Vince Frese has successfully guided Tridia’s course through 17 years of technological, industry and economic change. Consistent throughout has been Frese’s ability to size up a market’s need, generate ideas, turn them into products, and build the right teams to achieve the company’s goals.

For the envisioning of iTivity, Frese drew upon his ability to understand and balance the technical and business requirements necessary for success. The result is a technology that has earned Tridia a patent for “on-demand remote control” and a product that industry analysts describe as “unlike anything else.”

After earning his BBA in Information Systems and an MBA from Georgia State University, Frese began his career in the Information Systems Group at Ernst & Young (then Ernst &Whinney). Frese founded Tridia Corporation with John Jarrett in 1987.

John Jarrett has been turning potential into products since 1983. Early on, as Director Software Engineering for Cognitive Systems, Jarrett learned that innovation isn’t something that happens. It’s something you make happen.

For Jarrett that means creating teams from individuals who are aggressive software developers — talented people with strong opinions who aren’t afraid to take chances. Then demand that they reach consensus. More often than not, the process will birth innovation.

Jarrett’s role is to provide foresight to each team’s approach. At Tridia, that means looking across his broad understanding of operating system architectures, security, software architectures, networking, and process management to anticipate where technology is going. This foresight has been key to the longevity of Tridia’s products.

In 1982, Jarrett earned his BBA in Computer Science and Accounting from Georgia State University.