Peter Andre Benoliel, Chairman of the Board
As Chairman of IPsoft's Board of Directors, Peter A. Benoliel leads IPsoft's strategic business plan and provides advice and counsel to executive management.

Mr. Benoliel is Chairman Emeritus of Quaker Chemical Corporation (NYSE: KWR), having served as Chief Executive Officer of that company from 1966 until 1992, and as non-executive Chairman of the Board until 1997.  Mr. Benoliel has served on many corporate boards, including Alan Wood Steel Company, Publicker Industries, Bell Atlantic - Pennsylvania, CoreStates Financial Corporation and UGI Corporation, in addition to serving as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia from 1989–1992.  He has also been active in many cultural and philanthropic organizations, and is an enthusiastic violinist and student of philosophy, history, astrophysics and Japanese art and literature.

Mr. Benoliel is a graduate of Princeton University.

Chetan Dube, President and CEO
Chetan Dube has served as the President and CEO of IPsoft since its inception in 1998. In this capacity, Chetan is responsible for setting the strategic direction of IPsoft, and positioning it to be an emerging leader in the managed services industry.

During his tenure, he has led the company to create a radical shift in the way IT is managed by employing advanced autonomic engineering, as opposed to labor arbitrage and manual processes. He is presently involved in the genesis of a virtualized delivery ecosystem that can provide infrastructure management services from a distributed grid of servers.

Prior to joining IPsoft, Chetan served as an Assistant Professor at New York University, where a large part of his research was focused on modeling of stateful systems through deterministic finite-state computing engines. Chetan is a widely recognized speaker on the topics of autonomics and utility computing. He is a trustee of the Dube Living Trust and serves on the board of numerous IT-related institutions.

Eray Ekici, VP, Microsoft Systems Management
Eray Ekici joined IPsoft in 1999. Eray is a Windows expert, proficient across the Windows domain; Eray’s team has architected numerous global deployments and migrations, including support and architecture of SQL Server environments and global Exchange deployments.

Before joining IPsoft, Eray worked at NYU as a Windows and Novell engineer, serving all the University’s faculty, staff and students.

Ergun Ekici, VP, Emerging Technologies
Ergun Ekici joined IPsoft in 2001. Ergun is a software architect with particular expertise in C and Java technologies. At IPsoft, Ergun has led global application management services along with development services. Ergun's team has internally supported the development activities behind IPcenter while providing enterprise application development to IPsoft's international client base.

Before joining IPsoft, Ergun worked as a Java Architect supporting projects in New York's Financial District.

David Gadra, VP, Outsourcing
David Gadra joined IPsoft in May 2007 as the Vice President of the Outsourcing Practice. He is an accomplished global executive with a unique blend of P&L, business and information technology expertise, including significant leadership roles in Fortune 500 corporations. IT management, P&L responsibility, business transformation leadership, software product development, strategic sourcing and executive governance are key elements of David’s expertise.

David graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management.

Mike Ghicas, VP, Network Services
Mike Ghicas heads Global Network Operations, which is comprised of Global Networking, Data Center Operations and IP Telephony.  Mike started with IPsoft in the fall of 2000 and has designed data centers and global IP networks for IPsoft and its clients.  Other areas of responsibility include storage networking, virtualization and service design.

Prior to joining IPsoft, Mike served as the Director of Information Technology at New York University’s Stern School of Business, responsible for all IT operations and policy.

Daniel Harron, VP, Database Services
Daniel Harron joined the IPsoft team in February of 2001. His primary responsibilities are designing, implementing, administering, and tuning database systems. Daniel's core focus is on performance and availability of the database architecture tier. He has also designed and implemented a number of data warehouses and data marts.

Prior to joining the IPsoft team, Daniel was a consultant working for American Management Systems, in their IT practice. His primary role was data warehousing architect and implementation expert, focusing on ETL, extraction transformation and loading, and database implementation.

David Harron, VP, Sales
David Harron joined the IPsoft team in September of 2000. His primary responsibilities are sales and account management. David leads a team of business development executives driving the sales growth and focus of the organization. David has also maintained a key role in customer satisfaction and account management.

Prior to working with IPsoft, David was the Chief Operating Officer of eHire, an online recruiting firm specializing in IT personnel. At eHire David was responsible for the fiscal policy, development of the recruiting platform and the formation of key business partnerships.

Gary Rosenblum, VP, Operations
Gary Rosenblum joined IPsoft in October 1999. Gary is widely recognized as a UNIX systems expert and has participated in committees to develop drivers for Linux kernels. Gary’s team has architected Solaris solutions that have achieved the highest level of SunTone certification by Sun Microsystems for high-availability and performance characteristics.

Before joining IPsoft, Gary worked at NYU as head of Unix systems and supported a systems network of over 70,000 nodes serving all the University’s faculty, staff and students.