Executive Team

Brendan Sullivan brings more than 20 years experience in the data services industry to his role as president and CEO of eMag Solutions. Brendan has been with eMag for the past 17 years, and was named the company's president and CEO in January 2002. He also held various other positions with the company, including product marketing, production and engineering management and world-wide sales.

Before joining eMag, Brendan worked as an electronics and communications engineer in his native UK, where he was in involved in the early development of 3480, 3490e and DLT tape cartridges. He also worked in other engineering capacities, developing static and dynamic RAM's and transmission systems for the telecommunications industry.

Brendan graduated in electronics engineering with communications from Kingston, England and holds a master's of business administration from Durham University (England).

As chief financial officer, Bob Kostrinsky leads the company's financial and administrative organizations. Bob has twenty-five plus years of financial and operational business experience with an established record of success within several emerging growth, dynamic, and restructuring environments. His experience includes acquisition, capital financing activities and the development of infrastructure to enable each business to scale at a rapid rate.

Before joining eMag, Kostrinsky held CFO positions with several public and private early through mid stage growth companies in a variety of industries such as payment processing, software development, and telecommunications.

Bob holds a BBA in Accounting from Iona College in New Rochelle, New York.

As senior vice president of operations, Jim Burns is responsible for overseeing all of the company's service centers in the US and for directing the development team world wide. He brings more than 25 years experience in information management, technology operations and executive leadership.

Before joining eMag, Jim spent 17 years in the National Intelligence Community, 3 years in the technology sector and the last 7 years as an executive leader in the legal technology space. He has been responsible for building commercial legal document repositories, electronic discovery processing systems, product management, sales and business development within the legal market. Most recently he was CTO for an electronic discovery service provider.

Jim received his bachelor's degrees in management of information systems from the University of Maryland, Europe.

As managing director for the European arm of eMag Solutions, Mike Davies is responsible for the overall business performance of eMag Solutions in Europe. He has been with eMag for the past 18 years and was named managing director of the UK's subsidiary in January 2007.

Previous positions held within eMag Solutions have included technical director, research and development director, process engineering and product management. Achievements have included the development of high capacity data cartridges, implementation of novel manufacturing techniques and the successful implementation of externally moderated quality systems. Mike has over 20 years experience in data interchange technologies coupled with a deep understanding of the different industry methodologies for the storage, backup and archive of corporate data.

Mike graduated in electronics engineering from Cardiff (Wales) and holds a master's of business administration from Durham University (England).

As the vice president of sales Shawn Strickler is responsible for North American sales and oversees worldwide alliances and the company's business development initiatives.

Shawn has an intimate knowledge of the electronic discovery industry, including data structures, metadata, indexing algorithms, and search and retrieval methodologies. Before joining eMag, he held technical architect and business development positions with Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting), Oracle Corporation and Renew Data Corporation.

Shawn received his bachelor's degrees in international business and German from The University of Texas at Austin and a master's degree in science and technology commercialization from The University of Texas at Austin.

As vice president of data security Trey Wilkins is responsible for ensuring that all of the company's data centers conform to international recognized standards for data security and QA processes. Trey Wilkins joined the company in 2001 and previous positions held within the company include vice president of production and vice president of marketing.

Trey brings over 13 years of technology management experience, and before joining eMag, he served as manager of advertising and marketing for Direct Stock Market.com, a Santa Monica, CA-based online investment site, where he was responsible for all aspects of marketing and branding for DSM.com. Prior to that, Trey was responsible for creating an Internet marketing department for TDA Inc., one of the largest certified marketing representatives in the United States.

Trey received his bachelor's degree in marketing from Clayton College and State University (Ga.).

In his role as vice president of marketing, Kelly Bevan leads the company's marketing and product management initiatives. Kelly brings more than 20 years experience in all aspects of marketing and product management for high technology environments.

Prior to joining eMag Solutions, Kelly served as vice president of marketing with Glenayre, a leading vendor in the messaging market and as chief marketing officer with eOn Communications a leading vendor in the contact center market. He has also held senior marketing and product management positions with, Melita International, Newbridge Networks, and Nortel Networks.

Kelly received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Wales at Swansea, Britain.