Management
Rich Wilson
President and Chief Operating Officer
As President and Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Wilson is responsible for consulting, project engineering, IT operations, and service delivery to CombineNet's clients. He joined CombineNet in 2003 after 20 years in aviation and transportation management, systems development, and consulting. Dr. Wilson established the Operations Research division at US Airways where he pioneered the application of optimization technology to crew scheduling, aircraft routing, and maintenance planning. Later, he led management teams at British Airways and US Airways in developing innovations in customer service and process improvements in purchasing, flight operations, and aircraft maintenance. Dr. Wilson also led transportation consulting engagements for Sabre and Oracle. Since joining CombineNet, he has led numerous advanced sourcing projects, including the largest global air freight sourcing event ever conducted. Dr. Wilson graduated with honors from Stanford University and earned M.Phil and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from Yale University.
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David Zynn
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
As Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, David Zynn is responsible for the financial and administrative functions of CombineNet. Mr. Zynn is a seasoned financial executive with more than 25 years of public and private industry experience, having served as the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and/or Chief Operating Officer of several private and publicly traded companies in various services and technology industries, including CombineNet during 2005 and 2006. Most recently, Mr. Zynn operated a boutique consulting firm specializing in providing outsourced CFO-Controller services and financial due diligence services. He began his career with KPMG LLP, and is a graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Dean F. Arnold
Vice President, North American Sales
As CombineNet's Vice President of Sales for North America, Dean Arnold brings more than 30 years of experience to the technology sector in executive leadership roles encompassing strategic sales, management, marketing, operations, and product development for major corporations including IBM and Oracle. In his early career, Mr. Arnold spent 23 years at IBM leaving as National Sales Manager, Industrial Systems, of the US Manufacturing Sector. After IBM, Mr. Arnold held several key positions at Oracle, including Vice President of Marketing, Oracle Application, before moving on to President and CEO of InfoSage. He served as Corporate Sales Director at Stargate and moved on to his most recent position at IQS as Vice President of Marketing and Channels. Mr. Arnold joined CombineNet in July of 2005 as Sales Director of the Eastern Region. He was appointed Vice President of North American Sales in August 2006.
Tobias Hannon
Managing Director of European Operations
Toby Hannon brings a successful track record in sales and business development to CombineNet's European markets. Mr. Hannon previously led the set up and growth in EMEA of a successful spend management software company - Procuri, Inc. As CombineNet’s senior executive in Europe, he is responsible for leading the company’s European sales, marketing and professional services activities. Before joining Procuri, Mr. Hannon spent 8 years with General Electric in various senior Operations and Supply Chain positions globally. Mr. Hannon is a graduate of the University of Connecticut with a BS degree in Finance.
David Levine
Vice President of Research & Development
Dr. Levine leads CombineNet's research & development team. Dr. Levine was formerly the director of the Center for Distributed Object Computing (CDOC) at Washington University in St. Louis, leading a team of staff and student members developed cutting-edge software for real-time, high performance, and embedded systems; its ACE and TAO middleware products are used worldwide in demanding applications. Dr. Levine has extensive industry experience developing software for broadband telecommunication systems, high-fidelity electro-optic sensor system simulations, and both electric/hybrid and internal combustion engine vehicle applications. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Irvine, an M.S.E.E./C.S. from George Washington University, and a B.S.M.E. from Cornell University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the District of Columbia.
Subhash Suri
Co-founder & Chief Algorithms Architect
Dr. Suri, CombineNet's Chief Algorithms Architect, is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and is well-known for his research in algorithms, theory of computing, and computational geometry. Prior to joining the University of California, Dr. Suri was a research scientist at Bellcore and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis. He has authored more than 140 research papers in the areas of computational geometry, e-commerce, approximation algorithms, network design and optimization, and has widely lectured on his research around the world. He is an editor of the journal Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, and has been a guest editor for Discrete and Computational Geometry. He has served on numerous professional program committees and panels, both as member and chair. Dr. Suri has received one US patent and is author of several US patent applications concerning e-commerce, and his research has been supported by several grants from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Suri holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in computer science from the Johns Hopkins University, and a B.S. in electronics and communications from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. Dr. Suri is a member of ACM and a senior member of IEEE.