Meet the Management Team

Dean Guida, CEO and President

Mr. Guida is CEO and President of Infragistics and was CEO and a co-founder of ProtoView Development Corporation. Mr. Guida has over 22 years experience in the technical industry and oversees all aspects of the company's business operations and corporate direction. Mr. Guida is also responsible for cultivating strategic alliances and other external relationships, as well as managing corporate financial affairs.

Prior to co-founding ProtoView in 1989, Mr. Guida served as a leading consultant for IBM Corporation where he developed a global executive information management system under OS/2 reporting all PC hardware and software sales. Before joining IBM, Mr. Guida built and implemented a groundbreaking client/server application for AIG Insurance. Mr. Guida has also pioneered development initiatives for General Electric and numerous Wall Street firms.

Steve Dadoly, COO

As the Chief Operating Officer at Infragistics, Mr. Dadoly is responsible for worldwide Sales, Internal Systems, Information Technology, and Web Development. Mr. Dadoly has been instrumental in growing the Infragistics engineering team into a globally distributed technical culture of excellence with teams located in North America, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, South America and Asia. He believes that exceptional products are created by talented, passionate people who have a shared vision and strategy for solving technical challenges and exceeding customer needs.

Prior to joining Infragistics, Mr. Dadoly was CEO and Chief Software Architect of Velocitis, a software tools company focused on design, visualization and refactoring tools for Visual Studio® .NET. He also started Probid, an internet based construction bidding service provider. Additionally, Mr. Dadoly has broad business and technical experience in the manufacturing sector. A registered professional engineer, Mr. Dadoly has over twenty-five years experience designing, developing and delivering cutting edge software.

Jason Beres, VP of Product Management, Community, and Evangelism

As the Vice President of Product Management, Community, and Evangelism, Mr. Beres spearheads customer-driven, innovative features and functionality throughout all of Infragistics' products. Mr. Beres is a Microsoft .NET MVP, a leading member of the INETA Speakers Bureau, and is the chairman of the INETA Academic Committee. He writes a monthly column for Visual Studio Magazine and is the author of numerous works including Teach Yourself Visual Studio .NET 2003 in 21 Days (Sams, 2003), and the coauthor of the Visual Basic .NET Bible (Wiley, 2001), the C# Bible (Wiley, 2002) and Silverlight 1.0 (Wrox, 2007).

Prior to joining Infragistics, Inc., Mr. Beres served as a .NET Architect and .NET Evangelist for Computer Ways, Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Before exclusively focusing his time on .NET, Mr. Beres taught Visual Basic and Windows DNA at a Microsoft CTEC. Mr. Beres also founded the Non-Profit Ways Community which enables developers to write .NET applications for non-profit charities that are otherwise unable to afford the technology required to write real-world .NET applications. In addition, Mr. Beres also co-founded the Florida.NET Users Group.

Bill Hazard, Vice President of Engineering

As the Vice President of Engineering, Mr. Hazard leads the Infragistics Research, Development and Quality Engineering teams for all product lines. Prior to joining Infragistics, Mr. Hazard was Chief Technology Officer at Wireless Generation, an Educational services and content company dedicated to using information in the classroom to improve education. He previously served as Vice President of Engineering at register.com where he led development and architecture for their retail, wholesale and fulfillment systems. Mr. Hazard also served as Vice President of Technology for Kaplan University, where he created the technology team and systems that run Kaplan’s all-online accredited university.

He is a member of the NY CTO Club and co-founded the NYC Chapter of the International Association of Software Architects. His team won a Jolt Cola Award for software productivity for Cadre’s Teamwork for OS/2 product line.

Chris Rogers, CFO

As the Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Rogers oversees all treasury functions including investment policy and monetary controls and movement at Infragistics. Among many of his accomplishments, he led the financial team in geographical expansion to include operating companies in Europe and Japan as well as overseeing the worldwide growth of Infragistics, Inc.

Prior to joining Infragistics, Mr. Rogers served in senior financial positions from Controller to CFO for various companies such as Meridian Emerging Markets, Taratec (Patni Computer Systems), HealthAnswers and Mobil Research & Development Corp. Mr. Rogers has over 20 years of experience in the finance & human resource fields and over 15 years experience leading technology companies in efforts ranging from international mergers & acquisitions, licensing and technology transfer, and SEC reporting. Mr. Rogers is a licensed CPA, holds a Bachelors of Accounting from Texas A&M University. Mr. Rogers is actively involved in accounting issues affecting private industry. He served on the AICPA Private Company Audit Committee Toolkit Task Force and is a member of the Private Company Financial Reporting Committee which was formed by the FASB and AICPA to provide recommendations to the FASB as it sets accounting standards for privately-held enterprises.

Ed Saunders, Vice President of Worldwide Services

As the Vice President of Worldwide Services at Infragistics, Mr. Saunders is responsible for managing product training, consulting services, user experience consulting and developer support.

Prior to Infragistics, Mr. Saunders was a Vice President at BEA Systems, Inc., an enterprise infrastructure software and Web development services provider. where he created product and field operations, and support organizations. He is an expert in distributed systems, middleware products, enterprise application and transaction processing software, application server technology, database systems, and application integration. Mr. Saunders is a 25-year veteran of the high-tech industry having established professional services, pre-sales engineering, sales and technical field operations to support sales and technical teams, and programs to support domestic and international subsidiaries, partners, SIs, and ISVs.

Gary Schwartz, Vice President of Marketing

Mr. Schwartz is responsible for Infragistics World Wide Marketing. A former Visual Studio developer, Gary is a seasoned sales and marketing professional who drives lead generation and specializes in articulating technical value propositions to business audiences. Most recently he was SVP Marketing at enterprise feedback management vendor Confirmit, where he drove 300% revenue growth. Gary opened the UK territory for Informative (since acquired by Satmetrix), and held Product Management roles at MicroStrategy and Toshiba America Medical Systems. Gary holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Master's in Engineering Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Marie Berdini, Vice President of Human Resources

As the Vice President of Human Resources, Ms. Berdini leads the global human resources team, responsible for talent acquisition, benefits, compensation, development, and corporate policies and employee communications. Her most recent engagement was at Ulticom, a global telecommunications company, where she proved skilled at the innovation, strategies, and tactics that contribute to organizational growth, having formed the company’s first HR department. With over twenty years of HR experience, Marie is a seasoned professional with a track record of substantial contributions within HR and business as a whole. Marie is a graduate of Rutgers University School of Business and holds a BS in Human Resource Management.

David Keuning, Managing Director of Infragistics Japan K.K.

Mr. Keuning heads Infragistics' operations in Japan. Prior to joining Infragistics, Mr. Keuning was a Honolulu-based consultant assisting high-tech companies wishing to do business in Japan. Mr. Keuning has held management positions in technology ventures including PacRim Marketing, Inovaware and Postcard Software. In the 20 years he has worked for technology companies, over half has been spent in Japan. Mr. Keuning spent the first five years of his career at Sony Corporation, in Tokyo, Japan, as an evangelist for new data storage and computer-related products. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in East Asian Studies from Yale University. Mr. Keuning, who was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, also speaks fluent Japanese.

David Fisk, Sales Director of Infragistics EMEA

Mr. Fisk leads the EMEA sales team and has general responsibility for all Infragistics Europe operations on a day-to-day basis. Prior to joining Infragistics, David worked for more than 12 years in sales at Quest Software Inc., the last six years as Director of Support Renewals for EMEA and APAC. David has almost 30 years in the software industry, including three years as Managing Director of a small development tools software company for the home micro market in the 1980s. David has a Master’s Degree in Physics from Oxford University.

Keshav Prakash, Director of Sales, India

Mr. Prakash has over seventeen years of extensive experience in sales and marketing of Enterprise Software Solutions. Mr. Prakash comes to Infragistics from InfoVista, where he was the Regional Sales Director for the SAARC Region.

Prior to joining InfoVista, Mr. Prakash was Country Manger for Serena Software, where he built their India operation up from the ground to a team of over 15 staff consisting of sales, Professional Services, Presales, Marketing and administrative people reporting to him. Prior to joining Serena, Mr. Prakash worked for Rational Software, and for the Rational division at IBM after IBM acquired Rational. Mr. Prakash also worked for CMS Computers and Zenith Computers in various sales capacities. Mr. Prakash has been the recipient of many Sales and Sales Leadership awards over the years for his contributions to the Sales teams and customers across the Indian sub-continent. Mr. Prakash holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from Mysore University and lives in Bangalore, India. Mr. Prakash enjoys reading, travelling and networking, and he is one of the active members of an association supporting the cause of underprivileged and needy children.

Graham Dean, Managing Director of Infragistics APAC

Mr. Dean serves as the Managing Director of APAC (excluding Japan and India). Prior to joining Infragistics, Mr. Dean managed the multi-country sales division and Microsoft relationship for Quest Software. Mr. Dean has 26 years of experience working for software vendors and managing sales teams selling technologies such as SAP, Windows infrastructure, data security, audit, database management and development solutions.