Our Advisors

Steve Bielawski

A senior direct and indirect/channel sales manager/executive, with a 25+ year track record of SME and Enterprise focused success in rapid growth technology companies. Recognized as an effective sales business developer, a strong relationship manager with excellent sales leadership skills.

Key strengths include first-class sales management skills, and a history of building, focusing, mentoring and motivating sales and technology professionals to attain top performance. Strong collaborative sales process skills, strategic account penetration and leveraging sales automation processes and tools for complex sales opportunities.

Mic has over eighteen years broad-based experience working with innovation oriented companies. She held leadership marketing, business development, and product roles at Mozilla, Yahoo, CGI, itemus, and spent her earlier career at McKinsey & Company. In each role, Mic created 10s of millions in value by creating new product offerings, building and leading high performance teams and applying her business analytic and strategic acumen to growth opportunities.

Mic is a founding partner at Embarkonit.com where she focuses the leadership intelligence and skill set of her clients to improve performance and ensure success against their goals. Mic does this by listening to existing ideas and opportunities and working with the team to put structures in place to action, measure and transform these ideas into significant business results. Mic’s work has resulted in millions of dollars in increased value for her clients.

Kevin Tribe

Kevin Tribe brings 30 years of hands-on experience working in North American software, computer hardware and professional services organizations. He’s worked at senior management levels with multi-nationals, mid-sized firms and has been the President and CEO of several software companies. Having successfully completed acquisitions for the larger firms he worked with, he used those skills to invest in and build PointForce, a software developer of ERP solutions for the Supply Chain market. Growing organically and through the acquisition of several smaller firms he successfully sold the company to a publicly traded firm in 2003. He subsequently was made partner in a boutique M&A company before forming his own company in 2009.

Kevin is the owner and Managing Director of Tequity Inc., Merger & Acquisition advisors to entrepreneurs and shareholders of North American Software, Telecom and Technology businesses. These companies have strategic value beyond that shown on their balance sheets; in their Intangible Assets, Intellectual Capital, and Knowledge-Based Workers. Kevin and his team have assisted dozens of CEO’s and shareholder groups successfully achieve their personal and business objectives.