Leadership
Board of Directors
Dr. E. Kelly Hyslop, M.D., Chairman of the Board
Amit K. Basak, Director
George T. Hawes, Director
Sandy Weil, Director, President and CEO
Stephen M. Kezirian, Director
Allen J. Wolpert, Director
Management Team
Sandy Weil, Director, President and CEO
Debra A. DiMaria, CPA, CFO and Corporate Secretary
Kevin Bohan, Chief Information Officer
Tom Bauer, Chief Technology Officer
Jack Gazzola, Vice President of Sales
Board of Directors
Dr. E. Kelly Hyslop, M.D., Chairman of the Board
Dr. E. Kelly Hyslop was appointed Chairman of the Board in November 2007. He has been a Board Director since September 1996. Dr. Hyslop currently serves as a strategic and financial advisor for several public and private emerging growth companies. Dr. Hyslop practiced as a medical doctor from 1969 until 1995 and is now retired from the medical community.
Amit K. Basak, Director
Amit K. Basak was elected to the Board of Directors in November 2007. Mr. Basak is a private equity investor with executive management experience in the fields of investment banking and product sales and marketing. From 2003 to 2007, he was General Manager of Click Tactics, Inc., a leading provider of outsourced marketing services for the Fortune 500. Prior to this, Mr. Basak was Director of Marketing at Compete, Inc., a market-research firm. Earlier in his career, Mr. Basak ran product marketing at Yantra Corporation, an enterprise software company in the supply chain planning and execution space (later acquired by Sterling Commerce). In private equity, he worked at ConnectCapital, an affiliate of Insight Venture Partner focused on U.S.-India cross-border investing, as well as at J.H. Whitney & Co. Mr. Basak began his career as an investment banker in the M&A department at Morgan Stanley. He holds a B.A. from Yale University and MBA from Harvard Business School.
George T. Hawes, Director
George T. Hawes joined the Proginet Board in 2004. Mr. Hawes is currently the President of G.T. Hawes & Co. Inc., a private New York-based real estate and investment company. Mr. Hawes has previously served with Avon Products Ltd., and Hurdman and Cranston, Certified Public Accountants (now part of KPMG). Mr. Hawes earned a BBA from the University of Notre Dame.
Sandy Weil
Sandy Weil is a Director, President and CEO of Proginet Corporation. In this role, he is responsible for providing strategic leadership, direction, and management of the Company.
Mr. Weil joined Proginet in Spring 2008. Most recently, he served as a partner and senior executive at Accenture, one of the world's leading global management consulting and technology firms. During his fourteen-year tenure at Accenture, he held senior management positions in the Infrastructure Outsourcing, BPO, and Managed Reference Data Service practices, with specific responsibility for sales, marketing, strategic alliances, and general operations. He was made partner in the firm in 2003.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Weil gained experience in the technology industry at various enterprise software and hardware companies. He holds a BA in Psychology from Hobart College.
Stephen M. Kezirian, Director
Stephen M. Kezirian was elected to the Board of Directors in November 2007. Mr. Kezirian is Vice President at Sprint Nextel where he manages more than 5,000 individuals in vendor and in-source call center locations around the world. His group is responsible for all sales activities through the Telesales channel, as well as sales-support operations for orders submitted through both the Telesales and Web channels. Prior to joining Sprint in 2004, Mr. Kezirian held various positions at Morgan Stanley, J.H. Whitney, McKinsey, and Tickets.com. He holds a bachelors degree in Economics from Harvard University, and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
Allen J. Wolpert, Director
Allen J. Wolpert was elected to the Board of Directors in November 2007. Mr. Wolpert was associated with Accenture (Arthur Andersen/Anderson Consulting) from 1979 to 2002. During his time at Accenture, Mr. Wolpert was instrumental in helping grow the company's management consulting practice from 5,000 consultants in 1979, to close to 100,000 globally by 2002. Since retiring from Accenture in 2002, Mr. Wolpert has been an investor and advisor to companies in Publishing, Media, and Medical Practice Management. He has appeared on CNBC's Technology Edge, and has been interviewed frequently by leading publications, including CIO Magazine, Insurance & Technology, Future Banker, and The New York Times. He studied Electrical Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and received a BA/MPs degree in Health Services from The New School in New York.
Management
Sandy Weil
Director, President and CEO
Sandy Weil is a Director, President and CEO of Proginet Corporation. In this role, he is responsible for providing strategic leadership, direction, and management of the Company.
Mr. Weil joined Proginet in Spring 2008. Most recently, he served as a partner and senior executive at Accenture, one of the world's leading global management consulting and technology firms. During his fourteen-year tenure at Accenture, he held senior management positions in the Infrastructure Outsourcing, BPO, and Managed Reference Data Service practices, with specific responsibility for sales, marketing, strategic alliances, and general operations. He was made partner in the firm in 2003.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Weil gained experience in the technology industry at various enterprise software and hardware companies. He holds a BA in Psychology from Hobart College.
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Debra A. DiMaria, CPA
Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
Ms. DiMaria joined Proginet in 2000 after a successful fifteen-year career with Grant Thornton LLP, an international accounting and consulting firm. While at Grant Thornton, she oversaw the financial audit process that helped Proginet obtain a listing on the U.S. OTCBB. As Chief Financial Officer at Proginet, Ms. DiMaria has established and implemented various systems and processes to support the company's growth. She is responsible for obtaining additional capital as required, and oversees all financial, legal, and human resource functions.
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Kevin Bohan
Chief Information Officer
Kevin Bohan is Chief Information Officer at Proginet Corporation, a position he was appointed to in 2002. In this role, Mr. Bohan oversees several key divisions of the company, including Proginet Professional Services (PPS), Systems Engineering, and Customer Support. He also plays a key role in the company's overall product and technology strategy, in addition to being responsible for the company's corporate technology infrastructure.
Mr. Bohan has served as Chairman of the North American File Transfer Access and Management Special Interest Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which created the ISO standard for file transfer. Previously, he served as Director of OSINet Corporation, the non-profit that established interoperability testing for OSI products, as Chairman of the OSINet Promotion Committee, and on the steering committee of several international standards organizations, including the European Workshop for Open Systems (EWOS).
He holds a number of industry certifications, and is a Microsoft Certified Professional.
Mr. Bohan has been with Proginet since 1989. He holds a BS in Accounting from Iona College.
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Tom Bauer
Chief Technology Officer
Tom Bauer is Chief Technology Officer of Proginet Corporation, a position he has held since 2000. In this position, he leads Proginet's development teams, playing a key role in the company's strategic and technological direction with regard to its entire suite of security software products.
Mr. Bauer has played an integral role in Proginet product development since joining the company in 1987, and was joint-architect of the company's highly successful file-transfer solution XCOM (the product line was sold to Computer Associates in 1990). He has been instrumental in the development of all major Proginet product lines, including CyberFusion and SecurPass, and most recently led the design and development of CyberFusion Integration Suite (CFI)TM, Proginet's integrated solution for Managed File Transfer.
Prior to joining Proginet, Mr. Bauer spent several years at European American Bank (now part of Citigroup), where he was CICS Development Manager. He holds a B.B.A. from Adelphi University.
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Jack Gazzola
Vice President of Sales
Jack Gazzola is Vice President of Sales at Proginet Corporation, a position he was appointed to in October 2003. Mr. Gazzola brings to his role at Proginet more than 28 years of sales and sales management experience, and a proven business-to-business track record. As Vice President, he has overall responsibility for the operations and strategic leadership of the company's direct and indirect sales teams.
Mr. Gazzola started his career at ADP where he spent 14 years in various regional and national sales positions. Following this, he spent seven years at JBA International, where he was National Director of Sales, contributing significantly to the company's growth and market leadership in ERP software solutions for the Global 2000. He has also held senior management positions at both Comshare and Nistevo respectively.
Mr. Gazzola holds a BS in Marketing & Management from New York's Fordham University.
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