ManagementTeam
Kelly Purcell
Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing
Ms. Purcell is responsible for the Marketing Strategy, Business Development and
Sales Activities of eSignSystems. She is also directly
involved with standards groups and associations that are relevant to eSignSystems. Prior
to the Wave acquisition, Ms. Purcell was the original President and co-founder of
SignOnline since 1999. Ms. Purcell's primary responsibilities included investor
relations, capital structure and fund raising. She was also directly involved in
the marketing and strategic plan for the company, along with the recruitment of
key Board members. Ms. Purcell came from GE Capital Corporation where she had eleven
years experience serving in various capacities in the mortgage and insurance industries.
Ms. Purcell was directly responsible for budgets in excess of $800 million. This
included the sales, risk dispersion and loss ratio of various portfolios. Kelly
is also a certified GreenBelt of the Six Sigma Business Practice. Prior to that
she completed a two year Management Training Program with Transamerica Financial
Services. Ms. Purcell has a B.S. in Business Management from Moorhead State University
of Minnesota. She also holds a Broker® License in the state of Arizona and has held
several insurance licenses in several states over a period of twelve years.
Lark M. Allen
Executive Vice President, Business Development
Lark M. Allen is the Executive Vice President of Business Development at Wave Systems
Corp. He has more than 30 years of industry IT experience with large enterprises
and has held executive management positions in sales, marketing, development and
consulting. Mr. Allen plays an active role in a number of industry standards organizations,
including the Trusted Computing Group where he is a member of the Storage Work Group,
which builds upon existing TCG technologies and focuses on developing open standards
around secure data storage.
Ed Green
CIO, Senior Vice President, Production and Services
Mr. Green brings over 35 years of management and software product development experience
to the eSignSystems team. Prior to joining Wave, Mr. Green was a member of IBM’s executive
team where he held various positions in operating systems development, networking
systems development and internal applications development and operations. He also
held executive positions on IBM’s Global Services team where he was responsible
for major international outsourcing contracts. Mr. Green attended Renssalear Polytechnic
Institute, where he earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He also completed the
University of Virginia’s Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Executive Program.
Jonathan Kearns
Senior Vice President, Client Services
Jonathan Kearns is the Manager of the team responsible for the installing and certifying
SmartSAFE for partners and clients. Prior to the Wave
Acquisition, Mr. Kearns was the Chief Technology Officer for SignOnline and was
responsible for the technical design, implementation and infrastructure as well
as leading the sales engineering team. Prior to SignOnline, Mr. Kearns was President
and founder of Iridium Technologies, a technology-consulting firm that specialized
in technology analysis, solution implementation and infrastructure security.
David Hunter
Senior Vice President, Product Development
David Hunter heads Product Development, which includes Product Management and Engineering,
for eSignSystems. David has over 20 years
experience in professional software engineering. Before joining eSignSystems, David
was Chief Technology Officer at ePlay, a pop-culture, predictive entertainment site
which handled over one million hits per day. Prior to ePlay, David worked for 10
years in the Engineering Department of Wave Systems. David also has contributed
to various government, defense, and commercial projects during his five years at
the David Sarnoff Research Center. David has been working with Internet technologies
from the early days of the web, starting his first web development company in 1994.
David earned BA degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Rutgers College.
He lives with his wife and daughter near Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
Brian D. Pannell, PMP
Director Client Services
Mr. Pannell joins the eSignSystems team after 15 years
with Fannie Mae where he served as a trusted advisor managing third-party technology
relationships. Mr. Pannell has extensive experience in technology and mortgage product
implementations and a proven track record in project and program management, strategic
account ownership and enhancement, as well as the ability to identify and execute
new and often complex business opportunities. Within his current role on the eSignSystems
team, he will be responsible for activities associated with the implementation of,
integration into and support of SmartSAFE in the customers’ environments. Mr. Pannell
attained his B.A. in Economics and Minor in Computer Science from Virginia Military
Institute. He also has a M.B.A. in eBusiness from the University of Phoenix, and
acquired his Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification from the
Project Management Institute.