Board of Directors
David H. DeWolf
David DeWolf is the Founder and CEO of Three Pillar Global, an innovative provider of full life-cycle software product solutions. Under David's guidance Three Pillar has become one of the Mid Atlantic's fastest growing companies, achieving triple digit growth each of the past three years and expanding operations to four continents during the same period.
David is passionate about accelerating business and is an active member of the business and technology communities in Northern Virginia. He sits on the Advisory Boards of Verdant Strategies and iMPACT Enterprises, is a member of Legatus, and a graduate of Mindshare, an exclusive, invitation only, forum of CEOs from the Washington D.C. area's most promising technology companies.
Before founding Three Pillar, David was a Principal at Digital Focus where he oversaw the development of custom software solutions. Prior to that he worked at various privately held consulting agencies, making a name for himself as an expert in software development and agile methodologies. David was an active member of several open source software communities, including the Apache Software Foundation. In 2005 David was appointed to the Java Portlet Specification Expert Group and was selected by industry leaders as a member of the Java Community Process. He has spoken at various national conferences and has authored numerous online publications. He has consulted for a wide variety of businesses, from Fortune 500 companies to startups.
David earned his Bachelor's degree from the Franciscan University of Steubenville where he studied Communications and Theology. He and his wife Teresa have five children.
Todd Bramblett
Todd Bramblett holds the position of President at Three Pillar Global, Inc. Todd has over 25 year's executive management experience leading technology and consulting companies from initial vision to operational success, profitability and exit in some cases. Having founded and managed both professional services as well as software firms, he has a proven track-record of delivering results in everything from venture funding, where he has raised almost $40MM, to sales and marketing, where he has produced double and even triple digit quarterly revenue growth.
In 2003, Todd co-founded LeverPoint, LLC, a company specialized in serving the needs of small to mid-sized software companies and departments of software-enabled enterprises. LeverPoint allows these clients to improve their software product development speed, cost and quality measures leveraging LeverPoint’s network of global delivery centers in the US and around the globe.
Prior to LeverPoint Todd worked at Ikimbo Inc. from May 2001 until June 2003 where he served in several executive roles before being asked by the Board and lead VC's to step up to the CEO position in June 2002. During his time as CEO, he cut spending by almost 70%, raised two additional rounds of funding, and re-targeted Ikimbo's sales and services organizations. Further, he personally conceived and provided the vision for a new product then lead Ikimbo from inception to release on this product utilizing a hybrid onshore-offshore software co-development model that dramatically increased Ikimbo's speed-to-market, cut development costs, and dramatically improved Ikimbo's software quality. Most of the lessons learned and methods used in Ikimbo's software co-development model serve as the foundation for LeverPoint 'dual shore' software co-development model today.
Prior to Ikimbo, Todd co-founded and served as CEO of a high-growth Washington DC-based Application Service Provider (ASP), ASPEN. Before that, Todd served as EVP/COO where he founded the consulting services division of a prominent IT distributor, EdgeMark Systems (later changed its name to BroadPoint Technologies). Within 20 months, he grew the consulting organization from 1 to approximately 80 people with four offices along the east coast and annual revenues from 400K to over 12MM. In 1990, Todd founded CompAcct, Ltd that became one of the top 5 providers of Great Plains financial applications and services worldwide. By 1996 he sold CompAcct to GE Capital Consulting where he joined the executive team responsible for managing the Mid-Atlantic region's 350 consulting services professionals. He was quickly designated the National Director of GECC's mid-market applications practice responsible for setting strategy, determining and delivering on direct and channel sales revenue targets.
Todd completed his undergraduate studies having pursued major or minor degrees in everything from computer science and accounting to pre-medicine and psychology at Covenant College, in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Bobby Christian
Bobby is the former executive vice president and general manager, Enterprise Consulting Group of American Systems. Here, he lead the consulting division, targeting the healthcare, telecommunications, financial, energy, and travel & retail markets. He was formerly CEO of True North Solutions, which was acquired by American Systems in July, 2004. Prior to that, Bobby served in a variety of executive roles in privately held organizations and held board positions for a number of companies. He is a member of the Potomac Officer's Club and is a graduate of MindShare. Bobby is also Chairman of the Board of Provision International USA, a non-profit organization dedicated to needy leaders in southern African countries, and he sits on the advisory boards of several local technology companies.
Bobby earned his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA.
W. Ed Johnson
Ed is a seasoned business leader having served as an entrepreneur, executive, and investor for over 40 years. He is the founder of former CEO of several companies, including Grandy's Country Cooking, an innovator in the quick service homestyle food business. At Grandy's, Ed helped pioneer concepts such as free refills, significantly changing the fast food industry. Ed has served as a board member for several organizations, including Papa Johns and Don Pablo's.
In addition to sitting on Three Pillar's Board of Directors, Ed is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Franciscan University of Steubenville where he chairs the Finance Committee. He was formerly the interim President and CEO of Christian Community Action (CCA). With 1,800 volunteers, 100 employees, and an $8 million budget supported largely by donations, CCA provides food, shelter, healthcare, and welfare to thousands of people in 48 communities. He currently serves as Chairman of CCA.
Michael Dering
Michael has over 25 years of experience in the technology industry in the Mid-Atlantic and Silicon Valley markets. He regularly mentors founders of emerging companies and has served on various boards of directors of emerging companies in this capacity. His experience will be available to assist Amplifier's portfolio company CEOs as well as assist our management in business and operational analysis pre and post investment.
Most recently Michael was President and CEO of ServiceBench, Inc., a privately held SAAS business focused on optimizing the delivery of post-sale service by integrating the service supply chain to increase customer satisfaction and reduce costs. Service Bench was sold in early 2008 to NEW, Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Service Bench was a venture capital financed company, and each venture investor generated significant venture capital returns from the sale. In addition to his Service Bench experience, Michael has over 25 years of experience in the technology industry, much of it in the Mid-Atlantic and Silicon Valley markets.
He regularly mentors founders of emerging companies and has served on various boards of directors of emerging companies in this capacity. Prior to acting as President and CEO of ServiceBench, Michael served as President and CEO of CrossAccess Corporation, a multi-national venture-funded software infrastructure company that focuses on integrating corporate business functions with new e-business applications. Prior to joining CrossAccess, he served as President and CEO of two Bell & Howell companies. Under his leadership, Bell & Howell Mail and Messaging Technologies doubled its profits and grew revenues to $500 million while cultivating a broad customer base that included telecommunications carriers.
At Bell & Howell Publishing Services Division, he launched its European operation and implemented a focused sales program that resulted in increased market share. Previously, he had a 20-year career at TAB Products Company, a $170 million revenue publicly-traded manufacturer of information storage and retrieval solutions for office environments. He initially served in a variety of sales and marketing positions, and, in his last five years at TAB, held the position of President and CEO. Michael holds a BS from the University of Maryland, College Park.
