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About Us Executive Team | Advisory Board

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.

     
  Executive Team  
  Susan A. Magrino
President and CEO
 
 

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.

 
 
  Brian Dorney
Vice President Sales
 
 

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

 
     
  Ed Huser
Vice President
Development
 
 

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.

 
     
  Priscilla Joyce
Vice President
Marketing
 
 

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.

 
     
  Advisory Board  
  Charles R. Boggs  
  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.
 
     
  Steve Cross  
  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.
 
     
  Brooke Deterline  
  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.  
     
  John Epperheimer  
  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.  
     
  Andrew Karpie  
  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.  
     
  Robert Kriegel  
  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.  
     
  Frank Patchel  
  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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