Michelle Munson - President and CEO & Co-Founder

Michelle is co-inventor of Aspera's fasp transport technology and is responsible for overseeing the company's direction in collaboration with co-founder Serban Simu. Michelle was a software engineer in research and start-up companies including the IBM Almaden Research center before founding Aspera in 2004. She has dual B.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering and in Physics from Kansas State University and was a Goldwater Scholar for achievement in Science and Mathematics, and later a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University where she received a postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science. She was the 2006 KSU College of Engineering Alumni Fellow (the youngest recipient ever), and has received national achievement awards from Glamour Magazine and USA Today.

Serban Simu - Vice President Engineering & Co-Founder

Serban is co-inventor of Aspera's fasp transport technology and is responsible for overseeing the company's software engineering, and sets the technology direction with co-founder Michelle Munson. Serban has a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Universitatea Politechnica Bucuresti in Bucharest, Romania, and a Masters degree in Telecommunication Networks from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications where he finished first in his class. He came to the United States to work for Cisco's Content Networking group, was a lead software engineer at Digital Fountain, and founded Aspera with Michelle Munson in 2004.

Cary Capece - Sr. Vice President Sales and Business Development

Cary is responsible for all sales and business development activities at Aspera. Cary is a successful executive and entrepreneur with over 19 years experience in the technology industry with extensive experience in the Media and Entertainment marketplace. With a rich background in management, sales, and business development, he has held senior management roles in Digital Origin (formerly Radius, Inc.), Mountain Gate (a Lockheed Martin Company), and FWB, Inc. were he lead these companies to explosive growth and successful exit strategies.

Jim Atkinson - Vice President Worldwide Sales

Jim joined Aspera from Autodesk, where he was the Director M&E Software Americas, responsible for all media and entertainment software business in the Americas. In this role he managed a team of sales, channels, and technical personnel responsible for more than $69 million in sales of software and services to the entertainment and visualization markets. With more than 18 years building successful sales, distribution and sales support organizations, Atkinson joins Sr. Vice President of Sales and Business Development Cary Capece in driving Aspera’s sales and marketing worldwide, including direct sales, channel sales and partnerships with industry leaders in storage, IT services and digital asset management.

Chris Markle - Vice President Engineering Services

Chris is responsible for the successful implementation of Aspera's products by its enterprise and content delivery customers, overseeing professional services, customer support, and the development of plug-ins for 3rd party-products including the DigiDelivery product line acquired from Avid. Chris was most recently Vice President of Engineering at Sendmail for six years where he was responsible for all engineering activities. Prior to Sendmail, he held senior management positions at Sterling Software and Interlink Computer Sciences. Chris has over 20 years of experience in software development, engineering leadership, and technical product marketing for networking technologies and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.