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Jason Pendergist, Chairman

Jason Pendergist
Chairman

Jason Pendergist is a seasoned C-suite leader with proven leadership in regional and community banking arenas with a deep expertise in creating a defendable value proposition that effectively aligns the needs of the customer, the employee, the community and the shareholder. Jason is a proven strategic thinker capable of rebuilding a business to reflect the evolving regulatory environment facing today’s financial services companies and is known for transformation of underperforming businesses and operations. He is a skilled leader capable of driving continuous process improvement and improved client experience and a proven ability to successfully transform corporate cultures to balance aggressive growth with credit, operational and regulatory discipline.

Mr. Pendergist brings a wealth of expertise in corporate governance, finance, sales, operations and business expansion. Most recently, he served as President and COO of Sabal Capital and Executive Vice President and Head of Real Estate and Commercial Banking with Banc of California, leading six of the bank’s business units. He also served as of President of Consumer and Commercial Banking at Luther Burbank Savings, overseeing efforts that secured the institution’s ranking as a top multifamily lender on the West Coast. Prior to Luther Burbank Savings, he spent considerable time at JP Morgan Chase as Senior Vice President, and later as Managing Director and Head of Commercial Term Lending, where he was instrumental in growing and scaling the business into a national platform with over $50 billion in total assets, closing roughly $14 billion in term debt annually.

Notably, Mr. Pendergist helped found the American Bankers Association’s Commercial Real Estate Committee in 2015 to provide industry education and guidance to banks navigating the increasingly challenging regulatory arena and led the committee as chairman until late 2018. Jason also serves as Chairman of the Board of Miracles for Kids, a Southern California-based nonprofit, which provides financial aid, health, wellness and advocacy services to the families of children battling life-threatening illnesses.

Mr. Pendergist obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his MBA in Finance from the Leeds School of Business (also at University of Colorado).

Joseph L. Baggio, CTO

Joseph L Baggio
Chief Technology Officer / Founder and Director

Joseph L Baggio is Chief Technology Officer, Managing DirectRM’s Software Development and Information Technology Business Operations and ensuring that the company delivers product, management, solutions, and support that brings value to its customer base. DirectRM provides a comprehensive mix of security hardware and cloud computing software product solutions, coupled with expert professional services that solve multiple security problems faced by global companies and organizations. DirectRM also provides comprehensive electronic document managing solutions and information asset protection for the Financial, Healthcare, Legal and Government agencies.

As a leader, Baggio has achieved superior results driving rapid sales growth during both boom and recession times through management, sales and implementation of marketing strategies. He started his career in the computer industry over thirty five years ago at Applied Systems Intelligence, Inc.  From Customer Services Assistant to Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Baggio proved himself through performance, adaptation and perseverance.

As an entrepreneur, Baggio has built and managed highly effective sales and marketing organizations, created strategic alliances, launched new products, services, and marketing campaigns in the United States, Asia Pacific, Europe, Canada and Latin America.

As an innovator, Baggio developed “Direct Authenticator” Secured Remote Access SSL/VPN, “Direct Document Management System”, one of the Cloud Computing leaders in Electronic Document Management, “Direct Customer Relationship Management” that competes directly against Salesforce.com, along with “Direct Asset Risk Management” Banking Application helping Banks Manage and Create NPN Toxic Asset Portfolios. Intrusion Detection, Vulnerability Assessment, Denial of Service, File & Folder Protection, Port Scanning, Web Page Scanning and Network Scanning for protection against internal and external intruders are just some other applications developed by Baggio.  He has designed numerous secure networks in the internal corporate world and in e-commerce environments.  He has also developed over 2,800 scripts for known Vulnerabilities and Secure One Results Methodology for complete Security Information Assurance Assessment, as well as created and implemented the education syllabus and training program for Assurance Assessment. Baggio is also a Key Note Speaker of ISSA Los Angeles Chapter.

Baggio has an extensive background in networking.  He has a rare combination of experience in voice (traditional PBX, IP-PBX and VoIP), data (minicomputers, mainframes, datacom and LAN/WAN networking) and professional services (network infrastructure consulting, project management, security audit, intrusion detection, ethical hacking, corporate-wide security policy reviews HIPAA and GLBA regulation practices).  He has expertise and certification in Cisco, CNE, IBM/SNA, CISSP, HIPAA, assessment tools from ISS, Axent and Enterasys (Dragon), Checkpoint Firewall-1 and Sidewinder.  In addition, Baggio is fluent in programming languages such as Java, Java Bean, Java Script C#, Visual Basic and Visual Studio .Net and C#.

On May 12, 2006, Baggio was appointed the Honorary Chairman of the NRCC’s Business Advisory Council to the President of the United States. In addition to his appointment, Baggio Also is an advisor for the Homeland Security Council and National Security Council in Washington DC.

Baggio has a BA from Boston University; he is one of only three certified Computer Forensics Professionals in California and has studied Criminal Law at Harvard School of Law. Mr. Baggio also holds an MBA in Business Management from the University of Southern California.

Robert Bailey, Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Robert Bailey has 20+ years’ experience in Managed Security, Managed Network, Cloud and Unified Communication technology. He has been involved in organizational start-up’s and has had full P & L responsibility for both direct and channel sales organizations.

Robert held Senior Leadership positions at AT&T in both their Channel and Global sales organizations. He led the Carrier Channel sales team at RingCentral, and helped to design and launch the Cloud Services Engine at Verizon Enterprise Solutions.

Prior to moving to the technology industry Robert was a Wealth Management Consultant for Independent Capital Management in Irvine, CA.

Robert holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing, and multiple technical sales professional certifications.

Roy Mader, Director Of OEM

Roy Mader is the co-founder and president of SquarePegs, an internet company providing leadership and coaching to baby boomers.

Roy has a BSEE from Arizona State University and an MBA from Cal State, Fullerton.

After graduation, Roy was the Lead Dynamics Engineer at General Dynamics. Roy was responsible developing software for the guidance system of the Standard Missile Program for the US Navy.

Roy has held Senior Management positions including Director of Sales and Marketing for Philips Lighting responsible for sales, marketing, operations and manufacturing for their specialty lighting product covering North and Latin America, China and Europe.

Roy was also the National Sales Manager for multi-billion dollar world class optoelectonic manufacturing companies including ROHM Corporation and Stanley Electric both located in Japan