Roger Gerdes, Chief Executive Officer

Roger has more than 14 years of experience in sales, marketing, product management, consulting, and executive management working at and with start-up companies and large multi-national companies in the IT and publishing fields. Prior to co-founding Azaleos, Gerdes was the President of Business Marketing Group (BMG) an outsourced partnership development and business strategy firm, where he was responsible for client acquisition and partner strategy engagements. During his tenure at BMG, Roger worked with leading companies in Silicon Valley including: Network Appliance, Rational Software, and Sygate Technologies.

Prior to BMG, he spent 4.5 years at Microsoft Corporation, where he was responsible for defining and leading all business strategy for and management of the MSDN Subscription Services and MSDN developer training businesses. Before Microsoft, Roger worked for a subsidiary of the McGraw-Hill companies in product management. Gerdes has extensive experience in executive management, software channel development and sales, business development, partner development, small and medium business marketing, and Internet solutions for large enterprise companies.

Roger has sat on the board of two privately held software companies and has served as an interim restructuring CEO. Roger is an alumnus of the University of Colorado holding both a BA in Economics and a Masters of Business Administration in Finance.

Keith A. McCall, Chief Technology Officer

Keith has been leading the development and delivery of enterprise software products for over 16 years. Prior to co-founding Azaleos Corporation in 2004, Keith spent 4.5 years as the Director and Product Unit Manager for the Exchange Solutions organization in Microsoft’s Exchange Product Group, during which time he was responsible for ensuring the integrity of the complete end-to-end messaging solution through technology and business development activities to support the ecosystem of Exchange Systems Integrators, ISVs, and IT Professionals who deliver world-class messaging solutions to customers based on Microsoft technologies. Keith initially came to Microsoft to develop and deliver a departmental solution server based on Microsoft’s BackOffice technologies, which was delivered as the Team Productivity Update for BackOffice 4.5 in 1999.

Prior to Microsoft, he was the Senior Director for Lotus’ line of Domino.Applications, and was responsible for delivering Lotus’ Notes- and web-based collaborative applications on the then-new Domino Platform, shipping Domino.Action, a corporate web presence product; Domino.Merchant, a collaborative commerce product, Domino.Broadcast for PointCast, a push technology product, the Domino Intranet Starter Pack, a web presence solution-in-a-box for small and medium sized businesses, and the Domino.Merchant Server Pack, an internet commerce solution-in-a-box in a 2 year period.

Before joining Lotus, Keith invented Net.Commerce and built the team in 1996 that delivered IBM’s flagship Internet Commerce product, and was the architect and developer of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games Ticket server, which sold over $5 million of tickets in 3 months, one of the first successful internet commerce servers. Keith was also instrumental in designing and developing L.L. Bean’s first electronic commerce site at www.llbean.com. Before this, he invented and took to market IBM’s Net.Data product, which was the first product to join IBM’s DB2 relational database to web servers, and also held a variety of technical marketing and sales positions on the release of the first RISC System/6000 line of UNIX computers from IBM.

Keith holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Claire Murchie, Vice President, Services Delivery

A veteran of the high technology industry, Claire has two decades of implementing IT solutions at Fortune 500 organizations. As Vice President of Services Delivery, Claire is responsible for leading Azaleos’ service delivery efforts inclusive of both the Network Operating Center and Deployment teams. Prior to joining Azaleos, Claire worked at Microsoft for seven years. She joined Microsoft in June 1998 as the project lead developing Microsoft’s largest internally used data warehouse. Since that project, Claire led the development of several enterprise systems used in the sales and marketing organizations within Microsoft until 2003. She then shifted her focus to lead operational teams managing the infrastructure supporting Microsoft employees worldwide. In 2004, she established the service delivery processes used by Microsoft to deploy software releases and deploy patches to update all client software for Microsoft employees. Later that year, she was tapped to lead the Operations organization for the Microsoft Managed Solutions (MMS) pilot project. She built the team and the operational support processes used by the first MMS customer.

Before Microsoft, Claire owned a consulting company specializing in managing large enterprise projects and training other people how to successfully manage large databases. Prior to that, Claire has 15 years experience in various IT enterprise project and database management roles.

Claire holds a degree in Finance and a minor in Computer Science from Texas A&M.;

Tom Haug, Vice President, Engineering

Tom Haug has over 20 years of engineering and product development experience working in technology fields ranging from enterprise software to artificial intelligence to data communications. An entrepreneurial management executive with a keen focus on the customer and passion for product strategy, Tom is skilled at driving platform architecture and providing organizational and process development to companies building products or services based on emerging technologies.

Prior to Azaleos, Tom was the Vice President of Engineering for Pacific Edge Software, where he was responsible for all technical operations of the company, including software and quality engineering, professional services and technical support. In this position, Tom drove the architecture, design, and development of the next generation product and technology platform for the business as well as built a world-class professional software engineering team.

Before Pacific Edge, Tom was Vice President of Engineering and Operations at FizzyLab Corporation, an Internet infrastructure company, where he built and ran R&D;, software and quality engineering, data center operations (server and network infrastructure management) and customer technical support. FizzyLab leveraged an Application Service Provider business model and advanced Artificial Intelligence technologies to deliver its contextual navigation, merchandizing and advertising solutions to large-scale Internet content and commerce sites.

Tom’s executive management career began in 1997 as the Vice President of Engineering for DigitalXpress, a broadband satellite services provider spun off from Boeing Commercial Space Company in a joint venture with Ceridian and Hubbard Broadcasting. DigitalXpress utilized advanced technologies in distributed computing; IP multi-cast networking, PKI-base security and video compression/streaming to offer an innovative Satellite-to-Internet broadband content delivery service to businesses.

Earlier in his career Tom held various positions in research and engineering development with a specialization in networking and communications technologies, in roles related to hardware design and development, network architecture/design, communications protocol development and large-scale systems design/development.

Tom holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Southern Illinois University.