Jerry W. Saveriano President and CEO	Scott G. McCannell Vice President and Creative Director

Jerry W. Saveriano
President
Jerry W. Saveriano is the President and CEO of Sanda Communications.

An unlikely balance of left-brain and right-brain talents, Jerry has a degree in English literature from San Francisco State University, and he was one of the first manufacturing engineers to be certified in the field of robotics by Robotics International of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).

Jerry has consulted, lectured and published internationally on topics such as CAD/CAM, industrial robotics, computer-aided surveying, machine vision systems, CNC machine tools, intelligent machines in space and undersea applications, automated farming, close-combat robotics and many other related automation subjects. Since the 1970s, Jerry has worked with a number of global companies, including Mitsubishi Electric, Unimation, Tadiran Ltd., Servo Products Company and Delco Electronics as they developed new technologies and brought them to market. He also has worked with European and Asian dealer and distributor networks in the introduction of advanced technology products.

The author of multiple technical articles and papers since 1980, Jerry served as the industrial editor of Robotics Age magazine, wrote a column for GeoInformatics, a European magazine on geomatics, and wrote "E-This!" a series of articles on Customer Relationship Management for the Software Association of Oregon. He has taught short courses at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., the Institute of Artificial Intelligence in Claremont, Calif., the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of California at Riverside and in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has also led seminars and workshops on a number of automation topics throughout the United States as well as in London, Paris, Copenhagen and Tokyo.

Jerry served as the founding chairman of Robotics International's Southern California Chapter, the second such chapter in the United States. He founded the first SME Maquiladora chapter in San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico. He also worked as an industrial liaison for research and development in the robotics lab at the University of Southern California and at the Center for Applied Competitive Technologies at San Diego City College. For the last six years, Jerry has served as a member of the board of directors of the Software Association of Oregon.

Scott G. McCannell
Vice President
"Scott believes in action," says Randie Shapiro, a veteran of Cisco, Sun and Netscape. "He's really a marketing swashbuckler. To him, indecision is dangerous. Because he grasps the marketing challenges and the lay of the marketing land, he can leap to an immediate solution—and be dead on. Bigger agencies take more time to adjust to market needs and market changes."

One of Scott's weapons of choice is direct marketing. Because he is so passionate about it, he not only stays in touch with newest trends, but he pores over century-old texts looking for ways to use effective-but-forgotten techniques to boost the returns clients get for their marketing dollars. And to make sure the returns are there, Scott ensures that the tools to measure response are in place. Sanda's clients can rest assured knowing they have someone in the direct marketing know leading the way.

Fourteen years of serving technology companies has given Scott a strong technology marketing background. He speaks the language, understands the marketing challenges, and knows the tools to use to meet those challenges. Even after one of Sanda's clients was acquired by a fortune 100 company, Scott and Sanda continue to help them brand and market the organization—with even bigger stakes—and other business units of the parent company have taken advantage off Scott's and Sanda's capabilities. Regardless of your company's size, Scott's technology marketing expertise and his ability to grasp the challenges you face will help the Sanda team build marketing programs that have real impact.