After graduating from The University of Queensland, Australia with a Bachelor of Commerce degree, John obtained his Chartered Accounting qualifications. In his three years working in Europe he gained experience in international investment banking and venture capital investment. He has 30 years of real estate investment experience both in Australia and the US. This experience includes financial administration, corporate and property specific financing, asset management, property acquisitions and dispositions, capital markets and strategic planning. Over the past eight years John has been active in private investments in financial services, investment real estate and technology.
Jason Deadrich, CEO and Founder
Jason is an Internet visionary and entrepreneur who started his career by leading the launch of LucasArts Entertainment's complex online system architecture in 1992. After gaining a wealth of technical knowledge and over a decade of digital media experience launching the media infrastructure of companies such as Mazingo Networks and Tranz-Send Broadcasting Company, Jason founded Fordela with the vision of creating an intuitive, scalable and cost-effective rich media management solution which could be offered as a cloud-based service. While pioneering the company into a space where dealing with all media is seamlessly and intuitively integrated into both enterprise infrastructure and commerce, Jason Deadrich also acts as a local industry leader, allowing his technical knowledge to be tapped as a community resource as he speaks at college campuses and technological conventions, and teaches students from the San Francisco Academy of Art.
Henry C. "Monty" Montgomery, Acting CFO
Monty has been providing finance and accounting services to startups, small businesses and venture capital firms for over 20 years. Previously, he was Managing Director at Montgomery Professional Services Corporation in charge of their Outsourced Finance and Accounting division. Prior to MPSC Monty was CFO at Techfarm Venture Capital, a Bay Area VC firm with over $250 million under management and Director of Finance at EXP Systems. He has industry expertise in enterprise software and internet services.
