who we are

As Vice President of Strategy, Dave is responsible for driving thought leadership, vision and direction across each of Cynergy’s divisions. An avid and engaging speaker, Dave is steadily presenting at industry leading conferences worldwide as well as to key press an analysts on Cynergy’s passionate belief in changing the way people experience and interact with software today and tomorrow.

In earlier lives, Dave held senior engineering and marketing management positions at major software corporations including Microsoft and Sybase, where he was responsible for envisioning, developing and launching many new software products. Officially based in Cynergy’s headquarters in the Nation’s Capital, he is often on the road more than he is in the District, espousing Cynergy’s work, research and experience in designing and creating incredible new software experiences. You can reach Dave at dave.wolf@cynergysystems.com

As the Vice President of Software Development, Mark is responsible for all of Cynergy's RIA development and design services worldwide. Mark spends much of his time working to ensure that execution is delivering the quality that our customers demand in both design and development. Whether working with our customers, business partners, user experience group, or technical leadership, Mark keeps everyone focused towards the end game: building rich, engaging, powerful software through a transparent and repeatable process to create long lasting, mutually beneficial business relationships.

With a formal education in computer science and a career spent in management and consulting, Mark brings experience, maturity, and an acute attention to detail to all of Cynergy's relationships. Although based out of Cynergy’s San Diego office, Mark is frequently on the road in one of our many offices meeting with our development teams and working towards the success of their projects. You can reach Mark at mark.shank@cynergysystems.com

With a long career in enterprise software development, Rick oversees all sales efforts at Cynergy worldwide. Like everyone on his team, Rick comes from development rather than sales affording him a deep understanding and appreciation for the value Cynergy provides through unsurpassed talent and sophisticated process. As Rick will be quick to tell you, at the end of the day it’s user experience that ultimately sells software. Rick’s passion is to help each Cynergy customer achieve that rich and engaging user experience in their own software that allows them to capture market share and drive sales like never before.

Prior to joining the Cynergy team, Rick spent two decades designing and building mainframe, client/server, and web based software applications for a wide range of clients. Having such a rich background in software development is key to providing the confidence our customers need that we can understand, absorb, and improve their business through RIA development. Rick holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Business Analysis from Texas A&M University. Rick can be reached at rick.george@cynergysystems.com