Leadership

Eric Schnadig is an accomplished senior executive with extensive experience building both public and private companies into leaders in their target markets. Schnadig joined Tervela from Unica Corporation, a worldwide provider of enterprise software, where he served as SVP of Worldwide Sales and Business development and grew revenue from $3 million annually to over $120 million. At Unica, he was responsible for sales execution, channel and distribution strategy, and business process establishment, all of which helped lead to a successful IPO of the company in 2005. (NASDAQ: UNCA) Previously, Schnadig was a senior sales and marketing executive at Kenan Systems Corporation, a technology provider to global communications companies. While there, he helped grow revenue from $10 million annually to over $300 million, which led to a $1.5 billion acquisition by Lucent in 1999. Schnadig is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore College, is fluent in multiple languages and serves as a board member and advisor to several organizations.

An entrepreneur and innovator, Barry Thompson brings almost 20 years experience to Tervela, a company he founded in 2004 where he currently serves as Chief Technology Officer and board member. A self-taught technologist, he began his career as a consultant, designing solutions ranging from embedded robotics and imaging to traditional enterprise systems. His clients included MCI, American Mobile Satellite, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other government and private organizations. In 1995 he moved to Wall Street, leading the adoption of new transformative technologies in the financial services industry while working for firms such as AIG, NatWest and UBS where he was Head of North American Architecture. In 2002, Thompson began to pursue his passion for emerging technologies through incubating research projects in materials manufacturing and carbon nanotube growth, virtual reality and gaming infrastructure. Thompson also joined the X-Prize Foundation where he currently serves on the board of trustees and the executive committee. He is a 2001 graduate of the International Space University SSP.

Steve Cummings brings to Tervela over 25 years of engineering, operational and manufacturing experience. Prior to Tervela, he was the VP of Engineering at Walkabout Computers, a mobile computing company where he created the technical vision for engineering and designed and delivered a new generation of products. Walkabout was acquired in 2005 by DRS Tactical Systems. Previously, Cummings developed and grew the engineering divisions of other startup companies including Infiniswitch and PictureTel. Cummings provided leadership and vision while consistently bringing products to market on time and under budget, increasing revenue and enhancing the value of these companies. Prior to this, Cummings had 17 years experience at IBM, during which time he managed over 1,000 engineers developing the first AIX product release. He also provided individual contributions to both IBM and Honeywell architecture and design, where he designed and holds the SNA Patent for IBM. Cummings received his BSEE from Iowa State University and was awarded his MSEE from the University of Minnesota.

Rob Ciampa brings over 20 years of experience successfully designing, marketing and delivering leading-edge technology solutions to global markets. He joined Tervela from Trusted Network Technologies, the leader in identity-based networking, where he served as VP of Marketing. An early operating systems engineer for Hewlett-Packard and a former switch and router designer for Synernetics (which was acquired by 3Com), Ciampa moved on to marketing and has since continued to effectively bring award winning, revenue-generating solutions to the world’s most demanding customers. He co-founded NetEffect where he was VP of Marketing and Business Development, and it became one of world’s largest specialized systems integration firms. He later went on to Access360 and was instrumental in its acquisition by IBM, where he was responsible for growing global channel sales and managing worldwide marketing and operations for enterprise-class middleware portfolios. Ciampa has a BS in Computer Science and an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, as well as an MBA from Boston University. He holds two patents in information technology management.