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Teaming Leadership with Success
 Patrick Ransom, President and founder of Ixion, brings a broad range of technology and operations experience to Ixion. Prior to founding Ixion, Patrick founded Domino Partners, which helped develop the first partner network for Lotus services that would become a solutions consulting network. Earlier in his career, Patrick held various positions in technology services management.
Patrick also served in the United States Air Force as an information encryption specialist and was an integral part of the first NSA approved Motorola based WAN encryption system in the Air Force. Currently, Patrick provides direction and leadership in establishing and achieving company objectives for Ixion. He is responsible for day-to-day management of company operations, corporate-customer relations, market planning, public relations, sales promotion, and facilitating staff services.
"We have built Ixion from the ground up on the fundamentals of integrity, commitment, determination, and quality craftsmanship. Every aspect of our business reflects these fundamentals; from hiring the right people to developing new technologies and processes. The company vision has always been about the positive impact that will be created for our customers."
 Steven Gerhardt, Ixion Vice President, is a certified IBM e-business software architect with 10 years of experience in managing internet software development. He is currently responsible for managing Ixion's business development efforts with IBM's WebSphere and Lotus software products.
Prior to Ixion, Steven served as the Manager of Lotus Solutions for VeriCenter Corporation - the leader in advanced e-business hosting services. Steven's background is highly diverse, including work in product marketing, biotechnology, ISO standards accreditation, and government. He has a Bachelors degree from Baylor University and a Biotechnology Masters degree from Johns Hopkins University.
"Our primary business partners and their quality services are a key strength of our business. These relationships are the ingredient to continued success of Ixion and its customers. Only Ixion combines a unique set of strategic relationships to deliver a quality and complete solution by a superior network of technology providers. This is a value-add that every customer is interested in knowing we have. With successful business-building relationships, Ixion continues to deliver complete end-to-end technology solutions to each and every customer. We are focused on one customer, one relationship at a time." |
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