Prior to founding the company, Mr. Dorey was a communications and software engineer. Mr Dorey worked at GTE / Verizon for approximately 14 years as a market analyst, computer programmer, systems supervisor, Marketing Products Manager, and Business Development Manager.

Published 2 nationally distributed articles about marketing technology. At USWEST / QWEST, for 13 years, Mr. Dorey worked in large-business sales and engineering in Seattle WA where he was a Large Business sales and implementation team member for many old-line telephony, through Frame Relay to IP and fiber implementations.

Mr. Dorey also worked at Myrio company as Operations Engineer and in software QA.

member: Northwest Entrepreneur Network http://www.nwen.org/

BSCE - Clemson University
MBA - University of Georgia.

Chic is responsible for the general management and business development of a Seattle, Washington based consulting Mergers and Acquisitions Company.
He has experience in the start-up stages of high-tech companies, directly involved in a number of business ventures as an investor, executive, director, advisor, and consultant.

Chic started his career with a large Midwest Architectural firm as a designer and
as a sales engineer. He became the top computer salesman nationally as an Account Manager at Wang Laboratories. He was National Sales Manager, BG Graphics, the first CAD software product to work on the DOS environment.  As Director of Marketing for Personal CAD Systems he developed the dealer and VAR distribution channels. Later, Chic was recruited by a Vancouver Stock Exchange venture firm and negotiated a joint venture deal totaling over $50,000,000 plus similar agreements with AT&T, IBM, and Wang.

For the last several years Chic has been responsible for the financing, aggregating and sale of a variety of commercial projects and businesses approaching $1 billion in value. He was President of a multi-media software company developing software training systems for Trident nuclear submarines at the Naval Undersea Warfare Engineering Station. As Director of Business Ventures at NVST.com he developed relationships with Private Equity firms and Venture Capital firms around the U.S.  including New York, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Mexico City, London, and Singapore. 

For fun and relax-time, Chic was a talk show host on KVI 570AM Seattle, on the Entrepreneur Radio Network.

Since 2004 when Ryan joined the company he has created our brand identity, including our logo, webpage, business cards and corporate email templates. He has developed web and email templates for various Quickshow clients. Designed and developed the “wrapper” or Shockwave file used to deliver Quickshow’s multimedia messages, a key component to our software and product. He has built and produced many presentations for clients and aids in product research and development.

Prior to joining the Quickshow team Ryan was the Graphics Manager for WSU’s “The Daily Evergreen” Newspaper. While there he managed a department responsible for the creation and application of all the company’s advertisements and imagery on a day to day basis under strict deadlines. He was responsible for creating newspaper print advertisements, online advertisements, posters, special promotions and editorial clip art. As the manager he helped implement a new system to organize the news department as well as streamline the graphics department. He also Petitioned and won a position for the Graphics Manager on the Board of Directors.

B.A. – Washington State University – Communications/Fine Arts

Awards:
Best of Category - Rate Card | CNBAM | 2005
Gold - BYO Homebrew Label Contest | Brew Your Own Magazine | 2008

Keith began his career as a financial analyst with the H.W. Blackstock Co. He went on to manage several acquisitions and startup ventures on behalf of Blackstock, including North Slope Contructors, Arctic Gulf Marine, and the Duroboat Company. In 2001 he joined BEC Advisors as Senior Valuation Analyst, providing valuation and financial consulting services to Mergers & Acquisitions clients.

Rogstad holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington, a Masters in Business Administration/ Finance degree from Washington State University, and holds the Accredited Valuation Analyst (AVA) credential from the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts.