New team members
Nick Vitalari
Vice President, Strategy
Dr. Nicholas P. Vitalari is CEO and founder of Elasticity Labs and co-founder of Blitzscaling Enterprises. He has served as a professor and associate dean at the UC Irvine, Paul Merage School of Business and the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, a senior vice president and member of the CSC Corporate Technology Steering Committee at Computer Sciences Corporation, a co-founder and executive vice-president at the Concours Group, and as a consultant for Fortune 500 corporations, major agencies in the Federal Government, and numerous startups.
He is the author of four books and is published widely in peer-reviewed journals and business publications. His 2012book (with Haydn Shaughnessy), The Elastic Enterprise: The New Manifesto for Business Revolutionwas one of the first publications to identify the emergence of new scale economics and its role among companies like Amazon, Apple, Google and Netflix. His most recent work, “Blitzscaling and Beyond,” focuses on how corporations, organizations and social enterprises can employ technology and new scaling models to successfully innovate and do good at unprecedented speed.
He has a Ph.D. and an MBA degree from the University of Minnesota, and an undergraduate degree from Marquette University.
Chris Nicolaou
Chris Nicolaou
Director of IT
Chris Nicolaou is business technology executive who has been involved in business start-ups for the last 25 years. He is an executive and business architect with proven experience in launching and growing high-tech service delivery companies. His biggest accomplishment to date has been the founding and sale of an MSP; growing it from annual revenues of $60k to over $5.5MM and has led teams ranging in size from 10 to over 150 people.
His 25 years of experience in business spans consulting and leadership in the fields of aerospace, law, energy, general contracting, insurance and medical industries, to real estate and government, in which he has held roles such as CEO, COO, CIO and CRO.
Eric Maginniss
Eric Maginniss
Director of Engineering
Eric Maginniss has been a startup engineer in Austin for the last 22 years. His skills are primarily in architecture, design, and development for enterprise-scale applications, though his diverse skillset allows him to explore many different areas of technology. While mentoring and management can be very rewarding, he often finds himself happiest throwing on a pair of headphones and untangling some thorny problems. He has had successful and rewarding tenures at ClearCommerce, NewsStand.com, Troux Technologies, Movero, AlienVault (now AT&T Cybersecurity), and Dun & Bradstreet as well as several forays into independent consulting. Eric comes to Quantum Materials Corp very excited about the technology and is thrilled to become part of the team
Nick Vitalari
Vice President, Strategy
Dr. Nicholas P. Vitalari is CEO and founder of Elasticity Labs and co-founder of Blitzscaling Enterprises. He has served as a professor and associate dean at the UC Irvine, Paul Merage School of Business and the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, a senior vice president and member of the CSC Corporate Technology Steering Committee at Computer Sciences Corporation, a co-founder and executive vice-president at the Concours Group, and as a consultant for Fortune 500 corporations, major agencies in the Federal Government, and numerous startups.
He is the author of four books and is published widely in peer-reviewed journals and business publications. His 2012book (with Haydn Shaughnessy), The Elastic Enterprise: The New Manifesto for Business Revolutionwas one of the first publications to identify the emergence of new scale economics and its role among companies like Amazon, Apple, Google and Netflix. His most recent work, “Blitzscaling and Beyond,” focuses on how corporations, organizations and social enterprises can employ technology and new scaling models to successfully innovate and do good at unprecedented speed.
He has a Ph.D. and an MBA degree from the University of Minnesota, and an undergraduate degree from Marquette University.
Chris Nicolaou
Chris Nicolaou
Director of IT
Chris Nicolaou is business technology executive who has been involved in business start-ups for the last 25 years. He is an executive and business architect with proven experience in launching and growing high-tech service delivery companies. His biggest accomplishment to date has been the founding and sale of an MSP; growing it from annual revenues of $60k to over $5.5MM and has led teams ranging in size from 10 to over 150 people.
His 25 years of experience in business spans consulting and leadership in the fields of aerospace, law, energy, general contracting, insurance and medical industries, to real estate and government, in which he has held roles such as CEO, COO, CIO and CRO.
Eric Maginniss
Eric Maginniss
Director of Engineering
Eric Maginniss has been a startup engineer in Austin for the last 22 years. His skills are primarily in architecture, design, and development for enterprise-scale applications, though his diverse skillset allows him to explore many different areas of technology. While mentoring and management can be very rewarding, he often finds himself happiest throwing on a pair of headphones and untangling some thorny problems. He has had successful and rewarding tenures at ClearCommerce, NewsStand.com, Troux Technologies, Movero, AlienVault (now AT&T Cybersecurity), and Dun & Bradstreet as well as several forays into independent consulting. Eric comes to Quantum Materials Corp very excited about the technology and is thrilled to become part of the team
