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 "Enterprise 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. Outside of his role at iRise, Emmet is passionate about his family, automobile racing, travel and education. Since 2005, Emmet has delivered 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 iRise has built a successful IT Leadership Executive Roundtable Series with racing as a platform. Emmet is also a Director and Executive Committee Member at the World BPO Forum and a member of the Board of Trustees at The Partnership Scholars, a foundation focused on improving education for disadvantaged students. Emmet earned a B.A. in Political Economy of Industrial Societies from the University of California at Berkeley.

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.

As the person in charge of overall marketing strategy and execution at iRise for the last 5 years, Mr. Bishop has built strong ties to CIOs and IT leaders at both large and small companies. With his leadership, iRise has grown its customer base tenfold and become the market leader in a new industry category: application visualization. Mr. Bishop has many years of marketing and sales experience building successful enterprise software businesses at Scopus, Sybase, Wind River Systems and Ingres. He also held senior engineering positions at Altos Computer Systems, Zilog and Amdahl at the beginning of his career. Mr. Bishop holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Connecticut. He also has a long history in motor sports and sits on the governing council of the non-profit International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) based in Watkins Glen, NY.

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.

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 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 is responsible 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.

Dean is responsible for iRise's strategy, solution offerings, program execution and alliance partnerships in the federal sector. He is also the senior executive responsible for iRise transformation solutions and leads the delivery teams and alliance partners for various client programs. For five years prior, Dean was EVP of Enterprise Solutions for North America, working closely with the nation’s leading corporations in the aerospace / defense, automotive, transportation / logistics and financial / insurance sectors.

Dean has more than 20 years experience in several business and IT disciplines, including business process transformation, software development, performance measurement and technology innovation. His team works with federal agencies and their IT suppliers in the development of strategy and execution of strategic initiatives relating technology, techniques and best practices for software acquisition by implementing visualization.

During his career, Dean has served in various leadership roles starting from software development and sales, and progressing to senior management ranks related to computer-based visualization for airborne reconnaissance, seismic analysis, CAD/CAM, ultrasound, and software development; while employed by Hewlett-Packard, the DoD, and Siemens; and high-tech start-ups Automated Methods, Signal Stream Technologies, and iRise.

Dean completed a BSc-CS from UVM, a MBA from Western New England and a one year post-graduate program in Operations Research & Systems Analysis at UTD. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland and is actively involved with research, educational and nonprofit organizations such as the ACT/IAC, IEEE, MIT Media Lab, CMU SEI (CMMI-ACQ), DoD IMA, AFIO and the BSA Sea Scouts. He is a recipient of the DoD Meritorious Service Medal for exceptional service, and Hewlett-Packard President's Circle distinction for exceptional contributions to company success.

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.