Roger Schneider has over a dozen years of experience leading high tech, entrepreneurial efforts and has successfully met technology challenges in some of the world’s most challenging and stressful environments. His work has been featured in over 100 media stories and he was nominated in 1992 for a prestigious Computer World-Smithsonian Technology Leadership Award. Roger serves as the Company’s President and CEO, directing all its business activity, and held the position Executive Vice President and COO of LiveOnTheNet from 1996 through May of 2000.  With an enviable entrepreneurial record going back to 1981, Mr. Schneider has founded or led several start-up software ventures that have been nurtured and sold to public companies such as Comshare, Maxwell Labs, Thermo Electron and divine Interventures.

    In 1992, Mr. Schneider sold his start-up enterprise to Maxwell Laboratories, a defense contractor with $80 million dollars in revenues, where he then served as Vice President of its S-Cubed Division. He led Maxwell’s diversification into technology development for state and local governments. From 1988 to 1992, Roger served as Research Director for US Congressman Ronnie Flippo, where he helped develop and legislate pro-technology policy for North Alabama’s emerging high tech corridor (NASA, Army Missile Command, Army Strategic Defense Initiative, etc). Prior to 1988, Mr. Schneider authored several successful mass-market software products that were licensed to computer manufacturers like IBM, Tandy/Radio Shack, Digital Equipment, and others. Mr. Schneider also served as the Chief Technology Officer for the 1988, 1992 and the 1996 Democratic National Conventions and was the Principal Technology Consultant to the Clinton/Gore Presidential Transition team. In the White House, he successfully implemented an artificially intelligent resume’ tracking system that scanned and categorized over 2,000 new resumes a day. His graduate and undergraduate work in computer science was performed at Emory University where he was a University Fellow.