LeverPoint's management team brings a wealth of expertise to their respective areas of responsibility. Further, all the senior executives have worked in outsourcing for approximately 20 years each and bring long-term, established reputations and relationships to the market place.
Over those years, they have "sat on both sides of the table" as both "buyers" and "sellers" of outsourcing. As such, they have been in the position of formulating internal sourcing strategy and then the oversight and management of delivery within various organizations as CEO, CTO, and COO. As "sellers", they have founded and lead services organizations in the business of providing the outsourcing services to clients. Thus, LeverPoint's offerings are built with an eye both to structure and process while being practical to implement in the very demanding real world of software product development.
Todd Bramblett, CEO
Larry Simpson , President and COO
Michael Renner , Executive Vice President
Colin deSa , CTO
Lawrence Roe , Senior Vice President
Todd Bramblett, CEO
Mr. Bramblett has over 20 year's executive management experience leading companies from initial vision to operational success and profitability. Having founded and managed both professional services as well as software firms, he has a proven track-record of delivering results in everything from venture funding, where he has raised almost $30MM, to sales and marketing, where he has produced double and even triple digit quarterly revenue growth.
Prior to founding LeverPoint, Todd worked at Ikimbo Inc. from May 2001 until June 2003 where he served in several executive roles before being asked by the Board and lead VC's to step up to the CEO position in June 2002. During his time as CEO, he cut spending by almost 70%, raised two additional rounds of funding, and re-targeted Ikimbo's sales and services organizations. Further, he personally conceived and provided the vision for a new product then lead Ikimbo from inception to release on this product utilizing a hybrid onshore-offshore software co-development model that dramatically increased Ikimbo's speed-to-market, cut development costs, and dramatically improved Ikimbo's software quality. Most of the lessons learned and methods used in Ikimbo's software co-development model serve as the foundation for LeverPoint 'dual shore' software co-development model today.
Prior to Ikimbo, Todd co-founded and served as CEO of a high-growth Washington DC-based Application Service Provider (ASP), ASPEN, that provides complex enterprise application solutions to the SME marketplace. Under his direction, ASPEN quickly distinguished itself from its competitors by exceeding its quarterly targets every quarter since inception for application/SLA performance, client satisfaction, and partner channel development, and revenue generation. Further, ASPEN achieved a publicly recognized industry leadership position by becoming the first ASP to meet Microsoft Great Plains' rigorous ASP certification standards for both their financial and CRM applications. ASPEN was acquired by OutTask, a larger ASP in June 2001.
Prior to founding ASPEN, Todd founded and serviced as EVP/COO for the consulting services division of a prominent IT distributor, EdgeMark Systems (later changed its name to BroadPoint Technologies). Within 20 months, he grew the consulting organization from 1 to approximately 80 people with four offices along the east coast and annual revenues from 400K to over 12MM.
In 1990, Todd founded CompAcct, Ltd that became one of the top 5 providers of Great Plains financial applications and services worldwide. By 1996 he sold CompAcct to GE Capital Consulting where he joined the executive team responsible for managing the Mid-Atlantic region's 350 consulting services professionals. He was quickly designated the National Director of GECC's mid-market applications practice responsible for setting strategy, determining and delivering on direct and channel sales revenue targets.
Prior to starting his own company, Todd served as Director of Finance for Sunrise Retirement Homes (Nasdaq: SNRZ) where he was responsible for the financial planning, accounting and IT systems and back-office operations for Sunrise during a period of explosive growth. During a 2.5 year period, Sunrise grew from one facility generating $2MM in revenues to 12 facilities generating approximately $20MM in revenues.
In 1985, Todd completed his undergraduate studies having pursued major or minor degrees in everything from computer science and accounting to pre-medicine and psychology at Covenant College, in Chattanooga , Tennessee. 
Back to top
Larry Simpson, President and COO
20 years senior executive experience in business development, operations, and professional services within software and IT firms for the commercial, government, and international markets.
Larry Simpson is an entrepreneurial senior executive with vast experience in Operations and Business Development. His market experience includes the software, eBusiness, and secure communications industries that has spanned the commercial, government, and international sectors. Larry joined Ikimbo, Inc. in June 2002 as Vice President Business Development where he was responsible for developing the sales channels and alliances (IBM, AOL, etc.) to assist this emerging technology company in a "turn around".
Prior to joining Ikimbo, and since 1997, Larry has been recruited to serve in a series of Operations and Business Development executive positions for emerging technology and manufacturing firms.
In February 1997, Larry was recruited by a pre-IPO Internet portal, Crosswalk.com, to manage a broad range of functions including business development, sales management, operations, and general management. Crosswalk achieved a successful IPO in late 1997. He established the sales engine, managed product development which consistently won "Best of the Web" awards, and was the General Manager of a profitable business unit. In 2000 Larry was recruited by the CEO to serve as Vice President of Business Development and Marketing for ASPEN , a startup Application Service Provider (ASP). ASPEN earned a reputation for high performance and achieved an industry leadership position that was publicly recognized by channel partners and industry analysts before being acquired by OutTask. Following ASPEN , Larry was the Vice President of TMI-USA where he had been recruited in 2001 to build the revenue stream for this three year old emerging international joint venture providing scientific testing instrumentation to the food and pharmaceutical industry.
In 1994, Larry co-founded and served as President and CEO of an international management consulting business, Global Partnership, Inc. (GPI) which facilitated business development in southeastern Europe and the Balkans. GPI partnered with EDS, GTE, Sagem AG, and Seskey & Hennessey in a number of projects.
Prior to co-founding Cryptek, Inc., a secure communications company in 1986, Larry was a Program Manager for Value-Tek, which provided TEMPEST products to the government. Cryptek became profitable, captured 41% of the market share, built OEM relationships internationally, acquired synergistic companies that successfully expanded the operations, won "Best New Product Award" and was acquired by a public company, General Kinetics Incorporated (GKI). Larry served on GKI's Board of Directors and as Vice President / General Manager of Cryptek, was also responsible for the sales and engineer management in returning one of GKI's divisions to profitability, and served as President of GKI's subsidiary, Food Technology Corporation.
In 1977 Larry graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served his commitment as a Naval Officer prior to departing the Navy as a Lieutenant Commander in 1984. Back to top
Michael Renner, Executive Vice President
15 years of experience as a senior information technology executive with enterprise class, mission critical IT applications and systems
Mike Renner was the Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Aspen , LLC, a mid-market Application Service Provider that provided Internet hosted ERP, CRM, E-Commerce, and business intelligence solutions. Prior to that he was the Vice President of Technical Operations for Digex. In this position, he prepared Digex technically for its Initial Public Offering, managed a staff of over 150 engineers and technical specialists who managed over 1200 servers, growing by 200 servers per month, in two geographically dispersed data centers.
Mike was a founding executive of Windward Consulting Group, and served as Vice President of Professional Services for the $20 million per year firm providing business and technology consulting services to ISP, Internet hosting, and telecommunications companies to assist them in the deployment, management, and support of very large technical infrastructures. Clients included Bell South, Qwest Communications, Digex and others. Mike also served in several key senior technology management positions with the $8.5 billion multi-national Thomson Corporation. In this role, he was on the management team that developed technology strategies and infrastructures to move the 300 companies of Thomson from print-based publishing to digital publishing.
Mike received his Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems from James Madison University in 1985. Back to top
Colin deSa, CTO
Colin deSa brings to LeverPoint over 14 years experience in the IT industry. He is accomplished in designing, developing, launching and managing technology products for Fortune 100, medium and start up companies. Before joining LeverPoint, Colin was the CTO of TriCipher, an Internet security product company, where he played a major role in positioning TriCipher as a key player in the identity management and data privacy space, enabling the company to win contracts in the US, Japan and Europe. Prior, to TriCipher, Colin was CTO of Nippon Systems Development (NSD) Security.
Skilled in building and managing high performance engineering and product support teams, Colin knows how to deliver high quality products under tight budget and scheduling constraints.
Colin brings broad and deep technology skills. He is experienced with developing Internet security, identity management, computer telephony, networking, and CRM products. He brings in-depth expertise with defining product architectures, object oriented analysis and design, product integration and implementation. At LeverPoint, Mr. deSa will assume the lead executive role with our client's product team members to ensure successful client services from a technical and functional perspective. Whether assisting with initial product roadmapping or the development of highly technical architectures for security, scalability, availability, and performance, Colin helps clients quickly organize their teams, documents and processes to realize their development goals. Back to top
Lawrence Roe, Senior Vice President
Mr. Roe is responsible for leading LeverPoint's sales organization as it aggressively expands operations throughout North America . Previously, he served as Sr. Vice President of Sales with Activplant Corporation, a London , Ontario , and based software technology firm focusing on high performance management systems for discrete, high volume manufacturers. Lawrence (Larry) was responsible for rebuilding and turning around the company's sales organization.
Prior to Activplant, Mr. Roe served as EVP of Sales and Marketing for Total Resource Management (TRM), a consulting and services firm with expertise in providing solutions for the strategic management of physical assets in support of government and commercial organizations. He was instrumental in leading TRM's expansion from $9M to over $30M in just twenty-four months.
Larry's seven year stint with MRO Software included senior leadership responsibility for sales throughout North America as well as the company's Public Sector organization. Most notably, he was responsible for negotiating many of MRO's major wins and his organization was the company's global performance leader three years running.
He also spent over ten years with Intergraph Corporation, where he held a variety of regional sales leadership roles. Larry was instrumental in developing Intergraph's first foray in strategic program sales resulting in excess of $650M in major program wins. He has also spent time with Dipix, Lexidata and Tektronix.
Mr. Roe holds undergraduate degrees in Marketing and Computer Science and Masters Degree in Organizational Management. Back to top
