Kris Land

Current

CTO / CEO at Finarta Limited, Finarta USA
CEO at California Technology Solutions
Owner Operator at SeaBird Adventures

Advisor to the CEO at Media Titan Inc.

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Past

CTO, Founder at InoStor
CTO, Founder, Board Memeber at LAND-5 Corporation
President, CEO, Founder at WARP-1 Corporation

President, CEO, Founder at LAND-5 Corporation
CTO, VP Research & Development at OCTuS Inc.
President, CEO, Founder at PARADOX Communications
President, CEO, Founder at PARADOX Securities
VP Research & Development at Security Pacific National Bank
CTO, Co-Founder at Advanced Consumer Technologies
President, CEO, Founder at Computer Development

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Education

Santa Clara University
Bismarck Junior College

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Kris Land’s Summary

Extensive management experience in leading the development and implementation of emerging technologies to increase productivity while streamlining efficiency and producing rapid and sustained business growth.
• Proven track record of developing successful and innovative culture focused on developing systems and structure. Identify, recruit, train, and support key middle and upper management, building a culture of professional discipline that produces needed systems and structures as well as high integrity.
• Expert in transforming outdated large-scale operations into state of the art facilities utilizing cutting edge technologies.
• Specialist in the design, development and delivery of cost-effective, high-performance technology solutions to meet challenging business demands.
• Combines proficiency in strategic planning, P&L, management, marketing and business development with sophisticated technology skills.
• Extensive experience in managing joint ventures, technology transfers, and commercialization of strategic alliances.
• Holds numerous United States and International Patents, with patents pending in storage, communications & networking technologies, providing a foundation for fusing business and technology to further the development of the business and to create value for the enterprise.

Executive manager with experience as CEO, CTO, EVP of Technology, VP of Engineering, and founder of nine previous companies. While in these positions my respective teams and I have delivered unique solutions that transformed corporate goals into reality, built effective business solutions, and produced rapid and sustained business growth.

Kris Land’s Specialties:

Internet, Intranet Communications • Storage Technologies • Management Team Development Strategic & Operational Planning • Multimillion-Dollar P&L Oversight Operating and Capital Budgets • Document Management • Workflow Optimization & Imaging Technology • Management & System Implementation • Strategic Negotiations • E-Commerce Extranet • Data Center Design • Business Continuity Planning • Physical and Network Security

Kris Land’s Experience

CTO / CEO

Finarta Limited, Finarta USA

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Fine Art industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years)

Finarta Limited is an English corporation based out of London in the business of facilitating the trading of museum quality prints between a select membership of world-wide high-end galleries. Finarta USA is the technology development arm for Finarta Limited.
CEO

California Technology Solutions

(Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

Founder of California Technology Solutions

Kris has extensive management experience in leading the development and implementation of emerging technologies to increase productivity while streamlining efficiency and producing rapid and sustained business growth.

Kris is an expert at transforming outdated large-scale operations into state of the art facilities utilizing cutting edge technologies. He is also a specialist in the design, development and delivery of cost-effective, high-performance technology solutions to meet challenging business demands.

Interestingly, Kris holds numerous United States and International Patents, with patents pending in storage, communications & networking technologies.

Kris has experience working as CEO, CTO, EVP of Technology, VP of Engineering, and founder of nine previous companies. While in these positions, Kris and his respective teams delivered unique solutions that transformed corporate goals into reality, built effective business solutions, and produced rapid and sustained business growth.
Owner Operator

SeaBird Adventures

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Renewables & Environment industry)

May 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

Kris Land a San Diego Based Technology Entrepreneur has entered into a purchase agreement to purchase the "Sea Bird": a Camano Class Light Cargo Ship Laid down, 1944 for the US Army as FS-289 at Wheeler Shipbuilding, Whitestone, N.Y. Delivered to the US Army in 1945 Acquired by the US Navy, 1 July 1950 Placed in service as USNS New Bedford (T-AKL-17), 1961 Placed out of service in 1963 Reclassified Miscellaneous Unclassified, (IX-308), 1971 New Bedford (IX-308) served as a Torpedo Test Firing Vessel in the Puget Sound area Struck from the Naval Register, 4 April 1995 Sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service, for commercial service, 11 June 1996 Current Disposition, tuna long liner (fishing boat) Sea Bird out of San Diego, CA.
GO See the SeaBird at www.seabirdadventure.com
Advisor to the CEO

Media Titan Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

Advising Media Titan on formation of business structures, drafting company policies and structuring commercial transactions. Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development, Brand development, web site traffic growth, web site UI and advertising revenue. Developing brand strategy and statistics systems. Media Titan can be seen at www.mediatitan.com
CTO, Founder

InoStor

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2002 — April 2005 (3 years 3 months)

Oversaw the successful merger of Tandberg Data and LAND-5 Corporation into InoStor Corporation, and following the merger was responsible for managing world-wide technology from the US Headquarters in Poway CA. While in this role with InoStor was responsible for leading Tandberg ASA, Norway and Tandberg’s European offices into the Network and Data Storage markets with patented technologies including InoStos’s “NAS” Networked Attached Storage Line “InteliNAS”, RAIDn an unique mathematical approach to multi-drive redundancy in RAID arrays and “ValueNas” the industries first SATA based NAS storage system. Mr. Land, a 25-year veteran of the computer industry, co-founded LAND-5 in 1994 to address customer needs for high-performance products that protect critical network data.
CTO, Founder, Board Memeber

LAND-5 Corporation

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1997 — February 2002 (5 years 1 month)

Directed the creation of LAND-5 Corporation a manufacturer of high-performance mission critical IT center equipment. LAND-5 built Symmetrical multi-processor servers, Multi-channel Communication Servers, Large multi-homed SCSI and Fibre Channel Storage arrays and High-speed Multi-drive Tape Arrays. LAND-5 has received numerous awards and was awarded San Diego’s fastest growing companies award two years running. Mr. Land, a 25-year veteran of the computer industry, founded LAND-5 in 1994 to address customer needs for high-performance products that protect critical network data.
President, CEO, Founder

WARP-1 Corporation

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

February 1999 — August 2001 (2 years 7 months)

Designer and maker of "Illusions" an early stage massive multi-player on line gamming system and "Next World" a graphically rich 3-D world for being a capitalists while playing a game.
President, CEO, Founder

LAND-5 Corporation

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 1994 — February 1997 (2 years 10 months)

Mr. Land, a 25-year veteran of the computer industry, founded LAND-5 in 1994 to address customer needs for high-performance products that protect critical network data. Co-Spearheaded an Initial Claims Process Re-engineering initiative with Bruce Nash, the CTO of Robert Plan Insurance Corporation a subsidiary of AIG Insurance. During this effort all operations were critically analyzed to determine how to reduce the amount of paper reliance and thereby streamline operations. The project completed with the successful implementation of an Electronic Document Management and Imaging Workflow solution across multiple business unit resulting in enormous productivity gains thus eliminating the need to hire additional employees to support the State regulations regarding Initial Claims Process call management.
CTO, VP Research & Development

OCTuS Inc.

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 1992 — April 1994 (2 years 3 months)

As CTO & EVP of R&D helped transform Office Automation System “OAS”, based in San Diego, from a stagnant laser printing manufacturer to an innovative networked communications software and hardware company by reorganizing the infrastructure and product direction, and providing clear and focused technological vision. Co-managed the IPO process and road show with the Chairman of the board, Nolan Bushnell and President CEO John Belden, which lead to a successful IPO under the new name of OCTuS, Inc. Mr. Land, served as chief technical officer and vice president of research and development for Octus, where his efforts were key to repositioning the company from a manufacturer of laser printers to a developer of integrated communications software.
President, CEO, Founder

PARADOX Communications

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 1989 — February 1992 (3 years)

Founded Paradox Development Corporation which deployed the corporations’ first Extranet based products, allowing customers access to critical financial records and imaged documents online via secure x.400 & x.500 network connections. Utilizing Paradox developed Para-Mail, Net-Fax, OCR-Server and Voice manager the worlds 1st fully networked email and document distribution system which supported imaging software, the corporation was able to streamline all aspects of its customers communications needs and improve overall customer satisfaction. Paradox Development worked directly with Novell, Inc. during the height of their market growth and Paradox’s partner company received funding from “Ray Norda’s” personal fund for the Net-Fax product line. Makers of Para-Mail an electonic mail package designed to work with Novell's MHS and x.400, x.500 international email protocols, NetFax, OCRServer, VOICEManager the first networked fax sever, Optical recoginition & voice mail servers available.
President, CEO, Founder

PARADOX Securities

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 1985 — March 1989 (3 years 11 months)

Designed and wrote securities software for Security Pacific National Bank. Packages included "The Investment Prospector", "Wall Street Oracle" & "The Investment Stratigist"
VP Research & Development

Security Pacific National Bank

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Banking industry)

February 1983 — May 1985 (2 years 4 months)

As VP of R&D for Security Pacific National Bank, managed teams responsible for the design and development of new technologies to support the firm’s investment research business. Key achievements included: development of Wall Street Miner a data mining tool that created a mechanism to extract information from Standard and Poor’s / Quotron, The Investment Prospector a software interface that received information form Wall Street Miner and allowed banks investors the ability to take thousands of stock and bonds with hundreds of data points and do what if- analysis; The Wall Street Oracle a computer generated monthly publication that aggregated the opinions of market strategists, quants and technicians, on a forward looking, rolling 18 month cycle.Managed approx. 1700 people for U.S. research operations for SPNB communications, information technologies, database management and coordination and data management.
CTO, Co-Founder

Advanced Consumer Technologies

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1982 — February 1983 (7 months)

Co-founder and CTO of “ACT”, Advanced Consumer Technologies, responsible for the design of advanced networks for the US Navy and Air Force as well as numerous banking institutions. ACT was a San Diego based reseller of DEC Rainbow, IBM Pc, PCjr., Molecular, Altos, Epson and TEktronix computers. Designed early stage networks for customers and company flow -- policies and procedures.
President, CEO, Founder

Computer Development

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 1980 — February 1982 (2 years 1 month)

Designed and wrote computer business and accounting software for farming and grain elevators on Apple II computers using Corvus networked storage.

Kris Land’s Education

Santa Clara University

BA , Business, Hi-Technology Companies , 1989 — 1992
Bismarck Junior College

AA , Electronics , 1979 — 1982

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Kris Land’s Interests:

Master Diver, Sailing, Skiing, Sky Diving, Hiking

Kris Land’s Groups:

• Member of UCSD Chancellors • AEA • UCSD Connect • San Diego Angels • TEC • MIT Forum • United states Taekwon-Do Federation • Named “Who’s Who in Technology, Sterling Edition & Business Entrepreneurs” • NAUI Master Diver • PADI Master Diver • Scripps Ranch Swim & Tennis Club • San Diego Teen Support Group • Board Member P.A.R.T.S “Parents & Adolescents Recovering Together Successfully”