About Us
Management Team
Cody Gilleland - is currently an Electrical Engineer at Texas Instruments. He recently received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas where he was selected as a 2006 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and won top undergraduate research honors at UTD for his work in developing nanotechnology applications for synthetic blood cell technology. He has published in numerous scientific and peer reviewed journals, books and international conferences and is a member of the IEEE- Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers, International Society for Optical Engineering, and the UTD Erik Jonnson School of Engineering and Computer Science Student Advisory Board. Cody developed a social entrepreneurship consulting model by teaching Stanford undergraduates to serve as consults to early-stage social ventures through the Kauffman Foundation. His work has been presented at the Skoll World Forum in Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University sponsored by philanthropist Jeffery Skoll, first president of eBay. In Dallas, Cody has worked as a research assistant at the Foundation for Community Empowerment, and provided strategic planning and research for the Analyze Dallas report created for the White House to analyze social patterns in rebuilding New Orleans.
Paul Hemming - is the CEO of CTD Solutions and an experienced management consultant in wireless communications and electronic commerce. Paul has been engaged in the IT and telecommunications industries for 20 years, and in management consulting since 1994. He specializes in the disciplines of business strategy development, market planning and business systems integration with a particular emphasis on start-up enterprises. Paul offers extensive international business experience, having worked in more than 30 countries in North and South America, South East Asia and Western and Central Europe. In his current role with CTD Solutions, his company is providing consulting services to for-profit and non-profit organizations operating in diverse marketplaces. Prior to joining CTD Solutions, Paul held the position of Senior Vice President for the Mobile and Wireless Solutions Group of iXL, Inc. a US-based e-business integration company. He joined iXL from Redwing International Inc., a UK-based management consulting company serving the global wireless communications industry. He was a Managing Partner and co-owner of Redwing between 1994 and 2000. Paul has a degree in Business Economics from the University of Hull, UK and a post-graduate diploma in Marketing.
Karen Seeh - is an internationally experienced business professional with a broad background in for profit, non profit and governmental services sectors as a consultant. She graduated cum laude from Indiana University with a BS in Political Science and Environmental Studies and earned her MBA in International Business and Sustainable Enterprise from the University of North Carolina’s Flagler School of Business, one of the top ten business schools in the world for her field. Karen was also the winner of the 2004 AIESEC “Developing New Business Models” global corporate social responsibility case competition at UNC and she spent a semester abroad at University of Saint Gallen, Switzerland. She was selected for the Executive Leadership Program at USDA Graduate School in Washington, DC, in 1999 and was chosen by senior management at the Environmental Protection Agency to be one of six EPA participants in their management training program where she worked as a project manager for four years. Karen has worked as a small business development advisor for the MBA Enterprise Corp and the Citizens Development Corp in Sophia, Bulgaria and the Kenan Institute in Bangkok, Thailand where she provided research in labor standards and advisory services. She also provided consultancy services, data integration and functional project leadership for Ariel Research Corporation in Bethesda Maryland and Commerce One Inc. in Commerce Virginia. Karen specializes in providing business and technology solutions to sustainability and development challenges.
Steve Shu - is a partner at S4 Management Group and former COO of 21Publish, a leading provider of group blogs and blogging communities. He has over 14 years of industry experience in the communications, computer, and software industries. Prior to this, Steve was Vice President of Operations and Business Development for FiveSight and managed all functions related to finance, accounting, legal, business development, and professional services and played a lead role in obtaining FiveSight's first enterprise clients, first international clients in Japan, and first round of corporate venture capital. He joined FiveSight from Pittiglio Rabin Todd and McGrath (PRTM), the premier management consultancy to high-tech firms, where he specialized in interim management and the growth and operations of start-ups, carve-outs, and new lines of business. PRTM was recently ranked the #1 firm in Consulting Magazine in the areas of leadership and consistent placement of managers. Additionally, Steve has held consulting, management, and systems software and design engineering positions with Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies), FSLI, and AT&T Bell Laboratories (now Lucent Technologies). He has provided consulting services to Union Pacific Corporation, Wolters Kluwer International, SpectraSite, GTE Cybertrust, Nortel Networks, Southwestern Bell, Ameritech, Bell Northern Research, Telkom Indonesia, Advocate Healthcare, and Total eMed. Steve holds an MBA from the University of Chicago with specialties in finance and organizational behavior and both an ME and BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
Mark Lewis - is a financial planner assisting small business people for Citigroup’s Primerica division and the CEO and Executive Director of the Strategic Business Intelligence Group, where he’s working to redesign social benefit business models towards fiscal sustainability, providing thought leadership and networking strategies for social entrepreneurs and socially responsible investors seeking to bridge networks with entrepreneurs and small businesses to leverage social capital. He’s also engaged in launching DFW’s new Banking and Finance chapter for Business Networks International, the largest business referral organization in the world. Prior to launching SBIG, Mark spent 15 years in the Texas mental health and chemical addictions field and as a drug education counselor for the justice and juvenile justice system in Tennessee through the Federal Board of Prisons. He has participated in non profit design and consulting as a prevention science research analyst and investigator concentrating on medical fraud and patient’s rights abuse in the Texas mental health system. He is an expert on psychiatric provider-to-patient relations, industry trends and the nexus space for mental health and public education, and has provided consulting and research, including legal research, for parents of children designated as “at risk” by the Texas Education Agency. He’s designed market-unique solutions for a social enterprise youth intervention model teaching at risk and latch key kids responsibility and accountability through the use of emotional intelligence skills, digital media technologies, mentoring and field internships in business, and formerly founded Imagine That!, a collaborative network of professional multimedia designers and producers. Mark received his BA from Tennessee Temple University and his graduate school education at Dallas Theological Seminary.
Jon Kokko - is an experienced IT professional who has worked as a network engineer at the National Center for Policy Analysis, a Washington D.C. based think tank that provides research, strategy and analysis for political candidates. At the NCPA, Jon was responsible for all daily operations, backup strategies, firewall management, and desktop support for both local and remote office applications in a multi-platform computing environment. Formerly he worked as a network security engineer for Irving, Texas based PSI Net in their Consulting Solutions division where he performed security assessments involving penetration testing, risk assessment, vulnerability analysis and network infrastructure examination for security needs. Jon has worked for companies such as Verizon, Microsoft, Lucent Technologies and Micro Warranty Services-Autosig Systems. He is experienced in managing network operations for Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Unix, Linux and Novel systems and has conducted oversight and implementation of website design and management for both intranet and internet solutions. Jon has handled both training and installation for Autosig Products in national and international banking networks and collaborated on the maintenance and accuracy of Knowledge Base articles for Microsoft Publisher and PowerPoint and provided end user technical support focusing on the network deployment of Microsoft Office 2000.
Yolanda Castillo-Crossley - is the President of IFT Consulting in Dallas where she specializes in financial and strategic management consulting, providing services to small businesses for the DFW Minority Business Development Center of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Her 15 years in the financial services field include experience as Assistant Vice President of Banco Popular North America and Community Reinvestment Officer for the Texas Region, and as a commercial lender for the Small Business Administration. A frequently requested motivational speaker on topics of social and economic justice, she’s a member of the American Bankers Association (State and National), the Association of Finance Professionals, the Gulf Coast Hispanic Bankers Association and DFW Hispanic Women’s Bankers Association. Active in the Hispanic community, she’s participated in community education and revitalization programs such as the University of North Texas Small Business Institute Programs, The Dallas Plan; Spanish-Speaking Community and the Central Business District Gateways for Urban Planning. She’s a scholarship award winner with the International Conference for the National Society of Fund Raising Executives, a facilitator for The Emerging Leaders Conference of The Women's Center, and the Dallas Independent School District Principal's Institute Global Initiative II Conference. She received her Bachelors degree in Business Administration at the University of North Texas in Computer Information Systems and Strategic Management, and is also an Alumnus of the Tuck Executive Education program at Dartmouth University, an Alumnus for Grantsmanship Center/Institute and CMBA Alumnus at the University of Texas at Austin.
Adeeba Deterville - is a financial services career professional with 15 years experience in the industry where she’s trained boards and executive directors, worked in community development with both Citibank and Wells Fargo, and is the Vice Chair of the San Francisco Chapter of the Urban Financial Services Coalition. President of her own company, (Deterville Consulting), she has been a leader in the San Francisco banking community as a member of the Public Sector Affordable Housing Impact Circle, and managed Citibank’s East Bay Community Reinvestment ACT (CRA) programs at the corporate level, providing guidance and assistance to increase the economic, racial and ethnic diversity of the bank’s customers and geographic areas. Her experience includes creating products, services and programs for strategic community partnerships that satisfy bank lending, service and investment requirements and developing financial literacy programming for public schools. An experienced social venture entrepreneur, she is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Sankofa Cultural Center in Oakland California, a non profit organization built on a true financial sustainability business model. Adeeba has received numerous awards and recognition from the bay area banking community and is completing her degree in Non Profit Administration from the University of San Francisco. A student of African psychology and philosophy, she serves on the SBIG’s Council of Financial and Professional Business Advisors.