Rob has more than 15 years of senior management experience working with growing companies in the information, communication and entertainment industries. Rob’s operational experience includes previous CFO positions with VFM Interactive Inc., an on-line distributor of rich media for the travel industry; Truestar Health Inc., an internet based health and wellness company; and P.S. Production Services Ltd., a film and television production equipment rental company. Rob balances this operational experience with private equity experience having spent three years with Clairvest Group Inc., a publicly traded merchant bank that invests in entrepreneurial growth companies. Prior to Clairvest, Rob was a Senior Manager at KPMG, where he was responsible for a portfolio of private and public companies, primarily in the communication and entertainment industries. Rob has a Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) from Wilfrid Laurier University and is a Chartered Accountant.
Jay is responsible for ensuring that Casero’s product offerings are innovative and easily adopted to best suit the needs of Casero customers. His 15 years of experience in software development evolved early at the age of 13, when he began selling communications software to regional software providers. Jay started his professional development career in Quality Assurance and Development at Delrina, an innovative forms and fax software provider where he helped port software from the Windows 3.1 to Windows 95. Following Delrina, Jay helped build leading Internet communications software at Symantec in their telecommunication division and then continued on to Jetform to create internet enabled forms based applications, which were later acquired by Adobe. Jay moved on to Solect Technology Group, where he worked with both Paul and Kevin, helping pioneer IP based billing and mediation software. After Amdocs acquired Solect, Jay worked as a principal software architect on Amdocs’ Internet Administration Framework. Jay specialized in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.
Gopi is responsible for professional services, global SaaS operations, product development and support at Casero. Gopi has 15 years of experience in the technology services field. He joined Casero in 2002 as one of the first engineers and was instrumental in architecting, designing and developing the Casero application suite and hosting infrastructure.
Prior to Casero, Gopi spent 4+ years at Solect Technology Group (acquired by Amdocs) in Professional Services as a Solutions Architect where he was responsible for working closely with Tier 1 and Tier 2 telco customers to redefine their software platforms and support changing business processes as a result of the Internet revolution. Early on in his professional career, Gopi was a member of the research staff at Nortel responsible for developing the very first ADSL modem. He has held various technical positions in high-tech companies focusing on emerging markets.
Gopi holds a Degree in Engineering from Carleton University, where he majored in Computer Systems.