Applied Business Metrics, LLC

David Kennedy

David has over 25 years experience serving financial service companies with a focus on banking and commercial real estate. David began his career in public accounting working for both KPMG and Kenneth Levanthal & Co as a management consultant and auditor. He also held a Controller position with a leading Bay Area real estate firm and played an integral role in their 1997 initial public offering. In 2000 David formed Applied Business Metrics, LLC to focus on business automation solutions for financial services companies. David holds an MBA degree from the University of California, Berkeley (Haas) and a BA degree in Economics and Business from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a former Certified Public Accountant.

Michael Kennedy

Michael is a veteran software architect with over 13 years experience designing, developing, deploying and maintaining commercial software products. He also has over 6 years of software consulting experience. Michael was the Director of Architecture for the Education and Research Industries at Oracle/PeopleSoft. During this period he focused on the Campus Solutions Student Administration product suite where he was a senior member of the team from the initial release through currently shipping version 9.0 and the rolling release model. In addition, Michael was a senior member of the HRMS Architecture team during the "Person Model" refactoring and was the lead architect of the popular and successful Enterprise Learning Management product (ELM). Prior to Oracle/PeopleSoft Michael was a manager at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) serving clients that include Walt Disney, General Electric, Times Mirror, Toshiba, Cadence Electronics, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Visa International, and the California State University system. Michael holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of California, Los Angeles.

Mark Marriott

Mark has been involved with software design and implementation for over 25 years. With a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Davis, his career began with the Hewlett Packard Corporation, where he designed software for several generations of computer terminals and accessories. He then joined Applied Biosystems, Inc, as a founding member, designing the software systems for the first generation of instruments for Protein and DNA Synthesis and Sequencing. In the late 1990's he became involved in process automation, designing specialized systems to facilitate the transfer of large legacy accounting systems to state of the art platforms. Today, he serves as a consultant, specializing in process automation and related areas in the financial and commercial real estate industries.

Bob Schow

Bob has over 30 years experience with database and systems development. In 1980, Bob founded an information and management consulting company that served clients throughout the United States and Canada for nearly twenty years. His client base included financial services, manufacturing, not-for-profit, and entertainment companies. In recent years Bob has managed a data warehouse team for Mellon Capital Management and a development team for a .com start-up company. Bob holds a degree in Mathematics from Vanderbuilt University.