Management Team
Sean O'Leary, CEO and President
Sean O'Leary is responsible for setting the strategic direction and leading the expansion of StrikeIron's cloud computing services. Mr. O'Leary has over 20 years experience in the Information Technology industry, developing go-to market strategies for both Fortune 500 companies and venture backed start-ups.
Prior to joining StrikeIron, Mr. O'Leary served as Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business Development at the TapRoot Systems, where he helped launch several new products. One of the company's most notable products included the award winning Mobile Hot Spot, which was picked up by Best Buy as a private label solution and sold in over 1100 stores in North America. Mr. O'leary also previously served as Vice President and General Manager at Good Technology, where he was credited with developing and implementing a carrier channel distribution strategy that helped grow their business from 10,000 to over 500,000 subscribers and facilitated its acquisition by Motorola in January 2007. Mr. O'Leary also held the position of Senior Director of Worldwide Sales at Cisco Systems, where he played a number of strategic roles, including leading a global sales organization of over 800 people, with offices in thirteen countries.
Mr. O'Leary is a frequent guest lecturer at local universities, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Kenen-Flagler Graduate School of Business, NC State University and Elon University. In 2003, Mr. O'Leary received the Triangle Business Journal's 40 Under 40 Leadership Award. He holds a BA in Economics from New England College and an MBA from the University of Southern New Hampshire.
Bob Brauer, Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder
Bob Brauer is the visionary behind StrikeIron with a zeal for exploiting new technologies to create exciting products and services. As chief strategy officer, he is responsible for StrikeIron's product vision and strategy, as well as providing an integrated direction of sales, marketing and technology.
Prior to StrikeIron, Mr. Brauer was the founding Chief Executive Officer for the DataFlux Corporation, an innovative database management software company launched in 1996, financed by the Aurora Funds and several private investors, and acquired by SAS Insititute in June of 2000. Prior to DataFlux, Mr. Brauer was a software engineer with Seer Technologies.
Mr. Brauer is a frequent guest speaker at software industry technology conferences and has appeared as an author in several industry publications, including Web Services Journal and Webservices.org. In 2004, Mr. Brauer received the Triangle Business Journal's 40 Under 40 Leadership Award. He was nominated for the Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2001 and 2004, and was chosen in the Research Triangle area's Impact 100 presented by Business Leader magazine. Mr. Brauer holds a B.S. in Computer Science from The Ohio State University. Read Bob's Blog
David Motsinger, Chief Technical Officer
David Motsinger leads the design and development of the Web Services and IronCloud™ with a focus on making systems easier to use and scalable to the industry. As Chief Technology Officer, he manages a team of developers that is responsible for all aspects of product development, delivery and post sales technical support.
A serial entrepreneur with over 20 years experience, Mr. Motsinger was a co-founder and former CTO if Covelight Systems. Prior to co-founding Covelight, Mr. Motsinger was President and CEO of GadgetSpace, a wireless application infrastructure software company that he co-founded in 1999 and sold to InPhonic in 2001. He was also Director of Business Development for HAHT software, was Director of Software Development for Relativity Technologies, and held senior software engineering positions at Versata (VATA). Mr. Motsinger holds a B.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University.