Management
Santrio, Inc. is run by industry veterans with over 50 years of combined experience in providing software applications to the small business marketplace. Each have run small businesses themselves with an innate understanding of the multiple hats that business owners must wear and the necessity of getting the job done not tomorrow, but right now.
John Hammon, Founder and CTO
John Hammon has over 20 years of experience working with transactional systems, software development and data integration. He is responsible for Santrio's software development, data centers, and maintenance of internal and hosted systems. Before founding the Company, John was a director of content systems for Commerce One, Inc., where he managed the development of systems that generated about $30 million in license revenues and $4 million in service revenues annually. He managed the design, development and deployment of intranet and Internet systems for the largest catalog processing operation in business -to-business e-commerce, typically allowing 100 times the volume with one -tenth the staff of competitors.
Prior to Commerce One, Hammon was a product manager at Trade Service Corporation, where he managed market analysis, market testing, and launch of Internet-based e-commerce technology. He has a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California and has post-graduate training in entrepreneurial development, business administration, computer programming, and project management.
John's varied background includes the complete creation of a custom accounting program that has been adopted by about twenty companies. He has made QuickBooks his specialty for the past few years, and has a level of deep understanding that allows him to quickly pull out and format obscure data from QuickBooks and to create workarounds to the complexities of the QB system. This is a lifesaver when QuickBooks fails to provide features that Santrio subscribers need.
He has a keen knowledge of sales order workflow that allows him to design and program features that serve as processes; this is especially useful in small companies, particularly in the sales rep to Customer Service interface. He has pioneered the extension of traditional order management and order processing into automated and formatted use by field salespeople, customers, call centers, warehouses/fulfillment centers, and by managers who just want information, not conversation.
John is devoted to providing small companies with advanced processes that are generally found only with enterprise software. He believes that QuickBooks can be incredibly powerful when given a little help and is happiest when talking with QB users about streamlining their businesses. Feel free to call him at 858-676-6750.
Board of Directors
Ken Olson
Ken Olson has founded three companies and has been involved at early stages in more than twenty others. He has raised angel money for six companies and venture capital for two others. Ken studied electrical engineering and has an MBA, along with thirty years of experience as a hardware/software company CEO including taking two companies through the venture capital process and subsequent IPOs. He is totally dedicated to Santrio, having invested heavily and convincing some old friends to do the same. His primary responsibilities are product direction, market direction, and building a company that is easily scalable without ever needing an overhaul.
Terry Hicks
Terry Hicks is a Vice President and General Manager for Intuit's QuickBooks Small Business Software. Intuit Inc. is the leading provider of accounting and business management software with over 4M US small business customers and nearly 10M users. Terry is responsible for strategy, planning, sales, and operations for several product lines including financial management, retail management, and related products and services. He has been with Intuit since 2000 in a variety of General Management, Marketing, and Product Management roles with a strong track record of driving innovation and growth for multiple small business software and services businesses.
Peter Shaw
Peter Shaw is a Principal in Shaw Management Advisors, Int'l LLC (SMAI), a San Diego based international advisory firm that provides services for Senior Management, Boards, Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs. SMAI specializes in advising its clients in strategic and operational aspects of their business. Assignments have included M&A as well as restart and turn-around activities. Mr. Shaw has been the founder or first professional CEO of six companies and has led five of them to successful exits. He has served, at the direction of venture capital investors/boards as interim and turnaround CEO for four other companies and has served as an independent director for over 20 private and public boards. He has also served as a partner for a venture capital fund. Mr. Shaw holds a bachelor of engineering degree in electrical engineering from City College of New York and a master of business administration degree from the University of Connecticut.
Paul Stannard
Paul Stannard is the CEO of SmartDraw.com, the leading provider of easy-to-use business graphics software. The SmartDraw.com website draws more than 2 million visitors each month, putting it in the top 0.1% of most visited websites on the Internet. The company recently launched VisualScript XML, the first visual scripting tool for XML. VisualScript XML allows XML developers to communicate and collaborate with business people in terms they both understand, delivering the ultimate payoff: the successful implementation of XML. Stannard continues to explore ways to help users propagate XML standards, create rapid prototypes "on the fly," quickly translate business knowledge into XML format, and automatically document business processes.
