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Meet the Team
Dorado was the first provider to deliver a networked, on-demand lending automation system—including our patent-pending workflow plan. With an experienced management team, we’ve forged strong relationships with both customers and partners.
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Dain Ehring, Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Dain Ehring has served on Dorado's executive management team since the company's inception in 1998, and has led the company through a decade of exponential growth. Before founding Dorado, Mr. Ehring was Director of Market Development and Strategic Sales for JavaSoft, Sun Microsystems' Internet company. Prior to joining JavaSoft, he was Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Service at Lighthouse Design Ltd., an applications developer later acquired by Sun. Mr. Ehring has also held a variety of senior management roles at NeXT Computers, IBM, and Unisys. He holds a Master’s degree in Space Physics from UCLA and worked at NASA before moving to the private sector.
See why Dain was a finalist for Mortgage Technology's 2009 Steven Frasier Visionary Award.
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Rob Carpenter, PhD, Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Rob Carpenter has more than 25 years of experience as a systems architect, engineer, and technology executive in the high technology industry. Before founding Dorado, Dr. Carpenter managed the Java Software Systems Architecture practice at Sun Microsystems. Prior to Sun, he was program manager and chief engineer with the Advanced Information Systems Division at McDonnell Douglas. Dr. Carpenter holds a Ph.D. in Systems Architecture from the University of Southern California. |
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Karen Camp, Chief Financial Officer
Karen S. Camp has over 25 years of financial management experience with high-growth technology companies. Prior to joining Dorado, Ms. Camp was CFO of Yodlee, where she helped grow the company to over 100 clients. She has also held CFO positions with USWeb learning, Calyx & Corolla, and MARKEM Corporation. In addition to maintaining everyday financial operations, Camp has taken several companies through the IPO process as well as many mergers and acquisitions. She holds a B.A. degree from Smith College and an M.A. degree from Middlebury College. |
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Ravi Balwada, Senior Vice President, SaaS Operations
Ravi Balwada has nearly two decades of technology management experience. Prior to Dorado, he served as chief information officer and vice president of On Demand Operations at SumTotal Systems, where he helped set strategic direction for their managed services and SaaS related initiatives. Before SumTotal, he managed global operations for Oracle On Demand, spearheading the commercial development and transformation of their On Demand operations. Earlier in his career, he was a vice president at The Carlyle Group's technology venture capital fund, and before that, led the systems operations group at Amazon.com. |
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Steve Poppe, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Customer Delivery
Dr. Steve Poppe has over 30 years of operations management experience. He led the data center operations group at Dorado for five years, overseeing the evolution from hosting to a fully-fledged managed services offering. He now leads the Customer Delivery function, which is responsible for delivery on customer agreements with a “customer for life” philosophy. Before Dorado, Dr. Poppe held management positions at companies including McDonnell Douglas, British Telecom, and MCI. He holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley. |
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Adam Springer, Senior Vice President, Application Services
Adam Springer has over 20 years of software development experience as an executive, architect, and engineer of enterprise systems. Prior to joining Dorado in 1999, Mr. Springer was Vice President of R&D for Enterprise Engines, Inc., and served as Director of Professional Services for GemStone Systems, Inc. He has also held engineering positions with Citibank and Unisys. Mr. Springer was a Director for the Object Database Management Group and is co-author of the Object Database Standard ODMG 2.0. He holds Bachelor degrees in Computer Science and Economics from the University of California at San Diego. |
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Jim Jackson, Vice President, Sales
Jim Jackson has over 25 years of experience in sales and professional services. He joined Dorado in 2001 overseeing sales and project delivery in the Professional Services division before assuming his current VP role. Before joining Dorado, Mr. Jackson was Sr. Director of Professional Services for Cybersource Corporation where he was responsible for sales, account management, and delivery. Prior to Cybersource, he managed sales at Sun Microsystems and Xerox Corporation. He holds a bachelors degree from UCLA. |
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David Parker, Vice President, Business Development
Dave Parker has facilitated technology and distribution partnerships in the banking industry for more than 23 years. Prior to Dorado, he served as Director, Sales Platform Development at Wells Fargo and Chief Executive Officer at Praxis Technology Group. During the course of his career, Mr. Parker has developed expertise in a number of critical industry disciplines, including the development of strategic software architectures to support business strategy, the delivery of integrated software solutions across a variety of sales channels, and the building and managing of relationships with strategic partners. Before Wells Fargo, Parker served as Chief Operating Officer at MortgageHub. |
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