Board of Directors

• John C. Taylor - Chairman. John C. has been a commercial banker since 1970, holding positions as a commercial team leader, senior lending officer, and corporate banking portfolio manager. His banking career started with Commerce Bank in Kansas City, then Bank of America for 16 years, First National Bank of Kansas and Peoples Bank of Overland Park, Kansas. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Business from the University of Missouri, graduate of the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at SMU, and received an Executive Fellows MBA from Rockhurst University.




• John M. Taylor - CEO and company founder. John has over 18 years experience managing and consulting in software design and implementation.
  
  

 

Advisory Directors

• Ken Burns - Ken is approaching 12 years as President and Treasurer of Technology Credit Union, a $1.3 billion organization serving over 75,000 individuals living and working in the Silicon Valley. Ken started his credit union career in 1979 as an auditor and has held credit union positions of Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President and President/CEO.
  
  Ken's educational background consists of a BS degree in accounting, and designation as a Certified Credit Union Executive (CCUE) and Certified Chief Executive (CCE). He has also completed graduate courses towards a Masters in Organizational Development.
  
  Ken has been active in credit union industry leadership roles as a past Credit Union League chapter president, and board member of Wescorp Federal Credit Union, the nation's largest corporate credit union.
  
  Ken has also served on the board of his local municipal water district, local school board, and numerous committees including the California Department of Financial Institutions task force on Prompt Corrective Action.
  
  Ken resides in Scotts Valley. He enjoys tennis, scuba diving, table tennis, guitar, and an occasional round of golf.
  
  
  
• Ralph A. Palmieri - Mr. Palmieri recently retired as Staff Vice-President of the Lockheed Martin Information Services and Global Solutions business area. Mr. Palmieri was responsible for the coordination and synergies of International Clients and business affairs across all nine of the operating units of this business area of Lockheed Martin. Previously, from 2004 to 2005, as the Vice President, International for Lockheed Martin Information Technology, Mr. Palmieri successfully launched that business unit on a pioneering course focused on strategic relationships, mergers, and acquisitions of IT and BPS oriented firms based primarily outside the United States and on virtually every continent. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin Corporation, Mr. Palmieri was EVP of the SYTEX Group, Inc. (TSGI), and the Chief Operating Officer of SYTEX, Inc., the flagship company of TSGI's three operating firms: Sytex, Inc., Mac Aulay Brown, Inc., and INS, Inc. He joined Sytex as a start-up enterprise in 1989, helping to kick off the Washington, DC-based segments of the growing government technical services company. For over 16 years, he helped grow Sytex and TSGI into an internationally-recognized professional services company of nearly 3000 employees world-wide, supporting Department of Defense, Non-DoD Federal, commercial, and foreign clients in areas of Homeland Security, Counterterrorism; Command and Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence Systems; Information Warfare and Information Operations; Systems Engineering and Integration; Program Management and Business Administration; and Global Logistics and Readiness Systems Support.
  
  Prior to joining SYTEX, Mr. Palmieri was with Analytics, Inc. for over six years. He began as a Project Engineer and ended as a Principal Analyst, and grew his division from a staff of zero to over 55 technical personnel providing services to the DoD, both domestically and internationally.
  
  Previously, Mr. Palmieri served as an intelligence and electronic warfare officer in the US Army (1964-1984), with tours at Ft Bragg, NC, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe. Professionally qualified in German, Persian, and Spanish languages, with lesser competencies in Italian, Arabic, and Vietnamese.