real-time way of enabling clients to build competitive advantage, increase revenue through improved distant meeting presence, improve productivity, enhance collaboration effectiveness, and reduce travel expenses. RMT helps clients differentiate themselves and enables them to cost effectively drive their value proposition to market. The management staff at Remote Meeting Technologies, LLC incorporates more than 200 years of total experience in the business of developing, marketing, and implementing technology solutions. This team provides lasting value to our customers and channel partners through a complementary combination of perspective, stability, initiatives, skills, and knowledge. Executive Biographies: Don Marchon, President and CEO: Prior to his current role, Don Marchon was President and CEO of Marchon Consulting, a consulting firm for technology companies. Clients ranged from Fortune 100 industry leaders to venture-stage startups. Marchon Consulting effectively addressed four key challenges a technology company faces in bringing products and services to market -- Business Strategy, Go-to-Market Strategy, Go-to-Sales Execution, and Technical Services. Before Marchon Consulting, Don was the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Indirect Sales and Support at Metiom, Inc. He created and directed Metiom's newly established partner organization and managed Metiom's worldwide channel sales, marketing, and service initiatives. Prior to his role with Metiom, Inc., Marchon was the General Manager of Hewlett-Packard’s business critical solutions portfolio, managing and driving worldwide sales, marketing, technology development, service, and support teams. Chuck Munro, Vice President, Hardware Technologies: Chuck Munro brings to Remote Meeting Technologies a wealth of hardware and software experience gained from more than 23 years as a Senior Technical Consultant with Hewlett-Packard. While at HP he assisted clients with the design and implementation of real-time and general-purpose computer systems. Chuck has worked on large and small systems, with clients as diverse as General Motors, Amazon.com, Nortel, and many research organizations in civilian and military disciplines. He was also part of a team of specialists during the pre-release and post-release stages of Itanium CPU development at Hewlett-Packard, involved in the design and implementation of software porting lab facilities for customer use. He has significant experience in the deployment of Internet-based services and high-availability systems. Prior to his career at HP, Chuck was a Clinical Technologist in a large hospital laboratory designing and implementing lab automation systems, and was a member of a research team working on Navy hydrofoil systems, specializing in data acquisition and processing. Chuck has been an advocate of the Linux operating system since 1992 during its early experiemental releases. He has taught several courses in Real-time operating systems, UNIX and TCP/IP Networking. Phil Ramsden, Vice President, Network Technologies and Customer Support Services: Phil Ramsden guides the network implementation of Remote Meeting Technologies’ products. Phils responsibilities also include the RMT customer technical support program. Prior to Remote Meeting Technologies, Phil was a Senior Network Technical Consultant with Hewlett-Packard, providing consulting to HP customers in the areas of network planning, design and implementation, network management, and network performance. He has acted as Network architect for various Fortune 500 companies. Phil has over 15 years experience in Network concept development, architecture, design and implementation services. Ron McOuat, Vice President, Software Technologies: Ron McOuat brings to Remote Meeting Technologies more than 27 years of experience with hardware and software in the computer industry. During that time 25 years were spent as a Senior Technical Consultant with Hewlett- Packard. At HP Ron focused on real-time systems, UNIX systems, 3D graphics, kernel drivers for both real-time and UNIX, assembler, Fortran, C, C++ and Java. Also during that time he acquired 6 years of experience with relational databases. Additional project work involved Windows environments and Visual Basic. For the last 4 years he concentrated on project work utilizing J2EE technologies. While at HP Ron has worked with many clients in the Telco industry including Telus, Novatel and Northern Telecom. For a period of 4 years the project work was with Raytheon on air traffic control system monitoring. There were many smaller assignments with clients such as Amazon.com and many research facilities, mostly in private industry. He was also involved with a team that was concerned with HP field input into the PA-RISC system prior to release as a product, the purpose was to provide valuable input from a field perspective into the labs at HP responsible for the product design. Prior to HP, Ron received a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering followed by a Masters degree in the same discipline at the University of British Columbia. Ken Birmingham, Vice President, Strategic Planning and Channel Development: Ken Birmingham develops Remote Meeting Technologies' go-to-market strategies and the tactics necessary to execute them. Ken’s responsibilities also include the creating, documenting, auditing, and evolution of RMT’s Channel Program. Ken has a diverse background in engineering, sales, marketing, and management. He redesigned parts of the Boeing 747, had been a top direct salesman for the Hewlett-Packard Company and subsequently managed a team of technical systems consultants. He then moved into channel account management, signing up HP's first distributor for UNIX systems, which eventually became a $1 million per day account. Ken was then named HP's North American Channel Marketing Program Manager for Enterprise Storage and, most recently, for HP's UNIX servers. |