Quintesocial

Barbara Iaquinto, Founder and Chief Executive Officer

A General Motors scholar and cooperative education intern during college at the University of Illinois-Chicago, Barb was recruited into Ameritech-Illinois Bell Telephone’s management development program and was rapidly promoted Manager, Strategic Planning. She next joined a joint venture of IBM and Motorola as a member of the start-up team.

After the joint venture exceeded its business plan for selling excess capacity on the proprietary radio frequency network, she joined Commonwealth Technology, Inc. a civil engineering firm in Lexington, Kentucky to commercialize their captive environmental laboratory. Five years later, she purchased the laboratory with backing from angel investors.

Barb's next venture was to launch a city/metro magazine covering general interest and business/economic development with the backing of the Siouxland Chamber of Commerce covering the tri-state area of Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. This successful enterprise was later sold to Pioneer Communications in Des Moines, Iowa.

You can learn more about Barb by reading her blog: Meet Barb.

T. Hoke Currie, Chief Information Officer

Hoke is a co-founder of Quintesocial with Barbara Iaquinto, and is charged with overseeing information technology development and keeping Quintesocial's technical capability aligned with business goals.

Prior to Quintesocial, Hoke worked in medical research before becoming a technical project lead and eventually Chief of Operations of the University of South Carolina Advanced Solutions Group (ASG) in 1999. At ASG, he managed an elite software and database development team of twenty that generated almost $11 million in federal grants from DARPA and the Department of Justice. Hoke later became COO of USC's second incubator company, E811 Inc., before forming GraySail LLC with partner Scott Shealy in 2002.

Scott Shealy, Chief Technology Officer

An Honors graduate of USC, Scott is a strong technologist who architects web software, security, and technical infrastructure for Quintesocial.

Scott has formerly served as Lead Developer for the University of South Carolina Advanced Solutions Group, where he architected mission-critical large-scale web and database applications for South Carolina and Colorado. Scott co-founded GraySail LLC, where he has served as CTO since 2002, with a variety of impressive accomplishments, including performing chief architecture and consulting services for a massive (20+ Terabyte) Analytic Data Warehouse for Medicare Fraud Detection, and establishing web architecture for one of the world's largest medical information web sites.