Associate Partners

Greg W Slack, Finance

Mr. Slack is a seasoned, operationally-oriented Chief Financial Officer and Controller with multi-industry experience building, strengthening and leading the corporate Finance function for multi-divisional public and private companies with both domestic and international presence in various start-up, turnaround and high growth environments. Proven transaction experience with an in-depth, hands-on, bottom-line orientated management style over corporate Finance, Analysis, Accounting and Treasury functions. Industry experience includes, Securities Broker/Dealer, Credit Unions, Manufacturing, Software, Hi-tech Hardware, Consumer Products and Apparel.

Strong skill set includes regulatory compliance and reporting (SEC, NASD, US Customs), inventory buy planning, SKU optimization analysis, channel opportunity analysis and customer account stratification, production and operating cost containment, process improvement, departmental and ad hoc budget development, Enterprise Resources Planning systems and technology enhancement implementation, and the management of auxiliary operations, Distribution, Inventory Planning, Information Technology, Human Resources and other administration organizations. Mr. Slack graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from San Diego State University, and is a California Certified Public Accountant.

Brian Crouch, Channel Sales

Brian Crouch brings more than 19 years of sales management experience in diverse industries to the Corrao Group team, most recently serving as OEM Sales Manager with Quantum and Seagate Removable Storage Solutions (now Certance), where he was responsible for developing and managing major strategic account relationships. He also spent six years with Andataco/nStor as a Sales Engineer selling IT and data storage products to end users. Earlier in his career he was a co-founder of ITM Solutions, a software and website language translation company, where he managed sales in the North American region. Brian's strong relationships with value added resellers and OEM partners has significantly helped to drive revenue growth for Corrao's clients. Brian joined Corrao Enterprises in August 2006.

Jamie Shikiya, Technical Sales

Jamie Shikiya was a co-founder and Director of Applications Engineering at BakBone Software where he led the Interoperability team in certifying BakBone's data protection software solution across all storage devices, systems and configurations including SAN and NAS. Prior to BakBone Software, he spent 7 years as Manager of Applications Engineering with Andataco/nStor. Earlier in his career he worked at various other storage companies such as Artecon/DotHill and ZZYZX where he served in various engineering capacities. Jamie holds a BS in Structural Engineering (Advanced Mechanics and Engineering Sciences) from the University of California, San Diego.

Hector Escarcega, Training

Hector Escarcega started his career in technology in the mid 1980s. Since then he has worked as a programmer, data coordinator, technical trainer, corporate supervisor, system/network engineer, technical sales trainer, and developer for numerous companies. These companies include: University of Arizona, Garrett Allied Signal Aerospace Engineering, Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI), Ascend Communications, Lucent Technologies, Gateway, Mentat Communications, and Packeteer. His key strengths include translating complex technical information into simplistic understandable terms. This ability in translating information has enabled him to leverage technical sales staff in increasing revenue. Customers have consistently requested Hector by name to provide clients with technical solutions understandable to everyone, clients and customers at every level.