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Lance Keene, Founder, President,
Senior .Net Architect

Lance and his team at Keene Systems, Inc., have been developing database-driven web applications using Microsoft technologies since 1998. After completing the sale of his former company, Sarbrook in 1999, he became an angel investor and a senior developer at MeansBusiness.com, an Internet startup specializing in business book extracts. From 1997 to 1999, Lance served as a consultant to Mack Trucks, Inc., developing trucking applications in Microsoft Visual Basic. Prior to that, in 1991, Lance became co-founder and VP of Engineering for The Sarbrook Co., Inc. where he developed a database-driven document control system that managed manufacturing specifications for Fortune 500 companies. In the 1989 he founded Cybex Corp., a robotics firm which is still in business today. After finishing his B.S. in Computer Science in 1988, Lance moved to Texas where he served as a consultant to IBM, Texas Instruments, Motorola and EDS. In 1987, while studying Computer Science at Florida Institute of Technology, he founded Keene Systems, Inc. Lance started his professional career in 1980 as a 74F Programmer/Analyst in the US Army. He was stationed in Heidelberg Germany at the 25th Data Processing Unit and worked with IBM mainframes, developing strength accounting applications for the Army.

Loredo Sola, CTO,
Senior .Net Architect

Loredo was President & CTO of PlanGen, a startup company which provides web-based pension plan sales software to many of the nation’s largest life insurance carriers. Prior this Loredo was CTO for MeansBusiness Inc., a startup company which focuses on web-based business knowledge and executive training utilizing a co-branded syndication business model. Prior to that he was Director of Engineering for Vicinity Corp (VCNT). Vicinity developed the web-based street maps and driving directions technology for what became Microsoft's MapPoint web services. Vicinity was acquired by Microsoft in 2003. Prior to that he was the Manager of Corporate Development for Geographic Data Technology (now TeleAtlas USA). Prior to that he was the product architect and senior engineer for the first Windows version of MISys manufacturing inventory software. Prior to that he was the co-founder and CTO of ThoughtPath Inc. which provided brainstorming software based on Synectics methodology to many Fortune 500 companies. Prior to that he co-founded Codman Research Group, a startup which supplied claims-based medical care epidemiology data analysis for several state Medicaid and BC/BS insurance programs.

Loredo has over 22 years experience in software product design, development and technical management. He has a life-long passion for creating innovative software and web sites and has received several industry awards for his work.