OnlineTech Executive Team
Online Tech Executives:
Yan Ness, Chief Executive Officer
Yan has over 20 years experience launching and managing high tech companies from startup to scale. Yan lead a group of investors to acquire Online Tech in 2003 and has since served as it’s CEO growing it from 600 to over 50,000 square feet of capacity. Prior to Online Tech, Yan was a co-founder of CompanyCrafters and of WorkWell Health and Safety Systems which was acquired by Liberty Mutual. Yan serves on numerous boards including the board of the Small Business Association of Michigan. Yan holds a BS degree in computer science from the University of Michigan and is a guest lecturer at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.
Mike Klein, President and Chief Operating Officer
Mike is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of high tech business leadership, technology, and startup experience including CEO of Interlink Networks, Managing Partner of CompanyCrafters, and CEO, Founder of Steeplechase Software. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Mike spent the first decade of his career working in sales, strategic marketing, product development and management roles at Motorola Semiconductor and Rockwell International. He has a BS in Computer Engineering from R.I.T. an MS in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University, and has over a half dozen patents to his name.
Robert F. Palmerton, Jr., CFO
Bob's background includes over 20 years of business planning, financial analysis, controllership, and operations management responsibilities for Fortune 500 companies, including Automatic Data Processing, Allied-Signal (currently Honeywell), and the BOC Group. At Bob's most recent corporate experience with ADP he was instrumental in planning, launching, and operating an Information Technology outsourced service for the Fortune 500. Bob holds an MBA from the University of Michigan.
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