Patrina Mack

Patrina Mack, founder and Managing Partner of Vision & Execution, has 20 years of marketing experience in both small entrepreneurial and large corporate organizations. She has extensive experience in business-to-consumer and business-to-business marketing strategy and implementation. Her industry expertise spans the Internet, telecom, software, financial services, and consumer products industries. She has been instrumental in key product innovations in new and emerging markets, and has been responsible for many product and process improvements for Fortune 500 companies.

Ms. Mack has held product marketing positions with AirTouch Communications (now Vodafone), where she was responsible for identifying market opportunities for PCS wireless, and with NetGravity (now DoubleClick), where she was responsible for hosted interactive advertising solutions. In previous consulting roles, Ms. Mack has worked with many Fortune 500 companies, including: Adobe Systems, Allen-Bradley Company, Bankers Trust, Del Monte, Mellon Bank, Microsoft, Nabisco Brands, Pacific Bell, Silicon Graphics, Visa.

Ms. Mack's affiliations include

• President (2004-2005), NorCal PDMA (Northern California Product Development & Management Association)
• Member of the Advisory Board, TechCoire

Bob Donnelly

Bob Donnelly provides deep technical expertise to Vision & Execution. His 20 plus years experience in software development as an architect and designer provides a valuable and unique perspective for many of Vision & Execution’s clients and technical projects. His extensive experience covers a range of disciplines including graphical user interface (GUI) design, database design, application development on a variety of platforms, and compilers. Bob’s technical focus has frequently involved optimization and performance improvement. His web expertise includes web site design, emphasizing usability and search engine optimization.

Bob has held engineering and technical management positions in a number of high technology areas, including computers and software (Sperry, NCR, and Amdahl), database software (Esvel, Sand Technology, and Centura Software), EDA (Vantage Engineering, ViewLogic Systems), and VoIP telephony (Clarent). Bob received his Math and Computer Science degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Gary Mendel

Gary Mendel serves as a strategic advisor to Vision & Execution in the areas of business development, sales and channel development. Additionally, Gary lends his deep domain expertise in the wireless carrier, handset OEM, mobile media, and enterprise software and services industries. His experience spans start-ups, new business units within established companies, as well as Fortune 500 companies. Gary’s more than 20 years of executive sales and marketing experience includes positions with Sonopia, Sybase, Macromedia, Zi Corp., Sprint PCS and Airtouch, now Verizon Wireless. Gary has an MBA in Finance from Baylor University and a B.S. in Business Administration from Miami University in Ohio where he majored in Marketing.

Ilya Miroshnichenko

Ilya is a Strategic Advisor to Vision & Execution. In this role, he provides marketing and intercultural expertise to companies from the former Soviet Union. Prior to Vision & Execution, Ilya was a Principal at Bering Group, a marketing and business strategy consultancy. During his tenure at Bering Group, Ilya developed go-to-market plans and provided interim leadership to early stage companies.

Earlier in his career, Ilya held a variety of consulting and research positions with the International Monetary Fund, Kroll Associates, and Intermark Group. Ilya holds a BA in Intercultural Communications from Moscow State Linguistic University and a certificate in entrepreneurship from Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy.

Ilya is a Vice-President at AmBAR, a non-profit organization that provides an educational and networking platform for technology professionals with ties to the former Soviet Union.