Mark Rogers, President and CEO
Charlie Fink, Vice President of Product Development and Delivery
Jill McKay, Vice President, Business Development
Greg Eoyang, Founder

 

Mark Rogers, President and CEO
Mark Rogers joined Westlake in June 2002. He brings a history of building revenues for small companies from early stage to substantially larger levels. After spending 10 years managing strategic accounts and developing new business for two international advertising agencies, Mark was the first employee hired at Virtualogic, a start-up I.T. professional services firm, where he served as Vice President, Sales and Marketing. There he built and managed revenues from $0 to an annual run-rate of $20MM in under 6 years. In 1998, Virtualogic was recognized as the 19th fastest-growing technology firm in the U.S. by Deloitte and Touche.

In 1999 Mark joined LifeMinders, Inc, a direct marketing "dot com", where he served as Vice President, Business Development. Mark was responsible for developing and executing a business-to-business strategy leveraging LifeMinders' proprietary e-mail and wireless direct marketing infrastructure. In this role he led a team that identified and captured a sizable market consisting of both online and offline corporations. He's also held other senior sales and marketing positions with The SoftAd Group and Epsilon Data Management.

Mark purchased WestLake in 2005 and serves as its president and CEO. 

 

Charlie Fink, Vice President of Product Development and Delivery

Charlie Fink joined WestLake in the Spring of 2004. He has been designing and developing leading software solutions for over 15 years. He has successfully managed a large number of software projects, including enterprise development, complex data migrations, and decision support systems (DSS). As a project manager, Charlie has also developed and lead client training focused on use and support of custom software systems.

Prior to joining WestLake, Charlie was the Vice President and chief product architect for the Arlington Group, which develops enterprise solutions for grant making organizations. His most recent projects include developing a highly configurable workflow engine based on Microsoft's .NET framework, and leveraging that framework in customized client implementations. He has also developed multi-tier Web-based and thick client solutions using classic ASP, SQL Server, and various front-end GUI environments and reporting tools including Visual Basic and Cognos.

Up until 2000, Charlie was a principal of AEC Software, which produces desktop software for project management. There he lead the development of a cross-platform GUI framework for Windows and Macintosh platforms. He has lead teams developing software in C/C++ on Windows, Macintosh, and Palm OS.

Jill McKay, Vice President, Business Development
Jill McKay joined WestLake in January 2005 as Senior Director of Sales. She brings to WestLake 20 years' experience selling IT solutions and services to corporations, non-profits and government agencies. Jill moved to the USA from her native England and began her IT career selling managed electronic mail services to the worldwide global climate change community in 1984 - at a time when most people did not have a fax machine let alone a computer and a modem. Since then, she has never looked back, always sharing her passion for the transforming power of technology to improve people's work lives.

Inspired by the impact that well-designed employee intranets can have on people's ability to perform their work, Jill spent several years working for an outsourced Human Resources company using technology to efficiently manage the transactional side of employment as well as to deliver services, training and support.

Jill's role at WestLake is to provide leadership and support to the Sales team. She attributes her success in Sales to living by the Golden Rule. She has a MA in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

 

Greg Eoyang, Founder
Greg Eoyang received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He began his career at Computing Analysis Corporation (CAC), where he provided technology consulting to the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) from 1987 to 1993. During his tenure at DARPA, the immersion in cutting-edge technology and the impact of Internet culture on an organization prepared Eoyang for the revolution that was soon to change the world. Eoyang left CAC in 1993 to join Gestalt Systems, a small training and systems consulting firm where he successfully developed a new business area of Internet Services.

In order for further his vision, Mr. Eoyang launched WestLake Solutions, an Internet training and consulting practice in 1994. WestLake split into two companies in 1999: WestLake Internet Training and WestLake Consulting Group. In 2000, WestLake was recognized as one of the fifty fastest growing technology companies in the Washington, DC area.