Silverstone Solutions Team
David S. Jacobs
Founder & CEO
David S. Jacobs started Silverstone Solutions, Inc. in 2006
as a result of his extensive experience in the software industry and his more
recent experience as a medical patient. Mr. Jacobs is a seasoned technology
veteran with an exemplary track record of building fledging start-ups into
successful global corporations. As a sales, marketing and business development
executive, his ability to identify and capitalize on emerging markets is clearly
established by a 25-year career building sales organizations for start-up companies
that evolved into publicly traded corporations such as Microsoft, Marimba (now
acquired by BMC Software) and Macromedia (now acquired by Adobe). Mr.
Jacobs' career was cut short by a genetic kidney disease, forcing him to resign
as Vice President of Business Development for Macromedia, Inc., in the spring
of 2001. He subsequently spent 3.5 years on the deceased donor organ waiting
list and 1.5 year on dialysis while his health continued to decline. During
this time, Mr. Jacobs identified a number of areas in the medical field that
could be improved by technology solutions. Having received a successful kidney
transplant in December of 2004, Mr. Jacobs immediately began developing a paired-kidney
exchange software application to make better use of available living donor
organs for kidney transplantation.
Contributors
Brigham Stevens
Engineering
Brigham Stevens brings 20 years of software engineering experience to Silverstone
Solutions. During this time he has acquired a breadth of experience, having worked
in a technical capacity at Fortune 500 companies, consulting firms, and start-up
companies including a string of top tier organizations like Apple Computer, TiVo,
and Marimba. He specializes in Java, server and client development, PHP, MySQL,
Linux, Windows, C++, and Macintosh internals and has established a strong track
record of being lead programmer on a number of first time products.
Craig Sherod
Technical Publications
Craig Sherod has over 15 years of experience in the areas of technical publications
and user interface design. In 1990, Craig founded and directed Agile Interactive,
a successful online technical publications consulting firm. In 1997, Craig launched
the Technical publications effort at Marimba and founded its User Experience
team in 2000, dramatically changing design processes and greatly improving product
usability. In 2005, Craig launched Sherod Consulting.
Roger Jones
Engineering, UI Design
Roger Jones is an award winning technical director and
developer of interactive media applications. Mr. Jones brings 20 years
of experience to Silverstone in user interface design effort. His background
includes work on design projects for Oracle, Apple Computer, The Stevenz
Group and Interscope Records. While at Macromedia, Mr. Jones was responsible
for managing the media lab as well as working on key development and design
projects. At ION, Inc. he did pioneering work in enhanced CD-ROM development.
Liz Westover
Marketing
Liz Westover manages all outbound marketing efforts and brings 20
years of marketing and third party relations experience to Silverstone
Solutions. She began her career at Apple Computer where she was responsible
for assisting ISVs with their marketing efforts. In her consulting practice,
she has worked with some of the highest profile companies in the industry,
including Netscape, Sun Microsystems (Java Group), Tibco, MacroMind and
Technorati. While consulting with Sun she was part of the original team
that conceived and created the first JavaOne Developer’s Conference.
She has extensive experience working in the start-up environment and was
an early employee of Marimba where she was responsible for a range of marketing
activities including marketing communications, channel marketing, and event
management.