Management

 
Fred Zolla
CEO and Chairman

Mr. Zolla has served as our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Vemics since the date of our acquisition of Vemics-Delaware in November 2005. Further, Mr. Zolla served as the CEO and Chairman of Vemics-Delaware since its inception on July 17, 2001.

Before founding Vemics-Delaware, Mr. Zolla served as the Chief Operating Officer of Educational Video Conferencing, Inc., a publicly traded company in the technology and distance learning fields from April 1999 to June 2001.

From January 1990 to February 1999, Mr. Zolla was the President of Distance Learning Associates, the first content aggregator in the K-12 and corporate distributed learning space in the U.S. In 1996, he served on the White House Committee for technology in education chaired by then vice-president Al Gore.

Mr. Zolla has taught and lectured in England, France, Italy, Spain, Korea and throughout the U.S. on the “Integration of distance learning resources and technology in the classroom and workplace.”

Mr. Zolla served as chairman of the board of the New York Film Festival, non broadcast division from 1992 through 1995 and remains an active board member.

Mr. Zolla has been married to Michelle, the original co-founder of Vemics, since 1969, they have two daughters and four grandchildren all of who live in Rockland County, New York.

Tom Dorsett
President

Mr. Dorsett joined Vemics in October of 2006 and brings 10 years of experience in the healthcare IT market.

He was co-founder of NuScribe, a privately held medical software company recently acquired by Vemics, where he served as Chief Executive Officer from January 2002 to October 2006.

Before NuScribe, Mr. Dorsett founded and operated Channel Management Software from 1996 to 2002, a reseller of medical voice recognition and electronic medical records applications.

He served as sales manager for MD Productivity, a manufacturer of voice recognition driven healthcare documentation applications and he was Chief Executive Officer and founder of Industryworks Software, a manufacturer of management applications for the transportation and insurance industries.

Craig F. Stout
Chief Operating Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Stout has been our Chief Operating Officer since the date of our acquisition of Vemics - Delaware in November 2005.

Mr. Stout has 20 years of operational and corporate finance experience across multiple industries.

Before joining Vemics, Mr. Stout consulted to the international reinsurance firm, Renaissance Reinsurance in Hamilton, Bermuda working on operation projects including assisting the conversion to Sarbanes Oxley compliance.

In addition, from 2000 to 2005, Mr. Stout worked on a consulting basis to approximately 35 companies accelerating and managing their growth through strategic acquisitions, restructuring and refinancing.

From 1989 to 1991, Mr. Stout was employed by Elders IXL in London as part of a strategic business development group where he was part of the European acquisition team that identified businesses of strategic value to Elders interests, initiated acquisitions and developed the execution plans focused on integrating these new businesses into the Elders corporate structure.

Brian Howell
Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Howell has served as our Chief Technology Officer since the date of our acquisition of Vemics-Delaware in November 2005. He served in the same capacity for Vemics-Delaware since 2003.

He brings more than 20 years of video, voice, data and network technology experience.

Before joining Vemics, from 2001 to 2002 he was Senior Manager for Video Systems and Solutions at Cetacean Networks where he worked on applying real-time routing technologies to the Internet.

From 1984 to 2001, Mr. Howell was a member of the start-up team at PictureTel Corporation (now Polycom). During his 16 years at that company, he was a key member of the team that brought about advances in the marketplace including development of the first integrated Rollabout Videoconferencing System, MCU and PC-based videophone.
Mr. Howell also managed the “Living Lab” working on future technologies and is named on three patents with PictureTel and Polycom.
 


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