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.

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.

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.