Management
The founders of MindBox® are well-established in the software products and services industry — with a combined 100+ years of experience.  In addition, the other members of the management team bring depth of experience in the areas of engineering, marketing, finance and operations.

Bill Richer
General Manager 

Bill Richer has more than 23 years experience in the knowledge-based systems industry.  His experience ranges from product development and consulting to sales and executive management.  He was the former Vice President of Consulting for Brightware's Solutions Division, responsible for management of both North American and International operations.  Prior to Brightware, Mr. Richer was a Regional Consulting Manager for the Front Office Solutions Division at Inference Corporation.  He came to Inference from the Carnegie Group (which, with Inference, was one of the original four commercial Artificial Intelligence companies), where he filled various technical roles.  Mr. Richer has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Delaware and a Bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Waterloo.


Chuck Pepe
Vice President of Consulting

Chuck Pepe has 22 years of experience in managing, building and deploying complex mission critical applications; 13 years in Financial Services, 6 years for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, 3 years in the area of Automated Design and System Configuration for Westinghouse Electric.  He was one of the original developers of Fannie Mae's Desktop Underwriter system and he has built or managed the development of intelligent decision systems for large and small mortgage companies, banks, Wall Street firms and credit unions.  He has a M.S. in Artificial Intelligence from Northeastern University, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Catholic University and a B.S. in Physics from Georgetown University.  He has published several articles on both Rule-based and Model-based reasoning systems.


Charles Storm
Director of Sales

Charles Storm has over 27 years of experience in the Mortgage and Financial Services Industries and has 12 years of sales and marketing expertise at a variety of software companies.  He began his career in Commercial Banking within the Mortgage Group and went into sales after 15 years of working with Commercial Banks and Savings and Loans.  Mr. Storm previously worked with GHR Systems, Inc., MortgageFlex Systems, Inc., Ignition Mortgage Technology Solutions, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Freddie Mac and RF/Spectrum Decision Science Corporation, a division of Fiserv.