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Management Team

Kevin Bernier
President & CEO

Mr. Bernier was promoted to President & CEO in 2005, after serving for six months as Senior Vice President. Mr. Bernier has over 20 years experience in commercial and operational leadership positions at General Electric Corporation, Polaroid Corporation, Bain & Company, and the US Navy. He has managed a range of software and services business units that served a range of clients including the US federal government, commercial organizations, and universities. He earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Duke University and an M.B.A. from Cornell University.

Michael Carr, CCE
Senior Vice President

Mr. Carr was promoted to Senior Vice President in early 2006, after serving in various leadership roles at MOCA Systems since helping to establish the company in 1999. Mr. Carr is one of the original researchers who developed MOCA's core technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to MOCA, Mr. Carr worked as a project engineer with Sellen Construction in Seattle, WA. He earned a M.S. in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.Sc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Alberta.

Dan Leary
Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Leary was hired as Chief Technology Officer in 1999 during the incorporation of MOCA Systems. He is the original technology leader of the MOCABuild™ project control platform and has led the refinement of the technology over the past eight years. Mr. Leary has over 20 years experience in software development, management, and IP creation at Oracle Corporation (Minicomputer Products and Server Technologies Divisions), Sybase Corporation, Torrent Systems, Plyasys and Open Ratings. Dan has co-authored several US software patents in the area of database internals and parallelism, and several pending US software patents on the MOCABuild™ technology in the areas of database management and resource allocation. He earned a B.S. in Philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also completed Ph.D. coursework.

Frank Finneran
Vice President, Controller

Mr. Finneran was hired in 2007, and promoted to Vice President for Controllership and Assistant Secretary. Mr. Finneran has over 25 years financial experience across several industries, including software and AEC services. Mr. Finneran earned a B.S. in Accounting from Northeastern University and an M.B.A. from Suffolk University.

Virgil Gray, P.E.
Vice President

Mr. Gray was hired as Vice President in 2006 and is responsible for the program management of multiple large project control contracts to the US government. Mr. Gray has 20 years of experience in civil engineering and construction management for both public and private sector markets. His project experiences range from municipal public works improvements to multi-million dollar complex construction management assignments. Prior to MOCA, Mr. Gray worked at Coler & Colantonio and the Bechtel Group. Mr. Gray earned a B.S. in Construction Management from the University of Maine, a M.S. in Civil Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and is a registered professional engineer in several states.

Denny Dodge, P.E.
Vice President, Services

Mr. Dodge was hired in 2007 and is responsible for the program management of multiple large control contracts to the US Government including operations for the San Antonio office. Mr. Dodge has 30 years experience in civil engineering and project controls including 10 years with the US Army Corps of Engineers. Mr. Dodge earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas, and is a registered professional engineer in several states.

Neal "Mac" McElhannon
Vice President

Mr. McElhannon was hired as Vice President in 2007 and is responsible for the client lead to the US Air Force and the US Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence (AFCEE) headquartered in San Antonio. He retired from the US Air Force as a Colonel in 2007 after 24 years service in the Civil Engineering Branch. He earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the Air Force Academy, a M.S. in Systems Administration from St. Mary's University, and a M.S. in National Security Strategy from the National War College.

Board of Directors

Kevin Bernier

John Strauss
John Strauss was most recently with Erie Management Group responsible for SB3 Capital Partners and president of several EMG business units including the real estate development and holding companies. Previously he served as a Director with several rapidly growing companies in the US and Europe, such as Groundwater Technology, Inc (now part of Lockheed Martin), Ocean Design, Inc. (now part of Teledyne).

Walt Winshall
Walt Winshall is currently a principal in Collaborative Seed and Growth Partners, LLC, an investment firm.  Walt was previously a co-founder of SilverPlatter International, a software and services company.