Profile

Stephen Pieraldi is a serial entrepreneur whose career has spanned over a broad range of industries including Internet technologies, healthcare, architecture, construction, production level manufacturing and online gaming. He has worked with and for Fortune 500 companies, venture backed and privately funded start-ups as well as a family owned business. He has raised millions of dollars in operating capital and taken a company from seed to IPO. A catalyst for change, he creates value through investment, technology, process patents, business models and building best in class teams.

Stephen began his career as a programmer with Farinon Electric, which was later acquired by the Harris Corporation.

With a passion for gaming, Stephen turned his hobby into a great company. The Tuesday Night Group started as a group of friends meeting once a week to do what they loved and they turned it into the very successful Hero Games.

He worked his way up through the ranks from draftsman to partner at Dunlap Design & Construction, a privately held residential construction business. Utilizing his roots in programming and design, he introduced AutoCAD technology to the company. He spent time working in the Oield and in the permitting process and Oinally in sales and in partnership with the owner. During this time, the business grew to 250 new construction and remodel projects a year.

Working with hospitals and doctors to locate, place and build facilities and custom diagnostic equipment, at Siemens Medical Systems, Stephen managed the installations of

hundreds of Cath Labs, MRI, CT and Liner Accelerator projects worldwide.

At Michigan City Paper Box Company, Stephen ran production level operations and brought new technologies into the 110 year old packaging manufacturing company.

With his deep experience in healthcare, at Open MRI Image Enhancement Systems, Stephen was responsible for creating and launching new imaging technologies. The sale of Open MRI to GE lead to the creation of Image Enhancement Systems, which remains an on going concern.

Focusing on strategic planning, research and development and core network technologies, he built Neoforma from Oive to 350 employees and complete a successful IPO.

Utilizing his technology expertise, at CareThere, Stephen reOined existing processes and introduced a leading-edge data management system to drastically reduce costs and expedite the time to market process. This resulted in the Oirst XML publishing system and was sold to J&J.

As an Entrepreneur in Residence with Gabriel Venture Partners, Stephen advised on new technology deals for the Gabriel portfolio. Out of this program, iForem was founded.

After securing multiple rounds of funding for iForem and negotiating the acquisition of iModa, Stephen managed the technology merger between the two companies post-acquisition.

Stephen currently works at Total Phase, a Test and Measurement company. The plan is to double the revenue of the company in 24 months.