Nahhe Nomie, Chief Financial Officer

Nomie oversees finance and operations for both the Extensis and LizardTech brands of Celartem Inc. Nomie joined the company in early 2006 and has more than 12 years of experience in the financial services market. Most recently he worked for DecisionPoint Software where he was closely involved in three rounds of funding totaling over $45M and the ultimate sale of the company. Prior to DecisionPoint, Nomie was with Price Waterhouse, LLC as well as Pacific Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine, Inc. where he was involved in numerous acquisitions of outpatient clinics across the United States.

Nomie holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Oregon and is a member of FEI, Financial Executives International.

Kelly Downs, Director of Sales

As LizardTech's Director of Sales, Kelly Downs is responsible for the development and execution of the worldwide strategic sales plan for all distribution channels. In addition he oversees the Customer Support and Operations departments. Downs has over 15 years of sales, customer service, marketing and operations experience in the high-tech industry.

Prior to joining LizardTech, Downs held Management positions in Sales and Technical Support with Fluke Networks. His responsibilities included creating and implementing innovative marketing and sales strategies for the Outbound Sales team, and driving excellence in all aspects of Customer Technical Support.

Downs dedicated 10 years to serving in the US Navy, including two Western Pacific tours and duty served in the Persian Gulf.

Jon Skiffington, Senior Product Manager

In his role as Senior Product Manager, Jon Skiffington is responsible for analyzing market needs, defining requirements, and delivering product for LizardTech's GeoExpress, Express Server and Spatial Express lines. Before being promoted to product manager, Skiffington spent the first two years at LizardTech as a Sales Engineer where he represented LizardTech at trade shows, designed and performed training for LizardTech's resellers and key customers, and worked closely with the Engineering team to help define features and specifications for LizardTech's product lines.

Skiffington has 10 years of experience in the software industry, and previously held positions as both an IT Consultant and as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Active Voice, a leader in unified messaging solutions.

He graduated with a BA in Business Administration with a specialization in Information Systems in 1998 from the University of Washington.

Michael P. Gerlek, Engineering Manager

Michael Gerlek has been with LizardTech for nine years and is responsible for the technical side of the company's strategic vision and also manages LizardTech's Engineering team. He has been involved in virtually all of the company's engineering efforts, starting with the original development of the MrSID/MG3 technology and subsequently bringing it into the market with the GeoExpress, Express Server, and Spatial Express products. Gerlek has also been instrumental in the company's efforts to bring JPEG 2000 into the geospatial arena.

Gerlek is an active member of OSGeo, the geospatial open source community, and serves as the company's representative to OGC, the Open Geospatial Consortium. He has written a number of articles for various publications and regularly presents at conferences and workshops.

Prior to LizardTech, Gerlek was a compiler writer, specializing in high performance computing, and worked at Tera, Intel, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. He holds an MS degree in Computer Science from the Oregon Graduate Institute and a BS degree from Merrimack College.