About mBLAST :: Management Team

Mark Hatch

Mark comes to mBLAST with over twenty years of experience in software engineering and high-tech management along with an impressive start-up background. Recently he has led software teams in developing the on-line storage services space at Carbonite and Intronis. At ICC and OneCore Financial, he contributed to the development of Internet banking, brokerage, and customer service applications for the Financial Services Industry.

Prior to that, Mark designed and built software applications for multi-lingual Machine Translation systems (where he holds a patent on design), large-scale on-line database searching, and Internet-based interactive gaming software.

In addition to being a certified Scrum Master, Mark earned an MBA from Northeastern University and also attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. He has taught Computer Science and Mathematics in the Massachusetts State College System for the past 20 years.

Alexey Sadovoy

Alexey has been with mBLAST since the very beginning, and has been building and guiding the technical progress of all key products for the past seven years. He is responsible for leading all technical development teams utilizing Agile/Scrum methodologies as well as being an integral architect in the design of all major systems for mBLAST's suite of products.

Prior to joining mBLAST, Alexey was a software engineer at the publishing agency Blitz-Inform where designed and coded database processing systems, and also at Infopulse where he worked on marketing and business process systems.

Alexey received his Master's degree in Computer Science from the National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy in Kiev, Ukraine.

Edward Ferris

Ed manages mBLAST's relationships with its outside IS partners. He brings over two decades of Information Systems design and management to mBLAST, with extensive experience as a CIO, CTO, IS director, network manager and consultant.

Ed focuses on innovative and robust solutions to support the company's distributed and mobile work force, as well as supporting mBLAST's client base through the company's Web sites and other electronic products.

Prior to joining mBLAST in 1999, Ed was Director of Information Systems for the Professional Development Group, a technical training firm where he successfully created and managed an IT department through a period of over 200 percent growth, while simultaneously rolling out new systems company-wide and overseeing the development of custom applications. He developed process and work-flow systems to support the company's growth. He also helped define products and develop new product delivery systems to shorten deliver times to customers.

Previous to his tenure at the Professional Development Group, Ed was IT Manager and Consultant for Analysis Group / Integral Inc. Ed helped develop group communications systems and knowledge sharing environments in support of a highly mobile, global consulting group.

He has also been a Project Manager at Media 1, Inc. and the proprietor of his own multimedia design and consulting firm.

Rosette Cataldo

Rosette Cataldo comes to mBLAST with over 18 years of sales and business development experience mostly within organizations that are in new or emerging markets. Most recently, Rosette was the Vice President of Business Development for KMS Software Company where she was responsible for building a strategic partner distribution channel and direct sales from the ground up. Rosette lead all KMS sales initiatives for six years and helped KMS become the selected vendor of numerous well-known industry leaders and Fortune 500 companies. Rosette also quickly became dubbed as a subject matter expert in the topic of new employee onboarding technology; a rapidly growing, HR market niche.

Prior to KMS, Rosette was Director of Business Development at Kenexa and also headed all partner initiatives at Webhire, Inc. In 2005, HR.com, one of the HR industry’s leading research firms recognized Rosette’s efforts by identifying Webhire as having one of the best partnership strategies of any Talent Management company. Webhire was acquired by Kenexa in 2006.

Prior to Webhire, Cataldo spent over four years with Elron Software, Inc. as Sr. Director of Worldwide Channel Sales. Under her leadership, channel revenue grew over 100% in two years, which helped position Elron Software to be acquired in 2003 by Zix Corporation.

Having spent all of her professional career in both direct and channel management, Rosette has been an invited guest at numerous Channel specific speaking engagements. Among them was Channel Focus North America, the largest and most respected conference for channel sales executives. She earned her MBA, with a concentration in Strategic Management, from Boston College and has a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration/Organizational Behavior from Boston University. Rosette is also a member of the Pingree School's Alumni Board.

Yuriy Gumen

Yuriy has over 12 years of experience in tech development, marketing, and executive management in high-tech companies. He received his Master's degree in Computer Science from National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy in Kiev, Ukraine. He has been with mBLAST since the very beginning, and has been taken part in building and guiding the technical progress of all products.

Before joining mBLAST, Yuriy took part in development of web-based solutions for social media companies as group leader of the 20+ member teams. He was responsible for guiding products throughout the execution cycle, focusing specifically on analyzing, positioning and promoting solutions.

At mBLAST, Yuriy is responsible for execution of the product development process; helping to increase margins to established business goals, and ensuring worldwide product standards. He is flexible, results-oriented manager who is consistently meets the challenge of bringing innovative, world-changing products to market.

Michelle Finn

Michelle has over 20 years of financial industry experience. She has laid the groundwork for several Telecom and IT companies, growing them from a few start-up employees to multi-state, international organizations. At mBLAST, she manages all the financial and administrative activities of the firm which include accounting, audit, tax, purchasing, legal, and human resources.

Michelle began her financial career as a commercial and retail banker with Chase and Bank of America. Her knowledge of lending and accounting gained in the banking industry has been invaluable in her corporate years. As a commercial banker with Chase, she was in the Private Banking Group, catering to the Bank's most valued customers, handling all of their credit and investment needs. As a retail banker with Bank of America, Michelle was a Branch Manager, supervising branches and their lending and sales forces.

Before entering the banking industry, Michelle worked on Capitol Hill, doing research for Congressman Thomas J. Bliley, Jr., recently retired Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and French from Denison University.