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Carson HagerPresident
Carson Hager is the president and founder of Cynergy. With a formal background in finance and management combined with a long career in software development, Carson now focuses on driving the company’s growth and developing the next generation of Cynergy leaders worldwide.
Carson studied Finance and International Management at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and finally appreciates the seemingly endless accounting classes he endured there. You can reach Carson at carson.hager@cynergysystems.com
Keith O'DonnellVice President of Finance
Keith is responsible for financial and business operations at Cynergy including accounting, legal and human resources. Keith also feeds our constant appetite for offices around the world as our lead in property management and development. When not opening unique spaces in Boston, Washington or London, you can find him in our Washington DC headquarters managing the financial strategy of our aggressive growth.
Before joining Cynergy Systems, Inc., he held executive positions with firms in numerous industries, including stints with other high tech firms and financial services firms. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance as well as an MBA from Loyola College. You can reach Keith at keith.odonnell@cynergysystems.com
Aaron AdamsDirector of User Experience
Aaron Adams leads the User Experience Group at Cynergy, an award-winning creative team that specializes in world-class user experience design. Using Cynergy's unique and proven LookFirst approach to Rich Internet Application development, Aaron's group drives the user experience design as well as information architecture facets of all Cynergy projects.
Prior to Cynergy, Aaron led product development and design for WorkLife Media, recognized as an Adobe MAX Award finalist for consumer-facing applications. He studied Visual Communications at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, MI. You can reach Aaron at aaron.adams@cynergysystems.com
Shawn BroxsonDirector of Marketing
Shawn directs marketing at Cynergy, aggressively protecting our position as the global leader in RIA design and development. As the keeper of Cynergy's image to the outside world, Shawn is responsible for the Cynergy website and Cynergy TV properties as well as our public relations, video production and online marketing efforts. He also leads the charge for Cynergy's aggressive public appearances including Microsoft Mix, SD West, and O'Reilly Web 2.0 events.
With a decade of experience as a former director of sales and marketing for a prominent Washington DC based interactive agency and advertising director for global online marketer, Shawn now spends his days shouting through various channels about the value of Rich Internet Applications. Shawn holds a B.S. in Political Science from the University of Florida. shawn.broxson@cynergysystems.com
Dave WolfVice President of Sales and Marketing
Whether traveling around the world driving strategy and developing new business for the company or on the stump stateside talking to press, analysts and conferences, Dave delivers Cynergy's user experience thought-leadership far-and-wide.
In earlier lives, he held engineering and marketing management positions at Microsoft and Sybase, where he was responsible for enterprise software development and strategy. Officially based in Cynergy's Capitol Hill headquarters in Washington, DC he is on the road more than he is in the District, espousing Cynergy’s passion for devising incredible new ways for all of us to experience and interact with software. You can reach Dave at dave.wolf@cynergysystems.com
Mark ShankVice President of Software Development
As the Vice President of Software Development, Mark is responsible for all of Cynergy’s design and development services worldwide. Mark spends much of his time working to ensure that execution is delivering the quality that our customers demand in both design and development. Whether working with our customers, business partners, user experience group, or technical leadership, Mark keeps everyone focused towards the end game: building rich, engaging, powerful software through a transparent and repeatable process to create long lasting, mutually beneficial business relationships.
With a formal education in computer science and a career spent in management and consulting, Mark brings experience, maturity, and an acute attention to detail to all of Cynergy’s relationships. Although based out of Cynergy’s San Diego office, Mark is frequently on the road in one of our many offices meeting with our development teams and working towards the success of their projects. You can reach Mark at mark.shank@cynergysystems.com
Rick GeorgeDirector of Sales
With a long career in enterprise software development, Rick oversees all sales and business development efforts at Cynergy worldwide. Like everyone on his team, Rick comes from development rather than sales affording him a deep understanding and appreciation for the value Cynergy provides through unsurpassed talent and sophisticated process. As Rick will be quick to tell you, at the end of the day it’s user experience that ultimately sells software. Rick’s passion is to help each Cynergy customer achieve that rich and engaging user experience in their own software that allows them to capture market share and drive sales like never before.
Prior to joining the Cynergy team, Rick spent two decades designing and building mainframe, client/server, and web based software applications for a wide range of clients. Having such a rich background in software development is key to providing the confidence our customers need that we can understand, absorb, and improve their business through RIA development. Rick holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Business Analysis from Texas A&M University. Rick can be reached at rick.george@cynergysystems.com