Management Team
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| MapleWorks was founded in 2004 by serial entrepreneurs Paul Gasparro, Peter Karneef, and Jim Pinard. Since that time, under the continued leadership of a seasoned Management Team, Board of Directors, and Board of Advisors, MapleWorks has achieved solid business growth and has attracted customers who return to them again and again for their high-quality engineering consulting services. |
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Paul Gasparro – Co-founder & Vice President Business Development
Yi Liang – Vice President Technology
Harry Silverstone – Senior Software Development Manager
Peter Maly – Senior Software Development Manager
Richard Langevin – Senior Software Development Manager
Brenda Pastorek - Vice President Finance |
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Paul Gasparro, Co-founder & Vice President Business Development
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Paul is a serial entrepreneur who has founded and developed companies in the network communications industry, including Voicetek Corp., Aurora Systems and NexCen Technologies. |
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| Paul holds over 30 years of experience working with major network communications service providers, telephone and computer equipment manufacturers, and with Fortune 100 companies to help deliver and improve products, services and operational performances of their businesses. He has served in key executive positions at Motorola and Fairchild/Schlumberger. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Massachusetts Network Communications Council (MNCC), and is active in the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Enterprise Forum, Inc. |
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| Paul holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and a Masters of Business Administration from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He holds several patents in the fields of computer telephony integration. |
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 FollowPaul’s tweets at @MapleWorks. |
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Yi Liang, Vice President Technology
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Yi has more than 15 years experience in software design and implementation. His many areas of expertise include network management, wireless networking, database applications and Web-based applications. |
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| He has led teams working on network performance management, wireless security and management components in layer 2 and layer 3 switches. Yi has worked for Siemens, Nortel Networks, Bay Networks, Milkyway Networks and Fulcrum Technologies. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Fudan University, China and a Masters of Science in System Science from University of Ottawa, Canada. |
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Harry Silverstone, Senior Software Development Manager
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Harry has more than 25 years of experience in the network communications industry with positions held at Digital Equipment, Bay Networks, Nortel, and EION Inc. |
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| He has managed Customer Service, Software Development, Architecture, Sales & Marketing, and Business Development teams. Through his combined engineering, practical technical knowledge and customer awareness, Harry has developed and implemented several TCP/IP Routing & Traffic Engineering features, provided network training and seminars, and designed as well as installed WAN and LAN networks worldwide. He has led software teams throughout the product planning, rollout and execution stages ensuring that the time to market needs are fulfilled. He is versed in Pre and Post-Sales customer interactions from consulting to troubleshooting, to managing and delivering on expectations. |
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| Harry holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire and an Executive MBA from the University of Ottawa. He is currently serving on the executive of the Ottawa Wireless Cluster. |
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| Interested in joining the MapleWorks Team? Follow Harry’s tweets at @MapleWorks. |
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Peter Maly, Senior Software Development Manager
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Peter brings 13 years of extensive technical experience to MapleWorks’ customers. His areas of expertise encompass development, architecture, and performance modeling/analysis. |
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| Peter has worked on projects at all levels of the software stack from Linux boot loaders, embedded systems, Layer 2/3 protocols, mobile devices to large scale enterprise Java server side systems. Prior to MapleWorks, he gained experience at SION International, Metera Networks, Nortel Networks, and Carleton University. Peter holds a Masters of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Systems Engineering. Both degrees are from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. |
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Richard Langevin, Senior Software Development Manager
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Richard has more than 25 years of network communications expertise with software and systems development experience in real time systems, embedded systems and embedded software development. |
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| By managing complete end-to-end product development, including systems architecture, software development and monitored performance and reliability, Richard has earned an extensive technical management background. He gained his industry experience in leadership roles with Mitel Networks, Flick Software and Nortel Networks. He holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Carleton University, Canada. |
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Brenda Pastorek, Vice President Finance
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Brenda has more than 25 years of accounting and finance experience spanning the sectors of primary industry, commerce, professional services and financial software consulting. |
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| Along with her background in internal audit, she has an entrepreneurial spirit and experience working with start-up companies. Brenda studied at University of Toronto and received her Certified General Accountant designation in 1987. |
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