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Ceelox Leadership Gerry Euston - CEO

Gerry Euston
CEO
Mark Grannell
COO
Erix Pizano
Director of Technology
Michell D’Amico
Director Operations & Finance

Gerry Euston joined Ceelox as its Chief Executive Officer in July, 2006. Gerry comes to Ceelox with over 25 years of extensive executive-level telecommunications experience in general management, marketing, product management and development, finance, strategic planning, line management and corporate staff positions. He brings sound business judgment and demonstrated leadership as evident in his successful career at Sprint Communications and his chief executive officer role at start-up Falcon Wireless.

At Sprint Mr. Euston ran the Enhance Services Division which he grew from $50M to over $500M in revenue in a three year period. Prior to that he ran Sprint’s national account marketing where he conceived and brought to market the industry’s first virtual private network service offering and helped deliver triple digit growth during his tenure. Later he ran product marketing, management and development for Sprint’s long distance division, and also was responsible for Business Marketing for Sprint’s local service division. Mr. Euston also managed the Federal Systems Division’s finance, information systems, bid and proposal, accounting and administration functions while that division grew from start up to over $300M in revenue. In his role as Vice President Finance Management he was responsible for Sprint’s financial planning, analysis and reporting. During his career at Sprint, Mr. Euston participated in several pivotal strategic planning efforts such as the fiber network business plan, the GTE/Sprint merger business plan and post merger implementation planning.
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Mark Grannell - COO

Mark Grannell brings over 20 years of engineering and management experience with Motorola, Sprint, Level 3, and SiriCOMM. His career includes satellite, wireline and wireless telecommunication, data and voice design and engineering; business development; sales and executive-level management. Mr. Grannell’s career has been a steady progression of management responsibilities and successes.
His previous duties include:

  • As President and CEO, SiriCOMM, Inc., a public company providing data services to the transportation industry, Mr. Grannell aggressively improved product and network performance while reducing cost by over 30%.
  • While with Level 3 Communications, Mr. Grannell built and managed the customer relationship with a national carrier/wireless communications company. Sales grew from zero to over $70M with $75M in funnel opportunity.
  • While at Sprint Grannell held a variety of management positions. In his last assignment as Vice President, Network, he had overall management responsibility of a broadband network deployment building 18 markets in 12 months, supporting 15,000 customers within a budget of $175M. His duties also included establishing corporate and regional organizations. Across four regions within the US, he built a staff of over 200 people within the first year.

Mr. Grannell earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Kansas State University and his MS Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri. He is an elected member of the Gardner/Edgerton Board of Education.

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Erix Pizano - Director of Technology

With over ten years experience leading the successful development and deployment of custom software products, Erix Pizano has taken his wide knowledge of commercial software and applied it to every facet of the Ceelox software development lifecycle. Erix's prior experience includes successful development and deployment of commercial and custom software products for entertainment, corporate training, education, home automation, and other industries.

Before joining Ceelox, Erix was Director of Software Engineering for Intelladon Corporation, Producer/Project Manager for JRL Enterprises, and an e-learning consultant.

Erix's charismatic personality has also allowed him to be a professor for Basic and Advanced Lingo at the International Academy of Design and Technology in Tampa and a 3DS Max Instructor at ITT-Tech in Orlando. Additionally, he has created his own commercial audio control software based on Visual Basic.

Trilingual with complete fluency in English, Spanish, and French. Erix has several educational degrees, including:

  • A Marketing Management graduate degree from the Autonomous Mexican Institute of Technology
  • An Information Technologies and Business Administration masters degree from the Autonomous Mexican Institute of Technology / Harvard University
  • An Electronic Systems Engineering bachelor's degree from the Technological Institute of Monterrey
  • An Electronics Technological Bachelor valedictorian degree granted by the French National Ministry of Education.
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Michell D’Amico - Director Operations & Finance

With a successful history of leading change and managing turnaround initiatives Michell L. D’Amico, joined the Ceelox management team as Director Operations & Finance. Her extensive experience encompasses both the public and private sectors. While in the Electronic Financial Services department at JP Morgan, Michell was in the key role of Assistant Vice President, Health Savings Account Operations. In this role, she managed account maintenance and financial operations teams with responsibility of staff size of 60. She lead the reengineering of Operations organizations through capacity planning; redefined the Customer Identification Process (CIP) resulting in a 29% increase in open enrollments; and managed the cleanup efforts 15,000 backlogged items.

Prior to that, Michell was the Assistant Vice President, Settlement Private Sector where she was responsible for 200 General Ledger accounts. While with the Hillsborough County School District, she was in Purchasing and Internal Auditing roles. Her extensive responsibilities included: Research, preparation, review and award of RFP’s, RFQ’s and bids; negotiation of contracts; development and management of district audits performed by 4 auditors; providing training to administrators, principals, and staff; directed the help desk operations; fraud Investigations and coordination of district-wide accounting software support contract. With a proven track record of success and advancement across multiple business lines, Michell is a great asset to the Ceelox team.

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