Expand Beyond

Tony LaPine has a 30-year legacy as an icon of business and technology in the Silicon Valley, and continues to guide Semotus Solutions' and Expand Beyond's progress, its development as well as its current and future business plans. Mr. LaPine has served as a member of 20 corporate Boards for companies across a broad spectrum of industries, and he has created a legendary career in the realm of computing technology. He served as a member of the engineering team that gave birth to the modern disk drive. Mr. LaPine was one of the founders of Memorex's Equipment Group where he was instrumental in developing the floppy disk drive, a cornerstone of today's personal computer revolution. In addition, he played a major role in Memorex's historic turnaround, re-listing Memorex on the New York Stock Exchange-the only company ever re-listed.

Jeremy Wechsler, Director of Development, has architected the core engine and application design for Expand Beyond product release since 2001 and coded over 100,000 lines of code with his development team. Wechsler has been a professional software developer, database administrator and systems architect since 1987. Wechsler is the former Director of Database Applications for Playboy Enterprises, where he oversaw their online development strategies. Previously, as the founder of Fontema Systems, he designed and deployed innovative solutions in a wide variety of vertical markets. He is an expert coder in PL/SQL, Java, C++ and numerous other languages, and has won the 4D National Developers Competition in 1995. Wechsler received his B.S. from Northwestern University.