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Who is BitLeap?
Company Overview
BitLeap®, LLC began several years ago as an idea among two of the founding partners, Lindsay Snider and Guy Suter. The idea was that small and medium sized businesses could benefit from technology products and services that were custom tailored for their critical technical needs but did not require large IT budgets or knowledge to implement.
This idea was refined into a tangible product called the LeapServ over the course of the first year with the help of the third founding partner, Ian Berry. BitLeap moved into the Murata Business Center in August of 2004 to setup a product development and operations center. After product testing began, BitLeap secured a low interest R&D loan from the state of Pennsylvania through Ben Franklin Technology Partners in January 2005.
BitLeap was pleased to announce that Kurt Suter joined the company’s management team as CFO in February 2005; this move increased the company’s financial strength, growth potential, and internal business experience.
BitLeap released the LeapServ® product line, including an advanced web-based customer interface in July 2005. LeapServs are remotely managed network appliance servers capable of conducting advanced automatic offsite data backups to BitLeap’s data storage network, connecting locations through FlexTunnel VPN connections and running many third party applications.
Management Team
Guy Suter - CEO Guy Suter brings a valuable mix of technology awareness with business administration and marketing experience to BitLeap. During his career he has worked for large technology corporations like Qwest Communications in Denver and as part of executive management teams in regional technology companies. As the company’s CEO, he is responsible for making sure that the company has all of the tools necessary to achieve complete customer satisfaction and produce solid growth.
Kurt Suter - CFO Kurt Suter brings decades of business and investment experience to BitLeap’s management team. In addition to acting as BitLeap’s CFO, he currently serves on the board of directors at F&M Trust and CPARC, and is the president of Eastern Motor Inns, Inc. Everyone knows that a company is only as strong as its bottom line. BitLeap is committed to presenting the best financial security possible to our investors. Kurt’s responsibilities as BitLeap’s CFO include helping with business support activities and managing the company’s investor relations program.
Ian Berry - Executive Engineer Ian Berry’s technical background includes the creation of the open source “Cacti” project, in use by thousands of organizations worldwide. He is also a fluent software engineer that has experience with many web technologies such as HTML(Hypertext Markup Language), HTTP(Hypertext Transfer Protocol), PHP(PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor), CSS(Cascading Style Sheets), and XML(Extensible Markup Language). Ian’s primary role as an Executive Engineer with BitLeap is to oversee the development of the web-based customer interface tools that control LeapServ settings and customer service options.
Lindsay Snider - Executive Engineer Lindsay Snider brings extensive network and system administration experience to BitLeap, having worked for multiple Internet Service Providers and software development companies. His ability to design solid back-end components that interact through API’s, databases, and network protocols are an essential component in the LeapServ remote management tools and automated customer services.