Management Team

Key members of our management team have been working together for several years. Our experience provides a solid foundation for EMG's comprehensive business model. Our professional skills include sales, marketing, multi-media, technology, data center management, web design, research, corporate and intellectual property law, healthcare, personal growth, publishing and customer relationship management (CRM).

Joseph Mackey — Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Over the past 30 years, Mr. Mackey has acquired a broad range of practical business skills in the areas of sales, marketing, management, operations, research, technology, media buying, finance and contract procurement. During the most recent twelve years, Joe worked with and led management teams that built and launched an ad-driven web-based email service (20,000 users) and a nationwide dial-up ISP. Joe's current disciplines include advertising, web development, connectivity, hosting, IP telephony, online affiliate marketing. During his career, he negotiated directly with over 40 Internet and telecom firms including IBM, Computer Associates, CMGI, 24/7 Media, AT&T, Qwest and many smaller vendors.

Joe has worked closely with corporate management, from small family-run businesses to large organizations including Mack Trucks, Mutual of Omaha and Craftmatic Beds. He spent eight years in corporate insurance/employee benefits, managing both field sales and customer service database systems handling thousands of accounts.

Mr. Mackey's education is diverse, ranging from engineering at City University of New York to psychology and public health, technology, marketing and communications. His keen interest in education reform is centered around the need to provide a balanced holistic approach to life and learning, addressing mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being. He is a health enthusiast, vegan and high energy team leader. Joe served in the U.S. Army Reserve for six years. Inspirations: "The Turning Point" by Fritjof Capra and "A New Earth" by Eckart Tolle.

Scott Ingram — Director & Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Ingram has over two decades of experience in business, beginning his career at Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank, two of the largest and most prominent financial services firms in the world. As an investment banker in Deutsche Bank's European Technology and Investment Banking Group in London, Mr. Ingram contributed to a watershed M&A transaction valued at €1.69 billion, advising leading investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. on its acquisition of seven business units from electronics and industrials giant Siemens AG. As Vice President of enterprise software development at Goldman Sachs in New York, Mr. Ingram built, deployed and maintained a large-scale, distributed Enterprise Resource Management (ERM) system to manage over $1 billion in Enterprise Technology assets and expenses throughout the company's worldwide campus. He also played a pioneering role in the creation of a high-performance, redundant, enterprise-scale data-mining warehouse to add transparency in financial reporting and improved decision-making capability. Mr. Ingram holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York and an M.B.A. in Finance & Marketing from NYU Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Walter Sargent — Chief Information Officer

Mr. Sargent spent 27 years working with technology innovators. The past 9 years have been in software development ranging from award-winning retail desktop applications to commercial web server application development. From the start, he has been a hands-on developer who has worked on small teams in very competitive software development environments. As a programmer at Helix Software, Mr. Sargent was one of a 7-man team that competed successfully (in terms of sales and reviews) against Symantec. This resulted in their acquisition by Network Associates in 1998. The Helix team was responsible for $60 million in gross revenue the first year and became the McAfee Retail Software Division. He held technical lead positions at two other "dot com" startups, CosmoCom (telecommunications) and Ruby Digital (finance). As a result, Mr. Sargent is specialist in Microsoft platform technologies, web-standard, cross-platform technologies and user-interface design. As the independent web designer, Zerojack, the combination of technical expertise and design talent allow him to produce what he calls "high-impact, high-performance" websites. Mr. Sargent holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is a self-made professional with skills, experience and a passion for technology and the arts. He is very much a "cultural creative."

Glenn Davidson — Chief Technology Officer

In a career spanning over 27 years, Mr. Davidson specialized in large-scale, full-lifecycle software development projects. Acting as both chief architect and project manager, he has a long history of delivering large complex systems on time and on budget. He studied software engineering and established industry standards and procedures for both large and small firms. He has extensive experience with startup software companies, having spent fifteen years with American Data Services. From the very beginning, he managed all technical aspects for the company. For example, he designed and implemented domestic and international mutual fund and shareholder accounting systems that were ultimately used by over 45 fund groups and used internally as a service bureau. While at TIAA-CREF, he was the project manager and lead architect of the Java-based trading system reengineering. In this role, he was able to put industry standard software development lifecycle processes and procedures in place that dramatically improved project deliverables. While at the Bank of New York, he was again the project manager and chief architect in the reengineering of a performance analytics system using .NET, and worked closely with the corporate SDLC department to implement software processes and procedures. As an architect, he delivered multiple systems based on a multi-tiered Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm. As a project manager, he follows the Project Management Institute (PMI) model. Mr. Davidson did his undergraduate work at SUNY Stony Brook in Computer Science and Mathematics and holds a Master's Certificate in Project Management from Villanova University.