• Rich Kennedy, President
• J.R. Massa, Vice President Operations
• Jeff Suntken, Vice President Client Solutions
• Rick Inman, Vice Presient Technology
• Chuck Griffin• Eric Nastri • Robert Fine • Don Breit

Rich Kennedy, President
Rich founded InnerWest TekPartners in 2002 and currently acts as the company's external spokesperson while providing strategic vision for the corporate initiatives. He spearheads corporate development, marketing, and business development. Rich also serves InnerWest TekPartners' clients as a resource in the areas of business and IT alignment, business process re-engineering and outsourcing, and strategic initiative consulting.

Rich was a Vice President and Managing Director for the Denver practice of Greenbrier & Russel Inc, a national business technology consultancy with nine offices in the US and over $60 million in annual revenue. Greenbrier & Russel specializes in business intelligence and custom application development. In addition, Rich led the Denver practice of The Revere Group, another national business technology consultancy with five offices and over $50 million in revenue. The Revere Group's focus was package application implementation and e-business consulting. Rich was the Director of Strategic Business for a leading Colorado network and system integration company and was responsible for projects with national and local clients totaling over $25 million in annual revenue.

In addition to his leadership experiences, Rich has served as the engagement manager on numerous projects and initiatives. He was responsible for the implementation of a Peoplesoft payroll and HR system for a restaurant chain with over 400 stores and 2500 employees, the design and creation of custom-built workflow applications for a data cabling contractor and a mortgage brokerage firm, and the deployment of new and upgraded financial systems using Oracle, Microsoft, and Sage Software technologies. Rich has been responsible for the architectural design and installation of multi-city wide area networks and multi-server data centers.

Rich began his career with Ernst and Young and earned a CPA designation while working in a variety of industries. In 1990, he shifted his focus to marketing and business development within the technology industry. Over the past fifteen years, Rich has worked for and with technology consultants, resellers, system integrators, and application developers in Colorado. He has worked or partnered with countless technology manufacturers and service providers, including Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Peoplesoft, Novell, Qwest, Level 3, Cisco Systems, Dell, AT&T and IBM. He has served hundreds of Colorado clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies with 50,000 employees to small businesses with 15 employees. In addition to his focus on providing clients with technology-based solutions, he founded an investment company in 1995 to place private equity into Colorado's burgeoning technology sector, and in 1999, he served as President and CEO of a startup company that provided web hosting and application services.

Rich received a Bachelors of Business Administration degree from the University of Notre Dame, graduating with high honors, and a Masters of Business Administration degree from Columbia University, also graduating with high honors.
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J.R. Massa, Vice President Operations
J.R. brings over 10 years of progressive management experience with demonstrated skills to grow a business from start-up to growth-stage to exit. J.R. co-founded Domin-8 Enterprise Solutions, a highly successful asp-based software company focused on serving the apartment industry. During Domin-8's start-up phase, J.R. was a key player in developing the overall business plan, solely developed the sales and marketing strategies and was part of the executive team which secured Domin-8's seed capital. As Vice President at Domin-8, J.R. was involved in all aspects of the business while developing and providing leadership to the Professional Services, Customer Support, Technical Publications, Training, Quality Assurance and Marketing departments. The business grew from 3 founders to 100+ employees in less than 4 years and now boasts 25% market share and $60MM in projected annualized revenue growth.

Before Domin-8, J.R. was Director of Sales and Marketing for WaKuL, Inc., a fully integrated voice, data and satellite provider serving the apartment industry. At WaKuL, he increased revenues by 28% in his first quarter and drove all company-wide project work. J.R. also restructured the operations, sales & marketing and billing strategies to position the company for sale and was part of the executive team that successfully executed the company's exit strategy.

Prior to WaKuL, J.R. held various senior positions with Neighborhood Link, the largest web-based community forum for neighborhoods in the nation. As the company's third employee, this was J.R.'s first high technology start-up experience. The company grew to over 30 employees in 2 years and J.R. was propelled to Neighborhood Link's National Manager, where he aggressively established a local markets focus, resulting in significantly increased website hits and advertising revenue. He also initiated and supervised the development of an online Customer Relationship Management interface and managed the customer support and retention efforts.

J.R. began his career at Russell, Karsh and Hagan, then the most prominent public relations and advertising agency in the region. As a Marketing Coordinator, J.R. was responsible for the development of collateral for the Company, coordinating account project work and leading a company-wide project to prepare for the Company's largest sales prospect. In just a few short months, J.R. was given his first account to manage and was given the opportunity to work with a variety of clients, where he quickly learned his love for entrepreneurship and high technology start-ups.

J.R. has a Masters of Science in Public Relations and a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications & Journalism, both from the University of Denver.
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Jeff Suntken, Vice President Client Solutions
Jeff has more than 18 years of project management and development experience with technology systems. A business and technology consultant for over 14 of those years, he has broad experience in many industries and has served both IT and business operations areas.

With the unique ability to build rapport with executive management, business operations staff, and technology resources, Jeff has built long lasting relationships with clients and helped achieve results not possible without close coordination and communication between business areas. He often leads projects with a diverse mix of clients, contractors, and vendors building a team to achieve project goals and objectives. Jeff applies practical project management focused on providing value to the client's business and he employs constant deadline, scope, and resource negotiation to bring projects to completion with no surprises.

Prior to becoming a consultant, Jeff was an information systems developer for Arthur Andersen & Co. As a consultant with Greenbrier & Russel, Inc. he developed software, applied business process analysis, designed systems, and led projects for the likes of The Chicago Board of Exchange, American Medical Association, Sprint, Motorola, and a number of other companies in the Chicago area. As a key employee of Greenbrier & Russel, he helped establish and build a project management practice within the firm. In 2000, Jeff transferred to Denver, Colorado and led several multimillion dollar projects. After 13 years of consulting with G&R, Jeff started his own project management consulting business in 2005 and has led projects in the transition and integration phases of several acquisitions and divestitures for British Petroleum and Scottish Re, former ING Re, gaining valuable experience in the mergers and acquisition market.

Jeff received a BBA in Management Information Systems from Iowa State University.
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Rick Inman, Vice President Technology
Rick has a diverse technical and strategic business background, which allows him to address business challenges from a unique vantage point. Rick started his career as a manufacturer's representative for a leading firm representing and selling multi-million dollar silicon chip testing equipment and other key manufacturing components to Fortune 500 clients such as IBM, United Technologies and Digital Equipment Corporation. This 'high-level' exposure gave Rick the confidence to start his first company, which exploited the need to manipulate and control call information within hotel PBX telephone systems. In the following years, Rick collaborated on and founded three additional technology companies and worked for a number of other leading technology providers all of which held a client focus to solving specific business problems. Rick's ability to design and apply complex technologies for practical business use has resulted in hundreds of deliverable solutions throughout US.

Systems integration, business process analysis, infrastructure design and build, product manufacture, product marketing and repositioning, software creation and development are all areas of expertise that Rick currently leverages for InnerWest TekPartners.

Rick has received a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing and Finance from the University of Denver. He also holds numerous certifications and qualifications with regard to technology, process and management, software design and architecture, sales order management, and supply and demand chain management.
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Chuck Griffin
Chuck has more than 20 years of leadership experience building regional branding and guiding top tier companies. An accomplished corporate strategist and operations expert in telecommunications, he has driven notable enterprise growth in the traditional voice, fixed base wireless, and next generation carrier data networking markets. Offering a rare blend of creative and operational strengths, Chuck has achieved exciting company turnarounds and high efficiency growth and is recognized for his success in growing sales and profits.

Chuck currently serves as a Managing Partner of Vimenture, LLC. and iPath Communications. Prior to leading Vimenture, Chuck has held leadership roles at L3 Communications, ICG Communications, and @Link Communications. He has been involved in the implementation of emerging telecommunications technologies for the past several years making him one of the countries foremost resources on Voice over IP solutions. Chuck has also been instrumental in the development of both provisioning and training software specific to the Voice over IP industry.

Although Chuck's primary focus is on the operational success of deploying Voice over IP technology, his broad experience in creating, building and managing indirect sales channels has also establishes him as an expert in the field of indirect sales channel development. In addition to numerous speaking engagements, Chuck has consulted with several of the countries leading providers such as New Global Telecom and Primus Communications to establish "World Class - Best in Breed" indirect sales channel programs.

Chuck has a Bachelor's degree in Communications from the University of Colorado and holds numerous technical certifications.
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Eric Nastri
Seven years ago Eric founded Verticomm Technologies Inc. to provide system integration services to small and medium sized business. Today, Verticomm isof one of Colorado's leading technology solutions companies whose partnership roster includes Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks, Juniper Networks, Fortinet, Left Hand Networks, HP, and Microsoft. In addition to providing project related integration services, Verticomm offers numerous hosted solutions for their customer seeking complete outsourced capabilities.

Eric has more than 18 years in the technology industry and has been involved with countless technologies and companies. This experience combined with a passion for serving his clients makes Eric a leader in the Colorado technology community and a valuable asset at InnerWest TekPartners.
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Robert Fine
Mr. Fine has been a shareholder and CEO of EnterSolve, Inc., a consulting service company. In this role, he has managed a group of 15+ developers in a variety of consulting engagements. He has managed the sales and marketing team and provided engagement management for the organization's largest projects. Over the past 5 years, Robert has developed several channel relationships in support of Microsoft development services. Robert has over 10 years of application/database architecture experience and is the active CIO for Enterprise Travel Systems, Inc.
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Don Breit
Mr. Breit has been a shareholder and CFO of EnterSolve, Inc., a consulting services company. Over the past five years with EnterSolve, Inc., he has developed and managed customer relationships, as well as managing finances and human resources. He has 10 years of Finance, Accounting, and general business experience with a degree in Business Economics and Accounting. Don is currently a principal of Enterprise Travel Systems, Inc, his third start-up company. His focus for Enterprise Travel Systems, Inc. is on client relationship development, client retention and all financial issues.
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