Leadership Team

Jean Bélanger, Founder/CEO
Francisco Arzu, Senior Vice President Software
Bryan Mayo, Senior Vice President Product
Laura Hooper, Vice President Professional Services
Jon M. Irvin, Vice President Finance

Jean Bélanger, Founder/CEO

Jean Bélanger is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Reddwerks. As such, he establishes overall company goals, direction, and policy.

Jean has held many top-tier positions during his thirty years in the technology industry, including the following:

VP of Business Development – Motorola SPS, Austin
Chairman and CEO – Metrowerks, Austin
President and CEO – Micro Tempus Corporation, Montreal
Founder and President – Mount Royal Capital, Montreal
VP of Corporate Finance – Wood Gundy, Toronto

He has been recognized with numerous awards within the technology and business communities:

He won a World Class Outstanding Achievement Award in 1997.
Metrowerks CodeWarrior won Software Product of the Year in 1994 over 3,500 other applications.
He was finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur-of-the-Year Award-Austin in 1996.

Jean holds an MS in Finance from the London School of Economics. He is also a Chartered Accountant in Canada, and he has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Ottawa.

Francisco Arzu, Senior Vice President Software

As Vice President of Software, Francisco is responsible for the development of all Reddwerks software, from firmware to the user interface.

Francisco has 20 years of experience with software engineering. Prior to joining Reddwerks, he occupied the following positions:

Chief Architect and VP Engineering – Davincian Technologies, Austin
Senior Software Engineer – Preceptant
Lead Product Architect – Vitalz
Technical Consultant/ Developer – Daman Consulting, Austin

Francisco holds the following academic and professional distinctions:

He has an MS in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.
He has taught and lectured extensively in the field of Computer Science, both in the U.S. and his native Guatemala.
He developed Coco/R for C++, a public domain compiler generator tool.

Bryan Mayo, Senior Vice President Product

In his role as VP of Product and Marketing, Bryan oversees the areas that directly impact designing, building, supporting, and marketing our innovative hardware and software products. Bryan brings twenty years of experience in enterprise software development, hardware engineering, product management, and project delivery to Reddwerks. In addition, he has extensive experience with enterprise analytics, data marts, and corporate reporting. His analytics work includes a patent for designing a dynamic date-effective OLAP reporting engine for supply chain planning applications. Prior to joining Reddwerks Bryan held the following positions:

Product Analytics Consultant – Callidus Software, San Jose
Vice President of Engineering – Phiware, Austin
Director of Engineering – eLoyalty, Austin
Program Manager – Trilogy Enterprises Inc., Austin

Bryan has a B.S. in Computer Engineering with a Minor in Math from California State University.

Laura Hooper, Vice President Professional Services

In her role as Vice President of Professional Services, Laura oversees the successful fulfillment of all customer contracts. She draws on 12 years of project management, change management, and contract administration experience in assisting customers through the install and go-live process. Before joining Reddwerks, Laura was the Vice President of Client Services at Systems and Software, Inc. Her responsibilities there included the following:

Process Engineering
Account Management
Contract Administration
Change Management
Customer Advocacy

Laura holds a Bachelor of Science in International Management from Butler University.

Jon M. Irvin, Vice President Finance

Jon Irvin brings more than 25 years of financial management experience to his role as Vice President of Finance. Before coming to Reddwerks, Jon held the following executive positions:

CEO, Chief Financial Officer - Voxpath Networks
Chief Financial Officer - Esoterix
Chief Financial Officer - Topaz Technologies
Chief Financial Officer - BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals

He also worked 13 years as an auditor for various public accounting firms—Ernst & Young (Palo Alto), Ernst & Whinney (San Antonio and San Jose), and Price Waterhouse (Newport Beach).

In his new position, Jon is responsible for developing Reddwerks' financial plan and overseeing all financial matters. In addition, he provides internal and external financial reports, budgeting projections, and earning forecasts.