About Us - Management Team
Steven Rempell, Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Rempell brings more than 30 years of executive leadership experience and proven insight and innovation to his role as CEO of Xpressmo. For the past 20 years, Steve has focused on leading software and mobile device innovation. Prior to Xpressmo, Steve was founder and CEO of Beyond Words - an early leader in graphical word processors (IBM DisplayWrite, Canon Expression, Lotus Ami Pro). During his career, Steve also held prominent roles in other Fortune 500 companies, such as manager of marketing operations, IBM Asia-Pacific, through which he was co-inventor of Houston Automated Spooling Program (HASP) at IBM. Mr. Rempell holds a Bachelors of Science degree from Cornell University.
Troy Brown, Joint Venture Partner
Mr. Brown brings extensive executive Hollywood music management and promotion experience, fortified with more than 20 years of telecommunications, marketing, advertising, and entertainment industry experience, including head of content for Sony Ericsson mobile phones. While at Sony Ericsson, Troy launched three of the company's highest selling mobile handsets - Z500, S710a "The Star Wars Phone", and the W600i "The Mobile Walkman". In addition, Troy launched successful branded handset and mobile campaigns for Sony Ericsson and content category for Cingular Wireless. Most recently, Troy was co-founder and CMO of Real Content Group, mobile device innovators serving an elite clientele of content producers, advertising agencies and brands. Troy has also served as senior executive at Verizon Wireless, playing a key role as Subject Matter Expert of High Capacity Services Managed Network Integration in the Bell Atlantic, GTE merger.
John Rizzo, Senior Advisor
Mr. Rizzo is an adept executive who gets the job done by using cutting edge business, strategic, and technical skills. His experience is drawn from various executive leadership positions including vice president of technology strategy at Aplix where he works closely with firms such as DoCoMo, IBM, Sun, Motorola, Nokia and others to build industry support for next generation mobile data technologies. Prior to his work at Aplix, John held the position of chief architect at Vodafone Germany. During his career, John has also held senior technology positions at both Verizion and AirTouch.
Ken Brown, Vice President of Product Development
Mr. Brown has 30 years of experience in software engineering primarily in the commercial sector for product development of software or combined software/hardware systems, including word processing and desktop publishing software, device drivers for peripherals such as printers, scanners and digital cameras, and process management software for large scale photo development equipment. Prior to Xpressmo, Ken held the position of senior vice president at Fuji Film Software where he founded Fuji Film's R&D Division in Silicon Valley, CA. In addition to Fuji Film, Ken was engineering manager for Canon Information Systems, senior developer at Beyond Words, and senior developer of IBM DisplayWrite and Canon Expression.
B. McKinley Hackett III, Vice President of Sales & Marketing
Mr. Hackett is a seasoned sales leader with more than 20 years experience driving revenue, building partnerships, and leading teams within Internet, software, and mobile device services organizations. McKinley's executive sales and management positions include stints with SavaJe Technologies, Axis Communications, Xerox Corporation, Computer Associates, and Procter & Gamble.