Leadership

George Mackie, Chairman

George became Chairman of Adaptivity in October 2010 when Noro-Moseley Partners(NMP) led a syndicate of venture capital firms in the Company’s Series A round of institutional capital.

Prior to joining Adaptivity, George was a Venture Partner with Noro-Moseley Partners where he played an active role in reviewing investment opportunities and in working with NMP portfolio companies to create and manage high growth.  George is a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record of leading several successful software companies including DBS Systems Corporation, the exclusive provider of all billing and customer care services to DIRECTV since its launch in 1994.

George received a BS in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina, where he frequently visits as a lecturer in the Entrepreneurship program.

Phil Walton, President & CEO

Phil Walton is the President and CEO of Adaptivity.  Phil has 26 years of extensive financial services industry and technology experience with global financial services organizations. He has deep knowledge in the financial services industry with customer relationship management, application optimization and data center transformation.  He has many years of sales, management and delivery experience and is very focused on bringing business value to organizations.

Phil worked for Hewlett-Packard Company leading the financial services vertical from March of 2009 to September of 2011 and he worked at IBM as the Managing Director for the Bank of America global account.  In addition he was Senior Manager and then Partner with PWC Consulting a Managing Director at American Management Systems and a Managing Director at Resources Global Professionals.  Phil also held senior positions with several banks including Huntington National Bank, Old Kent Bank and National City Bank.  He holds a BS degree in Business Administration and Systems Analysis from Taylor University in Indiana.

Phil has worked in the Charlotte NC community on the boards of the North Carolina Dance Theatre, United Way Campaign Council and the Charlotte Rescue Mission. He was honored with the 2007 Father of the Year Award by the Charlotte American Diabetes Association and was the 2009 Co-Chair for the Father’s Day Council.  Phil and his wife, Dana, and three children live in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Matt Barrington, COO

Matt leads the product management, development & advisory services areas of Adaptivity.  He oversees the strategy and execution of their Blueprint4IT software platform across their client base including their innovative Blueprint-as-a-Service (BPaaS) solutions across cloud strategy, application infrastructure simplification & datacenter transformations.

Matt has over 20 years of IT experience in software, financial services and management consulting across multiple industry sectors.  He specializes in creating and operating business-driven, high-volume, enterprise IT solutions and has 15 years of direct experience in eCommerce.   Prior to joining Adaptivity, he was SVP, Director of the Internet Technologies and Services group at Wachovia/Wells Fargo which included the utility platform which powered their number one rated website.  He was also a senior consultant with Towers Perrin and led the design, development and implementation of several enabling technology efforts across multiple industry segments.  Matt began his career at a software company spin-off from AT&T Bell Labs.

Sheppard Narkier, Co-founder & Chief Scientist

Sheppard is a co-founder and Chief Scientist of Adaptivity. Sheppard is responsible for evolving Adaptivity’s suite of intellectual tools. Moreover, he collaborates very closely with our team and clients on the constant evolution of our RTI Stack solution components and the associated Utility Operating Models we provide to our customers to ensure best in class execution and operations. Sheppard most recently served as Head of Software Portfolio Management and IT Governance at Wachovia’s Corporate Investment Banking Technology Group where he was part of a team that designed, built, and implemented a leading-edge service-oriented architecture and utility computing infrastructure.

Sheppard has over 30 years experience as a senior technical manager and architect. He has been recognized for building high performance, committed teams with a record of delivering measurable business value in demanding IT environments, such as stock exchanges and other financial services related firms. He has exhibited effective leadership as a facilitator of change, adept at synthesizing and executing a common vision to drive an organization’s goals.

Kevin Dell, CAO and General Counsel

As CAO and General Counsel, Kevin is responsible for all legal matters for the company, in particular, contracts, strategic partnering agreements and debt and equity financings.  Kevin also oversees finance and human resources.  Kevin has over 25 years experience as counsel to both public and private technology and outsourcing services companies. He is particularly effective in helping businesses accelerate growth. He most recently served as General Counsel of DataSynapse, Inc., a private, venture capital financed grid computing platform. Prior to that, he served as General Counsel of The BISYS Group, Inc., a public company outsourcing services provider to financial institutions, and Concurrent Computer Corporation, a public company manufacturer and distributor of specialty real-time computing systems.

Bob MacFarlane, CTO

Bob leads the product management, research and development, as well as the quality assurance teams for Adaptivity. He is responsible for ensuring that the company continues to be a leading innovator in the delivery of software and services that aid enterprises in realizing significant gains, minimal risk and reduced resources. In particular, Mr. MacFarlane will drive innovation to ensure that Adaptivity’s Blueprint4IT Lifecycle Suite(TM) of software products continues to deliver a repeatable, scalable, fit-for-purpose infrastructure planning and design solution that aligns IT to the business.

Bob has over 20 years of IT leadership experience in infrastructure delivery, operations, asset management, CMDB solutions and management consulting across multiple industry sectors. He specializes in leveraging complex datasets to solve business driven enterprise programs. Prior to joining Adaptivity, he was VP, Director of Engineering Practices with responsibility for hardware and software asset management at Wachovia/Wells Fargo. He was also an IT director with EMC corporation and led the development and implementation of several enabling technology efforts, including a federated CMDB, enterprise knowledge management solution and leveraged many of EMCs technology solutions within their IT practice. Previously, Bob also held leadership positions at FORE systems and Stratus computer.