Executive Team
Richard Love, Chief Executive Officer, is a cofounder of AP Technology, a board member, and is responsible for setting the company vision and technical direction. His executive and engineering leadership has pioneered industry-first technologies for MICR laser check printing, as well as secure financial data conversion and unattended web transmission. Prior to founding AP Technology, Mr. Love co-founded Torrey Pines Research, serving as COO and Executive Vice President for Technology from 1986 - 1998. His experience also includes being the Technical Manager of Development for the U.S. government MICR printing systems. He has a long history of designing hardware and software solutions, including personal computers, IBM's first laptop, and peripheral devices.
Dave Schaefer, Chief Operating Officer, has a strong operations background and extensive experience in developing financial organizations. Most recently as COO/CFO at Eldorado Stone he assisted the Company in instituting lean manufacturing practices and implementing supply chain management systems. Prior to joining Eldorado, he was the CFO and interim CEO of buyproduce.com. Prior to buyproduce.com, he served as CEO of Lynx Golf Company and COO/CFO of Cobra Golf Incorporated. While at Cobra, he was responsible for building the operations to support Cobra's 10-fold sales growth over a six-year period and led to Cobra's initial public offering in 1993. He holds a B. S. in Business Administration from Miami University in Oxford Ohio and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Anita Hill, Chief Financial Officer, has over twenty-five years of experience in corporate financial management. Prior to AP Technology, she served as Vice President of Finance for DIG MEDIA, Vice President & Controller of COMPS.COM and Vice President of Finance for ZD Market Intelligence. Anita's expertise includes all aspects of financial reporting and management, including IPO-related investor relations, fundraising, M&A activity and human resource functions.
David Robey, Senior Vice President of Business Development, previously worked with First Data Corporation where he served in various sales and management roles. Most notably, David was responsible for an exponential increase in annual revenue for the First Data Division, IPS (Official Check, Money Order Payment Systems), primarily servicing large to mid-size financial institutions. David has excelled in everything he has been involved with, including prior roles selling into in the Health Care market.
Donovan Perkins, Senior Vice President Strategic Markets and Major Accounts, has worked with the nation’s leading banks on implementing financial data exchange and unattended web transmission solutions designed to prevent fraud and improve the connection between banks and their commercial customers. Mr. Perkins was the founder and President of United Systems Company, a hardware/software storage system development and integration firm supporting customers such as IBM, DEC, Disney Productions, Boeing and major industrial distributors. Additionally, Mr. Perkins has held executive sales and management positions with ANDATACO, Summit Healthcare and Control Data Corporation.
Joe Briski, Senior Vice President of Sales, oversees development and marketing for AP Technology’s customer software and web service solutions. These solutions connect banks and businesses by automating data normalization and transmission for multiple bank specifications and formats. He has played an important role in improving the user experience and product functionality within the AP Technology software and web service lines for both the banking and customer solutions.
Pat Griffin, Vice President of Product Development, leads development of AP Technology solutions. Prior to this, he worked for Hewlett-Packard on their LaserJet printers and solutions. Pat’s strengths have helped AP Technology create automated technologies that meet emerging banking standards and restore security to banking communications without the need for tedious manual processes.
