Rick Schultz, BA, CGA - Founder & President Rick is a CGA who has lived in the finance & high technology world for over 10 years. He is well versed in corporate finance especially as it relates to US & Canadian GAAP rules and in particular revenue recognition (SOP 97-2).  He has engineered and built dozens of analytic and reporting applications for accessing financial data from Great Plains.  Rick’s extensive business and accounting experience, coupled with his entrepreneurial spirit, brought him to found 100Watt Solutions.  Rick’s impetus for founding 100Watt was his belief that the value-add the finance function delivers to a business would be significantly improved by streamlining and simplifying internal processes. Based on this premise, Rick developed the industry’s first consolidation analysis tool for MS Dynamics GP called Pickax. Pickax provides answers to all the endless ad- hoc queries raised every day in a way which is a lot easier and faster then current manual error-prone methods. The bottom line is that greater productivity is achieved in a manner that supports confidence in the numbers while delivering greater value to the business. Rick is a graduate of the University of Victoria with a BA (Economics) and completed the program of studies to achieve his Certified General Accountant designation in 2001. Chandima Panditha - Investor and CTO Chandi has worked in financial systems and business intelligence for 16 years, primarily with large database systems.  He has implemented and designed financial BI systems on 3 continents, most recently in Vancouver, Canada, where he was architecting a Cognos implementation for Vancouver Coastal Health.  Chandi has also worked at notable financial software companies Epic Data and Fincentric since moving from Sri Lanka in 1997.  Before that, he was developing software for the largest private bank in Sri Lanka.  Put simply, he understands the performance requirements of financial users looking at large data sets. Chandi is a lifelong student of technology, having received degrees and diplomas in IT, Computer Science and Business Administration from institutions in Sri Lanka, Australia and Canada. Peter Callaghan - Senior Advisor, Sales & Management Callaghan is focused on assisting software companies with the design and implementation of  their “go to market’ strategy.  He has earned a reputation for forecast accuracy based on his stellar results. Most recently Callaghan was the Chief Sales Officer at  Maximizer Software responsible for overseeing direct sales, channel sales, marketing, public relations and professional services organizations. He has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry and has held senior sales and marketing positions at Maximizer, Pivotal, Computer Associates, Cognos, and Sybase. Callaghan is also a featured speaker at numerous industry conferences and events including both the Destination CRM conference in New York and the Sales and Marketing Executives International conference in Dallas. Callaghan was included in VARBusiness magazine's list of the "Top Channel Executives in 2005" and was named to CRM magazine's list of "Who's Who in CRM." A high-tech industry expert, he is frequently quoted in a variety of trade and business publications, including CRM Guru, VARBusiness, and Sales & Marketing Management magazine. Callaghan also participated in Pivotal's successful initial public offering on the NASDAQ and helped the company grow its revenues from US$1 million to US$ 100 million in less than five years. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada. Home About Privacy