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The success of WorkForce OS can be traced to the diversity
of talent, experience, skills and strengths among our team
members and advisors.
Each of us contributes to the whole based on our "lessons
learned" in dealing with complexity and change in our
own lives. The benefit of this composite is a set of tools
created from the vantage point of our audience - the Employers
and Employees. The WorkForce OS team is a mirror of that audience
- we are executives, managers and administrators, programmers
and strategists, moms and dads, singles and married. As you
use our products and services, you
will notice the difference.
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Executive
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Susan A. Magrino
President and CEO |
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As the co-founder of WorkForce-OS, Susan Magrino combines
a strong background in sales, marketing, operations and human
resources. She has more than 20 years experience ranging from
Fortune 50 technology companies to Silicon Valley start-ups.
Most recently, Ms Magrino was Vice President of RSI Group,
a pre-IPO enterprise software company that grew rapidly and
was purchased by its largest competitor, London Bridge Software.
Prior to joining RSI Group, Ms. Magrino held multiple positions
within the Bell System, including General Manager, AT&T
BC Services, California and Hawaii; Operations and Sales Director
of AT&T's Alternate Channels; and San Diego County Sales
Manager, Small Business Markets. Ms. Magrino's breadth and
depth of experience led her to formulate the concept and structure
of WorkForce OS as a natural evolution from the original company,
CareerFables. The team and technology has been deliberately
selected based on decades of experience.
Ms. Magrino has a Bachelor of Science from California Polytechnic
University, San Luis Obispo, and a Masters of Business Administration,
University of Phoenix, San Francisco.
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Brian Dorney
Vice President Sales
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With more than 28 years of experience as a Sales Executive
with a Fortune 50 company, Brian Dorney has a successful track
record of increasing earnings in diverse industries. He has
developed and implemented strategic plans to sell value-added
products and services in both existing and emerging international
and domestic markets. Mr. Dorney has demonstrated his proficiency
as a team player by building relationships with clients and
vendors, and selling complex solutions. He is well known for
consistently exceeding sales objectives. In his most recent
position, Mr. Dorney directed an organization of 6000 representatives
to improve sales in a service-centric environment across 18
international and domestic Customer Care Centers, managing
a budget of more than $500M.
Mr. Dorney holds a BS, Business Management / Marketing, St.
Francis College, Brooklyn, NY, an Executive MBA, Fairleigh
Dickinson University, Rutherford, NJ, and a Mini-MBA, Finance,
AT&T School of Business / Wharton, Somerset, NJ
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Ed Huser
Vice President
Development
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Ed Huser has extensive experience in product strategy and
management. He has been involved in the design, development
and implementation of software for client-server, mid-frame,
and web-based products. Mr. Huser has a wide range of successes
in application and database design and execution in the fields
of law, insurance, human resources, and call center and financial
software. He has been responsible for establishing and managing
two QA departments. His experience includes multi-national
software projects in Europe and Asia. Mr. Huser has over 13
years of experience running extensive and complex projects;
many of his projects have been integral to positioning for
acquisition or IPO. In addition, his expertise extends to
receivables management, customer relationship management,
teaching and corporate team building. Most recently Mr. Huser
co-founded CareerFables, a career information site to assist
people in mid-career transition.
Mr. Huser holds a Bachelor of Science in Business from the
University of Minnesota.
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Priscilla Joyce
Vice President
Marketing
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Priscilla Joyce has more than 14 years experience in marketing
and marketing communications in a high tech environment. She
has been integral in developing and implementing marketing
plans for three start-up companies: projects have included
launching corporate identity campaigns; managing new web site
development; writing marketing collateral, web content, and
PR material; and organizing trade show participation. As a
project manager, Ms. Joyce has been responsible for key components
of multi-million dollar government proposals. She has coordinated,
edited, and written content integrating material from multiple
corporate and university sources. Ms. Joyce was an original
team member of CareerFables, a website that provides tools
and services to those in mid-career change.
Ms. Joyce has a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University
of Washington.
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Advisory
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Charles R.
Boggs |
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Mr. Boggs started and developed
several early stage companies and been a corporate officer in
publicly traded high technology companies. Currently he is Vice
President, New Enterprise Development, for IC Growth, where
he works closely with development stage client companies to
develop high-powered management teams by using Intellectual
Capital Conversion methodologies. Mr. Boggs co-founded Centegy
Corporation, an Internet Business Solutions provider focused
on the Supply Chain Management market. Previously, as Vice President
of NovaLink USA, he sold, designed and managed more than 60
website projects for clients such as American Express Travel
Services, and Silicon Valley Bank. Prior to NovaLink, Mr. Boggs
was the Principal in Boggs & Associates Management Consultants.
There he conducted strategic marketing, organization and planning
engagements for over 18 high technology clients. Mr. Boggs has
authored several articles on Telecommunications Management and
Technology over his 25-year career. He is President of the International
Angels Institute, San Francisco Chapter; Advisory Board Member,
Silicon Valley World Internet Center; and Advisory Board Member,
Neusoft USA.
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Steve Cross |
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A veteran of the software and
peripherals industry, Mr. Cross has a string of successes at
Connectix, Insignia Solutions, Silicon Graphics. As Vice President
of Sales at Connectix from 1993 to 1997, Mr. Cross was instrumental
in the turnaround from $1 million in annual revenue to over
$70 million worldwide. Since founding The Cross Channel Group,
Inc. in 1997, Mr. Cross has acted as Vice President of Sales
for Dazzle (now part of SCM Micro), Vice President of Sales
and Marketing at Pinnacle Systems (NASDAQ: PCLE), and President
and CEO of YourFREEStuff, Inc. Mr. Cross has been a guest lecturer
in Software Sales and Marketing at The Software Development
Forum, and has spoken recently at the Consumer Electronics Show
in Las Vegas, TIE Conn, and the PC Data Trends Conference in
San Francisco. Mr. Cross also speaks regularly to classes at
UC Santa Cruz on software and channel marketing. His first book,
"Changing Channels," is about to be published.
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Brooke Deterline |
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Brooke Deterline brings more
than 10 years of investor relations, financial journalism, and
corporate communications experience to financial communications
consulting. Brooke was a reporter at SmartMoney magazine in
New York, writing on various companies and financial subjects
including technology, mutual funds, industry analysts, real
estate, and taxes. After returning to San Francisco in January
1999, Brooke moved into IR at the Financial Relations Board
where she worked in the Internet group on such clients as NextCard,
Autobytel and AboveNet. She then moved to Morgen-Walke Associates
as an assistant vice president where she ran comprehensive investor
relations programs for leading pre-IPO and public technology
companies, including PurchasePro.com, MyPoints, USSearch and
Cephren. Her efforts increased sell-side analyst coverage, and
buy-side and institutional investment. More recently, Brooke
founded StreetSmart Partners, a financial communications consulting
firm specializing in strategic financial counseling, investor
and media relations, alliance targeting and sector analysis.
Clients have included BuildPoint, Dr. Spock and Saber Capital. |
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John Epperheimer |
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John Epperheimer has been a senior
executive in a Fortune 500 company and a consultant to major
companies. In his current position as President of the Workpath
Group, he coaches executives and high potential managers and
consults to corporations on the design of employee development
programs. Before co-founding the Workpath Group, he was vice
president/client services at MindSteps, Inc., a Silicon Valley
start-up company that produced the first Internet-based career
development software. For 4 years, John directed corporate services
at the Career Action Center, a Silicon Valley non-profit organization;
during that time the CAC designed and operated employee career
development programs for Fortune 500 companies. John also launched
and managed the Silicon Valley office of a national career development
firm. Before entering the career development and coaching field,
John was a newspaper editor for 20 years. He shared in a Pulitzer
Prize at the San Jose Mercury News, where he writes a regular
column titled "Reinventing Yourself." His clients
have included Hewlett Packard, Agilent Technologies, Watson
Wyatt Worldwide, Genentech, Knight Ridder, IBM, Monsanto, Sun
Microsystems, Visa International, TD Bank Financial Group, Apple
Computer, Raychem Corporation, and AMD. |
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Andrew Karpie |
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Andrew Karpie has been professionally
active in the information services, software, and telecommunications
industries for nearly 20 years. After two years as the Senior
Network Planner for a Ford Aerospace subsidiary, in 1987 Mr.
Karpie became an Internal Consultant at Pacific Telesis Corporation;
subsequently he joined the $1B Pacific Bell Directory Information
Services unit as the controller of a $150M multi-year IT infrastructure
project. He moved to Manager of Finance of the Information Systems
Group and served on the Telesis New Information Services planning
committee. In 1991, as Director of Strategic Business Development
for ADP, he was instrumental in executing ADP's M&A expansion
in Europe and diversifying their business line in the US. Mr.
Karpie founded ProSys LLC in 1993, which provided a full range
of IT software consulting services. ProSys merged with one of
its clients in 1997 to form RSI Group, where Mr. Karpie served
as VP of Strategy, Product Management and Partnerships. After
growing in excess of 100% a year and dominating its markets,
RSI Group was acquired by London Bridge, where he became VP
of Strategy. Mr. Karpie left London Bridge in 2000 to form Wolfstar
Consulting to provide management consulting and advisory services
for strategic and efficient leveraging of IT assets in the software,
information services, and other service businesses. |
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Robert Kriegel |
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U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT called
Dr. Robert Kriegel one of this country's leading authorities
in the field of change and human performance. He is a New York
Times best selling author, a commentator on National Public
Radio's Marketplace program, and has recently done two specials
for PBS. A former all American athlete and commentator on ESPN,
Kriegel is a pioneer in the field of sports psychology who has
coached both Olympic and professional athletes. The New York
Times said his work "spurred a revolution in performance
practices." Dr. Kriegel has taught at Stanford University's
Executive Management Program, was a member of the California
Governor's Council, and is currently on the board of several
Internet companies. His online training program on creating
change and innovation was called "clearly the best"
in its class. His book, If it ain't broke...BREAK IT! was a
national best seller. His latest book, Sacred Cows Make the
Best Burgers, made Business Week Magazine's bestseller list.
His next book, which will be out next year, is How to Succeed
In Business Without Working So Damn Hard. |
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Frank Patchel |
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Frank Patchel combines a strong
background in finance and accounting coupled with over 15 years
in senior management for technology and service businesses.
During his tenure at ADP, Patchel was the CFO and later COO
for its Claims Solutions Group, overseeing acquisitions, joint
ventures and numerous product line investments along with managing
five business units. Following ADP, Patchel was President of
RSI Group, a pre-IPO enterprise software company that grew rapidly
and was purchased by its largest competitor, London Bridge Software.
There, he assumed two Sr. VP positions and was responsible for
developing the business plan for a product launch into the US
market. Patchel was CFO of Mediaplex, Inc., a media technology
company. As CFO, Patchel oversaw the financial restructuring
of the business, including the acquisition and sale of business
units, enabling the sale of the company at a substantial premium.
Patchel is a CPA and holds a business degree from the University
of Virginia. |
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