Our team at ECDS is led by experienced entrepreneurs and innovators in the field of Enhanced Communications
and includes recipients
of the DMTS during their careers at Bell Labs. They have built ECDS and its core Enterprise Notification Platform
by applying:
A deep knowledge of the building and implementing of connectors and adapters for numerous applications,
data sources, and transport systems
Extensive experience in delivering and receiving to and from any device or system
Formidable knowledge in mapping policies and procedures to an automated cascading notification trail
with audit capabilities
Exceptional ability to communications-enable any application or technology with multi-directional
alerts, messages, and notifications
Our commitment is to work with our customers and partners to provide the premier Enhanced Communications solutions.
John Racioppi
President & CEO
John Racioppi joined ECDS in December of 2008 after serving in a number of executive management roles
in the software industry. His focus will be on expanding and developing the potential for the ecENACT
messaging platform. Mr. Racioppi recently served as General Manager, Data Leak Prevention Group, at
Trend Micro as well as vice president, Enterprise Business Unit. Mr. Racioppi helped develop Trend’s
strategy in DLP and served on the team that acquired Provilla, Inc. While at Trend he led the
project team focused on long-term strategy and direction. John has held the position of Executive
Vice President, Sales for Infravio, Executive Vice President of Sales & Field Operations for RogueWave
Software, GM and VP North America for Borland Software, VP Sales at DASCOM (acquired by IBM's) and OEM
Channel Manager at Transarc Corporation (acquired by IBM). Mr. Racioppi has successfully grown both
start-up and publicly traded companies and his efforts have resulted in the acquisition of four different
companies. John has an MBA and BA - Economics from the University of Pittsburgh.
John Melka
Chief Architect
John Melka joined ECDS in August of 2009 and brings an existing track record of vision realization through the strategic and
tactical implementation of technology by robust and "industrial strength" architectures. His focus will be on productization
and expansion of existing message delivery systems through technical innovation, and properly measured adaptation of new and
existing implementation technologies. John was a consulting manager for Dunn Solutions group, a leader in both technical
education and assisting companies in the creation and deployment of complex systems on various platforms. In his role at Logic
Library, LLC, he was one half of the professional services team rounding out his technical prowess by understanding the business
aspects of both the product and the customer's implementation needs. While at Bank of America, he was the chief architect on
one of the first automated foreign exchange platforms, FX, to replace open outcry currency exchange with higher efficiency
automated systems to manage both transactional and positional foreign currency within the Bank's on and offshore trading groups.
John has directed distributed systems with distributed technology groups spanning the UK and the US. John holds a BA in Computer
Sciences from the University of Wisconsin with specialization in Astrophysics. Adding to this, John has completed the technical
portion of a MS at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Artificial Intelligence with application to Military Electronic
Warfare systems.
Mike Gionfriddo
Advisor
Mike Gionfriddo joined ECDS in April of 2009 and brings a track record of success in realizing vision
through strategy, world class architecture and implementation. His focus will be on driving the technology
vision and opening ecENACT to allow seamless integration with Web 2.0 and mobile applications,
while continuing to enhance our core messaging platform. Mr. Gionfriddo recently served as CTO for
Sun Microsystems rich Internet application platform, JavaFX. While at Sun, he also served as Chief Architect
for the Java CAPS and Sun Connection Network product lines. Mr. Gionfriddo was awarded the Distinguished
Engineer title in 2006. Mike has held the position of Technical Director at Rogue Wave Software, CTO at
EdeNet Communications, and Director of Technology at Lutris Technologies. Mr. Gionfriddo was also one of the
early innovators on the Java platform, pioneering some of the early server and management components. An
accomplished speaker and author, Mike has been published over 30 times and he holds 19 patents. Mike has
BS in Mathematics with Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University.