Matt McConnell, Acting Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board
Before joining Kozio, Matt McConnell founded Compatible Systems in 1985, a supplier of networking and internetworking equipment. He was President and CEO of the company until it was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2000. He then worked for Cisco as a Director of Engineering until 2002. Mr. McConnell is an active angel investor and a cofounder at Coolescence LLC, an energy research company based in Boulder, CO. Matt holds Bachelor’s Degrees in Electrical Engineering and English Literature from the University of Colorado

Joseph Skazinski, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder

Joe co-founded Kozio in 2003 and operated as the CEO before becoming the Chief Technical Officer. Prior to co-founding Kozio, Joe worked in director and managerial roles for storage solution providers, including Vicom Systems, Mylex, and IBM. While at Mylex and IBM,Joe was an integral part of several engineering teams that released five different storage controller products. His experience also includes the strategic business planning and execution of embedded software solutions, as well as selling to primarily every large company in the storage industry. He has more than twenty years of direct industry experience and is the co-author of over fifteen patents. Joe received a B.S. in Computer Science from Michigan Technological University.

Keith Short, Chief Architect and Co-Founder

As Chief Architect, Keith leads the engineering development efforts for all products, which includes architecting and delivering current and next-generation products. Keith brings fourteen years of embedded development experience, including extensive work in processor boot code and other low level driver development. Before joining Kozio, Keith worked as a key embedded development engineer at Mylex, IBM, Vicom Systems, and Fujitsu Computer Products of America. Keith received a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado.

Bob Potock, Vice President of Marketing

Bob Potock joined Kozio in 2011 and brings over 20 years of marketing and product management experience in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry. He has held positions in engineering, product management and marketing at companies that include Altium, Mentor Graphics, AT&T Bell Labs, Intel and Burroughs. Prior to joining Kozio, Bob was Director of Marketing at Altium Inc. Bob holds a BSEE from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA from Regis University.

Al Arendt, Director of Sales

As the Director of Sales at Kozio, Inc., Al Arendt brings over 20 years of sales and marketing experience at high-growth, high technology hardware and software companies. Most of those 20 years were spent working for embedded software and development tool companies. Before joining Kozio, Al was an independent representative for several embedded development and engineering design tool companies. Al also worked for embedded operating systems companies OSE Systems and Integrated Systems. Al earned B.S and M.S. degrees in Engineering from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois.

Debra Layton, Director of New Media and Communications

Debra Layton joined Kozio in 2009 and brings more than 17 years of experience in B2B marketing for international, high-tech companies. Debra’s experience includes brand development, PR, demand generation, social media, and marketing automation. Before joining Kozio, Debra was Director of Marketing Communications at Turin Networks. Prior to that, she held senior communication and product marketing positions with various hardware and software companies, including Mentor Graphics, an electronic design automation (EDA) company.