Chief Executive Officer

Prior to joining Icaros as its new Chief Executive Officer in September 2012, Tom spent more than 10 years as President of MKS’s best run and most profitable business unit. During his stint with MKS, Tom played a key role in turning MKS around, building its value, and helping to consummate its sale to PTC (NASDAQ:PTAC) in 2011 for more than $300 million. MKS (TSE:MKX) was a publicly-owned software products company.

Tom has led several other very successful high-tech companies including Datafocus and Convergent Solutions. Datafocus, a private company equally-owned by Tom and a partner, grew rapidly during the 1990s, and its two divisions were separately acquired by Ciber (NYSE:CBR) in 1996, and MKS in 1999. Prior to Datafocus, Tom was a co-founder of Convergent Solutions, which proliferated throughout the 1980s, making Business Weeks’ 100 Fastest Growing High Tech Companies two years in a row, and going public (NASDAQ:CSOL) in 1987. The company was merged with KTI (NASDAQ:KTI) in 1992.

Over the years, Tom has been active in the northern Virginia high-tech venture capital community, where he was a founding investor and an adviser to the board of Monumental Venture Partners, and was also a co-founder of the Winchester Innovation Management Group, a high-tech start-up incubator. Tom is active in various charitable organizations including The Melanoma Research Foundation, The American Heart Association, and the Piedmont Charitable Association.

Chief Financial Officer

Mitch has spent the past twelve years working as a Chief Financial Officer for various public and private organizations. Mitch has a vast background in financial reporting, management and administration, investor relations, human resources and legal and IT activities. Mitch has served as the Chief Financial Officer/Chief Operating Officer for two venture-backed companies. Prior to joining the Icaros Team, Mitch served as Chief Financial Officer for Campus Partners.

VP Products and Services

With over 30 years of experience in the geospatial mapping field, Jim has held a variety of positions in production and client management with industry leading organizations.  For Icaros, Jim provides the day-to-day management of the OneButton software product brand and support of our customers and software channel partners.  Jim also manages the services section of the company with oversight of production and new services solution development.

VP Research & Development

Jeff is Vice President Research & Development at Icaros and has been with us since 2013.  His background is in software and hardware systems development, simulation, 3D graphics, visual systems, databases and GIS.  For Icaros, Jeff has been primarily responsible for the development of Icaros’ desktop and cloud-based photogrammetric processing products as well as our online sales system.  Before Icaros, Jeff spent 6 years as a Business Development manager at Rockwell Collins and 7 years as a VP at Evans & Sutherland.  During those years Jeff was actively involved in chip, operating systems, and simulation software development, strategic sales & general management.  Prior to his commercial work career, Jeff was a submariner in the US Navy for 6 years.

Jeff Kirk