Team

The Team

SEAN HARNESS

President

Sean Harness received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University in 2005. Shortly afterward, he designed air, water and renewable energy systems for commercial and industrial facilities in and around the US. In addition, Sean has extensive experience in process engineering and project management. While working for a construction firm in Chicago, Sean successfully designed a unique odor control system for the Stickney Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, the world’s largest wastewater treatment facility. Sean spent the summer working as an intern in Intel’s Global Sourcing & Procurement group. His primary deliverable was to strategically analyze the platform teardown process to assist in obtaining better affordability goals and more competitive market intelligence.

ITAI SHEMESH

Vice President of Marketing

Itai served 3 years in the navy of the Israeli Defense forces before attending his undergraduate institution. Itai holds a B.A. in Economics and Business administration from Haifa University, Israel. While in school Itai founded an event planning and advertising company, where he managed up to 150 employees and supervised all the public relations activities. Itai also conducted advertising and promotional campaigns for major venues and companies such as coca cola. Itai worked for a year in a color consulting and forecast company as a director of social networking. Itai joined Intel as a summer intern in the Global Materials Platform Outsourcing group. He worked on establishing a tool that will automate a pricing process and support the negotiations team across the different business units.

BRANDON MONTES

Vice President of Sales

Brandon received a B.A. in Accounting from Michigan State University in 2008. Brandon has three years of professional consulting experience, including two and a half years at Deloitte and six months at Doeren Mayhew. Over that period he has worked on more than 40 client service engagements. His experience stretches across various industries, including but not limited to: Health Care, Automotive, Financial Services and Government Contracting. His list of clients served includes Dow Chemical, Ally Bank, Freddie Mac, Meritor, Henry Ford Health Systems, DTE Energy, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Compuware, among many others. Brandon has been engaged on external audits, business process redesign projects, system implementations, control deficiency remediation projects and SAS70 audits. This summer Brandon took a position at Intel in their Strategic Finance group where he made an investment recommendation for a new technology that will be coming to PCs soon. Next year Brandon will be returning to Intel, full time, to work in their iCap group, which is the venture capital arm at Intel.

SUYASH JAIN

Vice President of Finance

Suyash holds a BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from a leading technical university in India and is currently pursuing an MBA in Finance & Supply Chain Management at Michigan State University. Suyash is interning this summer with Delphi Corporation in corporate treasury, where he is working on risk management and developing hedging strategies for certain commodities. Prior to starting his MBA, Suyash worked in the Medical Devices Industry with General Electric (GE) for 4 years in various leadership positions in engineering and operations. During his tenure at GE, Suyash travelled extensively though India, China and Greece and led projects that resulted in significant cost savings for the company and increased customer satisfaction by more than 50%.

JORDON SCARLETT

Vice President of Human Resources

Jordon Scarlett received a B.A. in Business Administration-Prelaw from Michigan State University in 2008. He is currently pursing both his JD and his MBA with a focus on labor and employment law issues. Jordon has worked for the Corporation Division of the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs where he gained experience forming business entities. This summer Jordon took a position with Yahoo! where he developed an end-to-end process designed to streamline onboarding.

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