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Management Team

Rob Lynch, Chief Executive Officer

Rob Lynch is a proven technology executive with over 25 years of expertise launching and growing emerging companies in e-commerce B2B/B2C, fraud detection,supply chain, payments, data communications, IT and government. Prior to joining Innography in February 2008, Rob was president and CEO for both Austin, TX-based BetweenMarkets and ClearCommerce. He also served as president of Transfirst and held senior management positions at several other start-up and established companies, including NetSolve, Affiliated Computer Services, ICOT, MTech and ADP. Rob has PD and MS degrees from Fordham University, and a BS degree from St. John’s University.

Tyron Stading, Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Tyron Stading founded Innography in 2006 with a vision of redefining the intellectual property research landscape. As CTO, Tyron strives to continuously deliver the most comprehensive and robust user experience and business value. Pre-Innography, Tyron was an IBM worldwide industry solutions manager in the telecommunications and utilities sectors, and worked at startups focused on mobile communications and network security. He has published multiple research papers and filed over two dozen patents. Tyron has a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University and an MS in Science and Technology Commercialization from The University of Texas at Austin.

Doug Miller, Chief Marketing/Sales Officer

Doug Miller brings a wealth of software marketing experience to Innography, having held executive positions at 10 technology startups over the past 25 years, including BuildForge (IBM), Authoria, Hire.com, Dazel (HP), Powersoft (Sybase), Candle and Computer Corporate of America. Responsible for marketing, sales and business development, Doug is focused on driving strategic market direction and recurring revenue to position Innography as a global leader in intellectual property business intelligence. Doug’s other interests are jump blues, photography and golfing.

Chris Busch, Vice President of Business Development

Chris Busch has over 25 years of extensive sales and business development expertise, and is responsible for developing Innography’s VAR partnerships and alternate distribution channels. Prior to joining Innography, Chris was CEO of QuotaVision and vice president of business development at Service911.com. He has also held senior leadership positions at Mercury Interactive, Oracle and Computer Corporation of America. In addition, Chris spent eight years at the University of Houston as an adjunct marketing lecturer, where he founded the Program for Excellence in Selling for its Bauer College of Business and received a BS degree in Accounting.

Karoline McLaughlin, Director of Marketing

Karoline McLaughlin is a senior marketing leader with over 15 years of technology expertise spanning software, hardware and services. Prior to joining Innography, she launched and led the global corporate marketing efforts for high definition video communications start-up, LifeSize. Karoline has also held marketing and sales positions at Tivoli/IBM, Hire.com, TippingPoint, MegaPath and Symantec. She received a BS degree from San Jose State University and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

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