Management Team
Russ Carroll
CEO
 Russ Carroll’s unique professional background includes numerous highly analytical, scientific, and entrepreneurial accomplishments.
While in his teens, Russ was a contemporary research astronomer, earning the highly regarded Westinghouse Science Award and, by age 17, made the first major astronomical discovery with the HEAO I X-ray satellite. By the following year, Russ held full investigator status with NASA on the HEAO II while at the UCSD Center for Astrophysics and Space Science.
Astronomy led Russ to pioneering work with supercomputers, first at Boeing, then, subsequently, in his first major entrepreneurial role as VP of computer services for Digital Productions, which won an Academy Award for 22 minutes of groundbreaking computer animation in the film The Last Starfighter.
In mid-1998, after leading several other successful supercomputing and software companies, Russ took over as CEO of a floundering three year old real estate training company. Under his leadership over the next 4 years, the company went on to become the largest training and coaching company in the United States, growing from 18 employees to over 200.
Rick Wilson
Executive Vice President
 Rick Wilson is the former Vice President of Sales and Business Development of Miva (now Miva Small Business), serving in that capacity from 2002 to 2005. Rick was a member of the senior management team at Miva Corporation prior to its acquisition by FindWhat.com in 2004 and its transition into Miva Small Business.
Rick’s more than 12 years of executive-level sales and marketing experience also includes his tenure as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Providence Systems, a privately held sales training company. At Providence Systems, Rick developed and executed the sales and marketing strategies that helped lead a successful corporate turnaround between 1998 and 2002.
Mark T. Johnson
Vice President of Development
 Mark Johnson has over 30 years experience working in software development. In this long career Mark has worked for many companies, ranging from the very small to the very large. He was on the staff of the computer laboratory at two major universities. Mark has worked in the mining, financial, healthcare, advertising, manufacturing, hospitality, and retail industries.
Mark’s work has been in operating system development, compilers, real time process control, transaction processing, embedded systems, database systems, large-scale transaction processing, online and web based applications including Miva Merchant. Mark has been the developer behind a large Miva Merchant store (www.runnersgear.com) for a number of years and is very familiar with our product line and our community.
David Roquemore
Vice President of Technology
 David has 23 years of experience in Information Technology leading and developing new IT Departments. He successfully led many large projects, including Sempra Energy’s conversion to SAP during their merger between SDG&E and Southern California Gas Company.
David worked with Russ and Rick at a former company as the CIO during its rapid growth to a $55 million company. He developed his skills in the banking and financial services industry during the first 10 years of his career. Some of the notable companies in David’s portfolio include: World Vision, Shearson Leahman, Security Pacific Bank, ITT Residential Capital, and Sempra Energy.
Christopher Walt
Secretary and General Counsel
 Chris Walt has been a practicing attorney for over 28 years. After graduating from Stanford University (BA, MA 1973) and obtaining his law degree from the University of California Berkeley School of Law (JD 1979), Chris joined a large San Diego law firm, where he became partner and practiced business and corporate law for 10 years. Since leaving the firm and establishing his own practice, Chris has continued to represent emerging and established companies in business, corporate and real estate transactional matters.
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