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Guardian’s leadership in delivering world-class GPS-based mobile monitoring solutions is based on the broad experience of its executive management team.
Their knowledge of location technology, wireless communications, web-based software development and product marketing combined with their vision for this developing market will drive Guardian's success and the success of their reseller partners. |
John Tedesco
Co-founder, President & CEO
Mr. Tedesco co-founded Guardian in 2002 and serves as its President & Chief Executive Officer. He is responsible for directing Guardian’s overall vision, corporate strategy and operations.
Prior to Guardian, Mr. Tedesco served as Chief Executive Officer of PayMyBills.com – a consumer eFinance company he founded in early 1999. Mr. Tedesco led this 200-person company from concept stage to revenue generation and market leadership in the electronic bill presentment and payment sector. In less than 18 months, he raised $35 million in venture capital and grew the subscriber base from zero to 40,000 while earning numerous industry accolades for most valuable consumer web site including Yahoo’s 10 Supremely Useful Sites, Time’s Top 10 Sites, CIO Magazine’s Top 50 Internet Sites and Forbes.com’s Best of the Web. At the end of 2000, the company completed a $200 million merger with industry rival, Paytrust. The service is now owned and operated by Intuit (NYSE: INTU).
Earlier in his career, Mr. Tedesco was General Manager of an Internet-based commercial real estate service he created while at the financial conglomerate GE Capital. His experience also includes working for the consulting firm McKinsey & Company as well as serving as an independent consultant to the venture capital community.
Mr. Tedesco received his Bachelor of Science degree, Magna Cum Laude, in Finance and Accounting from Fairfield University and his M.B.A. in Information Strategy & Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Rob Goehring
Co-founder, Vice President of Product Management & Marketing
Mr. Goehring is a Guardian co-founder and is the company’s Vice President of Product Management and Marketing. His primary focus is on creating the product vision, managing the product development process, and creating and implementing marketing strategies for the company.
Prior to Guardian, Mr. Goehring was the Vice President of Product Management at webBASIS Inc. in California, a venture-backed, web-based communications application service provider with an estimated 15 million subscribers. While at webBASIS, Mr. Goehring was responsible for all aspects of the product, from conception to launch, and created the product strategy for the company’s flagship unified communications product. Mr. Goehring was also responsible for overseeing the development effort for over 50 software engineers across 3 cities.
Before joining webBASIS, Mr. Goehring was the Director of Internet Development for FaxPC.com. In this role, Mr. Goehring led the marketing and product development effort for this web-based universal messaging company, ultimately growing it to over 340 points of presence across the United States and earning the Internet Telephony Product of the Year award. Mr. Goehring has also worked as a management consultant for TAP Ventures where he worked on system and process design projects for clients such as Chase Mellon Shareholder Services, as well as an independent consultant for a variety of technology-related startup companies.
Mr. Goehring holds a Bachelors Degree of Business Administration in Marketing and an M.B.A. from Simon Fraser University in Management Information Systems and Marketing.
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Vince Lasmarias
Director of Technology
Mr. Lasmarias is the company’s Director of Technology with responsibility for leading the research and technology development efforts for the company, including location and wireless technology components.
Prior to joining Guardian, Mr. Lasmarias was the Integration Team lead of Inkra Networks as well as the lead developer for the Security Management component of the Inkra Center Point management suite. As the Integration Team Lead, Mr. Lasmarias was responsible for building the team from the ground up and automating much of the software release process. As the Security lead developer, Mr. Lasmarias was responsible for creating a Role-Based Access Control security solution which won kudos from Inkra customers.
Before joining Inkra Networks, Mr. Lasmarias was a Software Engineer for CrossKey Systems Corporation (later became Altus Solutions). While at CrossKeys, Mr. Lasmarias was responsible for many Access Modules, software components which translated real-time data from telephone switches into Q.822 and Q.823 standards-based formats. Mr. Lasmarias was also responsible for the IO SubSystem component of the Altus Traffic Manager application.
Mr. Lasmarias holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University and is a Sun Certified Java Programmer.
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Devin Redlich
Director of Operations
Mr. Redlich is Guardian’s Director of Operations. His primary responsibility is leading the Customer Experience team for the organization, whose mandate is to ensure that the highest level of service is delivered to Guardian resellers by providing technical support, training, order fulfillment, and IT management.
Mr. Redlich brings to Guardian over 8 years of experience working in IT Infrastructure, Internet Service Delivery, and Customer Support divisions for financial and high-tech industries. Before Guardian, Mr. Redlich worked as a business technology consultant for a securities firm, designing and developing IT infrastructure solutions to enable electronic data exchange, automated service delivery, and efficient end-user support.
Prior to that, Mr. Redlich was the Team Lead in the Network Services group of a consulting firm specializing in the design and deployment of network infrastructure and ERP applications. In this role, Mr. Redlich was responsible for ensuring that the sales, support, and training needs of clients were fully satisfied.
Mr. Redlich received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Victoria and his M.B.A. from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia.
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Matt Naish
Director of Sales
As Director of Sales, Mr. Naish focuses on new partner acquisition for the company.
Prior to Guardian, Mr. Naish served in technical and project management roles at Cisco Systems, Inc. in California. At Cisco, he was known as a “technology evangelist” advocating effective and judicious use of new technology on several large scale projects, including a $200 million request for proposal for a nationwide wireless carrier.
Before joining Cisco Systems, Mr. Naish was a lead developer for Environmental Criminology Research, Inc., a Vancouver based software company specializing in serial crime analysis systems.
Mr. Naish earned both his B.A.Sc in Electrical Engineering and Sauder School of Business M.B.A from the University of British Columbia.
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