
positions. Scott earned his Masters Degree in Systems Management from the University
of Southern California and his Bachelors of Science degree in Engineering from
Rochester Institute of Technology.
Denise Vitale | Vice President of Product Development
A 20-year industry veteran and CEP, Denise served as Education Director for the
National Association of Stock Plan Professionals from 2003 to 2005. She came
to EASi after serving as Director of Education and Certification for UBS Financial
Services. In an earlier role as Divisional Vice President with UBS, Denise gained
extensive product, training and implementation experience managing their stock
option and ESPP products. Throughout her career she has held a rich mix of stock
plan administration, product management, customer service and training positions
for organizations including James River Corporation, Corporate Management Solutions,
Great Lakes Strategies, and AST Stock Plan. Denise received her education from
Virginia Commonwealth University and State University of New York.
Steve Madeira | Vice President of Operations
Steve brings more than 20 years of technology, customer service, operations and
information management experience to his role at the helm of customer support
at EASi. Prior to joining EASi, Steve was Vice President, Operations for Navio
Systems, Inc., a hosted software company. Earlier in his career he founded two
consulting ventures in the software development and communications and IT infrastructure
areas. Steve held executive positions in world wide information management systems
and information services and logistics for Philips Electronics and was involved
in systems engineering and sales management at Seimens/ROLM. An adept technologist,
Steve has managed, implemented and/or programmed using a wide array of products,
programs and tools. Steve holds a BA in Political Science from Trinity College
and completed advanced course work in Engineering, Computer Science, and Psychology.
Eric Kissler | Chief Software Architect
Before joining EASi, Eric was Vice President of Engineering at BenefitStreet
where he helped lead the development of hosted solutions for the employee benefits
marketplace. Eric has over 16 years of experience in software systems design,
development and management. In 1995 he founded Aurorasoft, an application development
and consulting company that served a broad range of clients including Kaiser
Permanente, Campbell's Soup Company, Universal Studios and the Home Shopping
Network. Eric holds a BS in Computer Science from Washington State University.