Joe Rose
President and Co-Founder

Mr. Rose is the President and Co-Founder of Turnberry Solutions. He is responsible for leading the company, developing long-term strategies and fostering key relationships and alliances. Mr. Rose’s mission is to deliver the highest quality services to Turnberry’s customers and partners around the world.

Prior to co-founding Turnberry, Mr. Rose was the CEO and President of Planet Exchange, a pioneer in instant messaging technology. Before Planet Exchange, Mr. Rose successfully ran North American Sales for software start-up company MINT Communication Systems, an EAI Middleware Company, which was purchased by SunGard Data Systems, Inc. (SDS). He also spent five years in sales management at Sun Microsystems, primarily selling and architecting Internet infrastructure solutions for major corporations. Other career highlights include strategic positions with NCR and AT&T.

Mr. Rose regularly advises Fortune 500 accounts with web initiatives as well as start-ups and venture capital firms regarding business strategy and tactics to meet their business goals. Mr. Rose has specific expertise in acquiring capital and providing both business and technical due diligence assessments for companies. He has held interim CxO positions and helped launch several successful start-ups.

Mr. Rose is best known in his circles as the “Ambassador of Enthusiasm.” He brings a high-energy, can-do attitude to the Turnberry ecosystem.

Pete Davis
CTO and Co-Founder

Mr. Davis is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Co-Founder of Turnberry Solutions. Mr. Davis has over 20 years of combined Software Development, Systems Engineering, and Management experience. His deep technical background combined with his broad industry experience provide him with a unique ability to effectively and efficiently apply technology to solving complex business problems.

Over the past 8 years, Mr. Davis has been engaged as a senior technology consultant to Comcast, architecting and deploying their High Speed Data and VoIP services products. Mr. Davis played an instrumental role in Comcast's migration away from Excite@Home. This migration process entailed extensive work with provisioning systems, web services, portals, messaging systems, directory infrastructure, as well as customer care tools. Mr. Davis has also been instrumental in architecting and deploying solutions in support of Comcast's acquisition of AT&T Broadband.

Other Comcast projects Mr. Davis has consulted on in the role of lead architect include:

• Digital Voice Center : A customer-facing portal, which supports Comcast’s 5M residential Digital Voice subscribers. This portal application along with its associated service orchestration engine and backend web services represents Comcast’s first SOA based application.
• Business Class Services: Architected end-to-end solutions for supporting an assortment of Comcast’s commercial (SMB) service offerings.

In addition to his roles as architecture consultant and development manager, Mr. Davis serves as a trusted advisor to Comcast’s executive management.

Mr. Davis started his career working for Leeds and Northrup doing real-time, mission critical software engineering for their distributed controls systems group. From there, Mr. Davis joined Sun Microsystems where he focused on architecting mission critical IT solutions for Fortune 500 companies. During his five years with Sun Microsystems, Mr. Davis specialized in Java technologies from Java's introduction in 1995. Mr. Davis also designed highly available and scalable clustered architectures for mission critical business applications. Other career highlights include senior technology positions for several software companies in the areas of CRM, EAI, Knowledge Management, and Collaboration.

Jim Riviello
Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Riviello is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Turnberry Solutions. He is responsible for executing Turnberry’s business strategy and ensuring day-to-day operational excellence.

Mr. Riviello is a senior Sales, Marketing and Channel executive with over 20 years experience building and developing sales and partner channels to effectively scale businesses of all sizes. Prior to joining Turnberry, Mr. Riviello co-founded SWOT Management Group (SWOTmg), a sales and channel development firm focused exclusively on the high-tech industry. In 2007, SWOTmg won the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Award. He also co-founded Channeltivity, a channel management software company that offers on-line, easy-to-use tools for IT Channel Managers. Prior to those endeavors, Mr. Riviello spent 13 years in a variety of sales leadership positions at Sun Microsystems where he managed and motivated a team of sales, systems, service, marketing, channel, finance, and industry specialists. Mr. Riviello received Sun’s America Sales Leadership Award consecutively from 1996 through 2003 and was named the Northeast Manager of the Year during 4 of his 13 years at Sun Microsystems. Other career highlights include technical and sales positions at GE and Xerox.

Mr. Riviello has a passion for excellence, enormous energy and the ability to energize others. He holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Potsdam State University of NY, is a Sales Coach, an author of many whitepapers on Sales Management and Channel Development and an active member of the Entrepreneur’s Organization, an influential global community of business owners who engage in dynamic peer-to-peer learning experiences. Mr. Riviello is also an active member of the American Marketing Association, Society of Technical Communications, Sun Alumni Association and the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals.

Erik Carrozza
Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Carrozza is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Turnberry Solutions. He is responsible for all financial and fiscal management aspects of company operations. Mr. Carrozza develops and implements the financial strategy and oversees the HR, legal, accounting and budgeting efforts of the organization. Mr. Carrozza also works closely with the sales and recruiting departments to negotiate contracts and approve deals.

Mr. Carrozza has nearly 20 years of accounting and financial experience. Prior to joining Turnberry, Mr. Carrozza worked as the CFO of various fast-growing IT consulting firms. In 2001, he founded Caprock, Inc., an outsourced CFO services firm catering to emerging companies in the Philadelphia area. In 1998, Mr. Carrozza co-founded The Sycamore Group, an IT consulting firm. Prior to that, Mr. Carrozza spent 8 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Tax and Business Assurance. During the course of his career, Mr. Carrozza has helped companies grow through prudent financial management and precise cash flow modeling. His creative style has helped companies fund growth through a variety of resources, including bank debt, commercial finance and private equity.

Naveen Kuppili
Technology Director
Enterprise Architecture

Mr. Kuppili is one of the original members of Turnberry Solutions.  
Mr. Kuppili has over 10 years of experience as a software architect and senior developer. Mr. Kuppili’s experience includes the design, development, and implementation of software systems and applications, with a focus on J2EE platforms, e-commerce systems, Portals, BPM, personalization infrastructure, distributed object development, ODBMS and RDBMS.  Mr. Kuppili’s experience has spanned a wide range of commercial business industries, including Telco/Cable (provisioning, customer care), Financials (e-commerce, electronic bill presentment and payment systems) with overall emphasis on the full life cycle development.Mr. Kuppili’s expertise includes gathering business requirements; preparing systems requirements, process flows, data flows; development and integration of software packages and frameworks.
 
Most recently, Mr. Kuppili has spent the last 5 years consulting for Comcast.  At Comcast Mr. Kuppili has been responsible for designing and creating various J2EE-based enterprise applications in support of Comcast’s residential and commercial services offerings.  Currently Mr. Kuppili is consulting as a lead architect for Comcast’s commercial sales and operations portal, with focus on flow through order management, customer relationship management, and provisioning.
 
Prior to work at Comcast, Mr. Kuppili did work for John Hancock leading a team of Engineers to create a J2EE based Direct Sales Application that is used by Customer Service Representatives.  Mr. Kuppili has also done work for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals architecting and developing a J2EE based Clinical Trials Portal Application.
 
Mr. Kuppili holds a BS and MS degree in Computer Science.

Viral Shah
Technology Director
Enterprise Architecture

Mr. Shah is one of the original members of Turnberry Solutions.
Mr. Shah is an Enterprise Architect with over thirteen years of experience in IT requirements definition, assessments, product selection, design and implementation of a broad array of technology strategies and solutions. He has spent the last seven years managing mission critical projects at a large broadband provider.

Mr. Shah has effectively architected complex projects involving large-scale (customer base > 15M+ customers) deployments for architectures involving various technologies such as J2EE (JSP/Servlets/EJB) on multiple application servers, LDAP, Oracle 8i/9i/10g, Portal Servers, XML/XSLT, Web Services using JAXM/JAXP/JAXRPC, JMS, JMX, RMI, MQSeries, Struts framework, JATO framework, JavaMail to name a few. His experience also includes requirements gathering, design and developing software architectures, usage modeling, performance testing, analysis, and tuning, client training and building complex IT infrastructures.

Prior to joining Turnberry, Mr. Shah was an Architect at CVS/pharmacy, providing leadership in several technology initiatives including their http://www.cvs.com (customer base of over 1.1 million) overhaul from being an ASP based to it being J2EE based. Prior to that, he was an Associate Architect with Major League Baseball http://www.mlb.com (customer base of over 14 million) providing architectural leadership on various technologies such as streaming audio/video content, e-commerce of memorabilia, content management and email services. Other career highlights include strategic positions at Putnam Investments, WebMD, SBC Communications and Lucent Technologies.

Badhri Rajagopalan
Technology Director
Enterprise Architecture

Mr. Rajagopalan is one of the original members of Turnberry Solutions.  
Mr. Rajagopalan is a senior Technical Architect with over 10 years of experience in Software Development, Architecture & Management. He has broad industry experience working with various industry sectors such as Telecommunications, Finance, Storage, Education and internet based B2C & B2B2C solutions. Mr. Rajagopalan has lead multiple projects on large scale mission critical systems for Fortune 500 companies and specializes in cross-platform architecture where systems interact with various internal organizations as well as third party vendors.

Mr. Rajagopalan has designed and built high-volume customer facing portals & back office applications. He has also worked extensively in building services based applications that adhere to the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm & enforced SOA governance. Mr. Rajagopalan excels in bridging gaps between core IT and business units from requirements to implementation to deployment and maintenance.

Brian Kennedy
Technology Director
Oracle Practice
Health Sciences Practice

Mr. Kennedy leads Turnberry Solutions’ long-standing Oracle/BEA practice, as well as the emerging Health Sciences practice.  He is a key contributor to the firm’s management team setting strategy and direction of the company. 

Mr. Kennedy has recently acted in the role of Enterprise Solutions Architect at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals. He was a lead innovator in BI/BPM for the global Drug-Discovery organization, as well as leading global, corporate wide knowledge management and leading edge architectural strategy initiatives including the company’s adoption of service-oriented architecture.  He was an influential part of the team that launched the SOA platform at AstraZeneca and managed a number of key components. Mr. Kennedy played a crucial role in integrating Astra and Zeneca’s separate research information systems in the years following the company’s merger and establishing the architecture discipline formally for the company.  Earlier in his career, he gained valuable experience in the financial industry with startup InvestorForce.Com and GMAC Commercial Mortgage as a senior systems architect. Other career highlights include electronic retail experience with QVC, Inc. as a software engineer and technical project manager. 

Mr. Kennedy has genuine leadership experience in enterprise information technologies, particularly with large-scale application analysis, design, development and support, and specialized interests in knowledge management, decision support systems and process improvement/automation.

Gurpreet Maini
Technology Director
Microsoft Practice

Mr. Maini is a Technology Director responsible for the conception; design, architecture and implementation of Microsoft technologies. Mr. Maini and his professional services organization are Microsoft-certified technologists with real-world experience with SharePoint Architectures, Migrations and Deployments, Enterprise Collaboration and Portal Strategies, Content Management, Search and Business Intelligence.

Mr. Maini brings extensive thought leadership and innovation in managing and delivering complex IT solutions to a portfolio of customers across all industries. He has over a decade of combined core systems design, architecture and management expertise in solving mission critical business problems. Mr. Maini is responsible for the technical relationship with Microsoft where his teams have specialized capabilities for enterprise development and deployment of Visual Studio Team Suite (TFS), BizTalk Server for integration, B2B communications and mobility solutions. Prior to joining Turnberry Solutions, Mr. Maini was the Practice Director for a Microsoft Gold Partner.

Mr. Maini is the Virtual Technology Specialist (VTS), co-sponsor (with Microsoft) of the Microsoft Events, and Sr. Practice Director. He holds a BS degree in Electronics Engineering from Pune University (India) and has been awarded "extraordinaire employee" at various software companies.

Paul Bethany
General Manager
Microsoft Practice

Mr. Bethany is responsible for the overall sales, marketing and business development of our Microsoft Practice . He is a 25-year industry veteran whose background encompasses deep technical expertise combined with extensive consulting services and business management experience.

Mr. Bethany began his career in mainframe operations and then moved into distributed networking technologies, ultimately becoming an Infrastructure Architect. He spent 12 years at Microsoft Corporation in Microsoft’s Consulting Services (MCS), designing various networking and management systems for Fortune 1000 clientele, and leading many enterprise-scale technology projects. Upon leaving Microsoft, Mr. Bethany founded a successful startup software company in the real estate sector. After the sale of his business four years later, Mr. Bethany returned to the Microsoft-oriented corporate consulting world.

Some highlights from Mr. Bethany’s technical career include being the Lead Architect and Project Manager for global Windows network/SMS projects at Dupont, Westinghouse, Cigna Corporation, Zeneca Agrochemicals, Rohm and Haas, Smithkline Beecham, Amp Incorporated, Sanofi Winthrop, and several others; Provided long-term strategy consulting to IT executives at Cigna Corporation, Air Products & Chemicals, and Vanstar Corporation; Authored Microsoft’s whitepaper entitled “Systems Management Server – Architecture, Design and Implementation”; Authored and delivered numerous Jumpstart workshops for various Microsoft technology implementations; Performed Design Reviews on Microsoft’s behalf for dozens of enterprise clients.

Pat McCormick
Enterprise Performance Manager/BI Practice Director

Mr. McCormick leads Turnberry Solutions’ Business Intelligence practice where he enables business leaders to make smart business decisions based on relevant and reliable information in the context of strategy, operations and economics.

Prior to Turnberry Solutions, Mr. McCormick was a Partner in Andersen’s Business Consulting Group where he lead all consulting services directed to CFO’s in Europe and North America. Prior to that, Mr. McCormick lead Andersen’s Philadelphia and Southeast Region Business Consulting practice. After Andersen, Mr. McCormick spent several years working in the Business Consulting Group of Alvarez & Marsal. He was the COO of OPG, the country’s largest Brownfield Real Estate Development firm and the CFO of an internet technology company focused on the instant messaging space.