Rob Wight : Co-Founder, President & CEO
Channel Intelligence CEO and co-founder Robert S. Wight, a 2004 finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Florida Award, has overseen the development of the products and services that has made CI a leading e-commerce technology provider. Since its founding in 1999, CI has undergone tremendous growth and now has over 200 manufacturing and retailing customers across every product vertical and every day manages millions of products equaling over $3 billion in product value. In late 2006, Wight secured $15 million in funding from Internet Capital Group (ICG).
Prior to CI, Wight was recognized as one of the 20 most influential people in the storage software business, having held senior positions with a number of key technology corporations including Microsoft, Wang Labs, Avail Systems, Seagate Software, Conner Software Products, Archive Software and Maynard Electronics.
Alan Fulmer : Co-Founder and Executive Vice President
Prior to co-founding Channel Intelligence with Rob Wight in 1999, Alan served in senior management at Maynard, Archive, Conner Peripherals and finally at Arcada Software where he was responsible for three functional groups including documentation, customer support and European localization.
He has been instrumental in building some of the key functions in the organization and today is the general manager responsible for the company’s premier product line, managing the growth of the product and its delivery into the market.
Michael Evanoff : Senior Vice President & CFO
Michael is a veteran financial leader with more than 18 years financial and operational leadership across the globe. Prior to joining Channel Intelligence, Michael held numerous financial leadership roles for three Fortune 500 firms: Lincoln Financial Group, General Motors’ DirecTV Latin America subsidiary, and ExxonMobil. Michael specialized in leading operational teams through fast growth expansion opportunities such as new market entries, start-ups, and M&A activities.
Michael holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration specializing in Marketing and Finance from Marquette University and a Master of Business Administration in International Business from Temple University.
Lanny Tucker : Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing
Lanny has built a reputation for driving revenue and profit in competitive markets while building world-class organizations. At CI, Lanny is responsible for global operations including marketing, sales, strategic alliances, business development and customer programs, as well as corporate strategy.
Lanny has been an entrepreneurial force behind companies raising over $100 million in venture capital funding. The strategies developed and implemented have driven results to achieve listing on the Nasdaq National Market, as well as being added to the Russell 2000 and Russell 3000 Index. His experience in exceeding goals includes Fortune 500 companies such as Hewlett-Packard and NEC, as well as multi-national Drake International.
Prior to joining Channel Intelligence, Lanny was executive vice president at Benchmark Group where he developed and led a restructuring plan for the diversified multi-division international company achieving record-setting revenues. While at CP Technologies, Lanny spearheaded successful turnaround and integration of four venture capital funded acquisitions specializing in enterprise eCommerce and supply chain solutions. Lanny was senior leader of executive team driving stellar growth in revenues and profitability at ProSoft, an Internet-related technology company.
Rob Sefick : Chief Technology Officer
Rob Sefick has been the driving force behind the design, development, and creation of innovative software solutions for the past 17 years. Rob started as an associate programmer in 1987 for Shared Medical Systems (SMS) where he quickly became the lead programmer responsible for complex IBM based mainframe software systems. In 1994, Rob left the IBM mainframe world and became the Lead Architect for the SMS Rules Engine solution. In 1998, Rob left SMS and joined Avio in Orlando where he assumed the role of Director of Application development responsible for an n-tier Ambulatory Health Care system. In this role, Rob quickly implemented a standard software development cycle that simplified development cycles, reduced the time it took to create and implement software, and drastically improved the quality of the code. In 1999, Avio was incorporated into Siemens Healthcare Services and Rob took on the role of Senior Development Manager where he led several teams in adopting an ISO 9000 certified development cycle.
In 2005, Rob joined Channel Intelligence as General Manager for the CDI platform. Now as CTO, he has implemented development standards, processes, and guidelines to improve the overall quality of the innovative solutions being created.
Timothy M. French : Vice President and General Counsel
As Vice President and General Counsel of Channel Intelligence, Tim oversees the company’s worldwide corporate and legal matters, advising executive management and the board of directors on strategic and corporate governance matters.
Prior to joining Channel Intelligence, Tim worked in the capital markets and mergers and acquisitions practice groups of leading law firm Latham & Watkins LLP, which was named Law Firm of the Decade by Legal Business Awards 2007, and with Davis Polk & Wardwell, also one of the top firms in the US.
Tim brings to CI substantial public offerings experience, including convertible, investment-grade and high-yield debt and equity offerings. His expertise stems from working with a variety of clients including 3PAR, Advanced Analogic Technologies, Advanced Micro Devices, AMI Semiconductor, ANSYS, Comcast, Documentum, eTelecare Global Solutions, FLIR Systems, Gilead Sciences, Mentor Graphics, Neurocrine Biosciences, NPTest, Omnicell, Redback Networks, TheraSense, UTStarcom and Xyratex.
Tim holds a Bachelor of Arts from University of California, Berkeley and a juris doctor degree from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, where he was awarded the Thelen, Marrin Prize for graduating first in his law school class. He is a member of the State Bar of California and is an authorized house counsel by The Florida Bar.
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