RampRate Sourcing Advisors, Strategic Research

Board Advisors

Curt Hessler

Curt Hessler brings varied and substantial business and legal experience to RampRate’s board. Hessler is a seasoned executive with extensive experience at senior levels in the information technology, media and government sectors. He has held a variety of senior positions at major corporations including Vice Chairman of Unisys and EVP of the Times-Mirror Group. Hessler was most recently chairman and founding CEO of 101communications, a Los Angeles-based media company. He has held several government positions including Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. He holds a Masters degree in Economics from University of California at Berkeley, a JD from Yale Law School and a BA from Harvard and is also a Rhodes Scholar, and currently teaches at UCLA Law School. Read more...

Peter Hirshberg

Peter Hirshberg is an established leader in the high tech and telecommunications industries, with a strong, successful track record of leading start-ups to market success and mergers with industry leaders. Peter is an entrepreneur and marketing innovator who has led emerging media and technology companies at the center of disruptive change for more than 20 years. He is currently executive vice-president and board member of Technorati, the leading real-time search and discovery engine in the blogosphere. Previously Peter served as president and CEO of Gloss.com, the online prestige beauty business co-owned by Estee Lauder Companies, Chanel and Clarins. Read more...

Doug Kaye

Founder and Former CEO, CoSite, and Rational Data Systems Doug Kaye quite literally "wrote the book" on web hosting. Strategies for Web Hosting and Managed Services was published by John Wiley and Sons in 2002 and has received top reviews on Amazon and elsewhere. Now a technology/strategy consultant, writer and lecturer specializing in web services and Internet infrastructure, you'll find his columns and guest editorials in such publications as Internet World, The Web Host Industry Review and his own IT Strategy Letter. His next book, Web Services: Strategies For the Real World, will be published in early 2003. Read more...

Barry Patmore

Barry Patmore brings over 35 years of consulting experience to help guide the further development of RampRate’s proprietary outsourcing methodology. Patmore had a distinguished 34 year career at Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) where he helped improve business processes and implement large scale IT systems for many leading companies including Microsoft, US West, Capital Group, Visa, Disney, Mazda and JPL. His responsibilities included managing partner of the Pacific Northwest and Southern California offices and global managing partner of the business process competency. He was one of the lead developers of Method/1, the firm’s systems development methodology and he collaborated with Michael Hammer to develop the methodology utilized by the firm for business process reengineering. Read more...

Ken Venner

Kenneth Venner is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Broadcom Corporation. Mr. Venner is responsible for all business system, computing and telecommunications infrastructure. Read more...