Management Team

Mr.Leach also co-founded Harbinger, Inc. in Atlanta in 1983, growing it to $155 million in revenue with $20 million in operating income, and eventually selling the company in June 2000 for $1.3 billion. Harbinger provided businesses of all sizes with software, value-added network services, business process outsourcing and consulting services to enable them to send and receive electronic documents and manage supply and demand chains. Over a 17-year career with the company he held positions as Vice President of Marketing and Sales, President of the Financial Services Division, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Executive Officer, Vice Chairman and Acting Chairman.

Mr.Leach has also served as a consultant with McKinsey Management Consultants as well as an Associate with Coopers and Lybrand.

Mr.Leach graduated with a B.A. from Sheffield University in England and received his MBA with honors from Harvard University. He is also a FCA,  Fellow Chartered Accountant from the United Kingdom, and is currently on several private and public boards.

Mr.Simmons has over 24 years of experience in commercial software development. In 1992 he co-founded Workgroup Technology Corp, a Lexington, Massachusetts-based company focused on electronic document management. He was responsible for the development of the company’s core technology and helped grow the company from five employees to more than 150 in five years. He served as Chief Technology Officer and was a key member of the executive staff through the company’s initial public offering in 1996.

At the start of his career in the 1980s, Mr.Simmons worked with Computervision and several start-up companies in the Boston area. He has also worked with Internet-based start-ups in the Southeast as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Business Development.

Mr.Simmons has a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island.

Prior to joining eSecuritel in 2006, Ms.Taylor served as EVP of Business and Account Development for Allconnect where she helped triple the revenue and client base, managing over 200 strategic relationships. She also served as a VP within AOL's Interactive Marketing division where her major achievements included development of the AOL Partner Help Desk, and supporting B2B websites. She led a major overhaul and increase in meaningful leads for AOL's advertising sales force.

Ms.Taylor was also the Senior Director of Loyalty Marketing and Alliances for Intercontinental Hotels Group (formerly Bass Hotels and Resorts), where she managed IHG's loyalty program for its numerous worldwide hotel brands, including Inter-Continental, Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn Hotels and Resorts. She has also held positions with American Express and Xerox Corporation.

Ms.Taylor holds a B.A. in Marketing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an M.B.A. in Marketing from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Prior to eSecuritel, he served as Chief Financial Officer at Seacoast Synergy, Inc., a private equity firm in Hilton Head Island, SC, where he was involved in financial forecasting, business plan development and the establishment of the financial, administrative and human resource systems for seven subsidiary companies. Mr.Gannon also served as the Chief Financial Officer for CyberSight, LLC, an Internet advertising agency with a client base that included Visa, Quaker Oats, Dole Foods, Nissan and Molsen Breweries.

Mr.Gannon's other positions have included Senior Tax Manager with Price Waterhouse LLP from 1992 to1998, where he coordinated delivery of domestic tax and related advisory services to many small and large-scale businesses in the service, utility, industrial and high technology industries including Montana Power and Light, Nike, Northwest Natural Gas, Sequent Computer Systems, and RadiSys Corporation. He managed and supervised tax engagements includes advice on mergers, acquisitions, research and development tax credit studies, acquisition basis studies, corporate restructuring and tax provision preparation and review.

Mr.Gannon graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. degree in Accounting from the University of Colorado-Denver.

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