NewTalk, Inc. : Executive Management

Bruce W. Nash, Chief Executive Officer & Founder

Mr. Nash is an experienced senior level executive and Business Professional with more than 20 years of experience in Management, Sales, Strategic Planning and Contract Negotiations. He has been responsible for Business Development, Project Implementation Management, and consulting projects with many top fortune 500 companies and start-up companies, including IBM, Raychem/Tyco, Kaiser, Syntex, Tivo, Sprint, Hewlett Packard, Excite@Home, Visa, and Sony.

Prior to NextWire Systems Mr. Nash served as President of Quality Apex, a software development and testing company. He also served as President of BES and Vice President of Sales and Operations for Software Advanced Technologies, a company specializing in test plan engineering, automated and manual software testing, and software security analysis. Mr. Nash worked closely with the management team as an executive and board member to drive the company's strategic direction and to ensure that product and service offerings continued to be aligned with current and future customer needs. Outside of the business community Mr. Nash was President and co-founder of Hayman Preparatory School where he developed a systematic approach to assisting students in their academic pursuit of higher education. Mr. Nash holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Management from Morgan State University, Maryland and is pursuing his MBA from Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont CA.

Craig A. Robinson, Chief Operating Officer & Founder

During his 20-year career, Mr. Robinson has established himself as a visionary, strategist, and leader in operations, information technology and R&D. His broad range of experience includes business startup and acquisition, corporate and division P&L leadership, advanced technology integration, and marketing.

Prior to NextWire Systems, Mr. Robinson sequentially held several vice president positions at Symantec Corporation, including Vice President of Managed Security Services, Vice President of Solution Delivery, and Vice President of Product Marketing. Previously, he was COO and CTO of META Security Group, and co-founder and COO of Secure Network Consulting, Incorporated (acquired during his tenure as a subsidiary of AXENT Technologies and, subsequently, the professional services arm of Symantec). Mr. Robinson also has held senior-level executive positions as President of Commercial Operations and, previously, CIO of Trident Data Systems (since acquired by General Dynamics). In addition to these senior executive roles he has over five years of experience as a military systems analyst responsible for defining, developing, and evaluating concepts for advanced high-technology systems, including delivery of prototypes. He is co-author of the reference Secure Internet Practices (Auerbach Publications). Mr. Robinson earned a Master’s degree in Engineering Mechanics from Stanford University. He also has a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Stanford.

Harold A. Nizamian, Senior Vice President of Business Development

As former CEO of Dakin, Inc. Mr. Nizamian built a $240M company with sales and distribution in 85 countries. He introduced Garfield into the toy/gift industry in 43 countries. Mr. Nizamian was chairman of the Toy Industry Safety Committee for two terms. He built a successful start up division for Monogram Products, Largo, FL and achieved sales of 8 Million in two years. Mr. Nizamian speaks seven languages and is a graduate of the UC Berkeley Business School.

Robert H. Clemons, Vice President of Engineering

Mr. Clemons has over 25 years of software engineering, data processing and computer science experience, starting with the development of the Navigational-Nonacoustic Subsystem for Hughes Aircraft's SURTASS Project. He also was a member of the Xerox Star development Team at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto.
Mr. Clemons has held engineering management positions with Fairchild (Schlumberger) ATE, Olivetti ATC and VLSI Technology focusing on primarily on Software Product Engineering.
Prior to NextWire Systems, Mr. Clemons’ software consulting business, Cutting Edge Technology, has been engaged by Apple, HP, TIBCO, DEC, Agilent Technologies, Space Systems Loral, GE Calma, DuPont Photomask, MasPar, and United Air Lines. Cutting Edge Technology has increased its revenue ten fold over initial earning levels while implementing projects across the complete software/hardware/firmware development cycles in systems, applications, networks, data base, storage and security.
Mr. Clemons earned a bachelor's degree, Physics/Math major, from the University of Notre Dame and has attended graduate schools in Physics (Stanford), Structural Engineering (UC Berkeley) and Computer Science (USC).