Jonathan E. Ramaci – CEO and Founder.

Jon has been an innovator and entrepreneur in the IT Industry for the last 15 years. He is the founder and CEO of iCache and has taken iCache from a concept through to a working product. He has also led the business development efforts of the Company and established excellent relationships for iCache at the "C" level with many of the world's leading banking and financial services organizations.

Formerly with Oracle Corporation, Jon founded the first remote database and systems administration company in 1997. He was instrumental in the creation of the Managed Services Model and an early pioneer in the area of Cloud Computing. Jon later sold the company and became CTO for the parent organization where he was instrumental in driving the acquisition of five other companies for a rollup and IPO.

Jon has gained substantial international experience over the last 10 years in Europe, Asia and Latin America and continues to bring that experience to iCache for the Company's eventual global presence.

Jon holds a B.S. from The Citadel, where he is a member of the Board of the Business School and a member of the Mentor Program. He has also completed advanced studies at MIT. He serves on several other IT related company boards and takes great pleasure in working with the fine team assembled at iCache.

Jean-Joseph Cote

Jean-Joseph Cote has been involved in product development for the past twenty years. He is an engineering extraordinaire in the areas of both software and hardware. Jean holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Clive Bolton

Clive Bolton has been involved in electronic product development for the past twenty years. His experience includes medical instrumentation, consumer products, industrial products, motion control, and computer equipment. His background includes electrical design, software management, and manufacturing.

Prior to founding Bolton Engineering Inc., Clive worked as a management consultant with McKinsey and Company. While at McKinsey, Clive was involved in Electronic Manufacturing projects in North America, Mexico, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, Yugoslavia, Britain and Sweden. Many of these projects involved Strategic Design and Design for Manufacturability.

Clive has had numerous articles published in various trade journals such as EDN, Electronic Design, and Harvard Business Review. Clive teaches as a guest lecturer for "Introduction to Circuits and Electronics," a lab course on practical electronic design and construction at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Clive has a Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Clive works with a variety of partners, both in industry and in academia. Bolton Engineering also has both standing relationships with protoyping, industrial design, and manufacturing firms, as well as contacts at MIT, Harvard, and other Boston area universities.

Bruce Carson

Bruce has a keen understanding of software development, software security and database systems. He has been involved in the architecture, design and coding of several large and complex systems development projects throughout his career.

Bruce has worked as a Director of Technology at Edgewater Technology and at A123 Battery Systems. At Edgewater he architected and oversaw the development and delivery of large, complex software systems. One of Bruce's systems was recognized by Microsoft with the 1996 International Microsoft Solutions Provider Award for Greatest Impact on a Customer's Business.

Bruce holds a B.S. in Applied Computer Science from The University of Wisconsin. He also has continued his education at Northeastern University and Harvard University.

Jennifer Pingolt

Jennifer Pingolt has over 18 years of progressive experience in Human Resource and Customer Service Management, having worked in and/or with a variety of businesses including start-up ventures, as well as Fortune 500 companies. As the founder and Principal of HR-4Hire, Jennifer built a successful boutique Human Resource consulting firm specializing in providing select local and national companies with high impact outsourced human resource services and support. Prior to HR-4Hire Ms. Pingolt managed the Human Resource function of the international executive division of Baker & McKenzie, one of the nation's largest international law firms, headquartered in Chicago. At Baker & McKenzie, she was responsible for charting the strategic direction of the HR function, designing and implementing several key programs and initiatives in the areas of recruiting, training and development, and performance management.

Previous to this, Jennifer was employed at global investment bank RBC/DainRaucher, where she was instrumental in providing customer-focused employee relations consulting services to branch professionals in the US. She began her HR career at Rollerblade, the leading designer and marketer of in-line skates and accessories. Jennifer obtained her Masters Degree in Vocational Education/Human Resource Development from the University of Minnesota in 2000.

Jennifer's brings her extensive personnel experience in local, national and international markets combined with her passion and ongoing commitment leadership, management and customer centric services and support to her role as Vice President, Consumer Relations.

Ken Sinclair

Ken Sinclair is a 20 year veteran of the computer and communications industries, educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and apprenticed at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab spinoffs LMI and Symbolics. He has worked in senior technical and management roles at several software ventures including the database firm Object Design, and is an experienced project manager with additional background in marketing and quality assurance.

Ken’s engineering expertise includes robotics, speech recognition and synthesis, operating system internals, microprocessor design and verification, wireless spread-spectrum systems, geometric optics, motor control and digital signal processing.

Rich Miller

Rich Miller has over twenty years of experience in the design, development and manufacturing of a wide variety of medical, consumer and industrial products. His experience includes the management of mechanical, electrical and software engineering, leadership of product development and technology research, manufacturing engineering, regulatory agency compliance, intellectual property and documentation control.

Prior to joining Manta, Rich was Vice President of Engineering for Thermo IEC, a Thermo Electron business that manufactures microprocessor controlled, electromechanical laboratory centrifuges and accessories for medical, research and industrial applications.

Previously, Rich worked as a consultant, where he led the development of a wide range of medical, dental, consumer and industrial products for client companies including Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Haemonetics, Millipore, Bard, Herman Miller, bioMerieux and Black and Decker. Rich also worked for ACT Medical, a manufacturer of disposable and reusable medical devices for endoscopy, cardiology, urology, laparoscopy and radiology.

Rich holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has won several Business Week Best Product Design of the Year Awards, is the holder of US and International patents, and has published in a variety of scientific journals.

Andrew McCabe - Chief Financial Officer

Mr. McCabe joined iCache from Castlebay Group LLC, a boutique investment advisory firm that provides interim CFO, project finance advisory and general financial consulting services to governments and multinational companies.  Prior to this role, he held a number of senior positions within banking and industry, including that of CFO of a wholesale and retail automotive product distributor, VP of investment banking at FBR, and Senior Investment Officer at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.  Mr. McCabe also managed several important project finance and M&A mandates in the Czech Republic as a member of ABN AMRO Bank's Structured Finance Group.

Andrew holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Kenyon College, a Master of Arts in Russian and East European Studies from the George Washington University and an MBA in International Business from the Vienna School of Economics (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) and University of South Carolina.  He is fluent in Czech and possesses varying competencies in several other European languages.

Lee Weinstein

Lee Weinstein holds a combined Bachelors/Masters in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Specialized areas of study included Advanced Analog Circuit Techniques, Feedback Systems, High Power and High Voltage Electronics, and Acoustics. Minor in economics.

Lee was also a Research Associate, Lecturer at MIT . He was the Co-founder and Co- director of the MIT Solar Car Club, and contributing designer, Aztek (world's most aerodynamic electric vehicle, 1993 - Present), Solectria V-b (world's highest performance solar racing car, 1989-1990), MIT 5X (world's highest performance solar racing car, 1991). Design contributions included thermal modeling and control, radio communications, Motor Control Electronics, RFI control, and composites.

Lee is an accomplished inventor whose inventions include the electronic battle game now known as Laser Tag and the electronic dog collar system now known as Radio Fence. Since graduating from and briefly teaching at MIT, has received more than a dozen patents, and has dozens more pending. Lee has designed medical electronics for Hewlett Packard, designed high-voltage electronics that makes measurements miles underground for oil companies, and designed what was for a long time the world's most sophisticated battery testing system for Duracell.

At another time between inventions, Lee studied for and passed the US Patent bar exam. He now a registered patent agent, and writes all his own and many of his friends' patent applications.

Betsy Goodrich

Betsy Goodrich has been involved in product development for the past twenty years in both consulting and corporate design. Her experience includes medical instrumentation, consumer products, sporting goods, and business equipment. Prior to Manta, Betsy worked as a consultant developing products for Haemonetics, Plantronics, the Valleylab division of Pfzier and Instrumentation Laboratory. She has extensive experience with medical and consumer electronic products.

Her work has included user research and product testing for international markets. Betsy is very active with the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). She currently serves on the IDSA Committee on Environmental Concerns (CES) and is editor of the CES newsletter "Green Perspectives". She has previously held the offices of Director at Large, Boston Chapter Chair and been on IDSA's Board of Directors.

Betsy has a Bachelor's of Science in Industrial Design from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA.

Andy Kulina

Andy discovered iCache while he was in his previous role as Director of Loyalty for TSYS International.  He liked the concept and team so much he decided to join us!

Prior to TSYS, Andy spent the first 11 years of his career at The Kroger Co.,  primarily in the store systems area during the time that Kroger was automating almost every process in their 3000+ grocery and convenience stores. As Director of Loyalty Technology for Kroger, Andy was a key player in the launch of one of the first nationwide loyalty card programmes. Andy moved to England in 1998 to set up the European offices of Valassis Retail Marketing Systems and continued to provide loyalty technology and strategic consulting to international retailers and FMCG brands such as Carrefour, Ahold, Shell and British American Tobacco. The past four years Andy, as previously mentioned, was Director of Loyalty for TSYS International, one of the largest payment processors for credit, debit and prepaid card issuers.

Andy has an MBA in Marketing Technology from Xavier University and degrees in Computer Science, Math and Business from Thomas More College.  He has dual British and American citizenship which enabled him to be elected to his local village council in Melbourn, Cambridgeshire.

John Kestner

John Kestner makes post-computer connections among humans, objects and spaces. His work has been showcased through the ID Annual Design Review, Ars Electronica, NPR, the New York Times and CNN.

John has a Master's Degree from the MIT Media Lab, where he designed future consumer electronics and interfaces for humanizing data in the Information Ecology Research Group. He also has earned a Bachelor's of Science in Industrial Design from Arizona State University. John is a member of IDSA and his local ice cream shop's rewards program.