Principals: Senior Management Team

Founder and CEO: Mike Siewruk

Mike Siewruk is the President and CEO at NetVersant. He is an experienced entrepreneur and business manager with two prior successful start-ups to his credit.

Previously, Mike was a subsidiary President with Quarterdeck Corporation (NASDAQ: QDEK) a leading utility/internet/remote computing software publisher. He was Responsible for 150 employees in sales, marketing, finance, operations and customer service. Mike established Quarterdeck's European direct marketing division in Dublin, Ireland. In his two-year tenure, Mike increased sales over 100% and improved Customer Satisfaction by over 50% for his division.

In 1989, Mike Co-founded Landmark Research, an international technology development and marketing company that specialized in troubleshooting and performance enhancement software and hardware products. As VP of Sales/Marketing and ultimately President, he grew the company from 15 employees to 135, $23MM revenue, established domestic and international sales channels, oversaw product marketing and management, and acquired two software companies. Mike sold the company to Quarterdeck in June, 1995.

In 1983, Mike started Technology Hotlines, a national direct mail advertising company and one of the pioneers in generating sales leads for computer software/hardware vendors. Mike oversaw all sales, marketing, print/mailing list/creative, and product functions. He launched the company with 3 employees and grew it to 75 before selling his ownership to several key employees to start Landmark.

Mike has a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. He was a YEA (Young Entrepreneur's Association) Top 100 Entrepreneur in the USA (#62), runner-up in the Chivas Regal Young Entrepreneur Awards, and is listed in Brett Kingstone's book The Dynamos (Wiley Press) as a notable entrepreneur.

Vice President Marketing: Riggs Eckelberry

Riggs Eckelberry joins NetVersant Technologies as its Vice President of Marketing, after a year in which he successfully founded Los Angeles-based Riggs Eckelberry Marketing Group (REMG), an online marketing agency that helps its clientele develop markets and revenue using the Internet.

At the close of 1997, the agency counted ten corporate clients and a team of twenty-two. A management team now operates the agency under the name of Lassoo Interactive, and Riggs continues in the role of Chairman.

Initially, Riggs gained his reputation as a software marketer while at Quarterdeck Corporation in 1995, with the launch of CleanSweep95, which lifted the utility from 3,000 to 30,000 units monthly, making it first in its category in a period of just three months.

Subsequently, as Quarterdeck's Director of Strategic Marketing, he radically increased the company's reliance on audience-responsive product design, and, as Director of Product Marketing for the innovative WebCompass product, experimented with low-budget online marketing strategies.

Riggs first used computers to aid in market research. In 1979, while running his own research organization, he commissioned a survey tabulation program running on the first true personal computer, the Altair 88.

Believing strongly in the future of a new generation of super-microcomputers, he founded and operated a Value Added Reseller (VAR) firm in New York that implemented UNIX-based solutions for businesses in the region.

Later still, Riggs was a systems integrator for a variety of companies, especially in direct marketing and telephone sales.

This experience in corporate computing has given Riggs a great deal of familiarity with, and understanding of what MIS Managers must deal with on a day to day basis.

In addition to his extensive experience in corporate computing and high-tech marketing, Riggs has accumulated hands-on experience in an astonishing variety of other areas, such as:

Sales management and wine importing for a national wine club;

Technical Analysis for a high-voltage engineering firm;

Team positions in feature-length films and commercials;

Early experience as an officer and captain on commercial ships.

Today’s markets are in rapid transition, and no one can be sure of what is ahead. Riggs is uniquely equipped by his diverse background to make the innovative yet balanced moves required to succeed in such an environment.

Vice President Sales: Christopher S. Ferrante