Inventa

Joseph Kozak - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Joseph Kozak has been Chairman of the Board since September 2007. Mr. Kozak joined ANTs software inc. in June 2005 as President and was additionally named Chief Executive Officer and appointed to the board of directors in August 2006. He brings 25 years of front-line leadership experience in sales, marketing and business development.

Mr. Kozak joined ANTs from Oracle Corporation, where he was vice president of industry sales. While with Oracle he defined and executed global strategies for retail, distribution, life science, process manufacturing, and consumer packaged goods industries. He also managed Oracle's acquisition of Retek, Inc. a $630 million purchase in the retail applications space. Prior to Oracle, Mr. Kozak was CEO of Lombardi Software a manufacturer of business process management solutions. He was also a partner with Ernst and Young, LLP, in the retail and consumer packaged goods division; vice president of sales for SAP America, where he was responsible for the retail distribution and consumer goods business units for the Americas; and Mr. Kozak held numerous management positions with AT&T and IBM.

Mr. Kozak holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Finance from LaSalle University and a Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of New Jersey.

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Rick Cerwonka -  President and Chief Operating Officer

Rick Cerwonka has been ANTS employee since the Inventa acquisition in May 2008. Mr. Cerwonka brings 29 years of experience in general business management and information technology to Inventa where he is adding Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) and Remote Administration to the division's current offerings.

Prior to being named President of Inventa, in early 1999 Rick founded XTEND-Tech to offer full-service applications management and support to Fortune 500 clients in finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, government and banking. Prior to that, Mr. Cerwonka held senior management positions at Sybase, Inc., most recently as Vice President of the Enterprise Solutions Division in the Southern States Area where he was responsible for product sales and professional services for a 19 state area. Before that, he was Vice President of Professional Services in the Southeastern U.S. In 1997, he won the Consulting Practice of the Year award at Sybase for the most profitable consulting practice in the firm. From 1980 to 1995, he held a succession of Director titles at Sea-Land Services, Inc., including Director of Information Technologies and Terminal Operating Services, and Director of Systems and Technology.

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Derek Nash - Vice President Operations
Derek brings 19 years experience in consulting services, software sales and IT operational management helping Inventa rollout its ESM Remote management services. Prior to being named as VP of Operations for Inventa, in 1999 joined XTEND-Tech as Sales and Delivery manager in the Philadelphia area. Customers where all Fortune 500 clients in finance,telecommunications, manufacturing, government and banking. Recently, this company was acquired by Inventa, and Derek continues to work out of our Philadelphia area office. Prior to that, he held multiple positions at Sybase Inc. from 1993. Most recently as Practice Manager in the Mid-Atlantic region where he was responsible for the sale and delivery of professional services.Before that, he was Principle Systems Consultant for the Sybase Philadelphia region supporting new product sales and implementations. He received numerous systems consultant of the Quarter awards while supporting the Sybase product sales team. From 1985 to 1993, he held IT positions for Merrill Lynch and most recently was the Manager of Network operations for Charming Shoppes Inc.