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Our Team
Tony Franchi
Tony is the CEO and co-founder of SteelDome, a next generation security provider offering ransomware awareness service protection, endpoint protection, threat intelligence, and other leading industry services. Franchi has held senior management roles in the Telecommunications, IT Management/Security industry.
Tony has more than 21 years of experience, including driving revenue growth and scaling organizations. His entrepreneurial background and ability to commercialize technologies have enabled him to drive innovation to the market and enabling enterprises the ability to achieve success.
Founder, Chief Executive Officer
Jeffrey Slapp
Founder, Chief Technology Officer
Jeffrey Slapp is a senior technologist with over 20 years of experience in the fields of compute and storage virtualization, enterprise architecture and software development . Early in his career, Jeff managed information systems at Penn State University and led engineering teams at Iron Mountain and Citrix Systems.
He then founded a successful technology consulting firm focused on the newly emerging x86 virtualization market which was acquired by Host.net in 2009. Jeff continued with Host.net as VP of Virtualization Services and later as CTO designing and deploying what would become one of the most resilient service provider cloud platforms, achieving more than five years of continuous uptime for its enterprise cloud customers. More recently, he served as VP of Cloud and Managed Services at 365 Data Centers and directed enterprise systems engineering teams at DataCore Software and Pure Storage.
Rich Van Duysen
Chief Strategy Officer
Rich is a business technology executive with over 30 yearsexperience, and brings his extensive background in technology transformation, finance, strategic partnerships, and operational excellence to customers. Rich's unique approach drives profitability and easy to use technology solutions by aligning capabilities with desired business outcomes, competitive advantage and delivering operational excellence.
He helps companies achieve exceptional value becoming an extension of their team planningselecting, and managing technology solutions. Rich has held senior leadership roles in Fortune 500 companies and achieved entrepreneurial success as founder and CEO of a successful technology cost optimization and managed services firmRich continues to be an active strategic advisor with top organizations, partners and consulting firms focused on integrating IT and business relationships.