Dennis Becker | Mark MacKay | Gary Anstey | Scott Martin | Chris McKibbin

Dennis Becker - President & Chief Executive Officer
Dennis Becker is a technology entrepreneur with extensive experience in telecommunications and Internet software development and has architected the platforms that have enabled CommerceTel to become the first commercially available, IP and software-centric “telecommerce” service provider moving rapidly into the mobile commerce space.

CommerceTel’s flagship product, C4C, is based on Becker’s vision of a web-deployable application platform optimized to operate with both the Internet and Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), allowing the creation of applications natively accessible by any user from any location, across all networks.
Prior to co-founding CommerceTel, Becker held key management and consulting positions for a variety of manufacturing and industrial companies in the Pacific
Northwest. During this time, he designed, developed, and installed a number of innovative solutions, ranging from real-time sales order processing and project control systems to a subjective experience analysis engine for various fields of academic research.

Earlier in his career, Becker founded Frontieric
Corporation, a pioneer in providing complex call routing and merchant processing applications. Frontieric became an award-winning technology company and was twice awarded recognition by The San Diego Software Industry Council’s annual business plan competition.

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Mark MacKay - Chief Financial Officer
Mark has a wealth of experience in running the financial and administrative operations for both private and publicly held technology companies. At CommerceTel, Mark oversees the day to day operations as well as the financial management of the company.

Prior to CommerceTel, Mark served as the corporate controller for One Voice Technologies, a market leader in voice recognition and mobile telecom solutions. At One Voice, Mark managed all accounting and administrative operations and assisted in raising more than $25 million in financing through the public markets. He was also responsible for all SEC compliance and reporting obligations.

Prior to One Voice, Mark was the corporate controller for Enonymous Corporation, a Mission Ventures startup providing Internet privacy technologies.

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Gary Anstey - Vice President Corporate Development
Gary Anstey brings over 25 years of experience to CommerceTel with a strong background in Media, Advertising, Public Relations, Business, and Government Relations. Gary’s role as the Toronto based Vice President of Corporate Development is to pursue business opportunities for CommerceTel, and secure strategic opportunities with media carriers and entertainment, as well as firm up connections for government and enterprise. Gary was President and Principal of Atlantic Perspectives Inc., a Public Affairs, Government Relations and Communications Crisis Management firm, that was established in 1995, and established business with several high-profile clients.

Beginning his career as a journalist in Montreal, Gary was a member of Bell Canada’s Public Relations Department, VP Sales and Marketing for Newfoundland Broadcasting Co., Editor and Managing Director of the Newfoundland Herald, Senior Policy Advisor and Communications Director for the Minister of National Revenue and the Minister for Small Business and Tourism. In 1989, he became President and Principal of Anstey, Pardy, Pelley and Associates Communications, an award-winning public relations and advertising firm, which later merged with Saga Communications in 1992 to form Bristol Communications, one of Atlantic Canada’s largest and most successful public relations and advertising firms with offices in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, where he served as Executive Vice-President.

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Scott Martin - Vice President of Engineering
As the Vice-President of Engineering at CommerceTel, Scott Martin brings 9 years of industry experience to CommerceTel’s creative service environment. His responsibilities for the company focus on the management of the global software development teams in creating a scalable, high availability network presence.  Scott has also been responsible for spearheading the major software release for the C4 2.0 program, and redesigning the entire SQL architecture from the ground up to be normalized and fully relational to the product.

Scott brings a strong technical background to his position.  His past achievements include working as the Director of Engineering for Collateral Risk Solutions, implementing the architecture of a high availability web and SQL server presence.  He also coordinated the design, development and testing of custom, company wide ASP.NET CRM applications, and implemented web services for B2B integration.

Scott has also worked as the Director of Software Engineering at Frontieric Corporation, where he designed and developed a virtual telecommunications system using XML, VOIP, SIP, and Cisco AS53xx platform technologies.  As a Software Test Engineer at Microsoft Corporation, his responsibilities included testing the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Software Development Kit, and ActiveX control-based applications, CIM Studio and Object Browser.

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Chris McKibbin - Director of Client Services
Chris comes to CommerceTel with 11 years in the Technology space, 6 years of those being in the Mobile Marketing industry. He is responsible for all client services activities including Professional Services, Campaign Creation, and Ongoing Support. Prior to joining CommerceTel Chris worked with, Soapbox Mobile, TopCoder Software and SMS.ac where he was responsible for Client Acquisition, retention and ongoing revenue. Chris holds a degree in Communications from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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