Managing Partners

Al Perales
Mr. Perales brings more than 20 years of IT and executive experience. After 12 years and holding various management positions with IBM, Mr. Perales left IBM in 1992 and Co-founded Expert Business Systems, Inc., an IT consulting organization based in Texas. In 1996 sold Expert Business Systems to IntelliMark, the IT division of StaffMark (NASDAQ: STAF).

After a brief sabbatical, Mr. Perales accepted dual positions as General Manager of Microsoft's Latin American and South Pacific Product Support and Services Group and as the North Texas Area Facilities Director. Mr. Perales was responsible for the largest Microsoft facility outside of Redmond.

As General Manager for Microsoft's SPAR region, Mr. Perales was responsible for the sale of services and product support in 14 Latin American countries, New Zealand and Australia. Mr. Perales has extensive experience in the areas of Operations, Technical Support, Organizational Development, Channel Development and Customer Support. In his career, Mr. Perales has managed annual budgets up to a half a billion dollars and has run worldwide organizations as large as 3,500 employees.

He is a member of the board of the University Of Missouri International School Of Business, Managing member of Visionaria Venture Capitol Fund in Mexico City and a member of the board of the American Diabetes Association - Texas Chapter in Austin, Texas.

Matthew Slaton
Mr. Slaton has 12 years of business management experience with exceptional focus in technology, healthcare, and finance. His entrepreneurial spirit began in high school and thrived during college as he focused his attention on bringing the blossoming world wide web to small businesses through his first company Internet Concepts.

After college, Mr. Slaton began consulting for Healthvision, Inc. a healthcare technology firm where he quickly became a Senior Project Manager working with some of the largest health systems in the country. In 2001 Mr. Slaton founded Birchbrook Group, then a boutique business management and outsourcing firm to support the growing service needs of businesses after the dotcom tech-bubble burst. As a managing partner, his focus is managing the operations of the firm as it grows into a multinational corporation.

Mr. Slaton is also the General Partner of Slaton Capital Management LP, a registered Commodity Pool Operator and Commodity Trading Advisor with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Mr. Slaton graduated from the University of North Texas where he earned a Bachelor in Business Administration degree in Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management.

Ralph Yeremian
Mr. Yeremian brings over 30 years of senior management and sales experience to an engagement. His background and success with major application technology providers uniquely position him for aggressive growth imperative assignments.

As a Managing Partner, Yeremian specializes in sales operations which identify and manage the relationship with organizations which seek to enter or expand a market with aggressive revenue and sales oriented goals.

Mr. Yeremian served, as Senior Vice President of Sales, managing the sales and customer support operations teams of the Healthvision Corporation, where he directed the consumer sales strategy and customer relationship management of this Dallas based healthcare industry specialist.

Prior to the Healthvision engagement, he was responsible for the worldwide sales and marketing efforts of Corsidian Corporation. Mr. Yeremian established and managed the corporate sales strategy, pricing models, partner affiliate programs, and marketing initiatives for that corporation. In addition, Yeremian was Vice President of Worldwide Distribution at Melita International Corporation, responsible for the daily operations that supported the worldwide sales effort related to their global partner affiliates.

Prior to Melita International, Yeremian held various senior management positions including Vice President of Strategic Accounts and Vice President of National Account Sales at Octel Communications Corporation, Bell Atlantic Corporation, and MCI Communications Corporation.

Yeremian graduated from Northeastern University where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in economics.

Managing Members

Brent Germany
Mr. Germany brings over 8 years of experience in the technology industry to Birchbrook Group. He has become very knowledgeable in the entire life cycle of not only software/web development but business development as well.

He began his career writiting custom packaged software and developing web software and is versed in the following languages and software: C#.Net, VB.Net, VB, Javascript, HTML, SQL, MS SQL Server, MySQL, etc.

Mr. Germany wanted to pursue a career more on the business management side and worked with two smaller companies, Campbell Solutions and Blue Lantern, as the Director of Web Development in a position to use his own knowledge of business management to help develop and grow the company. Not only was he in charge of all development, but Mr. Germany was also in change of the entire sales department as well. He became very knowledgeable in the entire life cycle of a project from the sale to conception to development to completion. This experience has also provided him with terrific experience in project management as well.

Mr. Germany earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems from the University of Mississippi.

Mary Suzanne "Mimi" O'Donnell
Ms. O'Donnell brings more than 17 years of executive experience in information technology to Birchbrook Group. Her experiences span leading start-up organizations to managing established organizations to individual contributor roles.

She started her career with Electronic Data Systems where she held responsibilities that included software development, training, and quality assurance and test. Ms. O'Donnell than accepted a role at Microsoft where her experiences included leading worldwide development and learning organizations, and managing territories and consultants for services consulting.

After holding various leadership roles within Microsoft, Ms. O'Donnell left corporate America to focus her skills as a consultant to enterprise organizations. Her demonstrated skills in leading teams, setting strategy, creating and managing budgets assists Birchbrook Group in continuing its focus on high customer satisfaction.

Ms. O'Donnell earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from Xavier University , and she earned a MBA from the University of North Texas.