Dewpoint: Leadership Is Key
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Passionate about making technology work
Dewpoint's mission is to help customers meet new business challenges and streamline operations with the best technology services and solutions available.
We thrive on solving problems and delivering results, being a trusted advisor and partner. We are hands-on with customers and with running the business. Our environment is entrepreneurial: we are stakeholders, responsible and accountable to each other and our customers.
Our chemistry is right. We respect each other's talent. We believe in open communication, collaboration, and teamwork. We are attentive, flexible, dependable, smart, supportive, focused.
Meet Dewpoint's Management Team
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Andy Kotarba - President & CEO
Andy Kotarba’s professional pedigree includes an extensive background in the accounting and finance industry and demonstrated leadership in a variety of executive roles. Currently, he serves as president and chief executive officer for Dewpoint, Inc.
Outside of the office, Kotarba is actively involved in the community. He sits on a variety of boards on a local and national basis. In Lansing, he is the co-chair of the BEST Initiative which focuses on increasing dialogue between technology companies and educational institutions. Kotarba is also a founding member of the Capital Area IT Council. In addition, he sits on the ITEC Advisory Board – a local nonprofit collaborative partnership between Lansing mayor Virg Bernero and Michigan State University.
For more than two years, Kotarba has been an active member of the Sun Microsystems National Advisory Council, where he leverages his expertise to address and improve upon strategic business issues affecting Sun Microsystems and its many partners. In 2008, as a result of his impressive performance, Kotarba was named vice president.
A Newcastle, Pa. native, Kotarba earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from Pennsylvania State University and went on to complete his Masters in Business Administration at Youngstown State University in Ohio.
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Patti Howland - Vice President Operations & Administration
Education
Communications, Cornerstone University
Professional Background
Business administration and operations; project management; marketing; contract negotiation and administration; partner relationship management; medical and technical industries
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Brian Dumont - Vice President Professional Services
Mr. Dumont is an accomplished IT Professional with significant experience as an IT consultant and Project Manager. He has a unique blend of business, technical, and project management skills. One of his strengths is a demonstrated ability to grasp business problems and determine technology solutions and alternatives to solve the identified problem.
His project and program manager background include extensive experience in information technology and on defense department weapon systems programs. As a Business Analyst, he has a unique ability to interact with business units and technical development staff to determine requirements that address business objectives while authoring the requirements to satisfy the needs of both diverse groups of individuals.
As Vice President of Professional Services, Dumont oversees the day-to-day activities of Dewpoint’s technical organization. In that role he helps set the technology direction of the company, manages the presales and delivery resources, and is responsible for the technical and financial performance of Dewpoint’s Professional Services organization.
He is a native of Fall River, MA and earned his Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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Frank Gall - Vice President Sales
Education
International Relations, University of Southern California
Professional Background
Began career in finance at Bank of America, moved into the world of technology with a California start-up in 1986, and has continued to sell technology solutions through present day.
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