Management Team
Michael Jarrett
Michael Jarrett is the founder and CEO of QuesGen Systems.
Mike has over 20 years experience in running organizations
supporting and developing complex applications. Prior to
starting QuesGen in January, 2004, he held executive
positions at Applicast, a hosted provider of enterprise
applications and Eloquent, a multimedia software company
and Arthur Andersen's Business Consulting organization.
At Andersen, Mike was the partner responsible for the advanced technology practice for the 11 western states. Prior to Andersen, Mike was the founder and President of Empart Technologies, Inc., a provider of on-line catalog software for large-scale industrial manufacturers. Mike also ran the professional services and consulting organization for Informix software (currently owned by IBM).
Mike holds a BA in economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MBA with a concentration in Information Systems from San Diego State University.
William Hedge
Bill is Director of Product Development at QuesGen and
comes to us after 25 years of experience in applications
development, applications consulting, product management
and marketing in the software industry.
Prior to QuesGen, Bill worked at TimesTen, an in-memory database company later acquired by Oracle. Bill was employee number four at Informix Software (acquired by IBM) where he developed many of its early application development tools, report writer compilers and utilities. He also was founding manager of its consulting organization and led the Product Management organization for the company's application development offerings.
Bill holds a BA in Music from California State University, Northridge.
Vibeke Brinck
Vibeke Brinck is Project Manager for QuesGen. Vibeke
brings diverse experience to QuesGen, from published
scientific research, environmental impact studies,
non-profit team leadership and local education
organization. Vibeke also has direct experience with
clinical research and a passion for helping improve the
effectiveness of research through the use of
technology. Work experience includes research and
management roles with Electric Power Research Institute
(EPRI), University of Copenhagen and the Leukemia &
Lymphoma Society.
Vibeke holds a BS in Chemistry from San Francisco State University and an MS in Chemistry from Copenhagen University.
Barbara Maley
Barbara, as Director of
Business Development, brings to QuesGen over 10 years of
sales, marketing and relationship management experience.
Her focus is on identifying clients who might be a good fit
for QuesGen's solutions and provide an introduction and
education about the company.
During her 10 year sales career Barbara has sold and marketed hardware, software and services. Prior to QuesGen, Barbara has held various sales positions for Crossworlds Software/IBM (Crossworlds was acquired by IBM in 2002) for over 8 years. Barbara was a marketing manager and moved into sales for Centura Software. Prior to that she sold hardware for Canon USA via IKON.
Barbara holds a BS in Marketing from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
Michael Kohn MD
Michael is Associate Professor of Epidemiology and
Biostatistics at the University of California, San
Francisco (UCSF). He is very active teaching in UCSF's
Training in Clinical Research Program, including directing
a course on Database Management for Clinical Research (Epi
218). Michael has co-authored a book on clinical
epidemiology, numerous peer-reviewed research papers, and
several book chapters, including the chapter on Database
Management in "Designing Clinical Research" by Hulley et
al. He formerly directed the Research Database Consulting
Unit at UCSF and has been helping clinical researchers with
data management since his days as a medical student.
Michael holds a BA from Stanford, an MPP from Harvard, and an MD from Stanford. He did his residency in Emergency Medicine in Denver.
Henry Olson
Henry is responsible for product direction and strategy. He has
spent his career working with start-up companies providing
innovative solutions to challenging problems and
opportunities. He brings over 20 years leadership
experience in enterprise systems design, development and
delivery and a passion for SaaS, PaaS and great user
experience. Henry was founder and CEO of Edge
Dynamics, an enterprise software company providing supply
chain management solutions to pharmaceutical
companies. Previously, Henry was Chief Architect at
RedKlay, an enterprise software and services firm
delivering e-business applications. Prior to RedKlay, he
was Director of Product Development at Applicast, an
application service provider delivering comprehensive
enterprise application outsourcing. Before joining
Applicast, Henry led numerous large and innovative data
warehousing, transaction management, and customer
management development and deployment engagements for
Fortune 1000 customers.
Marguerite Desko PhD
Marguerite Desko is Client Services Manager at QuesGenPrior to joining QuesGen, Marguerite taught at the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh and got an intro to working in tech at Bump Technologies. She is the author of two scientific papers.
Marguerite holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University and a B.A. in Chemistry and German from Drew University in Madison, NJ.