Board of Directors and Advisors

With decades of experience in technology and business software development, we’re proud to support your digital transformation and Industrial IoT initiatives powered by Decisyon.

Alex Aminian

President & CEO, Chairman

Alex Aminian is President & CEO and Chairman of Decisyon. Under Alex’s leadership, Decisyon has pursued innovative approaches to accommodate the speed of technological change in today’s global marketplace, changing the way digital transformation is implemented by democratizing access to technology while drastically reducing cost, slashing development time (up to 10 times faster), and delivering enormous ROI to customers – up to 400%.

Alex has positioned Decisyon to experience new levels of achievement in the Industrial IoT (IIoT) space, leveraging direct sales and new partnership opportunities. Under Alex’s leadership, Decisyon has penetrated the Manufacturing, Healthcare, Retail, CPG, Energy, and Supply Chain verticals, and reinforced customer value by shepherding Decisyon into partnerships with key mega vendors in the IIoT space such as HP, GE, Microsoft, AWS and SAS.

Throughout his career, Alex has grown businesses organically and through strategic M&A’s focusing on their long-term success by strengthening client relationships, building top-performing teams, and architecting and commercializing scalable enterprise solutions. Prior to Decisyon, Alex served as President and CEO of DAVID Corporation, an enterprise and SaaS software solutions provider for the Insurance and Risk Management market. During his eight-year tenure there, he grew revenue six-fold and profit by over 300%. His 25+ years of diverse software and business experience includes leading and operating both high-tech startups and established data-driven corporations such as Oracle/Hyperion, Intergraph, Priceline and LexisNexis/Insurity.

Alex earned an undergraduate degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Utah State University, the MS in Civil Engineering from Louisiana State University, and completed Finance and Marketing Executive courses at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School.

Rob Pflieger

Director

Rob Pflieger is Chief Investment Officer at Palm Ventures focusing on the firm's private equity and public equity investments. Prior to joining Palm Ventures, Mr. Pflieger was the General Partner of Crystal Brook Capital Partners, a small cap focused hedge fund, which he founded in 2014.

Prior to that, Mr. Pflieger was a Portfolio Manager and Senior Analyst at Artha Capital Management, Inc., a long/short Emerging Market hedge fund, from 2011 until 2014. Mr. Pflieger was responsible for the firm’s investments in Latin America and South Africa. Prior to joining Artha Capital, Mr. Pflieger was a Managing Director at Coeus Capital, a long/short US focused hedge fund, from 2006 until 2011. At Coeus, Mr. Pflieger was responsible for the firm’s investments in a number of sectors including technology, media and telecom. Prior to joining Coeus, Mr. Pflieger was a Partner at Generation Partners, a private equity firm focused on providing capital to growth companies through buyout and growth equity transactions, from 1996 until 2006. Mr. Pflieger holds a B.B.A., summa cum laude from the University of Michigan and an MBA, with high distinction from Harvard Business School.

Erik Jansen

Advisor

Erik Jansen has more than two decades of successful technology investing experience. He is co-founder and Chairman of Ultra Capital LLC, an innovative investment firm focused on sustainable real asset projects in the growth sectors of energy, water, waste and agriculture.

Previously he co-founded the venture capital arm of Pequot Capital, a leading multi-billion-dollar U.S. registered investment adviser focused on public and private technology companies. Following Pequot, he co-founded and was Managing Partner of RockRidge Capital, which actively managed investments in small-cap public technology companies on behalf of a major European bank. He currently serves on the Eli Whitney Investment Advisory Committee of Connecticut Innovations, the state’s venture and economic development fund. Mr. Jansen holds a BBA from Nijenrode, the Netherlands School of Business, and an MBA for the Edwin L Cox School of Business at SMU. Mr. Jansen is a frequent speaker at Venture, PE and Impact Conferences.

Kevin Kimberlin

Advisor

Kevin Kimberlin, chairman of Spencer Trask & Co., starts, banks and builds new ventures that make the world a better place. He co-founded Ciena Corporation which developed and first deployed the DWDM optical networking technology that today serves as a foundation of the Internet.

At the beginning of the cellular industry, he invested in and structured the funding for Millicom Inc., the firm that led the global rollout of the mobile phone. With polio-vaccine icon, Dr. Jonas Salk, he started The Immune Response Corporation that developed Dr. Salk’s AIDS vaccine and the invention underpinning the first FDA-approved cancer vaccine. He also co-founded Myriad Genetics which, as the first human genome company, discovered the breast cancer gene, BRCA1. As a philanthropist, he supports Harvard University (for its innovation lab), The Jonas Salk Legacy Foundation (for the eradication of polio), The David Lynch Foundation (to teach Transcendental Meditation to veterans, urban children and at-risk women), The Audubon Society (for habitat conservation), and Yaddo, the writer and artist community where he is an Honorary Lifetime Member.

Ron Rose

Advisor

Ron Rose has been an executive leader in Internet and software technologies for over three decades in companies including Dell, Priceline.com and Standard & Poor's. At Dell, Mr. Rose ran an $8B business unit. This B2B division grew at 20% per year during the years he was running it, increasing revenues from $5.5B to $8B, and far outpacing Dell's overall revenue growth over that time.

During this period, innovation velocity increased by six fold to over 400 significant software iterations per year. While running this division, Mr. Rose was able to fund and launch initiatives in mobile apps/HTML5, and two Social initiatives that generated 40 industry-leading patents. Before that, Mr. Rose was the CIO of Priceline.com for over 11 years, helping it to grow from a $100M market cap to a $30B market cap in the process. This was accomplished both by organic growth fueled by over 4,000 software innovations per year, and by more than 10 successful acquisitions that accelerated the global growth of the company in all major markets worldwide. Mr. Rose has also been CTO of Standard & Poor's, and has run a successful software start-up related to business intelligence in the telecommunications industry. He now runs a small Venture Capital firm specializing in companies that create value through big data and/or applied AI frameworks.

Board of Directors and Advisors

Alex Aminian

President & CEO, Chairman

Rob Pflieger

Director

Erik Jansen

Advisor

Kevin Kimberlin

Advisor

Ron Rose

Advisor

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