Management Team

Tim Curran, CEO

Prior to joining Vela, Tim served as CEO of Eleven Technology, the leader in next generation mobile field applications for the retail & consumer goods industry. Eleven was venture-backed by Highland Capital Partners and Friedman, Billings, Ramsey and was successfully acquired by Trimble in April 2006.

Prior to Eleven, Tim spent five years as the number two executive of I-many, Inc., an enterprise contract management software company that grew from $6MM to $60MM in sales and went public during his tenure . Tim's roles at I-many included EVP of Sales and Marketing and EVP of Corporate Development. Prior to I-many, Tim spent eight years with Accenture and a year with EMC Corporation. Tim holds a BS degree in Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Tom Huntington, CFO

Tom brings seventeen years of finance, strategy and technology experience to Vela Systems. Prior to joining Vela Systems, Tom was the Chief Financial Officer of GCi, a software-as-a-service business providing order processing to cable and phone companies. Previously, Tom was a Director of Market Strategy for Motorola's Wireline business where he was responsible for business strategy, new market development, strategic partnerships and acquisitions.

Prior to Motorola, Tom performed similar roles as Director of Business Development for Quantum Bridge, a venture-backed provider of fiber-to-the-home systems acquired by Motorola. Prior to Quantum Bridge, Tom held a variety of positions in direct investment and strategy, including three years at Salomon Brothers in New York and Hong Kong. For extracurricular activities, Tom enjoys teaching business. He has taught Pricing Strategies at the McCallum Graduate School of Business at Bentley College and has taught high school entrepreneurship classes through the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship. Tom holds a MBA with Honors in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago and a BA degree in Political Science from Brown University.

Josh Kanner, VP of Marketing and Business Development, Co-founder

Josh Kanner has focused his career on the development and marketing of innovative technologies. He graduated with honors from Brown University, then worked as a consultant to various heavy industries, helping to market cost and environmentally-preferable process technologies. After a year in Madrid on a Rotary Foundation scholarship to study Total Quality Management at one of Spain's largest construction firms, he then pursued an MBA from the Sloan School at MIT. Upon graduation Josh was hired as the first marketing employee at Emptoris, Inc., a web-based software provider, and assumed responsibility for product management. After assisting with early sales at Motorola and elsewhere, Josh was promoted to develop and manage Emptoris' entire product strategy. During his tenure, Emptoris grew from one to twelve products, from 20 to 200 employees and from 1 to 100 customers, including Heinz, GlaxoSmithKline, and Vodafone. Emptoris became the only privately-held company in its segment to be annually placed in the 'visionary' quadrant by Gartner Research and was selected by IBM and Accenture as their global strategic sourcing platforms over industry “heavyweights” Oracle and SAP. Josh was a 2004 recipient of the prestigious Franz Edelman Award for technology innovation.

Adam Omansky, VP of Product Strategy, Co-founder

Adam H. Omansky is the Co-Founder and Vice President of Product Strategy of Vela Systems. As a recognized thought leader in design and construction technology, Adam applies his diverse domain knowledge, project management expertise, and creative and analytical talents as a strategic innovator at Vela Systems.

Prior to Vela Systems, Adam helped spearhead the creation and successful operation of a design and project management group, part of Gresco Rt., an international real-estate development and investment group, in Budapest, Hungary. During his tenure abroad, Adam played a critical role in the design and construction management of the celebrated Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace, winner of the Tatler Award 2005 and ranked in the top ten best hotels in Europe, and many other projects. In Budapest, Adam also co-authored design and construction standards for Habitat for Humanity Europe & Central Asia. Prior to Budapest, Adam practiced architecture in Boston.

Adam holds a Master in Design Studies in Project Management with Distinction from Harvard University, with coursework at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Real Estate – Construction Engineering & Management and the Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School. Adam earned his Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University, with Construction Planning & Operations coursework at the College of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Additionally, Adam has lectured at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rhode Island School of Design, Boston Architectural Center and many construction and technology industry conferences, seminars and events.

Adam is an Associate Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Construction Institute, a member of the American Society for Quality, OmniClass Development Committee and agcXML Committee. Adam also completed the Benchmarking Associates Training in the CII Construction Industry Institute Benchmarking and Metrics Program. Adam blogs about field process innovations, theory and practice of quality management, and industry best practices.

Gary Greenberger, VP of Sales

Gary Greenberger joins Vela Systems with 25 years of experience in technology sales. Gary previously served as EVP Americas for CTSpace (formerly Citadon) where he was responsible for the Americas sales and marketing organization until CTSpace’s recent acquisition by The Sword Group. Prior to CTSpace, Gary served as VP of Sales for Constructware where he achieved over 85% sales growth rates annually before the company was successfully sold to Autodesk, Inc.

Prior to joining Constructware, he was VP of Sales for CompuCom Systems, Inc., a 1.5 billion dollar system integrator where he managed a 100-plus person sales and support organization that achieved more than $600 million in annual sales. Gary also was general manager of the Atlanta branch of Entex Information Services where he grew revenues from $10 million to $100 million. He holds a B.S. degree in Business Logistics from the College of Business Administration at the Pennsylvania State University.