WHERE BORN: “Mineola, NY.”

MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSONS: “Hal Johnson, an entrepreneur, headed me down the entrepreneurial innovative path and he was my mentor in this industry.”

LAST BOOK READ: “The Ultimate Question 2.0 by Fred Reichheld.”

WORDS THAT DESCRIBE ME: “Engaging, father, husband, talkative, outgoing, analytical, thinker, athletic.”

WHERE MY FIELD/INDUSTRY IS HEADED: “We're in the software field and its continued growth is changing the face of the world we live in, as anyone with an iPhone, iPad, or Android can attest. As the hardware continues to get faster and better, it makes more things possible on the software side. In the last 50 years in the computer industry, people have insatiable appetites for information of all manner. I see more and more information being available to people in ways we hadn't even dreamed of before. Humans have an insatiable appetite to know.”

FAVORITE TECHNOLOGICAL GADGET: “My iPhone, to have all of that computing capability and instant access to information anywhere....”

FAVORITE PLACE: “I love Bay Harbor and the whole Little Traverse Bay area.”

FAVORITE HOBBIES: “Running, and I also like playing with technology, getting online and playing with different web-development tools from the power-user perspective.”

FAVORITE FOOD: “Filet mignon.”

MY HIDDEN TALENT: “I can juggle and make balloon animals. A clown-for-hire is my backup profession.”

HOW I WANT TO BE REMEMBERED: “As a good father and a good husband and everything else really doesn't matter.”

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