Jerry Kokos has more than 25 years of general management and strategic technology experience. He has special expertise and a proven track record with both emerging and established software and services companies. Jerry's previous senior management positions include the following:

Executive Vice President of the Investors Services Group at First Data Corporation - general management for a $200 million transfer agency services and software business; strategic management of the company's information technology.

Corporate Vice President/General Manager at New England Business Systems-general management responsibility for a $70 million division that provided software and computer forms to small businesses.

Vice President/General Manager of Alternate Channels Business Unit at ComputerVision Corporation - directed the worldwide channels strategy for the company's software products, and general management responsibility for an independent, worldwide personal CAD/CAM software business.

Jerry graduated from the United States Coast Guard Academy with a bachelor's degree in engineering and received his master's in business administration from Yale University. Prior to his business career, Jerry served in the U.S. Coast Guard for nine years, achieving the rank of lieutenant commander. He was a senior Lecturer in Financial Management at Northeastern University's Graduate School of Business. Jerry is also a member of the board of directors of Tangoe, Inc.

With over 25 years of sales management experience, Tony is the company’s executive sales manager responsible for the direction and leadership of the Company’s sales force. Tony has extensive experience in both creating an organization from the bottom up as well as developing worldwide sales and marketing strategies for emerging growth companies.

Tony’s most recent senior management positions in strategic sales and business plans included: President of Lochard Environment Systems, where Tony developed and implemented worldwide sales and marketing strategies, securing multi-million dollar contracts in the U.S., Canada, Finland, U.K., Israel, and Switzerland; General Manager of Priority Data Systems Corporation where he succeeded in growing the customer base from zero to 300 clients in two years; and Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Climage Novasoft, Inc. where he managed the merger of two operations and created a strategy for the new company and maintained overall responsibility for the company’s business activities in the U.S., Canada, and South America.

Glenn is responsible for the development and delivery of value-added services that support VFA clients in creating and implementing effective capital management strategies.

Prior to joining VFA, he served in various senior sales, operations, and financial management roles. Most recently, he was Chief Operations Officer at CenterStone Software, a provider of enterprise software for workplace management. Parsons was an original investor and Vice President at Fiberlink Communications, where he was instrumental in leading the firm from start-up to profitability with revenues in excess of $75 million. He spent 12 years at System Industries, where he managed sales and service operations that generated annual revenue of over $50 million.

Glenn received his A.B. from Harvard University, and a High Tech M.B.A. from Northeastern University.

As Vice President of VFA’s Professional Services Group, Lisa brings over 20 years of experience in design, construction management, planning and facility management practices. She is responsible for the overall direction and leadership of the company’s property audit services, data analyses, project planning and other asset management related services. Through her progression at VFA from Project Director to Vice President, Lisa has worked extensively with a diverse customer base to provide customers with information on the current state of their asset portfolios as well as future capital planning needs.

Prior to joining VFA, she served as President of Mechanical Technologies, Inc., a consulting/contract services firm for building mechanical systems; and senior project manager for an affiliated mechanical contractor, All State Boiler Work, Inc., which specialized in the construction of industrial, commercial, and business use mechanical systems. Lisa received a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University.

Ameeta is responsible for strategic planning, marketing and business development at VFA. She has more than 20 years of marketing and business development experience, and has been instrumental in the success of many new technology ventures. Prior to VFA, she was founder and CEO of Aanza AutoID Group, an RFID services firm and Aanza, a provider of product lifecycle management software and services.

Previously, in her roles as VP of Product Marketing and VP of Marketing at ChannelWave Software, Ameeta helped grow annual revenues from $400K to $10M in two years and attract $30M in venture capital. Earlier in her career, she was founder and President of Altek Consulting, a management consulting firm. She has held senior marketing positions at Computer Identics, The BOC Group, Genus and Varian Associates.

Ameeta is a member of the board of directors of PlumChoice, Inc. She is past chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge, a charter member of TiE-Bostonand an overseer at the Museum of Science, Boston. She serves on the Advisory Council for the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Ameeta is a frequent speaker/panelist on marketing, strategic partnerships and entrepreneurial issues. She has been published and quoted in several business and trade publications.

Ameeta earned her MBA from the University of Chicago, MS from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and BS (Honors) from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, India.

Jim has 20 years of top management and financial experience within the facilities industry and is responsible for all financial, administrative and human resource issues within VFA.

Over the past 20 years, Jim has created and implemented various new ventures that include developing original business models to structuring strategic plans, realigning business processes to improving performance and managing operations to improving efficiencies and economies.

Before joining VFA in 1998, Jim was the Treasurer and Partner in the Architectural firm of Ondras Associates Inc., where his primary focus was on financial planning, operational oversight and business development.

Jim has a degree from The Boston Architectural Center as well as a BS in Finance from Babson College.

As VP, Software Development, Melanie Ziegler brings to VFA over 20 years of product development and technical leadership experience in advanced technology software products and systems integration. She has an impressive track record producing high-quality, marketable software products, building strong development teams, and fostering solid customer relationships. At VFA, Melanie is responsible for the development and delivery of the company’s capital planning and management software solutions, implementation services and SaaS hosting operations.

Prior to joining VFA in 2002, Melanie served as Vice President of Engineering and Product Development at Advanced Visual Systems, Inc, the leader in scientific data visualization software. She has also held technical and management positions delivering Mapping and GIS solutions, document management and workflow systems, and real-time embedded software for TASC, Merit Technology, E-Systems and Texas Instruments.

Melanie earned a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Rochester and has completed coursework for a Masters in Engineering Management at the University of Dallas.

Susan Anson has served as General Manager of VFA Canada since 2003. She has over 20 years of business enterprise and capital planning experience.

Prior to joining VFA, Susan was responsible for overseeing the inventory and assessment of healthcare properties in the province of British Columbia on behalf of the Ministry of Health Services. She was also a member of the New Business Transformational team that provided strategic planning for British Columbia Building Corporation, and has served as Owner’s Agent to several institutions undertaking multi-million dollar capital planning requirements.

Susan holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration. She is the author of “Accurate Data, Consistent Interpretation, Critical for Capital Planning” published in Canadian Property Management.