Leadership

Eric Schnadig is an accomplished senior executive with extensive experience building leading public and private companies 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 annual revenues from $3 million to more than $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. Schnadig previously was a senior sales and marketing executive at Kenan Systems Corporation, a technology provider to global communications companies. While at Kenan Schnadig helped grow annual revenues from $10 million to more than $300 million, leading to a $1.5 billion acquisition by Lucent. 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.

Entrepreneur and visionary Barry Thompson founded Tervela in 2004 and serves as Chief Technology Officer and board member. With close to 20 years experience, Thompson is a self-taught technologist and began his career 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 for companies including AIG, NatWest and UBS. At UBS he served as Head of North American Architecture. Thompson then continued to pursue his passion for emerging technologies through incubating research projects in materials manufacturing and carbon nanotube growth, virtual reality and gaming infrastructure. Thompson serves on the board of trustees and executive committee for the X-Prize Foundation. He is a graduate of the International Space University SSP.

Steve Cummings brings more than 25 years of engineering, operational and manufacturing experience to Tervela. Prior to Tervela, he served as VP of Engineering of mobile computing company Walkabout Computers (acquired by DRS Tactical Systems), where he developed the technical vision for engineering and led the design and delivery of a new generation of products. 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 spent 17 years at IBM, where he managed more than 1,000 engineers that developed 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.