The Digital Reef Management Team

Steve Akers Founder & CTO

Steve Akers is the founder of Digital Reef. A highly successful entrepreneur, Steve has spent his career designing cutting-edge technology solutions that solve complicated and very large scale business problems.

As chief technology officer in the Lucent Technologies Inc. "Wireline" business unit, Steve worked closely with Bell Laboratories to deliver large-scale technologies for integrating data, optical, and wireless networking across a common set of IP technologies. Steve came to Lucent from Spring Tide Networks, a company he co-founded in 1998. During Steve's tenure, Spring Tide became the premier provider of "IP Service Intelligent" switches for enhanced data services over IP networks. Steve and his team architected and designed the wireless, wire line, and broadband platform that inspired the purchase of Spring Tide by Lucent in 2000. As chief technology officer and key architect at Shiva Corporation, a maker of remote access and virtual private networking equipment, Steve partnered with Nortel networks to deliver remote access server and carrier-based VPN technologies. Steve's networking, storage, distributed file systems, and security experience also includes key positions at Stratus Computer, Hewlett-Packard, and Apollo Computer.

Steve holds a Master of Science in Computer Science degree from Boston University, a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and a Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan State University.

Bob Lentz President & CEO

Bob Lentz brings extensive executive management experience to his role at Digital Reef. Prior to joining Digital Reef, he served as CEO and president of PermissionTV, an innovative online video platform company. Bob held the position of senior vice president, operations at OATSystems, Inc.; the recognized leader in radio-frequency identification (RFID) frameworks, now part of Checkpoint; and at eRoom Technology; a Web-based collaborative workspace that enables distributed teams to work together more efficiently; sold to Documentum Inc. and now part of EMC Corp.

Bob was a member of the management team responsible for the turnaround at Xionics Document Technologies, which became the leading provider of digital page processing software and technology for the office market and sold to Oak Technology. His experience also includes senior management positions at Individual Inc., an Internet information services company that merged with Desktop Data to become NewsEdge Corporation, and Appex Corporation, a software company serving the cellular telephone industry that was sold to Electronic Data Systems.

Bob is a member of the board of directors of Monotype Imaging Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: TYPE), Woburn, MA, eCopy, Inc., Nashua, NH, and Lumigent Technologies, Acton, MA. He holds an MBA from Babson College and a BS in Business from Northeastern University.

Larry D'Angelo Vice President of Sales

Larry D'Angelo brings more than 20 years of experience in the areas of sales, marketing and business development to Digital Reef. Most recently, Larry served as vice president of business operations for Makana Solutions, a SaaS provider of sales compensation management solutions that was acquired by Salary.com. Prior to Makana, he served as senior vice president of sales at Autotask. He also previously held similar positions with two companies that were acquired by IBM: iPhrase Technologies and DataPower Technologies. Prior to these appointments, D'Angelo was vice president of worldwide sales at Revenio which was acquired by Vignette.

David Butler Vice President of Marketing

David currently leads Digital Reef’s marketing and product strategy and corporate marketing functions. David brings more than 25 years experience driving product strategy and marketing for enterprise software and systems companies such as HP Software, Mercury Interactive and Systinet, and Spotfire. His broad range of experience spans the development, introduction, and marketing of products for data center automation, SOA enterprise governance, business intelligence analytic applications, web-hosted enterprise applications, industry leading web application servers and application development tools, and distributed OLTP systems.

Prior to joining Digital Reef, David led HP Software’s market and product strategy team responsible for Storage Automation software and was a chief strategy and evangelist for Business Service Automation suite. David also was the Worldwide SOA Director and Chief Evangelist and led HP’s Technology Solutions Group’s SOA marketing and thought leadership activities and solutions. Prior to HP, David was the VP of Marketing and Chief SOA Evangelist for Systinet, where he defined and established the product and marketing vision for Systinet’s SOA Governance and Lifecycle Management products which led an acquisition by Mercury Interactive. Before Systinet, David was VP of Product Strategy and Marketing at Spotfire where he created an innovative guided analytic platform for vertical applications across life sciences, energy, high tech, and manufacturing.

David has a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and marketing from Boston College.

Ted Dolan Vice President, Finance & Corporate Controller

Ted Dolan, Vice President of Finance, brings a wealth of financial leadership and senior executive experience to Digital Reef. Ted has over 25 years of experience in the high-tech industry, filling key financial roles and managing venture-capital funded companies through all stages of growth. At Digital Reef, he is responsible for all finance, legal, facility, human resources, and administration functions.

Prior to Digital Reef, Ted held executive leadership roles in several private and publicly-held companies, the most recent being Crossbeam Systems, TAZZ Networks, and Spring Tide Networks (acquired by Lucent Technologies). Ted also served as Vice President of Finance at Shiva and Bytex, where he played important roles in the revenue growth, profitability growth, and successful IPOs of these two companies.

Ted holds both Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Science degrees from Babson College.

Ted Bardasz Vice President of Research and Development

Ted Bardasz brings more than 25 years of enterprise software development expertise to Digital Reef, where he drives product development activities including software development, QA and Technical Documentation.

Prior to Digital Reef, Ted served as Vice President of Research and Development at XOS, where he managed the development of XOS' Coaching Solutions portfolio as well as initiated and began the development of a new platform for the aggregation and distribution of sports-related digital assets. At Softrax Corporation, he led the development of their SOA-based enterprise architecture for Softrax's Revenue Management solution. Ted also served as Vice President of Research and Development at Blackstone Technology Group and PlanetCAD (division of Spatial Technology). He joined Spatial after successfully executing the sale of Prescient Technologies, Inc. to Spatial. At Prescient, he served as the VP of Research and Development, CEO and President. He has also held senior positions at SensAble Technologies and Computervision.

Ted received his Master's and Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University.