Wade joined the company in March 2008. Previously, he was with IBM, beginning in 1997, where he served as a user experience architect, overseeing global execution plans for the company’s small business systems offerings. He was responsible for designing user process and experience for all products. He holds several patents, has been an IBM Excel award winner, and has received awards from the Society for Technical Communication. Earlier in his career, Wade held a variety of positions in the media industry, with newspaper, TV, and radio firms. He also has developed brand and marketing strategies as a consultant for a variety of clients in professional sports, music, retail, and sports recreation.

He spends much of his spare time flyfishing the world-class streams of Minnesota and Wisconsin, and following his kids’ activities (hockey, dance, gymnastics, baseball, and the list goes on). He’s still pondering the wonderment of who thought up the perfect relationship of peanut butter with jelly.

Dave joined the company in March 2008. Previously, he was with IBM, where he has served in a variety of technical positions since 1991. Most recently, he has been the architect / team lead responsible for driving software development of the company’s personalized information delivery framework, a corporate cross-divisional product for technical information delivery on the web. He recently led a global team of software engineers (US, China, Mexico) to design, develop, test, and deploy an information delivery application. He has also managed product lifecycle and legal activities, including licensing and export regulations. Earlier, he served as an application and web developer, an international assignee where he helped design a graphical user interface for a networking administration product, and as a systems programmer for the AS/400 (now iSeries).

In his spare time, Dave is a marathon runner and triathlete.

Graeme joined the company in January 2008, after serving as an advisor since June 2007. He has been a marketing and branding consultant to IT, software, and Internet technology startups and emerging firms, helping scores of them launch over two decades as the founder of GT&A Strategic Marketing Inc. His clients have created more than $2 billion in shareholder value based on successful IPOs and acquisitions. Clients have included Secure Computing and Net Perceptions, and he has also served in interim executive marketing and content development roles for such clients as BestBuy.com and Agiliti Inc. (acquired).

Since 2001, he has also been a published technology writer and analyst. Beginning in 2005, he became a widely followed technology blogger, and continued to advise several Internet and software startups in marketing, business development, PR, and new media. Graeme has been a closet surfer and beach bum since he was 13 (then living in Hawaii), and calls both Minnesota and Southern California home.

Ian joined the company in January 2008. He has extensive experience in the telecommunications and real-estate industries. Most recently, beginning in 2005, he was in business-to business sales for Qwest Communications, focusing on small to mid-sized businesses in a fourteen-state region, where he consistently met or exceeded quotas. In prior positions, he worked as a mortgage broker and in the recruiting business. Ian prides himself on retaining his relationships with previous clients and associates, allowing him to provide ongoing assistance and followup efforts in helping them achieve their goals.

Ian is also an accomplished guitarist and songwriter.

Pete joined the company in February 2008, while finishing his senior year in Management of Information Systems at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Previously, he served in four internships at IBM during his summer breaks, along with an internship out West for Opt-Media. Each of these assignments developed a unique part of the skill set Pete now works with. In conjunction with his college studies, Pete has also been a freelance IT consultant for many local businesses in Duluth, and has created several Internet startups with his college roommates. With graduation in sight, Pete is excited about his move to the Twin Cities to take on his full-time engineering role at DoApp.

In his nights off, Pete is an established musician, producing trance and electronic music for some of the largest record labels in Europe.