Jack Blount
Founder, Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer
Jack Blount is Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Alpha Bay. Mr. Blount founded the corporation in 2005 and has served as leader of the organization since its inception.

Mr. Blount began his career with IBM more than 30 years ago. Since then, Mr. Blount has held a series of executive and leadership positions with many of Technology’s most creative and influential forces of their times, including Novell, Borland, Raindance Communications, TeleComputing, and JD Edwards. Mr. Blount’s experience is deep technically, encompassing efforts in enterprise software, personal productive software, Internet, telephony, data networking, wireless networking, and hardware. Mr. Blount’s corporate experience is cross-functional in nature, including sales, marketing, and operational responsibility for both international and domestic products and services, including strategic product launches in the U.S., Europe, Canada, Japan, China, and Latin America.

For more than 20 years, Mr. Blount has operated in senior management positions including the roles of Chairman, CEO, COO, and CTO and has built a reputation as a practiced and successful executive in coalescing talent to successfully lead teams and achieve impressive, profitable corporate growth in all economic and business situations, including four successful turnarounds of distressed organizations. Of most recent note, he led Dynix Corporation to double-digit sales growth for three consecutive years and manufactured its external purchase.

Ingrained with entrepreneurship, Mr. Blount has launched three software startups, taken two software companies public, and worked in tandem with venture capital and private equity communities during the corporate lifecycle. Furthermore, Mr. Blount has sat on the Board of Directors of more than a dozen technology companies and shares his expertise more generally as a frequent speaker at industry conferences globally, including COMDEX, Windows World, PC Expo, NetWorld, CeBIT, CTIA Wireless Apps, and Telecom Asia.

Mr. Blount is a graduate of the Southern Methodist University with degrees in math and computer science. He is also a graduate of IBM's esteemed Watson Institute in MBA studies.

Byers Parsons
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Byers Parsons is Alpha Bay’s Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Parsons has focused on building the technical product and corporate infrastructure needed to continue Alpha Bay’s rapid growth and on ensuring that quality remains high, while product development cycle times are kept to a minimum. Along with Mr. Jack Blount and Mr. Bill Davison, Mr. Parsons shares responsibility for Alpha Bay's day-to-day operations.

Mr. Parsons worked with Mr. Blount and Mr. Davison at both Raindance Corporation, where he designed and architected a new collaboration solution, and later at Dynix Corporation, where he architected the next generation of their primary product. Mr. Parson’s experience culminates a 20-year record of achievement as an Internet strategist, entrepreneur and developer of great technologies. His well-seasoned perspective perfectly complements Alpha Bay's customers' needs as a young and rapidly growing adaptive, retail application provider with a unique corporate culture for turning out customer value in rapid form.

Mr. Parsons, has built many high performance teams using his knowledge of processes and project management. He has developed many large scale systems quickly, while also improving quality through the use of automated testing processes. This resulted in significantly reduced support and maintenance costs for many products.

Mr. Parsons’ first software architect role was at Martin Marietta, where he won the Excalibur award for technical achievement for work with the GAPP, a massively parallel processor. He also worked for the U.S. Army and Navy on several high up-time and secure communications systems.

Mr. Parsons was the chief architect of a Small Office Home Office (SOHO) joint venture between Signet Bank and United Video Satellite Group (UVSG). He was a senior software architect at Integram International, which developed a worldwide distributed system for unified messaging and faxing.

Mr. Parsons has consulted for Sun Microsystems, Storage Tek, US West (Qwest), @Home, HP, Digital Instruments, Delta Airlines, and other major companies on near real-time and large scale systems.

Mr. Parsons has taught Lisp, Prolog, Smalltalk, and Java programming for several large companies and at Seybold conferences. He has taken many post-graduate classes in artificial intelligence, parallel and distributed systems, and languages systems.

Mr. Parsons has a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Florida State University.

Jeromy T. Wilson
Co-Founder & Director of Product Management
Jeromy Wilson is Alpha Bay’s Director of Product Management and has been with the firm since its inception in 2005. In his role at Alpha Bay, Mr. Wilson works closely with customers and industry pundits to guide the continual enhancement and new development of the Adaptive Integrated Retail System—AIRS®.

Mr. Wilson most recently worked at SirsiDynix Corporation where he was respected by employees and customers as a product expert and industry expert in the areas of portals, multi-source searching, and point of service. While at SirsiDynix he worked closely with the development team, product experts, industry experts, partners, and high profile customers to design and implement large-scale enterprise software systems, including many multi-country implementations.

Mr. Wilson is a frequent speaker and presenter at both US and international conferences and travels extensively, both locally and internationally, to meet with customers.

Mr. Wilson earned a bachelor’s degree in business management with a concentration in marketing from Brigham Young University-Idaho.

Brad Rust
Director of Engineering

Brad Rust is Director of Engineering at Alpha Bay with over ten years of software design and development in enterprise class applications and an additional five years of research experience in heterogeneous, high-performance scheduling software. In his role at Alpha Bay, Mr. Rust, along with his counterpart, Mr. Greg Murray in Colorado, guides the technology development of the Adaptive Integrated Retail System—AIRS®.

Prior to Alpha Bay, Mr. Rust was a Senior Architect at SirsiDynix Corporation where he was involved in a complete re-design and implementation of a large scale enterprise software system.

Previously, Mr. Rust was also a lead designer and developer at Contigo Software and Raindance Communications, where he developed an Internet-based collaboration and communication system. Mr. Rust's development responsibilities have included all aspects of enterprise class applications including thin client, thick client, network, clustered servers, and data storage.

Mr. Rust has a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Maryland.