Our People
Anthony Karrer, Ph.D., Founder & CEO/CTO
akarrer@techempower.com
Tony has eighteen years experience leading software development teams on systems that range from radar software to data-mining solutions. He has been the chief technologist for three Web start-up companies. Tony held an Assistant Professor of Computer Science position at Loyola Marymount University for eleven years where he created an award winning multimedia minor. He has a wide-ranging technical background and is considered one of the top technologists in training and performance support development. His work has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, PacifiCare, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse. Tony was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, where he earned his B.S. in Computer Science, and attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science. Dr. Karrer is a frequent speaker at both industry and academic events.


Dina J. Cannariato, Esq., President & COO
dcannariato@techempower.com
Dina has over ten years of professional experience in business and law. She has managed large groups of technology professionals in the e-commerce and Web development arena, most recently for Commerce One, Inc., the software solutions company that acquired AppNet, Inc., where she served as VP/COO for their Southwest District. Dina has an extensive background in finance, from managing a multi-billion dollar Fortune 500 company's budget and forecast process, to helping AppNet through their IPO process as their Director of Finance. Dina has successfully managed multi-million dollar Web development projects requiring coordination among offices in 35 countries and implementation in 18 different languages. As an attorney, Dina has practiced law in Colorado, Maryland and Washington, D.C. She now applies her legal training to managing corporate contracts, confidentiality agreements, statements of work, and partnership agreements. In addition to this legal work, she is responsible for running all operations of the company, including the management of all projects. Dina holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Economics from the College of Notre Dame, and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Colorado.


Brian Hauer, VP of Technology
bhs@techempower.com
Brian is a real technophile. He has several years of experience working with high-end technologies on real-world projects. Yet he has an eye for hype and prefers a disciplined adoption of new technologies. Brian has served as the technical lead on a number of particularly complex projects. He led a development team for an image cataloguing, search, and retrieval system that is now in use at top universities throughout the United States including Yale, Cornell, UC Berkeley, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Brian is named in the design of the patents that one client holds for a novel heterogeneous database-searching algorithm. The web version of this product was featured in Wired magazine and won the prestigious 2002 Webby Award for Technical Achievement, beating out such competitors as Google and Sony. As the VP of Technology, Brian constantly has his eye on emerging technologies that can help TechEmpower provide innovative solutions for their customers. He earned a B.S. from Loyola Marymount University, where he was the top graduate in Computer Science, and where he now teaches courses in Multimedia.