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IntelliResponse Management Team

Michael Dufton

President, CEO and Director
Michael Dufton is the Chief Executive Officer of IntelliResponse. As CEO, Mike will establish IntelliResponse's strategy and leadership in the web-self-serve software solution space.

Mike has 20 years of experience in the technology industry, with the majority of that time focused on the financial services industry. Mike spent much of his career at SOLCORP, a leading software provider to the global life insurance marketplace. Rising through the ranks at SOLCORP to become CEO, he helped to grow the company from a $5 million organization focused primarily on the Canadian marketplace to a global solutions provider with revenues in excess of $100 million.

Mike is very active in the Canadian Technology community and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Acetech, a not for profit organization that is dedicated to the growth and health of technology companies by providing knowledge and mentoring to the leaders and CEOs of those companies. Mike is also an active member of Young President’s Organization (YPO).

Mike holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.

David Lloyd

CTO
As the CTO of IntelliResponse, David is accountable for guiding the overall development and delivery of the IntelliResponse solution as a fully hosted Software as a Service (SaaS) model. His responsibilities also include production/operations as well as traditional internal technology delivery.

Prior to joining IntelliResponse, David was CTO/CIO with Dexit Inc., he had multiple accountabilities that included all technology, software and hardware development, production and operations, project management and product development. David played a key role within the executive team of this publicly traded company in developing and transforming the business and technology strategy.

Previously as Senior Director, Technology Services within Carlson Marketing Group (CMG) in the US, David was responsible for overall strategy for the services and assets that enable their many client gift card, loyalty and channel solutions. His accountabilities included the architecture group, solution engineering, service and product management and selected technology acquisitions. The work moving CMG towards the implementation of a Service Oriented Architecture lead to their Bold 100 award from CIO magazine in the US in 2005. David joined CMG in 2001, after the acquisition of SalesDriver where he was VP Technology, leading this organizations development and support of their SaaS based solution that supports thousands of client programs in a single configurable white-label data/application model.

Paul Smith

Vice President Strategy & Alliances
Paul Smith will drive the development of corporate strategy and strategic alliances for IntelliResponse. Before joining IntelliResponse, he was SVP Strategy and Co-founder of Sofea Inc, and prior to this was the founder and principal of Strategic Edge, a consulting firm specializing in helping global technology firms develop unique and compelling sales, marketing, product and alliance strategies. While at Strategic Edge, Mr. Smith worked with a number of the world's most successful software, consulting and technology firms, including Siebel Systems, PeopleSoft, Ernst & Young, IBM/LGS Consulting, Deloitte Consulting, and SOLCORP (an EDS company).

Prior to founding Strategic Edge, he held executive level positions at PeopleSoft, most recently as Vice-President Sales. As Vice-President Sales at PeopleSoft, Mr. Smith helped PeopleSoft grow ten-fold to be the fastest growing software firm in America for three years in a row. Mr. Smith also served as National Director of Alliances for PeopleSoft, managing all service partnerships, recruiting new service partners, and helping these service firms develop their practices and strategies to work effectively with PeopleSoft.


Alex Sweeny

Vice President Sales
Alex is responsible for all new business sales objectives by directly leading and managing the sales team and developing the sales and business development strategies for the organization.

Alex has over 20 years experience in high growth frontier sales and market development for software, hardware and outsourcing companies based in both the USA and Canada. His career included co-founding one of the charter IBM PC reseller firms in 1982, and includes successfully leading expansion for two Canadian software companies into the US. Alex has also had highly recognized management success growing strategic business units within Unisys Canada and Dun&Bradstreet Software, as leader of North American sales for Softkey (Lansa / JDEdwards), and as VP of sales introducing SQL Financials Software into Canada.

Most recently since 1996 Alex held three distinct growth leadership roles in EDS Canada in the SOLCORP software business unit responsible for global expansion into Asia Pacific, launching a new product offering globally, and in a General Management role launching a new SaaS business unit serving the Insurance Distribution sector.  Alex studied Business, Law, and Economics at Wilfred Laurier University.

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