Board of Directors
Our transformative technology platform will dramatically reduce R&D costs.
Mr. Pennacchia is a sales and marketing expert with over 25 years experience and successful execution in industries ranging from Consumer Products to Medical Devices and Geographic Information Systems. He has been successful with large, small and start-up businesses. While at ITT C&C Cola, he helped launch game changing consumer beverage products in the U.S., such as Perrier and Capri Sun. As Vice President of Sales and Marketing for a medical device subsidiary of Bausch & Lomb, he helped to grow that business from $26M to $120M in 7 years. After being promoted to VP of Consumer Healthcare Group Sales in 1996 for Bausch & Lomb Consumer Healthcare North America, Dante grew market share to the highest ever achieved at that time.
In June of 2001, he was recruited to a start-up company known as Pictometry International, a company with $14,000 in delivered sales. During his tenure as VP of Sales and Marketing and later as CMO he helped Pictometry became one of Rochester’s most successful technology companies, growing sales to over $100 million in 9 years.
Dante is Founder and President of Maxualize™ LLC, a coaching and consulting group focused on assisting start-up companies who want to grow their business. Dante is a Cum Laude graduate of Northeastern University in Boston, where he obtained a BS in Marketing. He was selected to take part in executive marketing courses at Amos Tuck at Dartmouth, Leadership courses at the Center for Creative Leadership at the University of Maryland, and the Global Executive training program at Cornell University. He is a former Diversity Champion at Bausch & Lomb and a sought after speaker on the subject to companies such as the Walt Disney Company.
