cartCelio Corp Company Management
William H. Flury
President and CEO
Mr. Flury started his 25 year career in the high-tech world with Xerox in Los Angeles and then relocated to Salt Lake City at Rolm Operating Company where he flourished as a top Marketing and Sales Manager, taking his sales team from last place to 1st in the U.S. Shortly after IBM bought Rolm Corporation, IBM promoted Mr. Flury to become a Regional Marketing Manager/Rolm Division to teach IBM how to sell Voice and Data enterprise systems to the Fortune 100 Companies. After 10 years with IBM/ROLM making (Presidents Club all 10 Years) he was recruited by Novell Corporation where he headed up the Indirect Channel Strategy, Channels and Distribution along with the responsibility of National Accounts. Adobe then recruited Mr. Flury where he lead the initiative to secure a partnership with IBM whereby Adobe was successfully selected as IBM's largest design win for a strategic alliance, under its SAA umbrella. During his work with Adobe Mr. Flury helped launch Adobe Acrobat.
Recently, Mr. Flury has worked with number of startups as a senior executive officer, raising over $675 million between four ventures - one of which went public with a market cap of over $500 million. One such company was one the first Institutionally backed "Asset Based Lending" Real Estate Finance company which Mr. Flury secured a $500m Line of Credit for to include an ownership position from the institutional investor in the company as a result of the successful brand.
Mark J. Marshall
CFO
With a unique blend of high-growth and technology industry knowledge, financial acumen and market insight, Mr. Marshall exhibits a strong marketplace vision and ability to achieve organizational goals, from startups to mature entities. In addition, his background has provided him experience at combining strong metrics for accountability and controls that provides companies for exponential and scalable growth.
Mr. Marshall's responsibilities have included the management of the sales, business development, and financial operations of numerous successful companies. His designed operations and financial strategies that have successfully allowed the sale of companies and product lines as well as the licensing of technology of more than 25 start-up technology and high-growth ventures to companies including Dell, HP, Johnson & Johnson Medical, Altiris, Avocent, Nextel, Nike, Mattel, Hasbro and numerous others.
Prior to Mr. Marshall obtaining his CPA credentials, he concurrently earned his bachelors and masters degrees in accounting from Brigham Young University's School of Management.
Colin Cook
CTO
Prior to joining Celio Corp, Mr. Cook was a research scientist for Avocent where he developed embedded KVM products and compression algorithms for video over IP networks. As the CTO of Soronti, he led the development of KVM server products sold by Dell, Intel and other server ODM's. Mr. Cook also worked for Intel where he designed server management cards for Telecom chassis. Additionally, he lead the team that developed the core communications engine for LANDesk Management Suite 2.0, and pioneered Intel into the Anti-Virus product space with the world's first Real-time Server Scanning Technology (later sold to Symantec). Mr. Cook holds an Electrical Engineering degree from Brigham Young University, and has been issued four patents.
Board of Directors
Thomas Davis
CTO - LANDesk
Mr. Davis worked as senior vice president and the Chief Platform Architect at Avocent Corporation where he defined and implemented the common software platform strategy for the company. Prior to that, as vice president of engineering at LANDesk Software, he oversaw the development of all LANDesk product lines and international engineering teams. With 11 years at Intel Corporation, he served as engineering director and CTO of the Software Products and Services Division, managing a staff of more than 100 engineers and product managers.
Mr. Davis served in the United States Air Force, where he was an honors graduate of U.S. Air Force Technical Training. Mr. Davis holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University with continued education at Cal Berkley and Cal Tech.
Mark Christensen
President - Global Capital Management
Mark Christensen recently left Intel Corporation after a 23-year career, where he was corporate vice president and director of communications sectors for Intel Capital. Mr. Christensen was responsible for managing Intel Capital's investments in mobile devices and communications infrastructure. This included all equity investments, and M&A activity for cellular, wired and wireless networking and communications.
While at Intel, Mr. Christensen was also the vice president and general manager of Intel's Network Communications Group (NCG), responsible for the management of Intel's networking communications silicon business. The group consisted of over 30 sites in 10 geographies worldwide. Developed products include Ethernet client and server adapters, home networking and broadband connectivity solutions, optical electronic and modules, and a family of network and storage processors including the Intel Internet Exchange Architecture.
Mr. Christensen is a two-time winner of Intel's highest award for excellence, the "Intel Achievement Award". He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Oregon State University, is a charter member of Oregon State University's Academy of Distinguished Engineers, and has been awarded the school's Council of Outstanding Early Career Engineers Award. He also received a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Oregon.
Ed Ekstrom
Managing Director - vSpring Capital
Ed Ekstrom is easily recognized as a high-tech pioneer. Before joining the vSpring team, Mr. Ekstrom served as vice president of the Intel Communications Products Group and general manager of the Intel Utah Software Development Center, a post given to him after Intel acquired LANSystems where he was a principal. Prior to Intel, Mr. Ekstrom was a vice president at CeriSyn and a founder at Cericor, acquired by Hewlett Packard in 1985.
Mr. Ekstrom is a trustee at Westminster College and a director of the Economic Development Corporation of Utah. In addition, he is the former chairman of the Utah Information Technologies Association.
As managing director of vSpring Capital, Mr. Ekstrom led the firm's investment in Cemaphore, Fatpipe Networks, Gandiva, LANDesk Software, Levanta, XAware, and Soronti (acquired by Avocent). He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Brigham Young University and a MBA from Westminster College.