About Us

CEO, BOD, & Global Business Development

Mr. Martino has practiced professionally as a Business Process Excellence Consultant, Business Planning Consultant, Strategic Technology Consultant, Product Development Executive, Entrepreneur, Lecturer and Mentor.

Mr. Martino has lectured and mentored at Northeastern University in the Entrepreneurial Master’s Program. The areas in which Mr. Martino has lectured are: Entrepreneurship, Business Life Cycle Management, Advanced Technologies and Strategic Business Application.

From 2002 through 2005, Mr. Martino served as Management Strategies’ key executive in the directing, developing, and productization of technologies including Semantic Logic Model technology. Additionally, Mr. Martino has established close relationships with Academia — most notably, with Columbia University — to ensure a continuing competitive advantage in this, as well as other, technologies. Mr. Martino is also pushing the envelope of Financial Risk Models and the use of Process Modeling, Process Engineering, and Cloud Processing to advance technology’s state-of-the-art use and implementation.

A successful CXO, Business Entrepreneur, Inventor, and Technology Venture investor, Mr. Martino founded TechnoBabble Communications, Inc. (TBCI) with a vision of providing technology that manages complex telecommunication network environments seamlessly, on behalf of applications and processes that need to operate across distributed environments. As CEO of TBCI, Mr. Martino’s core role is to head the group that defines the company’s strategy, establish the strategic partnerships required in all Information Technology endeavors, and ensure TBCI’s products and services are exceeding customer expectations in the areas of quality, timeliness, and usability.

Mr. Martino has played a key role defining TechnoBabble’s first three products (ROAMSecure – a secure service for delivering data over any type of wired/wireless network, RFIDSecure – a secure personal identification system utilizing RFID technologies and IMSecure – a highly secure instant messaging service). The associated technologies and services have been included in a role up and purchase by a large public company. The company may not be named due to the sensitive nature of the transaction and technologies involved. His diligent work also has fostered his company’s relationship with various government agencies in the United States.

As founder and CEO of Luminescence Technologies, Inc. (LTI), Mr. Martino conceived an innovative means of assisting technology firms in bringing products to market while maintaining LTI’s share in the product revenues. With a broad background in full lifecycle product design, development, deployment, and marketing, as well as with having established software development companies in Bulgaria, Mr. Martino positioned LTI to participate in the deployment and support of customer products. A sampling of LTI customers included Progress Software, AT&T, Marconi Plc., Metapath Software International, Digital Corp, Citibank, NASA, Fidelity, Hasbro, Silknet, and Mercury Interactive.

As Sr. VP of its Maxxer Business Unit, Mr. Martino joined Metapath Software International Limited (MSI), a leading international product and service company in the wireless telecommunications industry. Mr. Martino was retained from LTI in a cross-company stock transaction to productize and bring to market the technologies acquired from MSI’s Swedish acquisition. He was responsible for tactical and strategic planning, as well as senior executive customer presentations. When MSI was acquired by Macroni Plc, Mr. Martino returned to LTI, where he negotiated the roll up of two LTI business units, located in Ireland and Bulgaria, as part of the MSI acquisition.

In 1991, Mr. Martino founded Complex Architectures, Inc. (CAI) and developed a message-based communications and connectivity software product for the wireless/wireline marketplace. Sybase acquired CAI in February 1995, only 7 months after commercial introduction of its flagship product. Following the successful sale of CAI to Sybase, Inc., Mr. Martino spent almost a year helping Sybase integrate CAI technology and personnel into its software products and organization. During the transition phase, Mr. Martino served as President of the Enterprise Messaging Business Unit for Sybase. Additionally, Mr. Martino was used extensively by the BOD of Sybase in performing the necessary due diligence of companies and technologies for potential acquisition.

In the preceding decade, Mr. Martino became a successful computer systems/software architect and consultant. Working with advanced information technologies and leading-edge clients, he developed innovative solutions for complex business environments and registered a number of software patents. During these years, Mr. Martino had a series of small product and consulting firms, all of which were successfully sold or acquired by other firms. Additionally, Mr. Martino worked extensively in developing strategic directions in technologies, software, and services for major corporations.

In addition, he has been involved with charity work that provides free healthcare to children in Haiti, an effort that he is extremely passionate about.

Member of Office of the President, BOD, & Global Business Development

Mr. de Kanter has been a long-term corporate executive as well as an entrepreneur and angel investor. His business career spans more than four decades and includes corporate-level executive positions in both US and international operations of two Fortune 100 companies. For the past 15 years, Mr. de Kanter has been a founder, investor, and board member in a number of start-up businesses and non-profit organizations.

Mr. de Kanter was the President of Global Licensing for The Walt Disney Company from 1999 to 2001 where he was responsible for all worldwide licensing. This business generated nearly $1 billion in annual revenues and profits of more than $600 million for Disney’s Consumer Products Division. Mr. de Kanter oversaw regional offices in Burbank, CA, London, England, Tokyo, Japan, Taipei, Taiwan, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Before that, Mr. de Kanter managed Disney Consumer Products’ Latin American Region for more than 10 years, during which time he was responsible for growing revenues from $3 million, in 1989, to $84 million, in 1999. From the regional headquarters in Miami, FL, Mr. de Kanter managed a team of approximately 225 employees with offices in 8 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela.

CFO

As a CFO, BOD, CPA Ms. Donahue has more than 25 years accounting, finance, and tax experience in technology companies. She was Accounting Manager and Worldwide Reporting Manager for the Consulting and Tools Division of Sybase, Inc. Her division grew from 6 million to 200 million in revenue in 5 years. Ms. Donahue was Director of Finance and Administration for Sybase Southern Europe. She worked with John Martino as his Controller to integrate Complex Architectures, Inc. when it was acquired by Sybase. She has been Controller of U.S. subsidiaries of U.K. and German companies. Ms. Donahue was Corporate Controller and Acting CFO of a content management product and consulting company.

Ms. Donahue has dealt with tax and legal issues both in the U.S. and in Europe. Ms. Donahue has been part of several teams which implemented a 9 million company-wide accounting system, automated invoicing and brought process improvement in her division. Ms. Donahue has developed accounting policies and management reporting in several startup companies.

Ms. Donahue holds an MA degree in French from Sorbonne College, Paris, France, a BA degree in French with a minor in Russian from Regis College, Weston MA. Additionally, Ms. Donahue holds certifications in US GAAP and IFRS convergence Ms. Donahue maintains currency in accounting Intermediate, and Advanced Accounting, Cost Accounting, Auditing, Problems in Accounting, Federal Taxes, Business Law, and Electronic Data Processing Courses.

Chief Product Officer & Advisor

Mr. Hudson has been at the intersection of web business and technology since the inception of online commerce in the mid-1990s. He has brought many innovative consumer and enterprise products to market as he combines a passion for the product lifecycle and a wealth of experience driving technical solutions. With an MBA from Babson College and concentrations in entrepreneurship and managing technologically innovative enterprises, Charles has been a successful entrepreneur, built and led product organizations, and consulted to Fortune 500 companies on web and mobile strategies.

In 2008, Charles cofounded Control UI, a home and commercial automation software company focusing on the use of smart devices to control and automate environments. He co-led the company to profitability in 90 days, and in two years the company was acquired by Control4, a leading automation worldwide organization. Joining Control4, Charles led the building of the mobile organization, development of all global user applications, and helped the company attain a revenue of $125M and a successful IPO. In 2015, he joined Lookout Mobile Security as head of the consumer mobile product and has led the development of many new features including security around wearables.

Charles has spoken on web and mobile best practices at conferences internationally. In 2008, he received the eBay Star Developer award for the first iOS-based web and native applications for users of eBay. In addition, he shares his knowledge of web and mobile product execution through advisory roles and as a visiting faculty member in the Masters of Internet Technology program at the Terry College of Business, University of Georgia.

Charles is an award-winning author, having coauthored the HTML5 Developers Cookbook through Pearson Publishing and authored the eBay Commerce Cookbook through O’Reilly Media.

Director, Development, Mobile Products, i-Approve Product Line

As Director of Architecture and Engineering at TechnoBrillanti Companies International Corp, Mr. Dow brings more than fifty years of experience in management and consulting in software architecture, design, and development.

Mr. Dow entered the mobile application and services marketplace for the Apple, Android, and Blackberry applications market in January 2009. His clients included Control4, Control UI, Sony-Ericsson, Agero, Q Factor Communications, and Staples. His applications included home automation, motor vehicle automation, IP network optimization and error recovery, geo-location and tracking, retail (Staples), and child monitoring and protection.

Mr. Dow began his career in 1966 by designing the first modern computerized supply system for the United States Marine Corps. Since then, Mr. Dow has founded several profitable consulting and software development firms including Innovative Communications (1986 - 1990), Digital Design (2002 - 2006), and Liquid Light Imaging (2009).

As a consultant, Mr. Dow’s clients included Apple Computer, AT&T, Bank of America, Bell South, Honeywell-Bull, DEC, Metropolitan Life, Banyan Systems, NEC, Nixdorf Computer, Prime Computer, Security Dynamics (RSA Security), Sony-Ericsson, State Street Bank, Sun Microsystems, 3Com, Tyco, Unisys, Yale Locks (ASSA ABBLOY), Wang, Ziff-Davis Publishing, and many more.

Data Scientist Advisor

Mr. Harper has an extensive background in analytics and business intelligence. He currently serves as a Director at Hipercept, providing consulting services to organizations on their enterprise business practices, operations and technology.

As the Director of Business Intelligence & Information Strategy at Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors he designed and implemented a data and analytics strategy as well as a deal management system for a $6B AUM Real Estate Business.

At SCANA Corporation he created systems and dashboards that enabled the company to analyze performance across areas and alter processes and operations as necessary. He previously served as director of marketing and business development at Preferred MedSurg, a pharmaceutical company, where he was instrumental in collecting and analyzing data to evaluate growth opportunities and target customer segments. Mr. Harper has worked in a variety of industries to gather and analyze data and translate findings into best practices across business segments.

Mr. Harper earned a B.S. in Financial Management from Clemson University and an MBA from the University of South Carolina.