myVBO

Robert Wilkins - CEO

Robert Wilkins is an executive entrepreneur who actively consults for small to large companies with needs in the areas of growth strategy, organizational planning and visionary marketing. Before launching MyVBO, Bob spent 11 years as Executive Vice President with PC Connection, a Fortune 1000 reseller of high tech equipment. Prior to his employment with PC Connection, Bob founded two high-tech companies of his own, both which grew to be significant players in the PC direct marketing industry before being sold. He also holds two technology patents, two game patents, and has three patents pending for a software product he developed, currently being sold and marketed by one of his two existing companies. Mr. Wilkins has over 28 years’ experience marketing and selling products to consumer and business customers. He enjoys travel, golfing, skiing, and Red Sox baseball.

John Hampson - VP Business Development

John Hampson is a managing member of Mountainside Australian Gold, LLC and owner of Mountainside Consulting, an international business consulting firm that assists companies with change management and implementation of best practices. John spent 10+ years with United Business Media-TechWeb (formerly CMP), most recently as the Director of International Sales for MSDN magazine and TechNet Magazine. He has also served as firefighter/driver and captain (retired) with the Peterborough Fire and Rescue for 31 years.

Ann L. Wilkins - VP Marketing Development

Ann Wilkins is a sales and marketing consultant specializing in the high tech and consumer goods markets. Prior to her consulting career, Ann was the Director of Peripheral Products at PC Connection, a computer reseller and Fortune 1000 company, where she managed a team of product managers, marketers and buyers responsible for product lines with annual sales in excess of $450 million. Ann owned a small advertising agency for 6 years, after spending many years on the agency and media side of the advertising business. Ann has a bachelor’s degree in Communications/Media, with a minor in Business Administration/Marketing. She is also on the board of several non-profit organizations including The Giving Planet, a program of complimentary enrichment workshops for youth in developing countries and within the United States, and the Sharon Arts Center in Peterborough, NH. Ann enjoys travel, cooking, gardening, skiing, golf, reading, painting, and spending time with her very active family.

Andrew Curioso - VP Engineering

Andrew is a software engineer, innovator, and author. He is an established expert in PHP and Javascript technologies with multiple publication in the field and a decade of experience. Above all things, Andrew prides himself on outside-the-box thinking and pushing the perceived limits of technology. Andrew has a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA where he studied core software engineering tenets as well as bio-medical engineering, bio-informatics, and computer graphics. He is the author of Shortcut: Ajax with PHP5 which was published in 2007 by O’Reilly Media and has also been translated to French. He is also the lead author of Expert PHP and MySQL which was plublished in 2010 by Wiley under the Wrox label. Andrew has given presentations on technology in both the United States and South Korea.

Justin Vincent - Software Developer

Justin is an experienced media and technology professional and entrepreneur. He has held CTO, technical architect, and team lead positions at numerous companies large and small. He has led the technical architecture and development efforts of several social and ecommerce platforms. He was the founding CTO for Woyano, a knowledge sharing social network. He built and managed their development team, architected and programmed the web site, planned hardware/software requirements, and conducted other day-to-day business planning and marketing activities. Justin was lead web developer for Reed Elsevier's website FIRSTConsult, a medical point of care reference tool. Other experience includes the development of open source software used by hundreds of thousands of developers, including the ezSQL project (more than 250K downloads, used on millions of web sites and open source software projects). In addition to his executive experience, Justin is well known as a hands-on developer (his most recent work can be seen at pluggio.com).

Philip J. Kubat, Jr. - Software Engineer

Philip J. Kubat, Jr., is a seasoned technologist skilled in bringing together people, processes and technology to create a competitive business advantage for his organizations, as well as their customers. As Chief Information Officer of Ntirety Inc., Philip ensures technology leads the way in expanding the business, so our remote database administrators are providing the most robust, efficient, scalable and cost-effective service possible.

Prior to joining Ntirety, Kubat was Chief Technology Officer at CBE Technologies, a leading provider of managed information technologies to the government, commercial, health care and education sectors. At CBE, Philip was a member of an executive team that created and grew a new managed services business to more than 1,000 customers and more than $8 million in sales.

Also, Philip founded and served as president of OdiOne Technology Group, a provider of fully managed and hosted IT services delivered as a single "Desktop Suite" to emerging growth and small- to medium-sized businesses. In 2000, technology magazine Red Herring selected OdiOne to present at the prestigious Venture Market East Forum. The next year, OdiOne merged with CBE Technologies.

Jason Bell - Software Engineer

Jason spent eight years as a member of the USAF. His initial assignment following graduation from the USAF Computer Systems School was to Rhein-Main AB in Germany where he developed several custom software solutions to support the humanitarian relief efforts in the former nation of Yugoslavia. In 1995, Jason was transferred to the Pentagon Telecommunications Center to assist in the transition from the current military messaging infrastructure to a more modern decentralized system (DMS) being developed primarily by Lockheed-Martin and the National Security Agency. Upon his departure, Jason was awarded the USAF Commendation Medal.

Robert Wilkins - CEO

Robert Wilkins is an executive entrepreneur who actively consults for small to large companies with needs in the areas of growth strategy, organizational planning and visionary marketing. Before launching MyVBO, Bob spent 11 years as Executive Vice President with PC Connection, a Fortune 1000 reseller of high tech equipment. Prior to his employment with PC Connection, Bob founded two high-tech companies of his own, both which grew to be significant players in the PC direct marketing industry before being sold. He also holds two technology patents, two game patents, and has three patents pending for a software product he developed, currently being sold and marketed by one of his two existing companies. Mr. Wilkins has over 28 years’ experience marketing and selling products to consumer and business customers. He enjoys travel, golfing, skiing, and Red Sox baseball.

Ben Perez

Ben is Sr. Vice President of Strategic & Business Development of Millard Group, Inc. He served as President from 1992 to August of 2008, having joined the company in 1984. Prior to becoming President, he was Senior Vice President of the List Management Division. Before joining Millard Group, Ben spent seven years with Garden Way, Inc., initially with their in-house advertising agency and later as Vice President and General Manager of one of five Garden Way divisions. Ben received the Direct Marketing Association List & Database Council’s 2001 DMA List Leader Award for outstanding achievement in the list industry and was honored by Target Marketing in 1991 as one of the 200 Most Influential Direct Marketers. Ben serves on the DMA Board of Retired Directors; he is past Treasurer and past member of the Executive Committee and currently serves on the DMA Catalog Council Operating Committee and the Executive Committee of the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation.

Peter Cowie

Peter is Chairman and CEO of Managed Technology Partners (MTP), formerly CBE Technologies. Peter joined MTP/CBE Technologies as Chairman and CEO in 2001 and oversaw its growth from $20 million in 2001 to over $75 million in 2008 revenue to become the area’s leading Managed IT Services provider. Peter oversaw the 2008 sale of CBE’s government and education division to Gores Equity, LLC at which time he and his partner renamed the company to Managed Technology Partners, and now operate the company solely focused on the IT needs of the small and medium-size business community. Peter currently serves on partner advisory boards for several of MTP's key partners, including HP and Microsoft.

Cam Brown

Cam Brown is the president of King Fish Media, a custom media company that specializes in customer acquisition and loyalty. Cam’s broad range of client experience includes managing projects and marketing budgets within the consumer, technology, healthcare, automotive, search engine, and consumer electronic categories. Cam brings 20 years of custom media, project management, advertising, and marketing experience with industry leaders including Ziff Davis Media, Arnold Communications and The Robb Report.

He serves on the Board of Advisors for Pixel Bridge, Inc, a Boston-based Internet consulting firm, and on the Board of Directors for Baby Age, a Web retailer of baby and juvenile products. Cam serves on the Advisory Board of Give Us Your Poor, an organization that brings together the latest research, multimedia, celebrities, non-celebrities, homeless people, and partner organizations to help end homelessness, as well as on the Advisory Board of The Giving Planet, a program of complimentary enrichment workshops for youth in developing countries and within the United States.

Jack Litman-Quinn

With over 20 years of experience, Mr. Littman-Quinn is a seasoned entrepreneur with an exemplary record of leading companies through various stages of growth and development. His “balanced approach” between strategy and tactics results in refined strategic thinking and defined implementation plans.

Focusing on the needs of emerging businesses, MarketBurst, LLC is Littman-Quinn’s latest entrepreneurial venture. Specializing in the areas of sales, marketing, business development, general management, and fund raising, MarketBurst provides its clients detailed consultative services, advice, and interim management.

Prior to founding MarketBurst, Littman-Quinn’s other entrepreneurial ventures included: OneCore Financial Network (President & CEO), PCs Compleat (President & COO), and Microamerica (Senior VP). In addition to the above operating roles, Mr. Littman-Quinn serves as a director and advisor to numerous emerging growth companies.

In 1994 and 1995, he was named a finalist in the Retail/Distribution category of the “Entrepreneur of the Year Award” sponsored by Inc. Magazine, Ernst & Young, and Merrill Lynch. He holds both a BA and Masters Degree from Boston College.

Robert Faletra

Robert Faletra is the CEO of Everything Channel (EC), an online media and channel services business and a division of United Business Media. Formerly known as CMP Media, EC provides sales channel acceleration tools, services and media offerings to companies ranging in size from the largest technology companies in the world to small start-ups.

Since taking on the leadership of CMP Channel in 2001, Faletra has conceptualized and launched numerous successful new businesses including IPED, a consulting, research and education business focused on technology sales channels, demand generation services that supply sales leads, and a host of online services that are available under the division’s ChannelWeb.com brand.

An early adopter of the Internet, Faletra pushed CMP into the online world in the early 1990’s and was instrumental in driving the company’s transformation from a print publisher to a full service supplier of integrated media and other services. As a former professional journalist who chronicled the formation of the high tech industry from its earliest days, he has won numerous awards, including one of the 25 most influential high tech editors for five straight years.