Executive Team
Michael Gray
President and CEO
Mr. Gray founded Global Relief Technologies in the spring of 2003.
Previously to GRT, Mr. Gray has over 20 years of extensive, high-level experience working for the US Federal government, the US military and other international interests. Most recently, from 2001 to 2003, he served as a US State Department advisor to US Central Command and General Tommy Franks in regards to humanitarian and reconstruction operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Previous to that position, Mr. Gray worked as a US State Department Refugee Coordination Officer in the Balkans; a US Naval Reserve officer, serving on the policy and planning staff of Sir Lt. General Michael Jackson in Kosovo; and as a Naval Reserve officer on the Joint Staff (J-4 Logistics) at the Pentagon where he coordinated civil-military Disaster Relief Operations.
Mr. Gray also has extensive experience working in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He was Program Director of the US Department of Justice’s Anti-Organized Crime Assistance Program for Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. As Associate Director of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Central and East European Law Initiative (CEELI), Mr. Gray provided start-up management for the ABA’s and the US State Department’s rule of law and criminal justice assistance to the countries of the former Soviet Union. He lived and worked in the countries of the former Soviet Union and Central Asia from 1992 to 1995. From 1990 to 1992 Mr. Gray served as Deputy Director of Creditanstalt's (Bank of Austria) Trade Finance Programs for Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
Suzanne Bresette
Executive Vice President
Ms. Bresette has 30 years of experience in strategic business leadership in a variety of industries, with strong emphasis on technology and professional services. As a results-oriented and operationally-focused business leader, Ms. Bresette has spent much of her career turning around financially troubled companies and driving profitable revenue growth. She has been recognized as both a leader and a team player by the organizations and industries that she served. Suzanne has deep experience in all functional areas of business, including outstanding management and problem solving skills, demonstrated leadership, fiscal management experience, ability to effectively delegate while maintaining a "big picture" strategic view, and the ability to translate policies into daily routine operations.
Ms. Bresette travels extensively to developing countries around the world and has a firsthand appreciation for the extreme value of GRT’s Rapid Data Management System to humanitarian efforts, and is committed to fulfilling the Mission of GRT.
As Executive Vice President of GRT, Ms. Bresette is responsible for maximizing GRT's operating performance and achieving its financial goals. She serves as a liaison with the board of directors, while managing the strategic plan and development roadmap, overseeing revenue generation and general operations, and ensuring a healthy working environment.
After serving key leadership roles with National and Regional Agencies, Ms. Bresette founded Bresette + Company, full service marketing and communications company, in 1990. Established on the belief that a small firm composed of a select group of experienced professionals would provide the right combination of personalized management and marketing support to clients, Ms. Bresette focused on emerging-growth companies within technology, healthcare and finance. Ms. Bresette was often considered part of the senior management team of the companies she served, fulfilling key responsibilities that ensured financial growth. Ms. Bresette has a broad range of experience in diverse industry sectors and has worked with companies such as EMC, Compaq, CMGI, Lotus Development, Cool Savings, Akamai Technologies, Luxtel, Bid2Win.
Ms. Bresette currently serves on the board of Cross Road’s House and The Portsmouth Museum of Art, which is directing initiatives for a new multi-cultural art center in downtown Portsmouth. Ms. Bresette is also involved with Economic Development for the State of NH, serving on the Governor’s Technology Branding Committee, and with bringing online education to NH and other States through Mindsprinting, an accredited online education tool.
Chip Peter
Vice President
Mr. Peter has been instrumental in managing and building the technology to fulfill the mission of GRT. In fact, he oversaw the design and construction of the GRT operations center. He also managed the GRT software development process from early prototype through the full development life cycle.
Mr. Peter has over 12 years of experience in the telecommunications and software industry. His responsibilities have included advanced technology assessment, infrastructure capital planning, and technology trials. Prior to joining GRT, Mr. Peter was a Director with Vodafone.
Gary Bowser
Vice President of Sales
Over the past 15 years, Gary has been building, managing and implementing business development initiatives and partner sales strategies for technology solution providers. His responsibilities have included sales, business development, operations, marketing, and partnerships. He has led revenue driven teams, focused on building channel pipelines and closing client opportunities swiftly through resellers, joint marketing partners and systems integrators. These companies have closed over $40 million worth of revenue over a 4 year period, individual deal sizes ranging up to $9 million.
In recent years, he has been the President and General Manager of Mobile Computing Solution Providers. Providing large scale retailers with wireless computing solutions, from devices to software to infrastructure, he was able to grow it into one of Motorola’s top ten partners in the U.S. within 3 years.
His most recent position has been the Director of Strategic Accounts for Newmarket International Software. Responsible for a quota that covers 10% of the company’s net new annual revenue, handling 3 of the top 4 revenue generating customers working on both corporate and property driven initiatives.
As Vice President of Sales of GRT, Mr. Bowser is responsible for direction and management of all sales and business development operations, including revenue, market competitiveness, pricing, compensation, and distribution and channel strategy.
Mr. Bowser is a recipient of the 2005 Union Leader’s 40 Under 40 Award, recognizing New Hampshire leaders under the age of 40.
Mark Mullin
Vice President, Software Development
Mr. Mullin is software executive whose career spans over 25 years in software research and development for telecommunications, military, finance, entertainment, and enterprise applications. His experience in the design of languages, complex operating systems, and sophisticated graphics systems spans work done for the Department of Defense, international communications firms such as Cable and Wireless and ITT, and commercial software firms such as SoftView, Taligent, and Sierra On-Line.
In his role as Vice President of Software Development, Mr. Mullin positions the software assets for future growth while ensuring that ongoing operations are fully supported. In his tenure at GRT, Mr. Mullin introduced new technologies to allow for shared work to be performed during data gathering, business rules driven reporting, and a new service infrastructure used to support both mobile to server and server to server communications.
In the last ten years Mr. Mullin has served as a consultant to a number of financial and software companies, providing guidance and development services to organizations such as Unum Provident, PC-Connection, AIR Worldwide, and others. As a consultant he also taught over a dozen technical seminars at Microsoft events on advanced programming concepts.
Mr. Mullin established a reputation for being able to identify technical trends and directions, as evidenced by his early adoption of object oriented programming techniques in the early 1980's. Based on this work, he wrote two books for Addison-Wesley. One, "Object Oriented Program Design", was a best seller. More recently he has been active in the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) community and the Microsoft .Net communities, having identified both as strong contenders in the 2000-2001 timeframe.
He has often held positions of critical responsibility where he has been involved in all levels of software development and program management as a direct employee and consultant. He has previously served in several executive staff roles, as the owner of a boutique consulting corporation (Stratix, Inc) to the DoD, as the VP of Engineering to SoftView (now part of Intuit), as the VP of R&D to Dynamix, and as the CEO of Vibrant 3D. During the acquisition of SoftView, he was named as one of the key employees in the purchase agreement.
Mr. Mullin is the inventor and developer of the V3 Technology that anchors the Vibrant 3D Data Visualization System. While at the Visible Human Corporation and Vibrant 3D, Inc, he was responsible for all phases of research, design, development, production of products and provision of services of the company. During this time, he produced several award winning surgical simulation systems and a system for visualizing relationships in equity trading. Mark lives in Portsmouth, NH.
Joel Maiola
Director, Business Development - International Organizations and Government Programs
With extensive experience in government and public relations, Mr. Maiola joined Global Relief Technologies as a Senior Advisor.
Mr. Maiola served as Chief of Staff for U.S. Senator Judd Gregg from January 1992 to 2008, responsible for both the Washington, D.C. and New Hampshire offices and also served as Chief of Staff while Senator Gregg was Governor of New Hampshire. He has volunteered his time and energy to a variety of state and regional efforts including two terms as Trustee for the University System of New Hampshire and currently serves on the NH Political Library Board of Directors.
William J. Vail
Director, Business Development - Forestry, Inland Fisheries, and Wildlife Management
Mr. Vail joined GRT in October of 2009 and is responsible for developing Forestry, Inland Fisheries, and Wildlife Management business initiatives.
In 1998 Mr. Vail was asked to join United States Senator, Susan Collins, state staff where he dealt with a variety of issues and focused on natural resource policy. Mr. Vail retired from Sen. Collins staff in April of 2009.
Mr. Vail began his career by becoming a member of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife as a Game Warden following his military service in Vietnam. Mr. Vail worked his way up through the ranks over a period of 20 years and eventually was appointed by the Governor to be the Commissioner of the state of Maine's Department of Inland Fisheries and served in that role for over 6 years.
Mr. Vail retired from his service with the State in 1993 and became the Executive Director of the Maine Forest Products Council, the trade association that represents Maine's forest landowners, loggers, mills and related industries. He worked closely with the legislature, state and federal agencies and the industry to create a better business climate for the forest products industry while advancing sustainable forestry practices.
He attended Paul Smiths College, School of Forestry in NY and resides with his wife in Saco, Maine. He has 2 adult children and 4 grandchildren.
