Management

Emmet B. Keeffe III

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

In the early 1990's Emmet set two goals - to start a software company that would achieve $1 billion in revenue and to start a Formula One team. In the late 1990's, Emmet and Maurice Martin co-founded iRise with a vision to transform how business and IT stakeholders would communicate about requirements for custom and packaged business software. In 2000, Emmet and Maurice invented the market for "Software Visualization" and have built iRise into the world's leading provider of enterprise visualization for business software. Over the last 20 years Emmet has applied his philosophy of "the network is the business" to become one of the most well-connected CEOs in the software industry. As CEO & Co-Founder of iRise, Emmet has leveraged his network to close over $60 million in investment funding and drives leadership of sales, marketing and business development at iRise. Prior to co-founding iRise, he built a top-selling region at NetDynamics, a pioneer of the Web application server market that was later acquired by Sun Microsystems. Earlier in his sales career, Emmet earned over 15 national sales awards, including being named "National Top Performer" by NetDynamics, Auspex Systems, Diasonics and Minolta. In 2005, Emmet founded the “iRise Executive Roundtable Series” with a vision to deliver world-class content and networking with no selling which has been attended by hundreds of CIOs from the world’s largest global companies. Since the program’s inception, he has delivered roundtable partnerships to iRise with TRG Motorsports in the Grand Am Series, PKV Racing in the Champ Car Series, KV Racing Technology in the Indy Car Series and most recently with the Lotus F1 Team in Formula One. Finally, Emmet is a member of the Board of Directors at The World BPO Forum which aspires to be the “Davos” of the global sourcing marketplace. Outside of his role at iRise, Emmet is passionate about his family, automobile racing, running, skiing, music, travel and entrepreneurship. Emmet earned a B.A. in Political Economies of Industrial Societies from the University of California at Berkeley and lives in London, England.

Maurice Martin

President, COO & Founder

Maurice founded iRise on an early and accurate prediction of Java acceptance and Internet growth in 1996. In addition to his business management role, he shapes the iRise Application Simulator vision and guides the product roadmap. He gained his business and technology acumen during tenures at Deloitte Consulting and Accenture, working with clients such as Capital Group, Kaiser Permanente and Southern California Gas Company prior to founding iRise. Maurice earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Gregg Blatt

EVP of Enterprise Solutions

Gregg is responsible for building, scaling and managing a world-class sales force that expands iRise's territory and market reach. His background as a sales professional spans international, domestic, public and private industry experience. Most recently Gregg was VP of global sales at Keane, a $1B+ global business and IT services firm, where he managed a global force of more than 100 sales professionals. Prior to Keane, Gregg was with Headstrong, Inc. (aka James Martin & Co.), a global business consulting and IT solutions firm, where he was VP of global sales and served as the executive leader for the strategic account team, global account strategies and alliance and partner program. Before Headstrong, Gregg held the role of regional director for Comdisco, Inc., an equipment leasing, global technology, network services and desktop management solutions company, where he was responsible for consulting sales revenue, acquisition integration, and staff management and recruiting. Earlier in his career, Blatt was VP of sales and operations for MicroSolutions, a CompuCom subsidiary, and a regional manager with the advanced solutions group for NYNEX Business Centers. In those roles, he was primarily responsible for sales, operations and systems development functions. Gregg earned a B.S. in Accounting/MIS from the University of Rhode Island - North Kingston. In his free time, Gregg enjoys spending time with his three kids, coaching hockey, as well as fly fishing and skiing at his Telluride home. Gregg has recently joined the adaptive sports program in Telluride where he donates 50% of his time helping kids while in Telluride.

Stephen Brickley

CIO & EVP of Products

Previously, he was a systems integration consultant for both Accenture and Deloitte Consulting, where he worked with clients such as E*TRADE, BankOne, First Union, Washington Mutual, and Bank of America. He was instrumental in growing Deloitte Consulting's West Coast Technology Integration Group. Steve earned a B.S.E. in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Lionel Etrillard

VP of Finance

Lionel is charged with scaling the finance and accounting team to support revenue and profit targets. His background as a finance professional spans international, domestic, public and private industry experience. Previously, Lionel was a senior consultant at DLC, Inc., an M&A, FP&A and accounting consulting firm serving Fortune® 1000 companies, where he provided consulting services on financial planning, system integration and mergers and acquisition. Prior to DLC Lionel was with Conexant Systems, a global high-tech company, as controller of the business support organizations. Before Conexant, he held the role of CFO for Kittrich Corporation, a mid-sized house wares manufacturing company with responsibilities over all financial, accounting, treasury and legal activities. Lionel earned a B.A. in Economics from University of Redlands and an M.B.A. in Finance from Pepperdine University.

Jacques Marine

EVP of Services

Jacques is responsible for all professional services at iRise. With more than twenty years experience in the software and services industry, his mission is to help iRise customer and partners adopt, use and generate value from iRise products and services across the enterprise. Prior to iRise, Jacques worked for Deloitte Consulting as a general management consultant, Accenture as a system integration consultant, and Hewlett Packard as an electrical engineer. He is recognized for his ability to analyze problems and develop solutions from business and technical perspectives. Jacques earned a B.S. in electrical engineering with an emphasis in computer engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MBA with a concentration in finance from The Anderson School at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Steven Yamanaka

Chief Technology Officer

Steven is responsible for technology strategy behind the product as well as managing much of the engineering and development organization. Steven's background as a technology professional encompasses domestic and international industry experience. Most recently he was CTO and chief architect at Aceva Technologies, a financial software company, where he determined the technical strategy, system architecture and technology for the firm. Prior to Aceva, Steven was with Mineshare (acquired by Digital Impact), a customer intelligence and analysis company, where he held positions as VP of engineering and director of Web development. Before Aceva, Steven held the role of senior advisory engineer for Kofax Image Products, a document imaging and document management company, where he oversaw the product architecture and development of Ascent Capture. Steven was chief architect and founding member of Starbase Corporation (acquired by Borland), a provider of software development tools. Steven has also held senior design and technical roles at Ashton-Tate (acquired by Borland) and TRW, Inc. (acquired by Northrop Grumman). Steven earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Hawaii at Honolulu.