Company
Management Team
- Bill Benda — CEO, Chairman of the Board
Mr. Benda oversees operations and investor relations at EMNS. Mr. Benda
has over twenty-five years of professional experience in the manufacturing
and telecommunications industry. He founded the EMNS group while at AT&T
over 15 years ago.
- Kurt Nusbaum — Executive Vice President
Mr. Nusbaum directs strategic GSQA product enhancements at
EMNS. Mr. Nusbaum has over 19 years in the telecommunications industry and
in Business Process System Integration for e-commerce.
Investors and Advisors
- Nicholas J. Kokonas — Investor, Board Member
Mr. Kokonas founded Third Moment Trading, LLC. In addition, Mr. Kokonas
is a board member for Visanow.com and has been an active investor in, and
advisor to, early stage companies, including Funbrain.com, LLC (Pearson,
PLC).
- Longboat Partners — Principal, Edward Chandler, Investor,
Advisor
Mr. Chandler is also a founder and managing director of Portage Venture
Partners, which manages the Portage, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Portage, and
Graystone Venture Funds.
- Dean Mefford — Advisor
Mr. Mefford provides strategic advice coming from his experience as a Corporate
Board Member of Ralston Purina, as well as former President of Viskase.
EMNS Corporate History
EMNS began in 1986 within AT&T Network Services. EMNS migrated to Lucent
Technologies where it developed leading Internet based applications. In 2000
EMNS became a venture spinout of Lucent Technologies. Today EMNS provides
the GSQA Business Manufacturing Intelligence Solution globally
to numerous Fortune 1000 businesses across several verticals including Chemicals
and Food and Beverage.
GSQA History
In 1995, EMNS developed GSQA to replace a mainframe based information
system. In 1996, EMNS launched an enterprise class, Internet based application
that tracked all inbound material quality and analyzed key supplier metrics.
Continuously developing GSQA for the past nine years has resulted
in a mature and stable Business Intelligence Application. GSQA
was brought to the general market in 2000. GSQA has saved The
Goodyear Rubber & Tire Company a collective $100 million since its inception
and today processes more quality documents worldwide than any other Application
service at thousands of corporate locations worldwide.