Company Leadership
Versaic is pleased to present the following biographies of the members of our Management Team.
Burt Cummings, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman
Burt has served as Versaic CEO since 2006. Prior to joining Versaic, he worked as an independent marketing consultant, helping companies identify and market solutions in the technology marketplace. Previously, Burt was co-founder and CEO of GoCampus, Inc., a startup company offering ASP solutions to college campuses for developing e-newsletters targeted to individual faculty, alumni, parents and students. He formerly held the positions of VP and GM of Brand Dialogue, the interactive arm for Young & Rubicam; and Executive Director for Interactive, Landor Associates, also a Young & Rubicam company, overseeing the creation and branding of commercial web sites for Fortune 500 customers. Burt has held positions in sales and marketing for Higher Education at Apple Computer, Inc., and Eagle River Interactive, and was the Director of Sales Programs at NeXT. Burt graduated cum laude from UC San Diego with a BS in Computer Science.
Mark Soloway, Chief Technical Officer
Mark serves as Versaic’s chief technology officer and a past Chairman of the Board of Directors. He has been successfully developing and delivering software for over 20 years in a variety of senior engineering, management and executive roles. Mark was most recently the VP of Engineering and Product Development at Log Savvy Corporation, a business intelligence analytics start-up in Berkeley, CA. Previous to Log Savvy, he led a team of over 50 developers spread across three continents while at FrontRange. He previously worked at Actuate Corp. (NASDAQ: ACTU) taking the company through IPO and beyond as Chief Server Architect, Director of Server Technology and Principal Engineer. Mark was also an engineer and manager at Sun, Fairchild/Schlumberger, Valisys and Dawn Technologies. Mark earned his BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with High Honors at UC Berkeley, his MS in Electrical Engineering at Stanford, and his MBA through American Intercontinental University while also working full time.
Tony Calleja, Chief Financial Officer
A technology services executive with over 30 years of financial, operations and general managerial experience, Tony Calleja became the Company’s CFO in 2008. Tony’s experience includes extensive private and public company experience, including IPO and merger and acquisition execution in multiple sectors of the technology industry. He was co-founder and served as President and CFO of Vado, Inc., a professional information technology resource enablement business (acquired by Spherion; NYSE: SFN). Tony was previously VP of Finance and Corporate Controller at bamboo.com where he created and executed policy, handled SEC filings and audits through its private VC financing rounds, its IPO and the subsequent merger that created Internet Pictures Corp. (NASDAQ: IPIX). Prior to bamboo.com, Tony held multiple finance positions at MCI and National Semiconductor. Tony holds an MBA from Golden Gate University and a BS in Accounting from San Jose State University.
Alex Alishoev, Vice President, Engineering
Alex has over 25 years of experience in the software industry, the last six years as a senior-level manager. He was one of the key developers at Actuate, a successful enterprise business intelligence company generating over $100M in sales. Alex was a Senior Developer at PeopleSoft, creating complex enterprise-class user interfaces. He held several engineering management positions at FrontRange, developing enterprise CRM applications that were localized in nine languages and helped to generate over $100M in sales. Alex was a Senior Manager of Development, Policy Management, and Corporate Systems at Esurance, responsible for all aspects of development and support of a major part of Esurance’s high-traffic web site that generated over $800M in annual sales. He was a Director of Engineering at IAS, the global leader in data-enabled equipment management and tracking services for the container transport industry, supervising several distributed development and QA teams in US, India and Russia. Alex has a Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from Moscow Research and Development Institute of Electrical Thermal Equipment.