Our Team

 

Co-Founder and CEO
Alberto leads the development of SureTech , dedicated to empowering SMB businesses collaboration by providing teams reliable and secure access to data and applications anytime, anywhere from any device.
His work at SureTech has provided great partnerships with customers ranging from financial services to manufacturing & distribution to non-profits and startups. Prior to SureTech Alberto developed online entertainment ranging from the immensely successful 1999 teen hub iTurf.com with Delias, Inc; to massive multiplayer games and arcade environments for Disney, ESPN and others while working with Topaz Group.
While at Topaz Group Alberto also developed technology projects for Fortune 50 clients, including Schlumberger and American Express.

Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor
David has been working with and programming computers since he was introduced to a Hewlett-Packard programmable calculator in junior high school. Since then he has programmed many different computers in a variety of languages (some of which are even still useful). He attended Yale University and, after graduation, went to work for what was then a small-software company in Redmond, WA. - Microsoft. In his thirteen years at Microsoft he had the opportunity to work on a variety of software projects in the Office Development Group. David held a variety of positions at Microsoft including Development Team Lead and Development Manager. After he left Microsoft, he started David McKinnis Consulting to help non-profits and small businesses use technology more effectively.

Dana Molina
Co-Founder and COO

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Dana brings a breadth of experience in management, user training, fundraising and experience with the non-profit sector to SureTech. She was the Director of Volunteer Programs for Partnerships for Parks for seven years, which included conceptualizing their content management database of over 60,000 as well as their website at itsmypark.org. Prior to that she worked as a Program Officer for the Foundation for a Civil Society encouraging civic participation initiatives like Rock the Vote in Slovakia. She was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Czech Republic, where she initiated computer training for teachers and introduced the user of computers for a language lab. She studied as an English major at Yale and has used this love for language to translate the tech speak to end users.

CTO
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Tom has been a leading entrepreneur in the computer industry for more than three decades, during which time he has founded seven successful high-technology companies, and influenced the success of several more. His first company, Applied Logic, an early provider of Managed Hosting Services, was acquired by Raytheon in 1980. He next founded XNET Corp., creating the first fully automated financial futures and commodities exchange which was acquired by the International Futures and Commodities Exchange in 1983.
Following XNET, Tom founded American Real Time Services (ARTS), which developed and operated market data, trading and information delivery networks for many large financial services firms including Citibank, Prudential Securities, AG Edwards, Charles Schwab, SG Cowen, McDonald Securities, and Fidelity Investments. ARTS was acquired by Reuters in 1993, where Tom held the title of Senior Vice President of New Business Development. In 1997, he founded NetworkTwo which acquired ADP network assets and, at that time, was one of the largest ISPs in the US. Network Two was acquired by McLeodUSA in 1999. In 2001, Tom founded Erevu to develop a policy driven Virtual Machine based compliance and security product. Erivu was acquired by Aladdin Systems, which became part of Broadcast.com.
His research on Policy Driven Security and Cloud Computing technologies led to the formation of FlexiSphere, a company specifically focused on delivering highly managed and ultra-secure turnkey computing to selected verticals including financial services, legal, and transportation.
In 2012, Tom became a founding member and Chairman of STAX, the first exchange focused on the trading of asset backed securities for the transportation and energy sectors. In addition to founding successful companies, Tom has served as a strategic consultant and senior adviser to various organizations including NASDAQ, NYSE, FASB, Safeway Supermarkets, and Telmar. He has served as a director of five venture backed corporations and advises several private equity funds.

 

Mark Gartenfeld
Director of Account Management
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Mark is a veteran of the IT evolution that has occurred in the past 30+ years. With a career that includes hardware, software, consulting, tech support and training, Mark has seen it all. Positions at major institutions like The Blackstone Group and Oracle / BEA Systems have given Mark the chance to implement large and complex systems. While consulting, training and tech support jobs have allowed Mark to become finely attuned to what small and medium-sized businesses need and want.
Mark trained to be an English teacher at Northwestern University, only to find a home in IT by answering an ad in the Washington Post. Since then his career has included operating mainframe computers, writing COBOL code, training PC novices, performing and managing tech support teams, implementing software solutions and much more.
Mark’s strength is his ability to communicate clearly and openly (maybe it’s the English teacher in him) and to empathize with customers and get their problems solved.

Senior Engineer
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Jim is a computer nerd at heart, destined to work in IT.  Jim started his career as a desktop support specialist and very quickly moved up to overseeing onsite networks and server rollouts.  Jim brought his experience in local network setup and desktop support to SureTech over seven years ago.  He started with SureTech on major project rollouts as well as on centralizing onsite monitoring and support with our cloud solutions.  With his passion for cloud engineering, he is now SureTech's lead designer of the SureOffice environment with expertise in Citrix and Microsoft Server.  His passion is continually string to wrangle the Cloud to work for SMBs as seamlessly as possible.  Jim has a ridiculously big movie collection, loves all things Japanese, and will try almost any food at least once...just not tomatoes.

Andrew Leing
Solutions Specialist
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Andrew is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and comes to SureTech after providing desktop, network and server support for McQuilling Partners. Andrew ensures all project plans are fully documented and works with the customer to ensure smooth rollout of new solutions.